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Pueblo, Colorado had just gotten TV service... I got to watch Ike's inauguration at elementary school (3rd grade). Well, what I actally saw was the glow of a 17" TV screen from about 80 feet away, and the TV speaker could not be heard over the noise made by a few hundred other kids. But at least we were out of class!

About 1990, age about 46, fly fishing for McLoud rainbow trout in Crane Creek, Missouri. Sunset, my pupils dilated, lost the pinhole camera effect, and had to quit fishing because I could not see well enough to tie a size 20 midge on a 1 lb. tippet. I wore my first pair of bifocals two weeks later.

Celebrating July 4, 2014, with friends and their grandsons. The boys, ages 5 and 8, asked me how old I was, and I told them "70". The 8- year old looked at me, frowned, and said, "You should be dead by now, right?" I began laughing and I'm still laughing at age 82!

We have crows, not ravens, but the same pair frequently visit our yard... Waldorf and Statler from Sesame Street!

What part of a carcass is being cut in the 1st two videos? Hard for me to picture the part of the animal that has that much lean meat area....

Never bet more than you have with you at the moment. Some folks don't like waiting for their money, and may demonstrate their displeasure painfully.

If you make, or think you will ever make your own percussion caps, empty primer trays hold those little aluminum cups nicely.

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...as I previously said...

Odds are it's a Cooper's hawk; more common than a Sharpshinned hawk. Expert birders have trouble telling them apart. Look 'em up and take your chances. And buy a lottery ticket. You are lucky to see either species, much less get a photo.

Time to make bacon!

Hoisting one westward, wishing you well. Thanks for keeping us informed.

If I am reading a list of names or a name tag and I am unsure of the pronunciation, I simply ask the person to say their name. No one has ever been offended because I want to get it right.

The subject matter is fish and aquatic animals (birds, turtles, crayfish, etc) ... she is a college senior majoring in biology and art. The fence belongs to a family friend, an elderly widow, who enjoyed Sophie's first fence mural, which was painted on Sophie's parent's home. Sophie wanted to paint another one, so this fence was volunteered! link to first mural;

I got saddle sores on the insides of my thighs when I was an 11 year old kid wearing jeans on a 4 day camping/trail ride with my dad and 8 other father/sons about 1955, before pantyhose was invented. Never enjoyed horses after that. Please listen to your kid when they tell you their legs hurt on a trail ride.

Grim.

Just east of Luster, the first stop light east of Glenstone, on the southside of Battlefield Rd.

I find it remarkable that every sub-microscopic particle of matter in the universe, or its equivalent package of waveforms, knows exactly how to behave in every experiment devised by humans, without having to calculate possibilities or Eigenfunctions, etc. Physicists make things complicated. We need to find out why things happen at the sub-atomic level, rather than just describing results and thinking that we have accomplished something.

Granddaughter Sophie is painting another fence mural in Springfield, MO, on East Battlefield Rd. Weather permitting, should be done in a week or so.

Good for him. The 2nd Amendment is for all law abiding citizens. Be safe and legal, Sir.

Incredibly beautiful writing! A skill that has been lost and unlikely to recover with today's dependence on electronics.

Obvious we care about you, UB. Please accept our concerns and keep us updated.

Time to go UB. Enough is enough.

I think she's trying to figure it out, too!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9fILE_95ofY&pp=0gcJCU4LAYcqIYzv&ra=m Link to AI recreations of photos of famous Western figures. Fun to watch them move. Sorry about the commercials, and apologies if it has already been posted.