I was hoping that it was still alive so I could call animal control and let them deal with it.

No but ex wife got bit on the butt by one when using an outhouse, hard to run when your pants are down. But it was funny!

Since people seem to like bird pictures here's a couple of my favorite. The woodpecker is out the window. As to the snake, some idiot turned it loose in one of our city parks and I had to go get it (I'm the naturalist). Somebody got to it before I got there. It ended up being about 6 feet long.

Woody


Green Co. Indiana


I think it's a Burmese Python

When I lived out west I had it and fixed right it does taste like chicken. Here we have the Timber Rattlesnake, but it's on the endangered list. Wouldn't know why.

I started out at about 14 with my Dads camera, a Kodak Duaflex II. That was the kind you lifted a lid on top, looked down through it. For focus you either moved closer and backed up,the next was a Kodak 110 for graduation.

On pretty much the same subject, is there a cheap way to turn the slides into picures? I've got 5 old trays full of slides from my in-laws after we cleaned out their house. I would like to get them converted for the wife and her brother.

I was at Homestead in 71-72, started out at the Wing HQ Bldg and ended up in Ops & Training on the flightline (next door to the simulator).

Back in '74 at George AFB, CA, I was assigned to the 20th TFTS, we trained Germans in the F-4. I was but a Sgt. in in the Orderly Room. We also ended up with a couple of English pilots for training.

It just goes to show you, my first brand new car was a Vega (72) when I was in the service. I even pulled a U-Haul with it from Florida to Indiana then to California. Only reason I got rid of it was because a wife, dog and two kids wouldn't fit. Worst one wa a Buick Century.

I have to admit that I do get a kick out of reading the Nikon vs Canon. I remember when I started it was a Kodak S10 (about 45 years ago). Now I have 3 Nikons (L810, P530 & D3100). The reason I went to Nikon is simple, it was on sale! I still think it's the person behind the camera that counts. The debate reminds of those who argue IU vs Purdue, just depends on what you like.

I used to have a hat with BOHICA on it. Nobody knew what it ment except one person I met at the wifes' family reunion. He looked at it and siad +You must have been in the military+

I wish I still had the link, but did you know that Blacks once belonged to the KKK? Their own groups of course. But remember the KKK was also against Catholics and foreigners. Ran into that when researching some symbols on the ceiling of an old KKK meeting room

Having done paranormal investigations for 15+ years I have never seen a naked ghost, nor would I want to see one. The explination as to why they were wearing clothes is very involved, the short answer is because they want too and it makes no difference if they are a ghost or a spirit (they are tow different things). Not every photo you see like that is photo shopped, there are still honest people out there.

Because I do investigations I do not have photshop on either computer. I would say that that picture is 95% real.

If you don't believe that is fine, however a smug attitude is not atractive. As a side note about 80% of my investigations have shown that there were natural causes for what was happening, plumbing, wind, loose hindges, animals etc.

However there is much about the world we don't know and this is part of that.

I would think that a majority of people if you asked them, knew (or knows) at least one person that buggers the system. That adds up.

Flashback to the early '70's, I'm on active duty, wife and I came home on leave, I went with my sister when she went food shopping. The stuff she bought was far better than we could afford on my pay (SGT about $5000 pr year, $7000 if you added housing)

Jump forward to the mid '90's. Her and her 2 daughters went shopping, all on food stamps. They borrowed my truck to haul it home in. Included were 96 bottles (liter) of soft drinks. She said the kids wouldn't drink anything else. Why not generic pop or kool-aid, the kids wouldn't drink it and would rather eat cereal than real food. Also went and got stuff from the food pantry. Husband couldn't keep a job because neither one of them could stay off the weed long enough to pass a drug test.

Now, I know how she was raised, and it wasn't like this, to suck off the public teat for over 20 years (and still counting).

You cannot sit there and tell me that if I drew a circle 20 miles around and looked at the food stamp people, that she was the only one and this is in a mostly rural area.

I suspect the % of abuse is far higher than 1%. I wish our state would make them do volunteer work to get assistance, no matter what your problem is there is something you can do to make your community better.

Camp David looks like a nice place, wouldn't mind staying a few days there myself