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Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
I'd say Top 5, if NOT best ever episode on TV! LoL... I think they do kinda fly... But really low to ground. Minivan grill and truck windshield height! The Big Guy, Mr. Carlson was half right... Except domestic Butterballs® are couch potatoes: "Despite their weight, wild turkeys, unlike their domesticated counterparts, are agile, fast fliers. In ideal habitat of open woodland or wooded grasslands, they may fly beneath the canopy top and find perches. They usually fly close to the ground for no more than 400 m (a quarter mile)." He was from Honduras? He had too much wood? Couldn't speak English. Now He lost his -ecker in the process! -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
My brother drove a coke truck (coal) out of Tonawanda Coke. I think in W.Pa... He had a wild turkey crash through his window. Landed dead on his passenger seat. Feathers everywhere! Oh... I think it's a "troop" of turkeys. But mob is cool too! NSFW. Don't read if you are squeamish: https://nypost.com/2016/10/17/man-has-penis-removed-after-getting-it-stuck-in-a-bottle/ -
Interesting Map of population growth
ExiledInIllinois replied to Greybeard's topic in Off the Wall Archives
No not really. BFLo faired well during both Wars. BFLo was built for one thing: Break-in-Bulk bewteen Canal & Lakes. The final nail for that economy came in 1959. Powerwise... It was close to Falls. That's what helped BFLo. Black Rock was actually bigger for a time, then absorbed by BFLo. Sad. Think in terms that BFLo's positioning turned it into "Radiator Springs", streamlined transportation systems, improved infrastructure around it, technology to transfer power further away from the Falls (to NYC) were all nails in the original transportation economy and then manufacturing (cheap power) coffin. Yet... Buffalo was the first all paved city in the country... And for good reason, with an average of 100" of snow a year, it had to be hell for land travel on unpaved roads. -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
I don't get the "moral struggle" about paying for removal of something that is toxic. You would think there's a bigger moral struggle unloaded for free somewhere. I am a bit confused (yes, more than normal). Can you even burn rubbish/leaves/etc.. in Amherst? Ha! Speaking of llamas... When my sister moved into her Vermont house about 15 years ago... Part of the deal was to watch over the llama previous owners had. Until, they could move it. LoL... The thing hated my sister. I think my sister tried to be nice to it? Thing would hiss and spit. LoL... Only in Vermont! -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
I am joking! -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Do you want smoke in your eyes making schmores? I think NOT! -
Interesting Map of population growth
ExiledInIllinois replied to Greybeard's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Then McKinley got shot and they figured out how to transport that power. Read my links above if you have time. The canal might as well have been a 1000 miles away... It actually made matters worse for farmers not in canal district. Mix in the absence of religion... People forget Mormonism was founded in that Burned-over District. Natives hostile too. Senecas, not too friendly like the ones back east. -
Interesting Map of population growth
ExiledInIllinois replied to Greybeard's topic in Off the Wall Archives
The Burned Over District vs. The Passed Over District: http://elektratig.blogspot.com/2009/02/burned-over-district-vs-passed-over.html?m=1 "[T]he remote, agricultural New York communities that became bulwarks of Free Soil . . . barely resembled the middle-class, evangelical, and Whig locales of the famed Burned-Over District covering the western parts of the state. Many of them, in fact, were isolated and economically stagnant – more passed-over than burned-over.. . . Each of [the Free Soil] counties was rugged, densely wooded, and among the last be settled in the state. Shallow, acidic soil made traditional staple agriculture difficult . . .. As the crow flies, some of these communities were quite close to the bustling Erie Canal, but the famed “artificial river” might as well have been a thousand miles away. In fact, its completion in 1825 actually made matters worse for farmers removed from the canal district." -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
LoL... I am still a bit skeptical, but you convinced me. To OP: Just burn that wood. And do what we did in Scouts when the campfire smoke got in your eyes. Say: "I don't like bunnies!" The wind will change and the smoke will blow in somebody else's eyes! Their problem now! -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
See! Fergy is living proof that it's safe! ? Burn baby burn! -
Help...I've got too much wood!
ExiledInIllinois replied to EmotionallyUnstable's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Fly dump. It's the only way. One moral struggle for another. Betcha you have the good old stuff. It will leach arsenic into the environment. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es0514702 Actually, it probably has already. -
Advice dealing with local government
ExiledInIllinois replied to 4BillsintheBurgh's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Who's paying more? -
Interesting Map of population growth
ExiledInIllinois replied to Greybeard's topic in Off the Wall Archives
Yep! Mechanical a/c changed the whole game.