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[Sawnee Cat]

I have seen cotton mouths in the Green and Barren rivers in my part of Kentucky; however, the lake that my house was on in Jacksonville, FL was full of moccasin's. We even had one in the den one night. Sherry went ballistic.

So I would say that it is best to watch where you swim in any southern state. Plus my dad always said that a copper head was nothing but a dry land cotton mouth. The area I grew up in is copper head and rattle snake country.

Good advice. Be aware of your environment. The most venomous snakes down here are

• Cottonmouth or "water moccasin"
• Timber rattlesnake
• Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
• Eastern diamondback
• Eastern coral snake
• Copperhead. It is very rare around here so not much of a threat.

Cottonmouths and diamond backs are very common. The one I fear the most is the Coral snake. It may be the next deadliest of the bunch, right behind the Diamond Back Unlike the rattler you get no warning.

 

[BBUK]

The wife is having the front windshield tint of her Q5 redone. They will remove the old and put on a new one. It is legal in Florida to tint you front windows but there is a limit as to how dark you can get it.

Tinted windows are a must down here.

Sir,

My commuter car. (A 2012 Mazda 3) has tinted windows where the tint is bubbling off the glass in several areas. I have a utility razor that I was going to attempt to remove the tint but haven't tried yet. (The tint is on the side glasses (all of them)). It is unsightly. (It is the car I bought my youngest daughter new when we went to Korea in 2012. (She lived in Texas in SA then. (That heat and sun is brutal.) (She never used the sun shield I bought her and the dash warped but just a little.) Yeah it is a hand me down back to me.

I'd drive that car to Colorado and all I'd do is check the tire pressure and clean the front glass. 70k miles now. (I'd buy a new car but the darned taxes are so stupid here ANNUALLY. (Just got my annual tax bill on this one. $62.00. My other car a 2015 Camry tax bill is: $380.00 in comparison. My daughter owns a 2019 Rav4 and that bill was $980.00 , yes ANNUALLY.) This Mazda has a salvage title due to hail damage from a SA hail storm.) Just perfect as a commuter car. I could sell it any time here and have had several offers.

I wanted to try to put new tint on but was concerned about doing that part myself. I think I will attempt that today or tomorrow. (Taking off the old tint.) May look for a youtube video first.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good advice. Be aware of your environment. The most venomous snakes down here are

• Cottonmouth or "water moccasin"
• Timber rattlesnake
• Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
• Eastern diamondback
• Eastern coral snake
• Copperhead. It is very rare around here so not much of a threat.

Cottonmouths and diamond backs are very common. The one I fear the most is the Coral snake. It may be the next deadliest of the bunch, right behind the Diamond Back Unlike the rattler you get no warning.

I was in Sales and Marketing and we were assigned an attorney to keep us out of jail. My assigned attorney was Fred. Fred lived down in the Mandarin, FL area. He ended up catching two Coral snakes in his yard. They are little but deadly.

 

[BBUK]

I was in Sales and Marketing and we were assigned an attorney to keep us out of jail. My assigned attorney was Fred. Fred lived down in the Mandarin, FL area. He ended up catching two Coral snakes in his yard. They are little but deadly.

Sir, I have never ran into or seen one of those in real life. I can pass on that experience. I will take your word on it.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Z

Good advice. Be aware of your environment. The most venomous snakes down here are

• Cottonmouth or "water moccasin"
• Timber rattlesnake
• Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
• Eastern diamondback
• Eastern coral snake
• Copperhead. It is very rare around here so not much of a threat.

Cottonmouths and diamond backs are very common. The one I fear the most is the Coral snake. It may be the next deadliest of the bunch, right behind the Diamond Back Unlike the rattler you get no warning.

Poisonous snakes are not much of a threat around Maryland. In theory the Cottonmouth extends to this area but I've never seen one. Oddly enough, we've had a run of Copperhead sightings - including by me - in the forested area not that far from my house. They are not an aggressive snake and it would be bad luck if you stumbled on one in a place where it had no choice but to bite you.

Now, the bad boys below you want to avoid. Took this photo in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in the old Northwest Frontier Province of what was once India, in 2001, of a roadside attraction. My guide told me the secret is that as long as the snake is curled in the basket, it can't strike very far.

