What are you doing today?

[Oldspartan]

They are actually two huge turkey vultures that like my back yard and look a lot like a pterodactyl!

Ugly birds (opinion) and protected in Florida.

 

[gwand]

Today I am sweating, or as Linda says, glistening. Our thermometer hit 102F -- Real feel maybe 110F. We washed, in and out, 8 one-liter soda bottles last night, filled with water, and froze them. Today yesterday's problem tanks are running at near normal temps.

Went to the sawmill today and on the way home thought I had a gnat wandering on the Lense of my specs. Took them off, wiped them down, put them back on. Spec was still there and still moving. Something in my eye I decided. Flushed my eyes when I got home and low and behold, I still had what now looked like a worm like creature swimming on my eye.

Apparently, I have a floater. A quick google search revealed at my age they are not unusual and usually not more than frustrating. Called the eye vet and have an appointment Thursday. Seems I have passed some magical threshold that separated reasonably robust health from infirmary. My body parts are beginning to show some age.

I have become a believer in taking creatine in a beverage of choice daily. I’m building muscle mass since starting it and feel mentally sharper. There is an inverse relationship between muscle mass and cognitive decline.

 

[jaylach]

I have a pair of Pterodactyls that visit on occasion.

Dang! And all I have is the cockatiel from Hades.

Ugly birds (opinion) and protected in Florida.

Ya, but wonderful to watch fly. Many actually mistake a turkey vulture in flight as an eagle.

Was rare but, once in a while when living in Jacksonville Beach Florida, I'd see a kite soaring which is another bird that is awesome to watch fly. Never was sure what type of kite they were but think swallow tail kites.

Other than that all I have to offer is Sheridan Wyoming's resident dragon...

 

[GaryE]

Here I was, looking at the animals in Matt's yard, thinking that there was wildlife left in England. His name is "Podgy" eh?

 

[Oldspartan]

I have become a believer in taking creatine in a beverage of choice daily. I’m building muscle mass since starting it and feel mentally sharper. There is an inverse relationship between muscle mass and cognitive decline.

Used to take creatine back in my football days. I am not disappointed with my health or condition overall. I have no major infirmaries other than my back which is apparently the root of my physical issues. It was a long time coming == the original injury happened in 1976. Over the intervening 50 years I repeatedly refused surgery with the comment I will not be sliced and diced so long as I am mobile. That time has come. The eye thing is unlikely to be more than a minor bother that I will learn to tolerate.

I am 75, still wear the same size clothing I did at 50 and feel fine overall. When my yard truck got old stuff wore out, I fixed it. I am now the truck.

 

[Back in the fold]

Busy day but relaxed . Changed the filters in my R/O unit , water changed my guppies , fed the fish and went for a run . Now I’m eating leftover spaghetti and watching M*A*S*H . It’s good to be retired .

 

[Fishmanic]

Fishmanic's ban hammer is getting a bit heavy for me to borrow, so a sword cane would be useful for dealing with spammers

My official ban hammer is a 5 lb sledge hammer. But the head is detachable to reveal a built-in lightsaber. It also converts into a fine fishing pole.

 

[Essjay]

You could have told me! That light sabre would be easier to use

 

[GaryE]

I had to chase a friend's runaway Cairn Terrier yesterday. It's an urban dog visiting that got loose off leash, and had a party before we caught her. Luckily, cars stopped and people helped as she bolted across the busy road across the way. We got her back safely, and I also learned that I CAN run if needed.
No Olympic records were broken in the capture of that flying dog.

This morning I'm drinking excellent Costa Rican dark roast coffee, and contemplating a hot day ahead. That's a rarity here. It's going to be a wild food day for the fish, as I've skipped a few outdoor food days in the cycle. I am doing one day of brine shrimp, one day of white worms or bug based pellets, and one day of mosquito larvae and daphnia. I dropped the third option to let the daphnia grow, but if the water gets warm and it's crowded, there'll be a die off. So it's time to thin that herd today.

 

[Essjay]

My husband had to stop the car yesterday to allow a wood pigeon to saunter across the road .
They act so stupid with their big bodies and tiny heads. Watching them trying to walk along the fence is hilarious - they can't see their feet so they try to put a foot in the gap between planks and fall off. But they can't be really stupid as their ever increasing numbers show - and one found a way to get seeds out of the bird feeder which I thought I'd positioned where they couldn't reach. This one bird discovered if it flew at the bird feeder and hit it with its feet, the feeder twisted sideways and the seeds fell out. The rest of them soon learned how to do it.

 

[GaryE]

Ah, bird feeders. I had to build a structure to deter a raccoon that I found at the feeder. I've also had deer hit the feeder then eat the fallen sunflower seeds. That surprised me. As a city boy, I was used to grey squirrels (which we don't have as the bobcat eats them), and I consider the tiny local red squirrel as an honourary songbird.

Our somewhat unintelligent seeming bird is the mourning dove. We have multiple pairs, and I just can't see them moving in the direction of a civilization anytime soon.

I'm pondering @gwand 's creatine for muscle growth idea. I've not heard that discussed before. Creatinism is a new idea for me.

 

[gwand]

Ah, bird feeders. I had to build a structure to deter a raccoon that I found at the feeder. I've also had deer hit the feeder then eat the fallen sunflower seeds. That surprised me. As a city boy, I was used to grey squirrels (which we don't have as the bobcat eats them), and I consider the tiny local red squirrel as an honourary songbird.

Our somewhat unintelligent seeming bird is the mourning dove. We have multiple pairs, and I just can't see them moving in the direction of a civilization anytime soon.

I'm pondering @gwand 's creatine for muscle growth idea. I've not heard that discussed before. Creatinism is a new idea for me.

You have to perform some weight bearing exercises to see the results from creatine.

 

[gwand]

I have the type of bird feeder that denies access to the seeds if weight is applied to it. It is supposed to be squirrel proof. Well nothing is squirrel proof. These critters are puzzle solvers. They hang by their toes from the j bar that the feeder dangles from never putting weight on the feeder mechanism gobbling down in one minute a weeks worth of bird seed. Greasing the j bar doesn’t deter them.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Ah, bird feeders. I had to build a structure to deter a raccoon that I found at the feeder. I've also had deer hit the feeder then eat the fallen sunflower seeds. That surprised me. As a city boy, I was used to grey squirrels (which we don't have as the bobcat eats them), and I consider the tiny local red squirrel as an honourary songbird.

Our somewhat unintelligent seeming bird is the mourning dove. We have multiple pairs, and I just can't see them moving in the direction of a civilization anytime soon.

I'm pondering @gwand 's creatine for muscle growth idea. I've not heard that discussed before. Creatinism is a new idea for me.

We'll make a creatinist of you yet!

You have to perform some weight bearing exercises to see the results from creatine.

No fair. I want muscles from a bottle, a la Captain America. Where do I get some of that stuff?

 

[GaryE]

I think we need to pool our pocket money and put creatine in cans of spinach. Old guys of a certain age will get it, and buy it by the ton. We can then all settle down, and build a gym with 360 gallon tanks all around it so we can have something to watch while we toil.