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Beachwalker said:
Oh believe me I know, I've had a handful of close calls including one with a young albino (piebald)

I finally hit one a year ago, totaled my car took out the front quarter to the back quarter & both doors

Ran out in front of me at highway speed, caught it right behind the shoulder, big too over 200 lb from what I could see, must have came running out at full speed cuz it was just there

The woods are literally right to the side of the road where it happened. I thank God it didn't come through the windshield, at that speed it could have killed me

It was extremely unsettling.

Yet I watched them in the fields every morning over coffee, I see them when they're first born, and watch them grow up.

I don't hate them, I think they're amazing animals. Also as a prepper I wanted to live in a game rich area, and boy did I ever pick one! 🤣
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Cannagranny does the same from her front porch. No roads for a bit, just her driveway.

One doe has been giving her the stink eye this year and 20-30 feet from the porch even challenged her. She had no idea why as she leaves them alone and likes that they come there to breed. 🤷‍♂️
 
Zen_seeker said:
Cannagranny does the same from her front porch. No roads for a bit, just her driveway.

One doe has been giving her the stink eye this year and 20-30 feet from the porch even challenged her. She had no idea why as she leaves them alone and likes that they come there to breed. 🤷‍♂️
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I've had one challenge me going to get my mail last week, I posted on here about it, it stomp a front hoof repeatedly. Finally it ran off after this unbelievable snort noise it let out 💨

I've seen two of these son of a guns fight 10 ft from the back window over remnants of my garden, they do not fool around they stand straight up and jump straight forward with those front hoofs swinging in the air!

Before that, again going to get my mail I walked up right up within 8-10' of three of them under a big bush at the front of my house, one jumped straight up and ran off one way, another ran off the other way and Big Mama just stood there looking at me LOL

I was already backtracking believe me, but they surprised the hell out of me, and I suprised them too I guess
 
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Beachwalker said:
I'm thinking about pizza tonight too 🍕🤔 I've got some pizza sauce I made few days ago that I need to either use up or freeze and I have a pizza dough in the refrigerator too
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Costco pepperoni, 25 min dinners ready...lol...we ain't fancy.My wife makes a good pizza crust but its not ready in 25 min...It fills the hole and we go yum...lol....that was easy
 
Beachwalker said:
I've had one challenge me going to get my mail last week, I posted on here about it, it stomp a front hoof repeatedly. Finally it ran off after this unbelievable snort noise it let out 💨

I've seen two of these son of a guns fight 10 ft from the back window over remnants of my garden, they do not fool around they stand straight up and jump straight forward with those front hoofs swinging in the air!

Before that, again going to get my mail I walked up right up within 8-10' of three of them under a big bush at the front of my house, one jumped straight up and ran off one way, another ran off the other way and Big Mama just stood there looking at me LOL

I was already backtracking believe me, but they surprised the hell out of me, and I suprised them too I guess
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Carry a baseball bat, I'd have no qualms giving the old home run swing on the mthfkers if the came anywhere close. Its not like I'd run out chasing them after with a bat, that would be crazy but on a quiet stroll down wind at dusk???? sneak up behind one and Bam....lol....Now were equal mthfkers if I was just10 years younger.
 
Pipecarver said:
Carry a baseball bat, I'd have no qualms giving the old home run swing on the mthfkers if the came anywhere close. Its not like I'd run out chasing them after with a bat, that would be crazy but on a quiet stroll down wind at dusk???? sneak up behind one and Bam....lol....Now were equal mthfkers if I was just10 years younger.
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Dude you got to get over it! My late father-in-law hit a deer back in the city just outside of Boston, totaled his brand new car. The very next year he hit another one! 🤷🏻 totaled another new car

People don't hit deer back in the city, never mind two in a row. But it happens bro! Don't let it get to you
 
Speaking of animals here's my cat story:

10 years ago on Thanksgiving I had the smoker going and I was carrying the turkey out to the back deck to put it on the smoker

In the next yard underneath my bird feeder I saw a kitten hunting birds. I had seen it a week 10 days earlier trying to steal food from a neighbor's trash bag - ran off when I stopped the car. She was in a lot worse shape than when I saw her initially

Having been involved in animal rescue I saw some negative signs right away, I called the cat over to me and fed her some cat food that had been here for a long time, since my last cat passed away but it was all I had and she was about a minute from death so she ate a can and a half

I had the back door opened, she walked in. I didn't close it, because even though she was young I didn't know if she had a litter of kittens somewhere, my feral cat rescue Timmy was about the same age and she had kittens, so...