Fair enough, but somehow about 9,000 people in Pakistan are killed by snakes every year. Of course, that's a fraction of India's toll. Wrap your mind around this: Between the year 2000 and 2019, an estimated 1.2 MILLION people in India died of snakebite - an average of about 58,000 a year. Mind blowing.

 

[BBUK]

Z

Poisonous snakes are not much of a threat around Maryland. In theory the Cottonmouth extends to this area but I've never seen one. Oddly enough, we've had a run of Copperhead sightings - including by me - in the forested area not that far from my house. They are not an aggressive snake and it would be bad luck if you stumbled on one in a place where it had no choice but to bite you.

Now, the bad boys below you want to avoid. Took this photo in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in the old Northwest Frontier Province of what was once India, in 2001, of a roadside attraction. My guide told me the secret is that as long as the snake is curled in the basket, it can't strike very far.

Fair enough, but somehow about 9,000 people in Pakistan are killed by snakes every year. Of course, that's a fraction of India. Wrap your mind around this: Between the year 2000 and 2019, an estimated 1.2 MILLION people in India died of snakebite - an average of about 58,000 a year. Mind blowing.

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They are ALL Cobra's to me, and I never have ever seen or "heared" of one of those non-aggressive copperheads. I had a copperhead strike at me six or seven times hitting my gear twice but not piercing skin before I could get away.

Had a copperhead on a porch step strike at a leaf that passed by it during an inspection at a home in Cox's Creek years ago. He saw me then and dropped off that step straight toward me BUT, I had an inspection tool in my hand that was about five feet long and that copperhead died a grizzly death that day. (I have pics somewhere.)

May have been the temperature as it does have to be warm consistently for snakes to become highly active and aggressive. Copperheads in my encounters are mean and nasty. (Of course a garden snake is a Cobra to me.)

 

[MdWIldcat55]

They are ALL Cobra's to me, and I never have ever seen or "heared" of one of those non-aggressive copperheads. I had a copperhead strike at me six or seven times hitting my gear twice but not piercing skin before I could get away.

Had a copperhead on a porch step strike at a leaf that passed by it during an inspection at a home in Cox's Creek years ago. He saw me then and dropped off that step straight toward me BUT, I had an inspection tool in my hand that was about five feet long and that copperhead died a grizzly death that day. (I have pics somewhere.)

May have been the temperature as it does have to be warm consistently for snakes to become highly active and aggressive. Copperheads in my encounters are mean and nasty. (Of course a garden snake is a Cobra to me.)

The summer I was 19 I worked a pipeline job in eastern Montana outside the town of Wibaux. The local paper had articles about how conditions had conspired (too much rain or not enough, too hot or not hot enough, I can’t remember) to create conditions for a prairie rattlesnake infestation. There’s a job on the pipeline to be at the very front of the crew turning the seams in the pipe so they didn’t line up. The two guys doing that said every morning a bunch of small rattlers would crawl up by the steel pipe to absorb the heat radiating off.

So those two young guys killed an untold number of snakes that summer. The crew boss gave them time to skin them and put the meat on ice. They’d grill it up out on the right-of-way on Saturday evening. I tried a bite, don’t remember it being anything special. But those guys also had figured out how to stretch the skins on boards and brush some sort of clear laquer on them to turn them into belts and hatbands. I do wish I’d bought one of those.

 

[berniecarbo]

They are ALL Cobra's to me, and I never have ever seen or "heared" of one of those non-aggressive copperheads. I had a copperhead strike at me six or seven times hitting my gear twice but not piercing skin before I could get away.

Had a copperhead on a porch step strike at a leaf that passed by it during an inspection at a home in Cox's Creek years ago. He saw me then and dropped off that step straight toward me BUT, I had an inspection tool in my hand that was about five feet long and that copperhead died a grizzly death that day. (I have pics somewhere.)

May have been the temperature as it does have to be warm consistently for snakes to become highly active and aggressive. Copperheads in my encounters are mean and nasty. (Of course a garden snake is a Cobra to me.)

