D-League

[Bert Higginbotha]

Morning folks. It is 34.3°F and a pretty good frost. There are broken clouds (yep it hurts the clouds to break) but the sun is shining at the moment.

It will be wall to wall basketball here. I love these two weeks in March.

 

[awf]

I've already had to figure this stuff out. Bird coloration like, egg shell thickness is governed by enzyme production/metabolism controlled by hormones. A genetic mutation caused (usually something left out) likey impacted the red coloration production. Either a genetic mutation or biologic response can result in the disruption of the enzymes that inhibits creation of the red coloration, A green animal is often yellow when the blue is inhibited. I've seen this xanthochromism ( I had forgotten how to spell that) response in several species with red pigmentation. Such mutations can become recessive traits exhibited throughout the animal kingdom. AWF is dead on about natural selection a being a biological filter in the eat or be eaten nature of carbon based life.
Normal Peach-faced lovebird, inhibited red & yellow & inhibited blue

Thanks Rooster............I wish I had an education to go with my practical experience w/birds...............

 

[awf]

$3.99/gal this morning. Bah.

Regular gasoline was $4.29 in spots in Louisville on Wed. I got gas at Sam's Club for $3.31 last Friday........this is insanity............and there is a portion of our society that choose this?

 

[_Rooster]

Gas prices . . . going up about nickel/day here. Today around $4.40/gal. Ukraine gangsters fight russian gangsters over port access and who gets to blackmail the American idiots.

 

[vhcat70]

The shipping on shades is outrageous. I shipped two shades that have the same top and bottom and do not nest in the box to a Florida motel as samples last week. Fed Ex charges were sixty dollars.

Honestly surprised it wasn't more these days.

 

[berniecarbo]

Honestly surprised it wasn't more these days.

Shipped a large box of 24 to Wilmington NC this morning. 102 something for Fed Ex cost alone.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

 

[Girthang]

Gouging is what that is. FedEx and UPS have a system set up that uses gas regardless of its cost and regardless of the number of packages sent. If the price of gas doubles, the cost of shipping shouldn't go up more than a couple dollars to pay for it.

Their costs didn't double, since gas is only a small portion of their costs.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning D Legionnaires!

50's for a high today with mid 30's for tomorrow. Snow coming tonight and tomorrow. With this topsy turvy weather we are having here my fishing is spotty. I may have to just go bird watching and breeding. I heard that could be fun. 🤪

Have to go play Mr. Miyagi again today and will test the gasoline prices out as I need to fill up my truck. Need a hoopty that is good on gas to make my normal runs and just use the truck for hauling and fishing.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Headed down to the garage this afternoon with my little truck to get the air horns serviced. I have had this old boy for 23 years. Early fall 1999. I will keep it until I am no more.

 

[awf]

Headed down to the garage this afternoon with my little truck to get the air horns serviced. I have had this old boy for 23 years. Early fall 1999. I will keep it until I am no more.

If I can't drive them for 25+ years.......I don't want to buy it.......Good looking vehicle.....

 

[awf]

Morning D Legionnaires!

50's for a high today with mid 30's for tomorrow. Snow coming tonight and tomorrow. With this topsy turvy weather we are having here my fishing is spotty. I may have to just go bird watching and breeding. I heard that could be fun. 🤪

Have to go play Mr. Miyagi again today and will test the gasoline prices out as I need to fill up my truck. Need a hoopty that is good on gas to make my normal runs and just use the truck for hauling and fishing.

You have to be very careful so as to not smush them...... 🙄

 

[Sawnee Cat]

If I can't drive them for 25+ years.......I don't want to buy it.......Good looking vehicle.....

Thanks awf, I feel the same way. A few years ago I thought about getting a new truck. I priced them out and the starting price was about $50,000 and up. At my age I would never get my money out of it. So I decided to take this one and make it retro 1950's with the oak bed and rails. It is a 4x4 off road with the steel plates to protect the engine and transmission. It is made for the swamps around here and fun to drive in them.