If she did have a litter she wasn't going to stay, but she walked in picked a corner and went to sleep, and she's here now 10 years later, sleeping by the fire

So tomorrow is our 10th year anniversary!
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So the holidays are coming! 24 hours from now I can light the Christmas lights and put Dean Martin's Christmas Album on a loop! 🤣

So because of the holiday I'm washing off the glass ice bong, I fill it up and then grab the ice cube tray and thankfully before I could put any cubes in the bong I noticed that it was cubes of beef broth! 😱

I had like 3-5 seconds of standing there like WTF !? 🤯

I recently started freezing my unused broth and storing it in the freezer in plastic bags but I had apparently forgotten about this tray 😂🤣🤣🫠🤭😵‍💫🤓
 
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Beachwalker said:
Dude you got to get over it! My late father-in-law hit a deer back in the city just outside of Boston, totaled his brand new car. The very next year he hit another one! 🤷🏻 totaled another new car

People don't hit deer back in the city, never mind two in a row. But it happens bro! Don't let it get to you
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Its just a fun rant you all understand. I don't really want to brain bash deer, I just have an odd sense of humour. I hate to see animals in distress or injured and I want to avoid collisions with them at all costs. My car was a beauty with a full tank of gas, it just hurt when I lost it. 1 second slower and I'd have missed it. I'm not a hunter either there's no way in hell I could ever shoot one I don't have that in me. I'm just an old curmudgeon with a bad attitude and odd sense of humour.
 
Pipecarver said:
Its just a fun rant you all understand. I don't really want to brain bash deer, I just have an odd sense of humour. I hate to see animals in distress or injured and I want to avoid collisions with them at all costs. My car was a beauty with a full tank of gas, it just hurt when I lost it. 1 second slower and I'd have missed it. I'm not a hunter either there's no way in hell I could ever shoot one I don't have that in me. I'm just an old curmudgeon with a bad attitude and odd sense of humour.
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I know you're having fun with it, and it is so frustrating! I see them wander into the road all the time; but at the same time it's also a very unsettling experience

I saw your video, that was equally as bad as my hit, and equally as dangerous to you, we both got lucky!
 
You can see my repair up the top, now I'm doing a 1 hour low burn to cure it and then over the next 2 hours I have to bring it up to 500° to harden it

The cracking was minor, I forced some into every crack and there was a little bit of a eroded fascia on one brick which I gave a good thick skim coat

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Beachwalker said:
You can see my repair up the top, now I'm doing a 1 hour low burn to cure it and then over the next 2 hours I have to bring it up to 500° to harden it

The cracking was minor, I forced some into every crack and there was a little bit of a eroded fascia on one brick which I gave a good thick skim coat

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Should have mentioned that that little fire is likely my
'seasonal fire' 🔥
 
My patch looks goooood!
Truth be told I was a burner tech in the '90s, I've built, repaired, installed (you name it) lots of fire chambers, but that was over a quarter of a century ago, so let me have this victory lap! 😅🏁

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It has already started snowing here.
Again, seems like we have very similar forecast from our weather guessers.
Nice on the repair~!
I have been using grape or cherry water [ propel] in my bong. ;roc
Never thought to try beef bouillon~! ;slap
 
steamroller said:
It has already started snowing here.
Again, seems like we have very similar forecast from our weather guessers.
Nice on the repair~!
I have been using grape or cherry water [ propel] in my bong. ;roc
Never thought to try beef bouillon~! ;slap
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Wow! the beef bouillon was a shock 😵‍💫 I was standing there for a few seconds like what the hell happened to my ice cubes??? 🤣

Thanks, the repair went well, I followed the directions and it adhered well. I feel better now that it's done

Can you do me a favor and keep the snow there? 😕
 
Man I can't seem to wake up I slept through two nights of 2:00 a.m. Cafe not that anyone would notice because I'm the only one at the cafe 😂🤣😂 but all kidding aside I'm just getting up now, I can't seem to wake up but I got some things to do before the snow but I feel like going back to sleep if I'm honest

Sometimes I'll sleep just three or four hours a night total for days on end but then I'll hit a stretch like this where I sleep all day
 
Beachwalker said:
Man I can't seem to wake up I slept through two nights of 2:00 a.m. Cafe not that anyone would notice because I'm the only one at the cafe 😂🤣😂 but all kidding aside I'm just getting up now, I can't seem to wake up but I got some things to do before the snow but I feel like going back to sleep if I'm honest

Sometimes I'll sleep just three or four hours a night total for days on end but then I'll hit a stretch like this where I sleep all day
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If I get insomnia I can sometimes fix it by staying up super long and crashing at a normal hour. Doesn’t always work but it works enough I still try it when necessary. 🍀
 
Supposed to sleet tomorrow but it's going to hit 40°f, so probably split some wood

Below 40° manufacturer recommends changing the oil in the splitter to a thinner viscosity

I'm not dealing with that mess & bother believe me, I have a hatchet and a hammer if I need a few smaller splits

My weather is bottoming out starting next week so I won't need much kindling or smaller pieces anyway.

Plus I have fatwood this year, that stuff's 🔥

This snow was yesterday afternoon but it didn't amount to much

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The object: get the mail

The problem: mom and the twins LOL

I check now because of what happened a few weeks ago when I walked right up on these three and one of them basically jumped over my head the other one ran the other way and Mom just stood there looking at me like "what"?

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Going through wood pretty good on the hay farm 🫤 my new way of burning might not be working out, may be scrapping that idea 🤔
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Don't matter anyway cuz single digit temps going forward, so I'll have to keep up w/ it 🥶❄️
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That's☝🏻about 3 days worth on the deck
 
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They got me at 4-7 or 5-8 depending which guesser.
Both pretty similar.
I expect to be on the high side~!
 
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