I also hate snakes. The first time I was old enough to go hunting with dad, we came upon a copperhead. I had a single shot 410. He said shoot it and I did.

 

[warrior-cat]

Good advice. Be aware of your environment. The most venomous snakes down here are

• Dusky pygmy rattlesnake
• Eastern diamondback
• Eastern coral snake
• Copperhead. It is very rare around here so not much of a threat.

Cottonmouths and diamond backs are very common. The one I fear the most is the Coral snake. It may be the next deadliest of the bunch, right behind the Diamond Back Unlike the rattler you get no warning.

Those little bastards.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

The summer I was 19 I worked a pipeline job in eastern Montana outside the town of Wibaux. The local paper had articles about how conditions had conspired (too much rain or not enough, too hot or not hot enough, I can’t remember) to create conditions for a prairie rattlesnake infestation. There’s a job on the pipeline to be at the very front of the crew turning the seams in the pipe so they didn’t line up. The two guys doing that said every morning a bunch of small rattlers would crawl up by the steel pipe to absorb the heat radiating off.

So those two young guys killed an untold number of snakes that summer. The crew boss gave them time to skin them and put the meat on ice. They’d grill it up out on the right-of-way on Saturday evening. I tried a bite, don’t remember it being anything special. But those guys also had figured out how to stretch the skins on boards and brush some sort of clear laquer on them to turn them into belts and hatbands. I do wish I’d bought one of those.

We lived in Vero Beach back in 1953 and it was still pretty much of a wilderness then. My best friend was a boy name David Connell and he was raised in the backwoods swamps. I spent many hours in the swamp with him but I never was quite as daring as he was. He had no fear. Once we spotted a cotton mouth dashing under a rotten log next to a canal and he took his stick and chased after it. It got into a nest of them but still would not back down. Barefoot and all. Now this kid was about 10 years old. He managed to run a stick down the throat of one of them and slung it as hard as he could and it landed about 50 feet away from me. It started toward me and I got on my bike and said good-bye cruel world. David kept fighting them.

He grew up to be an Army Ranger, Airborne and crazy. His 9 year old sister was my first love and she was a swamp girl too. She ended up living in Colorado Springs and ran a coffee house for wayward skiers. Strange how things happen in life.

But David never got bit and it was only by the Grace of God. He had a praying mother.

 

[warrior-cat]

I was in Sales and Marketing and we were assigned an attorney to keep us out of jail. My assigned attorney was Fred. Fred lived down in the Mandarin, FL area. He ended up catching two Coral snakes in his yard. They are little but deadly.

More little bastards!

 

[berniecarbo]

We lived in Vero Beach back in 1953 and it was still pretty much of a wilderness then. My best friend was a boy name David Connell and he was raised in the backwoods swamps. I spent many hours in the swamp with him but I never was quite as daring as he was. He had no fear. Once we spotted a cotton mouth dashing under a rotten log next to a canal and he took his stick and chased after it. It got into a nest of them but still would not back down. Barefoot and all. Now this kid was about 10 years old. He managed to run a stick down the throat of one of them and slung it as hard as he could and it landed about 50 feet away from me. It started toward me and I got on my bike and said good-bye cruel world. David kept fighting them.

He grew up to be an Army Ranger, Airborne and crazy. His 9 year old sister was my first love and she was a swamp girl too. She ended up living in Colorado Springs and ran a coffee house for wayward skiers. Strange how things happen in life.

But David never got bit and it was only by the Grace of God. He had a praying mother.

I never saw him do it, but they say dad used to snap the heads off snakes when he was younger using a whiplike action.

 

[warrior-cat]

I think I have told this one before but, it has been a while.

While at the west range of Ft Sill when we were in the field many years ago, I needed to do a field expedient #2. Most of us waited when in the field for as long as we could until we really had to go so, I walked quickly away from our camp looking for some bushes to go around to hide the deed. When I found some, I quickly got a hole dug with my entrenching tool and lowered my field pants and started the deed. I don't know why the rattlers (yes multiple) waited until the moon came out before they started rattling "butt", (bun intended) they did and that was one of the quickest dumps I have ever taken. The dump and wipe were almost simultaneous (That's tricky). After getting out of there I went back to the unit with a warning and got some of our NBC marking tape (yellow) and put it up in front of those bushes to warn others who had the same idea.