I only need a pick up to haul small items, run to the hardware store or take trash to the recycle center. I put $3,500 in it and have a new truck.

 

[_Rooster]

 

[_Rooster]

Thanks Rooster............I wish I had an education to go with my practical experience w/birds...............

You're welcome.

Rant warning:
God didnot want me to work w/birds, I was blessed to experience the wonder a few years because I worked hard from the get go. I knew trouble was on the horizon when a million dollar covered squirrel bridge was proposed on top of Mnt. Graham to assist a relict population of red squirrels isolated on mountain Island by a warming planet over the last 10,000 years or so. Preservationists were afraid goshawks might eat them all. Being they exist on a mountain top in a fire climax community that burned regularly. What they needed to do was shoot Smokey Bear. The Vatican having their telescopes on Mount Graham was not particularly helpful either. The result was 100 years of fire supression creating a situation where fires became extreme unmanageable sterialization events. Squirrels need trees with interlocking canopy for escape cover. Not that the the hawks cared, there just wasn't enough squirrel biomass to be the focus of aerial predation on the mountain unless they were the only prey for the predation caused by the mismanagement. As predators goshawks are ground foraging genealists. Not being subsidized, hunting for them, not an option in marginal xeric habitats. Nature provides for the birds and squirrels unless we screw it up. Trophic energy economics of natural ecology ≈ 1/10 kilocalories. Sanity had vanished with disregard of science. Ecology became political. Onithology was not unaffected. When seed pods do not open until there is a fire and plants do not produce them until they're some twenty years old, deciders need to know how to think. OK, that's my eco-rant for now.​

Mnt. Graham, Arizona with snow.

That being said, AWF you as you are know more than 99% of folks and I learned long ago, it's not how much you know, it's how much you care that counts anyway .

 

[vhcat70]

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[vhcat70]

Headed down to the garage this afternoon with my little truck to get the air horns serviced. I have had this old boy for 23 years. Early fall 1999. I will keep it until I am no more.

So do you intend to be buried in it with your casket in the bed?

 

[Sawnee Cat]

So do you intend to be buried in it with your casket in the bed?

I really haven't give it a thought but one never knows. My grandkids might get a little upset because they want it around as long as it is an it.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

This boy is being bad and taking small dogs and kitty cats out of people's yards. But if you live close to wildlife those things happen. I received this photo from a member of a group I belong to. With a warning. I have a yard full of squirrels he can help clean out.

 

[_Rooster]

Obey & River's Es looking fat.

 

[_Rooster]

This boy is being bad and taking small dogs and kitty cats out of people's yards. But if you live close to wildlife those things happen. I received this photo from a member of a group I belong to. With a warning. I have a yard full of squirrels he can help clean out.

These are a ground foraging species of forest ecotone habitat, coloration similar to N.A. accipters (adapted for ambush) Bet they do love squirrels, just the right size. Place squirrel feeder appropriately visable from a large tree away to ambush from near a fenced or wall of hay to obstruct escape and you're all set. Bushy-tailed tree rats are tasty. Let the show begin.​

Squirrel feeder

Raw peanuts should get quick attention.

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[bertfan31]

Good afternoon! Just got in from the golf course. Decided to go fill my truck up on the way home. 4.16/gal. Cost me $65 to fill it up from just under half. 2 months ago that would have been from empty.

I watched Louisville play Virginia last night. I'm not bragging about it, but I am admitting to it. I don't care how far down the shitter they go. I'll still rubberneck that trainwreck.

Talked to Don yesterday and in true, old school fashion, we discussed next years team before this one even plays a game in the conference tourney. It's who we are. It's what we do.

Wheeler is coming back. Brooks, Toppin, Collins, Hopkins will all be back. CJ Frederick, a solid 50% 3 point marksman will be back. We've got 2 supposed real good Freshmen coming as well. Icing on the cake will be Oscar coming back and Sharpe playing his year out. Mercy! What a team.

