The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023

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Found in my garage ...


It was wrapping up the dog for later consumption ...

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   My Cougar wakes me up at 7:30 to remind me to take a pill.

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Vikings were White is a stereotype which needs to be updated

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[Kamaji]

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I recall seeing a 'jungle' video a few years back, where the natives caught and roasted those critters on a fire, broke 'em open and ate the meat, saying they were somewhat like crab...

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On our last well the rig hands thought it would be fun to catch a tarantula.  They put it in a box and fed it crickets...lol.  Since I was in the doghouse with them I walked over and taped the box shut, as I didn't want the thing to escape.  It wasn't as big as the one in your picture but about the size of a tennis ball and was black.

Tarantulas are why we train our young Scouts to zip up their tents when camping in the desert...I watched one casually walk over my foot by the campfire.

Bats are also a bit of a pest.

[Smokin Joe]

Tarantulas are why we train our young Scouts to zip up their tents when camping in the desert...I watched one casually walk over my foot by the campfire.

Bats are also a bit of a pest.

I hear scorpions light up a pretty neat blue under a black light, too.

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In Arizona, scorpions are like roaches. They are everywhere. They do glow under fluorescent/black light. They really light up like neon. While in Sedona, happened to see a tarantula migration or mating or something. There were hundreds of them in a herd crossing the road in the moonlight.

[roamer_1]

In Arizona, scorpions are like roaches. They are everywhere. They do glow under fluorescent/black light. They really light up like neon. While in Sedona, happened to see a tarantula migration or mating or something. There were hundreds of them in a herd crossing the road in the moonlight.

So an evening under the glow of a blue bug zapper light is replaced by black light and a BB gun?

I could go for that, so long as the beer is still cold. 

[Smokin Joe]

So an evening under the glow of a blue bug zapper light is replaced by black light and a BB gun?

I could go for that, so long as the beer is still cold. 

That could be fun with a pellet pistol and glow at night sights...

I'd bet the stingers would still be active for a while after the critter gets it, though (forget wandering barefoot).

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That could be fun with a pellet pistol and glow at night sights...

I'd bet the stingers would still be active for a while after the critter gets it, though (forget wandering barefoot).

Maybe. But the common scorpion is small and light colored. They are not like the scorpions you see on TV. Most of them are about an inch and a half. Could be a hard shot with a BB gun. Yea, but with the right booze it would be alright.

[Smokin Joe]

Maybe. But the common scorpion is small and light colored. They are not like the scorpions you see on TV. Most of them are about an inch and a half. Could be a hard shot with a BB gun. Yea, but with the right booze it would be alright.

Aim small, miss small...

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Uh-Oh - TMI

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That's the (multi) colored version of that season. There's a(n all) white one, too.

We have three seasons here. White, brown, and green.

We've had a long, rich, green, and I'd bet brown will be short, and White will hit with a vengeance. (Apple trees are heavily laden, all the berries and wild plums were heavy, too, and I have never had a tomato crop like this year's. The Lord provides for His critters, and humans, too, if they are paying attention. Good crops tend to be followed by a hard winter.)

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That's the (multi) colored version of that season. There's a(n all) white one, too.

We have three seasons here. White, brown, and green.

We've had a long, rich, green, and I'd bet brown will be short, and White will hit with a vengeance. (Apple trees are heavily laden, all the berries and wild plums were heavy, too, and I have never had a tomato crop like this year's. The Lord provides for His critters, and humans, too, if they are paying attention. Good crops tend to be followed by a hard winter.)

YUP...Our apple trees are touching the ground... We're expecting a tough one too.

[Smokin Joe]

YUP...Our apple trees are touching the ground... We're expecting a tough one too.

THe apples are small, but like grapes on my tree. I picked one branch clean and another about half way, and got six gallons of little apples. There are a lot more on the tree yet. So I am learning how to make apple butter. God provides, and opportunity is knocking.

That reminds me, I need to change the oil in the snow thrower and check it over, too.

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THe apples are small, but like grapes on my tree. I picked one branch clean and another about half way, and got six gallons of little apples. There are a lot more on the tree yet. So I am learning how to make apple butter. God provides, and opportunity is knocking.

That reminds me, I need to change the oil in the snow thrower and check it over, too.

woah... our apples are just shy of a fist... but we pick off every other bud in the spring, and that way more resource goes to less apples.

[Smokin Joe]

woah... our apples are just shy of a fist... but we pick off every other bud in the spring, and that way more resource goes to less apples.

Yeah. I didn't do that. Live and learn. Next time I will.  I'd spend less time peeling and cutting if I had, and it will have to be done with a knife, not a widget, because they are so small.
Can't use the conventional corer, either.
(but I can do it in front of the teevee at night... )

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Yeah. I didn't do that. Live and learn. Next time I will.  I'd spend less time peeling and cutting if I had, and it will have to be done with a knife, not a widget, because they are so small.
Can't use the conventional corer, either.
(but I can do it in front of the teevee at night... )

That's right... and they're already the right size wedges for apple crisp... which I eat with every joy. I would be singing, except for stuffing my face. 

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[Smokin Joe]

It's been too hot and dry to have a crop of anything.  What does that mean?

It means it has been hot and dry there. We've had an unusually wet summer, but plenty of heat, too, with many days in the upper 90s and even breaking the triple digit mark. Ours is a climate of extremes. In three months -20 will not be so unusual.

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Hey Guys! I'm heading to 'Rock Bottom' this week. Should be there by Thursday.
If there is anything you need or want, something I could pick up while there, just let me know.
Will stop by the souvenir shop for Tylenol and Pepto on the way back. Could get you a tee shirt...?

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This is true.

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   I have the scars to prove it. 

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