Another story was of a sand viper who popped up next to me in the Saudi Desert while we were waiting for the ground war to start. The second time it popped up on me it was only a foot or two away. I did not move and ask one of my soldiers to slowly bring my entrenching tool extended and ready. When I got it, I quickly hit it repeatedly until I could cut its head off. I did not want it popping up around our howitzer position and possibly bite one of us unexpectedly.

Snakes are fun no?

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Z

Poisonous snakes are not much of a threat around Maryland. In theory the Cottonmouth extends to this area but I've never seen one. Oddly enough, we've had a run of Copperhead sightings - including by me - in the forested area not that far from my house. They are not an aggressive snake and it would be bad luck if you stumbled on one in a place where it had no choice but to bite you.

Now, the bad boys below you want to avoid. Took this photo in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, in the old Northwest Frontier Province of what was once India, in 2001, of a roadside attraction. My guide told me the secret is that as long as the snake is curled in the basket, it can't strike very far.

Fair enough, but somehow about 9,000 people in Pakistan are killed by snakes every year. Of course, that's a fraction of India's toll. Wrap your mind around this: Between the year 2000 and 2019, an estimated 1.2 MILLION people in India died of snakebite - an average of about 58,000 a year. Mind blowing.

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When I go into the woods in my area I look for two snakes. Rattle snakes and copper heads. They will bite you. A walking stick is wonderful.


You do not have to corner a copper head to make it bite. A rattle snake will warn you, but a copper head will just bite you and ask questions later. Plus they are hard to see as they blend in to the ground colors. Take my word for it.

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

I never saw him do it, but they say dad used to snap the heads off snakes when he was younger using a whiplike action.

I have seen it done. If they are long you can get their tail and use it like a whip and crack the whip and off goes their head.

 

[vhcat70]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 79°F and clear with a few clouds. Slight rain chance. We may keep it in double-digits for a change. Stay tuned.

Found a slightly ripped $1 bill while out walking by auto repair shops near end of our street yesterday. Some lady strolled right past the money just before me and failed to see it. Crazy.

Service appointments scheduled today. Must take Rogue to dealer at 9:30 am and truck at 12:30 pm. Considering Rudy's BBQ for dinner.

Heading out for a hike soon.

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

Lived for those things when I was a kid.

 

[berniecarbo]

Bernie, I love your St Louis Cardinal stories, keep them coming. When I was a boy the Cards and Yankees both held Spring Training in St Petersburg, FL. I attended many exhibition games to watch them play. Musial was a huge part of my youth and I admired him and his batting stance that was so different from everybody else. Another of one my favorite Cards was Red Schoendienst. He played a mean second base with his sure hands and quick throw to first. Hall of Famer.

Roger Maris had the Budweiser distributorship in Gainesville, FL. right off of I-75. He built it into one of the best in the country (I guess Gator fans love their beer) and it became the subject of a high profile court case when Budweiser tried to swindle the family out of it by making false accusations. The family filed a $250 million dollar lawsuit and the Maris family settled for $125 million. Some say they actually got more than that because some other financial matters.

Here is a short clip of Red. You could always count on him for a clutch hit. I really do love the old baseball stories the D League posts. Good stuff and fond memories for me because I grew up with the greats of the game.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=red+schoendienst&&view=detail&mid=8D886C4D0AC6E2CC7F668D886C4D0AC6E2CC7F66&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=/videos/search?q=red+schoendienst&FORM=HDRSC3

Here's a link for you on Red. Though he was a second baseman, he started with the Cards as an outfielder, replacing Stan Musial who was in the Navy in WW2. There used to be a Class D minor league in this area. Red played in it for Union City Tn. Paducah had a team called the Chiefs (Chief Paduke is supposedly where Paducah got the name). There's nice stadium there that is as big as a MLB stadium as far as length to the fence. In high school I hit one off the center field fence once (at 408 I think it was). Another time I hit consecutive line drives off the right field wall.

