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Metasynth

Metasynth

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About 15 years ago, when my father was still an avid mountain biker, he used to go on frequent night rides in the trails just a few hundred feet from our house. I remember him coming home with this story about an owl. He was riding, and apparently rode into the path of a swooping owl. He said the owl put its talons on his chest, and flapped its wings in a frantic backpeddle, wings beating against his shoulders before the bird recovered and flew away unaffected. No injury to either party, but my dad sorta had one of those "I just communed with nature" feelings from the experience.
 
tangerinegreen555

tangerinegreen555

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After I got married and bought a house, I would often walk to work for the 4-12 shift as the steel mill was just a little over a mile away. And there were 2 bars with food on the way home, and midnight was prime time back then.

When I walked back home after midnight, there was an unlit section I had to walk through, uphill and woods on both sides for a quarter mile before you would come to the first houses.

You wouldn't believe the animal sounds I heard there. I would walk in the center of the road with a spot light, never could see into the woods what was making all the screaching racket and it was a little unsettling. I felt like I was in sci-fi movie and an attack was imminent. Never was bothered though, just a high anxiety walk.

I was once pulled over by the local cop on foot, a new guy back then who said 'not many people walk here at this hour.' He was kinda fat and I told him everybody should get some exercise and do some walking so he drove off. Lol.

Another time after I switched plants, I was driving the truck home and as I was backing in the driveway, a fucking owl with a wingspan that looked as big as a jet swooped down right in front of me on the road and then flew off with something in it's mouth.

Them things can be scary, that wingspan was wider than my truck and you could hear that swooping sound over the engine. Life in the wooded hilly suburbs, always see or hear animals at night.
 
raratt

raratt

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I refilled the beer shelf, priorities. I need to replace my lawn sprinklers with the gear driven ones for better coverage and less water usage, guess I'll have to do a road trip to HD sometime soon. Buds and suds time, making a big ol fish sammich with leftover red snapper for dinner.
 
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