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BudmanTX

BudmanTX

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Good game.

Been cutting the lawn all day, didn't think 1ac would wear me out. Started with the tractor mower, ended with the weed eater, I can see my garden now. Still got more weed eating to do tomorrow.......looks like I also got some veggie picking to do as well....

Ok space tomatoes and beer time.... :peace:
 
Roger A. Shrubber

Roger A. Shrubber

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today's scooter ride. i'm on the cove mtn side of mt Harrison, which has Ober Gatlinburg ski "Resort" on top of it...it's fun, but it's not a resort, it's a shopping mall on top of a mtn with an ice skating rink, a kiddy amusement park, a habitat for injured bears and other wildlife, an alpine slide, and in the winter they do indeed have 3 ski runs and a big tubing course.
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you can see a little of downtown Gatlinburg to the left. i'm at the remains of a big condo complex that burned in the fire 4 years ago. they're just now getting to tearing them down.
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the Ober tram cars passing at the halfway point. you can drive up, or pay to park downtown and take the tram up to the top, then back down later.
those are actually pretty big, they'll hold at least 20 people each. operating the tram car was one of my first summer jobs as a teenager, all you do is push two buttons and tell the passengers some bullshit about the tramway...and hit on tourist girls:hump:
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doublejj

doublejj

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I will tell you one of the real time close encounters the crew has had with Mountain Lions. A few years ago one of the crew from a neighbors farm came over to our farm for a visit and stayed till dark. Our driveway slopes downhill to meet the main access road at a dip in the road, so the intersection forms a Y with uphill in every direction. As he only had about a 1/2 mile to go he road his bicycle. He had no light on the bike only a headlamp. After turning off our driveway and turning left to start the short (50yd) uphill trek to get over the hump and coast home, he casually pointed his headlamp to the far shoulder of the dirt road and there in the light stood a full grown Mountain Lion, maybe 15ft away, and it's up hill in every direction. Fortunately the lion was either not hungry or the primal shriek he let out ( he describes it as something between a dragon and a wounded pig) gave the lion 2nd thoughts...He says it was a sound he's never heard before and never wants too again. He says he never looked back but swears the lion trailed him to the top of the hill.. No streetlights out here, off grid farming.
The driveway looking uphill...
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GreatwhiteNorth

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My first posting in the CG was an isolated LORAN station on the Aleutian islands & since I was on the bottom rung of just about every ladder I had the least desirable jobs. One of which was as the "mess bitch" to hoist the flag (while everyone else was sleeping). I walked out the front door of the station into the mud room & literally bumped into a Kodiak bear. Thank God we both went in opposite directions but you can bet I had a flashlight from then on.
 
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