100F here again today and I am heading your way in two days......
Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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It would be like throwing a rabbit in a briar patch, they would be BFF’s post haste (they probably already are)
You ever had Booker's Mate ?.........whew boy......It's really good, but make sure you're at the house before popping the cork.
If'n you're interested, look for a "BevMo" in SoCal when you're there. They should have it. I doubt the grocery stores (Ralph's, Von's, etc) will.
Oh, and like I said before......DO NOT buy anything at a strip mall, mom and pop liquor store with a credit card !!!!!! Your card information will end up being lifted and sold on the black market instantaneously. You don't need to be on holiday and have a credit card cancelled.
Have not tried Bookers yet (unless I had it in Dubai / Abu Dhabi, some nights there caused memory problems). Sipping on some Woodfords Reserve at the moment while watching the Bathurst 12 hour car race.
Just looked.....Interesting to see that Bentley has a couple of cars in it and they seem to be doing pretty well.......Who'da thunk Bentley would have race cars ?
It is an amazing circuit, I used to make an annual pilgrimage there many years ago for the V8 Supercar races
Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on a hill with the dual official names of Mount Panorama and Wahluu[1] and is best known as the home of the Bathurst 1000 motor race held each October, and the Bathurst 12 Hour event held each February. The track is 6.213 km (4 mi) in length, and is technically a street circuit, and is a public road, with normal speed restrictions when no racing events are being run, and there are many residences which can only be accessed from the circuit.
The track has an unusual design by modern standards, with a 174-metre (571 ft) vertical difference between its highest and lowest points, and grades as steep as 1:6.13. From the start-finish line, the track can be viewed in three sections; the short pit straight and then a tight left turn into the long, steep Mountain straight; the tight, narrow section across the top of the mountain itself; and then the long, downhill section of Conrod Straight, with the very fast Chase and the turn back onto pit straight to complete the lap.
Historically, the racetrack has been used for a wide variety of racing categories, including everything from open-wheel racers to motorcycles. However, the factors that make the track so unusual, and tighter modern safety standards, make it unlikely that major race meetings in these categories will be held there again, and as such it has become the near-exclusive province of closed-bodied car
Mount Panorama Circuit is a motor racing track located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. It is situated on a hill with the dual official names of Mount Panorama and Wahluu[1] and is best known as the home of the Bathurst 1000 motor race held each October, and the Bathurst 12 Hour event held each February. The track is 6.213 km (4 mi) in length, and is technically a street circuit, and is a public road, with normal speed restrictions when no racing events are being run, and there are many residences which can only be accessed from the circuit.
The track has an unusual design by modern standards, with a 174-metre (571 ft) vertical difference between its highest and lowest points, and grades as steep as 1:6.13. From the start-finish line, the track can be viewed in three sections; the short pit straight and then a tight left turn into the long, steep Mountain straight; the tight, narrow section across the top of the mountain itself; and then the long, downhill section of Conrod Straight, with the very fast Chase and the turn back onto pit straight to complete the lap.
Historically, the racetrack has been used for a wide variety of racing categories, including everything from open-wheel racers to motorcycles. However, the factors that make the track so unusual, and tighter modern safety standards, make it unlikely that major race meetings in these categories will be held there again, and as such it has become the near-exclusive province of closed-bodied car
I found a "live" feed and have been watching the last 6 or 7 minutes of it....It is quite pretty there and it looks like all the big race teams are there.
https://eu.motorsport.tv/motorsporttv/video/bathurst-12-hour/16858
Kangaroos have caused some horrific accidents there...
https://www.google.com/search?q=bat...j69i57j0l4.12077j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.google.com/search?q=bat...j69i57j0l4.12077j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
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I bet.....Porsche and Mercedes (2 & 3) have been "intimate" in the last 10 minutes. Bentley in 1st ?
Back in the day the track that is now New Hampshire Motor Speedway had two names. It was Loudon when the motorcycles race it. When we went there for the road course it was Bryar Motorsports Park. I don't know what they called the circle track when the stock cars were there but it was always a great track.
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I grew up around a cattle ranch in Montana when I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s. There was always something that needed to be done. My 3 uncles owned a corporation of 3 separate ranches, well over 10k acres and maybe 2k acres of hay. we did mostly round bales but some squares too. My uncle Dutch was born with a bad hip and has had 3 hip replacements throughout his life. I can remember him hiking up and down the mountain in the spring fixing fence, he could stand on the ground at the bottom of a 2 1/2 flat bed and and shove a square bale of hay 5 layers up. Im greatful to have had the experience of growing up around that environment and only wish my kids had the same opportunity. Looking back I really enjoyed working my ass off picking bales, pulling calves, digging fence post holes, etc...
Y'all shouldn't let kangaroos drive cars.
Look up the "Chinese Labor Battalions" and the "American Stevedore" companies, and you will find who did the scut work. Trained soldiers were too valuable to use for that kind of work. Back then...
If you want to see more, investigate who the American engineer soldiers were building the Burma road, versus the average combat grunt.
Look at Korea and see who humped supplies up the mountains on A-frames...
Interesting history....
Black face jokes? In this climate?
