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Dude, here in the PNW it was *nuts*. Brighter and more intense than I ever saw it in Alaska.
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Dude, here in the PNW it was *nuts*. Brighter and more intense than I ever saw it in Alaska.
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Could you hear it?
I was once under it at sea and we could hear it crackling. It was spooky sounding.
I'm going to watch for it tonight. Half Dome and the rest of the park highlands might block too much of my view of the sky in the direction I will need to look though.
If I see the lights it will be the first time since about 2,000. I used to also see them in Montana most years. But they looked so far off, and didn't make sounds.
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I've mentioned this kitty in this thread before, up until about a month ago she was living on my place. One of Beth Pratt's trail cams caught sight of her today.
So she's still alive, and still around. I would imagine that trail cam is within a 1/4 mile of the place.
I might get to see my yard kitty in my yard again.
She arrived home. I saw her yesterday near where I thought she was establishing her den.
A few days after I posted that trail cam video of Beth's, she crossed the road in front of me when I was coming home.
I stopped the car and looked at her for about a minute, while she stopped ten feet away and looked at me. At that point she was a 1/4 mile yet to go to get home. I think she recognized and remembered me and my place, I certainly recognized and remembered her. Maybe that's why she came home. Because I did mention to her that she could come home.
Two days later she was back home. larger than she was before, she'll be fully grown the way she's going in another half year.
She'll have kittens soon. I know why she was gone, there was a boy cat.
I think her mother lives and has her kittens near Beth's house. She'll roam and visit her mom from time to time, but she'll be on her own. The both might even utilize the same boy cat for the same reason.
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Check this out, the second one, the Dad of the Year:
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That's real cool. With a visualization like that to use it would be a whole lot easier to explain celestial navigation.
It's a good clock like visualization, and that's perfect for understanding how to use the sun and planets, and a clock to calculate your longitude on this Earth.
That video you provided, and this on-line Nautical Almanac will be all the reference material with star tables you would need to navigate on land or at sea.
You will also need to make one of these, and have a cell phone, or good watch to supply for you the correct time. Download a Greenwich Mean Time app if you have a cell phone. Download a GPS app to check your results:
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I mentioned a green witch above,,, unrelated but also interesting:
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No this cat is not having a seizure.
He's begging any member of his pride who might notice him "speaking" to please notice his great need and tend to it now.
What that cat wants is to be mauled against the grain. He wants to be petted backwards, a bit rough with finger nails dug in scratching to help dislodge dead skin and insects in his coat. Please, please, please!!!
Same as a thorn in his paw.
That's cat language for you, it's not an audible language except for puring. To speak it fully you would need to be able to purr and release a variety of smells from the smell emitter which you do not have.
I have learned to purr in a way that my cats find pleasing. I have also learned to not pur outside where the bobcats are. I don't want to play with them that rough.
If I purred outside they might approach me too close and then I would be stuck playing with them down on the ground and I'm not equipped with skin which could take their playful biting and claws. Cat's play rough amoung themselves.
My American Forest Cat, Gwinn often does that thing that lion is doing above when she's speaking with me. She has a problem with this climate, she was adapted for a far northern cold climate so this comes up a lot. She has entirely too much hair for this warm climate.
What she's saying to me when she does it is please get down on the floor and do to me what most cat owner would say never do with a cat. She wants me to help her thin out some of that hair, and the best way for me to do that is to maul her with backwards petting, having my fingernails extended to dig some of that hair out.
She kinda wants it to be a fair to middling rough and tumble through kind of mauling down there on that floor.
He's begging any member of his pride who might notice him "speaking" to please notice his great need and tend to it now.
What that cat wants is to be mauled against the grain. He wants to be petted backwards, a bit rough with finger nails dug in scratching to help dislodge dead skin and insects in his coat. Please, please, please!!!
Same as a thorn in his paw.
That's cat language for you, it's not an audible language except for puring. To speak it fully you would need to be able to purr and release a variety of smells from the smell emitter which you do not have.
I have learned to purr in a way that my cats find pleasing. I have also learned to not pur outside where the bobcats are. I don't want to play with them that rough.
If I purred outside they might approach me too close and then I would be stuck playing with them down on the ground and I'm not equipped with skin which could take their playful biting and claws. Cat's play rough amoung themselves.
My American Forest Cat, Gwinn often does that thing that lion is doing above when she's speaking with me. She has a problem with this climate, she was adapted for a far northern cold climate so this comes up a lot. She has entirely too much hair for this warm climate.
What she's saying to me when she does it is please get down on the floor and do to me what most cat owner would say never do with a cat. She wants me to help her thin out some of that hair, and the best way for me to do that is to maul her with backwards petting, having my fingernails extended to dig some of that hair out.
She kinda wants it to be a fair to middling rough and tumble through kind of mauling down there on that floor.
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This bear mother is not trying to run off her cubs, she will care for them for another full year.
What those cubs are doing which is upsetting her enough that she is scolding them is that they are chasing after her tits. She's not having that any more, she thinks it's time to wean those cubs.
She'll run them around in a circle and about the time they get back to the den those cubs will be wore out and ready to sleep.
Human mothers do this too, except human mothers use the car to motor them around in until they fall asleep.
What those cubs are doing which is upsetting her enough that she is scolding them is that they are chasing after her tits. She's not having that any more, she thinks it's time to wean those cubs.
She'll run them around in a circle and about the time they get back to the den those cubs will be wore out and ready to sleep.
Human mothers do this too, except human mothers use the car to motor them around in until they fall asleep.
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Oooo I love puns:
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I really like this person's twitter feed. Watch these brown boots on the side of that stream doing exactly the correct thing for a wet bear event like that.
The correct thing is to not move. The correct thing is to not focus your eyes on the bear, look just bit to the side so you can see him without provoking him.
I think that's a male bear, there's a clump of wet fur in the right place for it, if not what I thought I was seeing,,, what I perhaps thought I saw. But then from the rear... . I don't know.
Notice the boots are just-a-lounging around, not trying to be taller than that bear, or offencive to the bear in any way. They're not scared boots. There's so many of them there. They're not worried about nothin kind of brown boots.
I wonder if those brown boots have marsupial pouches. That would be real cool.
The correct thing is to not move. The correct thing is to not focus your eyes on the bear, look just bit to the side so you can see him without provoking him.
I think that's a male bear, there's a clump of wet fur in the right place for it, if not what I thought I was seeing,,, what I perhaps thought I saw. But then from the rear... . I don't know.
Notice the boots are just-a-lounging around, not trying to be taller than that bear, or offencive to the bear in any way. They're not scared boots. There's so many of them there. They're not worried about nothin kind of brown boots.
I wonder if those brown boots have marsupial pouches. That would be real cool.
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I don't know if Gwinn would allow it but have you considered shaving her fur off in the summer? My daughter has a huge orange tabby with very long, thick fur. She brought Rosco to the vet once to have some matting cleaned away from his rear end and they shaved everything except his head. He loved it (and looked hilarious) he felt so much better. She brings him every year now.
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If those were my brown boots, they'd be brown on the inside, too.
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That would quite a feet.
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I learned something from watching this. I need to work on my hurdling abilities. Being able to jump 5 foot fences in a single bound might be something which later I might be darned glad I trained hard for.
Something useful for surviving a normal suburban neighborhood life.
Something useful for surviving a normal suburban neighborhood life.
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Yeh, they may look clumsy and awkward and comical but, the very fact that they can forking climb a fence makes it terrifying.
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