OT What the hell are you guys doing up this early?

[Orion Bailey]

Better use kneepads.

Why? She is the one that needs them. Unless body is into taking instead of giving.

 

[theprunetang]

It's official. Respect my authority.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

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You are now Leslie Freaking Knope!

Congrats on the new job and I hope it ends up being awesome for you!

 

[theprunetang]

You are now Leslie Freaking Knope!

Congrats on the new job and I hope it ends up being awesome for you!

I think of it more like Steve Irwin but with birds.

 

[Lanny]

I think of it more like Steve Irwin but with birds.

What? Irwin was a stud. He wrestled crocodiles.
What do you wrestle, flamingos?

 

[theprunetang]

What? Irwin was a stud. He wrestled crocodiles.
What do you wrestle, flamingos?

Little fluffy shorebirds. But I have to kayake across bullsharks to get to nesting islands, where I have to avoid alligators and Cottonmouth snakes. Have a site I have to swim across a lagoon to survey the 2nd half. Also have to take a jetski out to several sites. It's not terrible.

 

[Lanny]

Little fluffy shorebirds. But I have to kayake across bullsharks to get to nesting islands, where I have to avoid alligators and Cottonmouth snakes. Have a site I have to swim across a lagoon to survey the 2nd half. Also have to take a jetski out to several sites. It's not terrible.

When I was about 19 I was working with my Dad and my grandfather on a house my dad was building in Decatur, Alabsama. Every morning the three of us would pile in my dad's pickup and head for work about 30 miles away. One day as we were driving along in a rural area we spotted a snake that was more than half the width of the two lane road in length. My granddad ordered my father to stop the truck. He jumped out and grabbed a hoe we used for mixing cement and chopped off the head of the snake. I believe it was a copperhead. Very poisonous. Lots of Cottonmouths in that part of the country, too.Biggest snake I've ever seen outside of a zoo.

 

[theprunetang]

When I was about 19 I was working with my Dad and my grandfather on a house my dad was building in Decatur, Alabsama. Every morning the three of us would pile in my dad's pickup and head for work about 30 miles away. One day as we were driving along in a rural area we spotted a snake that was more than half the width of the two lane road in length. My granddad ordered my father to stop the truck. He jumped out and grabbed a hoe we used for mixing cement and chopped off the head of the snake. I believe it was a copperhead. Very poisonous. Lots of Cottonmouths in that part of the country, too.Biggest snake I've ever seen outside of a zoo.

Why kill the thing if it is just sitting around relaxing?

 

[MARIS61]

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CONGRATULATIONS!

And A Tip of The Cap to a Real American Wildlife Conserver.

 

[Lanny]

Why kill the thing if it is just sitting around relaxing?

Ask my grandfather.
When a grandfather to his son and grandson says something declarative, you don't argue with him. That's the South.
You must think we were in an enlightened part of the country. Remember, this was rural Alabama, Trump country.

 

[theprunetang]

Ask my grandfather.
When a grandfather to his son and grandson says something declarative, you don't argue with him. That's the South.
You must think we were in an enlightened part of the country. Remember, this was rural Alabama, Trump country.

I get you. That is the mindset of a lot of people to this day, unfortunately. Not denigrating your memory or your grandfather. I've seen that mentality up close. It's just insane to me that it hasn't died out in modern times.

 

[riverman]

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Those airport gift shops are expensive!

 

[riverman]

Why kill the thing if it is just sitting around relaxing?

because he can damnit!

 

[Lanny]

I get you. That is the mindset of a lot of people to this day, unfortunately. Not denigrating your memory or your grandfather. I've seen that mentality up close. It's just insane to me that it hasn't died out in modern times.

Die out? That's at least a couple centuries away in the future in the deep South.
My grandfather had a mean streak. He would drink moonshine and then go into a rage causing all of his 8 children to flee out the windows and back door into the woods in fear of their safety. He had mellowed out in his later years but still drank lots of moonshine. He was also incredibly ignorant, he believed that grandma shouldn't look through her new glasses too much because she would wear them out. You have no idea just how ignorant they are in that part of the country.
My dear sweet aunt who takes after the most sweet person in the world, my grandmother, is a died in the wool Trump supporter. I stay off the topic of politics because I love her too much.

 

[riverman]

I get you. That is the mindset of a lot of people to this day, unfortunately. Not denigrating your memory or your grandfather. I've seen that mentality up close. It's just insane to me that it hasn't died out in modern times.

Serious question.....I thought funding for environmental issues was gutted?

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

I have some weird sleeping problems (outside of kids) that like to show up once in a while. I don't know if it's like sleep paralysis, or how to describe it but it's happened 3 times since I've been married that I have woken up or felt like I was kind of awake but also in a really "real" dream and in this dream while I was trying to wake up, something happened that caused me to scream and that scream came out in the real world. Happened this morning at about 2pm scared my wife quite a bit. I've been up since then.

 

[Lanny]

I have some weird sleeping problems (outside of kids) that like to show up once in a while. I don't know if it's like sleep paralysis, or how to describe it but it's happened 3 times since I've been married that I have woken up or felt like I was kind of awake but also in a really "real" dream and in this dream while I was trying to wake up, something happened that caused me to scream and that scream came out in the real world. Happened this morning at about 2pm scared my wife quite a bit. I've been up since then.

I got up at my usual 4 am. Sometimes I even get up as early as 12:30 am. Now that's weird.