Schoendienst remembered for legacy on field, in dugout | Baseball Hall of Fame

baseballhall.org

The Official Web Site for Brooks Stadium - Doc Hideg Field, Paducah, Kentucky

Welcome to the official site of Brooks Stadium - Doc Hideg Field in Paducah, Kentucky.

www.brooksstadium.com

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Here's a link for you on Red. Though he was a second baseman, he started with the Cards as an outfielder, replacing Stan Musial who was in the Navy in WW2. There used to be a Class D minor league in this area. Red played in it for Union City Tn. Paducah had a team called the Chiefs (Chief Paduke is supposedly where Paducah got the name). There's nice stadium there that is as big as a MLB stadium as far as length to the fence. In high school I hit one off the center field fence once (at 408 I think it was). Another time I hit consecutive line drives off the right field wall.

Schoendienst remembered for legacy on field, in dugout | Baseball Hall of Fame

baseballhall.org

The Official Web Site for Brooks Stadium - Doc Hideg Field, Paducah, Kentucky

Welcome to the official site of Brooks Stadium - Doc Hideg Field in Paducah, Kentucky.

www.brooksstadium.com

I didn't realize he lived to be 95. But he was getting pretty old for a baseball player when I was a boy. I really enjoyed watching him.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

I have seen it done. If they are long you can get their tail and use it like a whip and crack the whip and off goes their head.

My grandpa kept a shotgun with him at all times while working in the citrus groves. Rattlesnakes were very common. He brought in King snakes to keep the rattler population down as best he could. I once killed a King snake out in the grove and grandpa got very upset with me. Said I killed my best friend.

 

[starchief5]

Got bitten by a snake I never saw when I was a young kid playing in high weeds. My parents recognized it as a snakebite and took me to the hospital. I wasn't kept overnight so it couldn't have been too bad. I was too young to remember much about it.

Missed stepping on a rattlesnake by inches in CA. Have no idea why it didn't bite me. It rattled after I passed over it.

 

[AustinTXCat]

My step-son, his wife, child and step-daughter just flew out of Sarasota, FL back to Dallas Love Field. They spent the past week down there. Wife tracking their flight on her phone. They should land in a few.

Car and truck oil change and warranty inspections complete. We drive less than 5,000 miles per year.

Grabbed a dozen Bill Miller breakfast tacos this morning after dropping off the Rogue at Nissan dealer. Still full.

Got snakebit down in FL years ago. All kinds of antibiotics. Never bit in Panama or PR. Lucked out.

Hope y'all enjoying this Saturday. 28 days until UK football kickoff.

 

[warrior-cat]

Many small towns in Oklahoma have rattle snake roundups each year and the pictures below are from Apache Oklahoma a couple of years ago. I save these for BBUK. Come on and visit, I will take you there.

 

[BBUK]

Many small towns in Oklahoma have rattle snake roundups each year and the pictures below are from Apache Oklahoma a couple of years ago. I save these for BBUK. Come on and visit, I will take you there.

I've been closer than that to them, not that many at once though. It would be an honor.

 

[vhcat70]

Many small towns in Oklahoma have rattle snake roundups each year and the pictures below are from Apache Oklahoma a couple of years ago. I save these for BBUK. Come on and visit, I will take you there.

Wonder why those guys in the pen aren't wearing flipflops?

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good Sunday Morning D

This should be a good Lord's Day with sunshine and warm temperatures. We have 72° now and the high could reach 91°. This is high for us. I am headed down to Clearwater for my cousin's birthday today and it may be a few degrees cooler there. The county is surrounded by water on three sides which gives them nice breezes and usually a few degrees cooler than inland. I think the record temperature is 96° or 97°. And that was a long time ago.

It is funny how the national weather folks measures temperatures. For example in my county they do it at the airport and place the thermometer on the hottest spot. Up against a building facing the sun and surrounded by concrete runways and walkways. If they took it in my backyard it would read 4 or 5 degrees cooler and we get the setting sun. I wonder why they do that.