 

[bertfan31]

Forgot to hit send. I'm old.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Spock to the rescue.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 60°F and cloudy. Warmest part of the day. Cold front moving down this way. Noticed 42°F at Fort Hood. Low predicted around 31°F. Think I'll carry my jacket during morning walk.

Vandy vs Cats tonight at 8:15 pm EST. Wife and I watched Tide vs Dores last night. They played a big second half and pulled it out against Bama. Go Cats!

Happy Friday!

Wishing happiness and health for all our fellow D-League members.

 

[warrior-cat]

Brandon got us over $4.00 per gallon. Below are the averages for gasoline in our little town as of this morning. We are in the Big Leagues now


Regular $4.19

Midgrade $3.94

Premium $4.45

Diesel $3.89

Things are getting serious folks and citizens are getting angry.

$3.85 on post which is generally about 5 cent cheaper than the surrounding city of Lawton. Diesel here is over a dollar more a gallon.

 

[warrior-cat]

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[warrior-cat]

These are a ground foraging species of forest ecotone habitat, coloration similar to N.A. accipters (adapted for ambush) Bet they do love squirrels, just the right size. Place squirrel feeder appropriately visable from a large tree away to ambush from near a fenced or wall of hay to obstruct escape and you're all set. Bushy-tailed tree rats are tasty. Let the show begin.​

Squirrel feeder

Raw peanuts should get quick attention.

​

This guy can help them find their meals.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Watched all the SEC games yesterday. Vandy sure came back. I hope the two day grind works on Vandy tonight.

It is a sunny 35.8°F here on our way to 58°, but snow tonight and getting down to 18 by morning. Burrr.

Go Cats.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good Morning D

The SEC tournament is all the buzz down here.

Today brings us 72° and partly cloudy skies. By mid afternoon the temperature will reach 86° . Only a small chance of rain but that may be changing over night.

Cats take on Vandy. We know we can beat them so let's do it and advance. Win tonight and advance. More basketball for me today. Best time of the year for the next few weeks. Go CATS

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks.

It gets real today, in terms of the Hoops post-season. Not sure how I feel about Vandy upsetting Alabama. Probably less jeopardy for the Cats to be upset - Alabama has one of those teams that can hit 18 threes at any time, and if that was paired with a sluggish offensive night for Kentucky could spell trouble. But I wasn't relishing seeing the Cats play that Thug Ball this early in the post-season.

Glad to see the baseball thing work out. Because of the lingering labor issues -- seems funny to call it that when my frame of reference is being an hourly pipeline worker in my youth, not a utility infielder making $13 million -- I haven't kept up with the Reds. I assume they lost a couple key players through cheapness to the Big Markets and are trying to squeeze a season or two out of a fading journeyman pitcher. The usual. But somehow the game still has that resonance for the first couple weeks of the season at least.

Go Reds!

 

[bertfan31]

Good morning! Heading out soon, maybe for the day. Vandy? Bring em on!

I don't appreciate this cold weather moving in later. I'll accept it and I'll tolerate it, but I will not like it.

Have a good day, have a Friday.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good morning folks.

It gets real today, in terms of the Hoops post-season. Not sure how I feel about Vandy upsetting Alabama. Probably less jeopardy for the Cats to be upset - Alabama has one of those teams that can hit 18 threes at any time, and if that was paired with a sluggish offensive night for Kentucky could spell trouble. But I wasn't relishing seeing the Cats play that Thug Ball this early in the post-season.

Glad to see the baseball thing work out. Because of the lingering labor issues -- seems funny to call it that when my frame of reference is being an hourly pipeline worker in my youth, not a utility infielder making $13 million -- I haven't kept up with the Reds. I assume they lost a couple key players through cheapness to the Big Markets and are trying to squeeze a season or two out of a fading journeyman pitcher. The usual. But somehow the game still has that resonance for the first couple weeks of the season at least.

Go Reds!

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I sure listened to WCKY carry the Cats. When I first moved to Jacksonville I would set up two radios, one on WHAS and the other on WCKY. When one would fade out I would switch to the other.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I sure listened to WCKY carry the Cats. When I first moved to Jacksonville I would set up two radios, one on WHAS and the other on WCKY. When one would fade out I would switch to the other.