When you're nose to nose your toes are in it
When you're toe to toe your nose is in it
Since it was a copperhead, you probably didn’t have much to worry about. If it was a water moccasin, or a cottonmouth, those just have a fuck you attitude, and will go out of their way to fuck with you.
That works, too.
I was gonna go with, "Poor Frank. He could barely reach the stuff on the prize table at the match."
First Copperhead at my place I hit with trimmer line, and he wanted to get away. .45 ACP, head cut off with a shovel.
Second Copperhead I was holding a running pole saw, looking up at what branch to cut next. I took one step, looked down for the second step, brain acknowledged I had just stepped clean over a Copperhead. .45 ACP, head cut off with a shovel.
Cottonmouth, will swim toward your John boat, and try to get in. Thus my "boat gun". NEF single shot 12 gauge chopped off to 18". Cottonmouths do not possess the synapse that says "don't be a dick".
All nonvenomous snakes are allowed to go about their business, on my place.
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Snakes don’t bother me except for the water moccasin. That one scares the heck out of me.
My Father told me that some prick put a rattlesnake in his sleeping bag while on a bivouac near Ft. Hood during WWII.
He discovered the snake as he started to get in his sleeping bag.
There was only on man laughing when that happened. My Father came to the conclusion that he must have planted the snake.
So he beat the crap out of him.
The next day, both of them were standing in front of the 1st SGT. When asked why my Father beat the other guy up, he responded because the prick put rattlesnake in the sleeping bag.
The 1st SGT said, “I would have beat him up to. Now get out of here.”
I don’t have to say what would have happened to my Dad if that were to occur today.
When it comes to the outdoors, I’m more concerned with ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes and horseflies.
Snakes don’t bother me except for the water moccasin. That one scares the heck out of me.
My Father told me that some prick put a rattlesnake in his sleeping bag while on a bivouac near Ft. Hood during WWII.
He discovered the snake as he started to get in his sleeping bag.
There was only on man laughing when that happened. My Father came to the conclusion that he must have planted the snake.
So he beat the crap out of him.
The next day, both of them were standing in front of the 1st SGT. When asked why my Father beat the other guy up, he responded because the prick put rattlesnake in the sleeping bag.
The 1st SGT said, “I would have beat him up to. Now get out of here.”
I don’t have to say what would have happened to my Dad if that were to occur today.
I've had copperheads come after me b4... your experiences may vary. I kill 60-75 venomous snakes every year, and so far, the rattlers have been the non aggressive visitors. The pictured one looked me in the eye when I went in a hog trap to reset it.
Only copperhead luck I've seen is the majority of them have been dry bites. The cotton mouths are an absolute another story.
Yes, had them try to take the boat, bad move on their parts..
Here in Florida, the Pygmy rattlers account for the most snake bites. The moccasins are aggressive and you have to worry about them, but Pygmy rattlers hang around suburban areas and despite their small size, pack a good venom shot and are as aggressive as all get out. Plus, they don’t typically provide any warning rattle before striking.
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I'm a firm believer in "The only good snake is a dead snake" mantra.
Probably from growing up where pretty much all the snakes were deadly.
Probably from growing up where pretty much all the snakes were deadly.
When they take up residence in the pole barn next to the pond and try to nibble your leg while you hook up the trailer, bush hog, harrow, or other equipment, you dont resettle them.
When they try to get in the boat, when they get under your steps and the grandchildren play in the yard, when they sun on the cabin porch, and you dont want them there later that night, I can go on...
Or, in the next picture, when you are up on the peanut trailer smoothing the hump to close the lid and snake tries to bite you...
F' the snake....
Dead problem is not a return or repeat problem.
I could kill way more than 60-75, but I let the woods dwellers alone as long as they stay in their place.
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Several years ago middle kid decided to "catch" a snake in southern MO.
Turned out to be a copperhead.
Foot wasn't placed as close to the head as wanted/thought and snake responded with a partial bite
on the side if the foot.
ER was a bit away and I'd argued enough with the "experts" on location about what to do.
Did my version of the cannonball run to ER.
They gave kid anti inflammatory meds and marked foot from bite up to the knee.
A fair bit of swelling had occured but subsided by 3am.
As venomous snakes are almost nonexistent around home kid learned solid lesson.
Funniest thing about the whole deal, people we're not interested in how the kid's foot was.
They acused me of not giving the heads up speech.
R
Turned out to be a copperhead.
Foot wasn't placed as close to the head as wanted/thought and snake responded with a partial bite
on the side if the foot.
ER was a bit away and I'd argued enough with the "experts" on location about what to do.
Did my version of the cannonball run to ER.
They gave kid anti inflammatory meds and marked foot from bite up to the knee.
A fair bit of swelling had occured but subsided by 3am.
As venomous snakes are almost nonexistent around home kid learned solid lesson.
Funniest thing about the whole deal, people we're not interested in how the kid's foot was.
They acused me of not giving the heads up speech.
R
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Pistol shotshell cartridges for the win...
I've had folks make fun of these and ask just what practical use these things have...But to anyone who has been on a ranch or anywhere venomous snakes are common, they are a potential lifesaver. I've killed rattlers cleanly with my .357 Vaquero using CCI shotshells. If yer' packin' in snake country, load up on em'.
Pretty much the first thing that came to mind when I read about the Judge when it was just introduced