All the talk down here is going Back To School. Where did this summer go? I trust all are well and if you are sick and shut in that things improve real soon. We are thinking of you and praying for you.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

Good morning folks. Up early to see my wife off for her run. She’s in the later stages of marathon training and is doing 18 miles this morning. My joints hurt just writing that sentence.

But good for her. When we met many years ago - I was 29 she was 23 - she first started running occasionally just to share an interest of mine. Over the years she became much more of a distance running than I ever was.

I heading up to walk a stretch of the Appalachian Trail. It’s overcast and cool so far. Should be cool enough up on the trail.

Hope it’s a good day for everyone.

 

[warrior-cat]

Morning legionnaires!

Still at the triple digit temperature range for today. Tomorrow is supposed to drop below 100° by one point. Chances are it will not but, I can hope.

No walking this morning for me, this is my normal no workout day. Just going to cut grass and weed eat at about 0800. No need to work out when I have to work out.

Have a good day folks and God Bless.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Our latest football recruit, Jeremiah Anglin, goes by the name "Grady Judd". I love this young man. Lock them up on defense like Grady locks them up when they break the law. Only a Polk County recruit would come up with that. LOL Lake Wales puts out some great football talent and he is going to be a good one for the Blue

 

[UK_fan_41102]

Good morning D-League. It's currently 72° and sunny here in Eastern Kentucky this morning. This afternoon will bring a chance of isolated showers and thunderstorms and a high of 87°.

Everyone stay safe on this Sunday.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Good morning from ATX. Currently 78°F and mostly cloudy. Today's high may reach 99°F. Slight chance for showers. We actually remained in double digits yesterday. Got a few raindrops.

Plan on heading out for a walk soon, and then grocery shop. Wife and I discussed Rudy's BBQ for dinner. We'll see.

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

 

[Bert Higginbotha]

Good Sunday Morning D

This should be a good Lord's Day with sunshine and warm temperatures. We have 72° now and the high could reach 91°. This is high for us. I am headed down to Clearwater for my cousin's birthday today and it may be a few degrees cooler there. The county is surrounded by water on three sides which gives them nice breezes and usually a few degrees cooler than inland. I think the record temperature is 96° or 97°. And that was a long time ago.

It is funny how the national weather folks measures temperatures. For example in my county they do it at the airport and place the thermometer on the hottest spot. Up against a building facing the sun and surrounded by concrete runways and walkways. If they took it in my backyard it would read 4 or 5 degrees cooler and we get the setting sun. I wonder why they do that.

All the talk down here is going Back To School. Where did this summer go? I trust all are well and if you are sick and shut in that things improve real soon. We are thinking of you and praying for you.

Yep. The Smiths Grove "official" temperature is next to I-65 which actually is 6 lanes and 4 more emergency lanes for a total of 10 lanes of pavement next to the weather station. For that express reason it is always hotter than it would be out in a field away from a heat trap.

It is 78.8°F and sunny. The "official" temp is 82°F. That is to support the climate change lie. We are supposed to get to 89° later.

We got .13" of rain sometime early this morning. That was a surprise as I slept through it.

 

[BBUK]

Hello All,

A busy day, which was a surprise. I hope everything went well for all of you. God Bless you all and your families.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Good morning folks. Up early to see my wife off for her run. She’s in the later stages of marathon training and is doing 18 miles this morning. My joints hurt just writing that sentence.

But good for her. When we met many years ago - I was 29 she was 23 - she first started running occasionally just to share an interest of mine. Over the years she became much more of a distance running than I ever was.

I heading up to walk a stretch of the Appalachian Trail. It’s overcast and cool so far. Should be cool enough up on the trail.

Hope it’s a good day for everyone.

This morning my granddaughter emailed a couple of photos she took on the top of Eagles Nest. She and a few other Cadets got up at 3:15 AM to climb to the top of it to watch the sun rise. School classes start tomorrow and they had today off so they took a little trip to Eagles Nest Wilderness. Peaks are over 12,000 ft and the highest is over 13,000 ft.