Bert,

I've done that on occasion back in the day from DC, with limited success. It was always easier to get the Reds on clear summer nights on WLW...

There was a period in the Washington area where some guys took over a small Northern Virginia public television outfit, and they used to broadcast the Kentucky basketball Jefferson Pilot feed as a "telethon!" When the feed would go to a commerical, these guys would get on the air and cajol Kentucky fans to join the station as "members" and get some sort of t-shirt or whatever. I'd send them a few bucks every year, and they kept it going for several seasons as I recall.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I sure listened to WCKY carry the Cats. When I first moved to Jacksonville I would set up two radios, one on WHAS and the other on WCKY. When one would fade out I would switch to the other.

I did the same thing down in Clearwater. Our house was made of CBS and radio waves had a hard time getting through. I would take the radios outside and the one coming in the best is the one I went with. 1530 actually did better because of Castro down in Cuba.

When Castro wanted to harass America he would take his blow torch radio station (840 on the dial) and turn it in the direction of Miami that had a little station down there, also with 840 on the dial. That was his target He did this often during UK games so we would get a lot of Spanish / Commie propaganda for a couple of hours.

1530 was a little stronger than WHAS at night even when Castro was behaving badly

 

[_Rooster]

Spock to the rescue.

Good morning folks.

It gets real today, in terms of the Hoops post-season. . . But I wasn't relishing seeing the Cats play that Thug Ball this early in the post-season.

Still find it difficult believing this sorry POS is a head coach anywhere.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Bert,

I've done that on occasion back in the day from DC, with limited success. It was always easier to get the Reds on clear summer nights on WLW...

There was a period in the Washington area where some guys took over a small Northern Virginia public television outfit, and they used to broadcast the Kentucky basketball Jefferson Pilot feed as a "telethon!" When the feed would go to a commerical, these guys would get on the air and cajol Kentucky fans to join the station as "members" and get some sort of t-shirt or whatever. I'd send them a few bucks every year, and they kept it going for several seasons as I recall.

I was totally involved with trying to follow the Cats. I remember the DC TV station that covered the Cats. I had cable and sat. I was walking in tall cotton.

In 1986 I was transferred from Evansville, IN to Houston, TX. I knew well that I would never see another UK game on TV. So I spent a fortune (to me it was a fortune) on a 12' sat dish on top of a big mortgage.

From 1986 until 2003 I kept a large dish (several dishes in Houston, Baltimore and Jacksonville) to make darn sure that I did not miss a game, I kept trading up. The electronics could really get expensive as they went from open transmission into scrambling the signal to keep folks like me from seeing it. Then they went to the KU band and it got a lot more complex. I kept spending money and kept recording the games. My brain finally let me down (too dumb to keep up with the encoding) and I retired to Kentucky where I did not have to worry about getting the Cats.

I love the stories of how hard UK guys try to get the games. I love UK. It is stupid, but it is what I do.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I did the same thing down in Clearwater. Our house was made of CBS and radio waves had a hard time getting through. I would take the radios outside and the one coming in the best is the one I went with. 1530 actually did better because of Castro down in Cuba.

When Castro wanted to harass America he would take his blow torch radio station (840 on the dial) and turn it in the direction of Miami that had a little station down there, also with 840 on the dial. That was his target He did this often during UK games so we would get a lot of Spanish / Commie propaganda for a couple of hours.

1530 was a little stronger than WHAS at night even when Castro was behaving badly

Us old folks that lived a long way from Lexington know all about Castro.

Sawnee every post brings us closer. We share so much common history.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

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Still find it difficult believing this sorry POS is a head coach anywhere.

Me too.

Vandy has to go to thug ball to win.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I think that Auburn will beat Mississippi State but at 18 minutes to go State is 16 ahead. WOA

Edit: not State, but A&M

Geeze it is bad to be this stupid.