An early morning sunrise is beautiful to experience. Ah to be young again and be able to climb majestic peaks.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

This morning my granddaughter emailed a couple of photos she took on the top of Eagles Nest. She and a few other Cadets got up at 3:15 AM to climb to the top of it to watch the sun rise. School classes start tomorrow and they had today off so they took a little trip to Eagles Nest Wilderness. Peaks are over 12,000 ft and the highest is over 13,000 ft.

An early morning sunrise is beautiful to experience. Ah to be young again and be able to climb majestic peaks.

Beautiful sunrise. Thanks for sharing Sawnee.

12,000-13,000 is a substantial climb. Been close to 30 years since I’ve been that high up in the mountains —in Peru. Yeah, those days are behind me.

 

[Sawnee Cat]

Beautiful sunrise. Thanks for sharing Sawnee.

12,000-13,000 is a substantial climb. Been close to 30 years since I’ve been that high up in the mountains —in Peru. Yeah, those days are behind me.

I drove up Pikes Peak about 25 years ago and when I got to the top and out of my car I got very lightheaded. My wife was feeling better than ever but I had to sit down because I thought I was going to pass out.

She refused to open her eyes when the road turned to dirt and of course no guard rails. They had runaway ramps for people who's brakes burned out. Or the car over heated. I had a brand new Olds 88 company car and took it up there. It had 11 miles on it when I left the house for Colorado. I didn't even tell my company I was taking it on vacation. I sweated blood worrying something may happen to the car but I got up and down with no issues. But I swear it never had the power it would have had had I not tried that stunt. It had the biggest motor Olds came out with that year but it still was a struggle.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

Uh oh Cards fans of the D-League...Cards just swept the Yankees.

 

[berniecarbo]

Uh oh Cards fans of the D-League...Cards just swept the Yankees.

I saw you bet the over and under. Did you know anything about the umpire when you bet? I told my wife last night that I hoped the ump wouldn't squeeze Waino on the strike zone or he would be in trouble.

 

[MdWIldcat55]

I drove up Pikes Peak about 25 years ago and when I got to the top and out of my car I got very lightheaded. My wife was feeling better than ever but I had to sit down because I thought I was going to pass out.

She refused to open her eyes when the road turned to dirt and of course no guard rails. They had runaway ramps for people who's brakes burned out. Or the car over heated. I had a brand new Olds 88 company car and took it up there. It had 11 miles on it when I left the house for Colorado. I didn't even tell my company I was taking it on vacation. I sweated blood worrying something may happen to the car but I got up and down with no issues. But I swear it never had the power it would have had had I not tried that stunt. It had the biggest motor Olds came out with that year but it still was a struggle.

Haha. Good story Sawnee. On the subject of lightheadedness, when I was in the mountains of Peru outside Cusco (elevation of the city 11,500 ft, we were 2-3 k above that) our guide gave us coca leaves to chew, the ancient antidote to that malady. And it worked perfectly. Certainly appreciated that more than the grilled Guinea pig on a stick that was their fast food back in those days.

 

[TheFrontRunner]

I saw you bet the over and under. Did you know anything about the umpire when you bet? I told my wife last night that I hoped the ump wouldn't squeeze Waino on the strike zone or he would be in trouble.

No, I didn't know anything about the umpire. I do sometimes try to find out beforehand what refs Kentucky has in basketball because there are a few refs Cal has a bad/mediocre record when they call games so I think those refs have some bias...but never have checked umpires in baseball.

Yankees only scored 6 runs total their last 3 games before today...Wainwright is a guy that has to hit his spots...I don't know, it was more of a last minute gut feeling there would be a lot of runs today.

 

[berniecarbo]

No, I didn't know anything about the umpire. I do sometimes try to find out beforehand what refs Kentucky has in basketball because there are a few refs Cal has a bad/mediocre record when they call games so I think those refs have some bias...but never have checked umpires in baseball.

Yankees only scored 6 runs total their last 3 games before today...Wainwright is a guy that has to hit his spots...I don't know, it was more of a last minute gut feeling there would be a lot of runs today.

I got to listen to a bit and the radio guys were complaining about the strike zone a lot. The wife watched most of it and she said the ump was bad. He doesn't have the stuff anymore to keep everything down the middle. Ever bad game he's had this year there was a tight strike zone.