Ancient plants back to life after 30,000 frozen years.  Read about it, here.

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dhascall wrote:

Welcome to Friday!

 

In continuing our discussion of pets - I think that everyone who wants to own a pet, be required to take a test.  We have friends that have a pretty golden retriever.  He is made to sleep outside, they badger him and (the big guy just takes it).  He got sick, so they decided to get a puppy.  Now they are getting rid of the puppy because he is (wait for it) chewing.  Pets are family members and not inanimate objects.  Learn, people.

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If we could give kudo's in this room, I'd give you one.  We had outside dogs when I was growing up. A full size collie and a 3/4 chow  1/4 wolf mix, however we had a really nice 10x10 doghouse for them to sleep in, had an entry way that went into a room.  Had shingles and siding on the sides.  Even though they were outside dogs, they were still part of the family. If it got too cold, my dad would let them sleep in the bathroom of his workshop. That didn't happen too often though.

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oufanindallas wrote:

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dhascall wrote:

Welcome to Friday!

 

In continuing our discussion of pets - I think that everyone who wants to own a pet, be required to take a test.  We have friends that have a pretty golden retriever.  He is made to sleep outside, they badger him and (the big guy just takes it).  He got sick, so they decided to get a puppy.  Now they are getting rid of the puppy because he is (wait for it) chewing.  Pets are family members and not inanimate objects.  Learn, people.

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If we could give kudo's in this room, I'd give you one.  We had outside dogs when I was growing up. A full size collie and a 3/4 chow  1/4 wolf mix, however we had a really nice 10x10 doghouse for them to sleep in, had an entry way that went into a room.  Had shingles and siding on the sides.  Even though they were outside dogs, they were still part of the family. If it got too cold, my dad would let them sleep in the bathroom of his workshop. That didn't happen too often though.

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We had Cocoa, some kind of collie mix. She had a nice dog house, too and a warm basement when it got cold.  She broke trails all around the yard during the Blizzard of 78 and she did not want to come in.  We also trained her to climb ladders and get nectarines off of a tree - course she could not get back down.  A few times the roofer left his ladder on the side of the house amd she was parading around on the roof, when we got home.

I hope everyone has a great weekend.  I am especially pleased that we did not get the expected amounts of snow that were forecasted for the Detroit area over night.   I love the milder winter we are having.

Well....what can I say.  If my dog was a Great Dane or Great Pyrenees or a Saint Bernard.....I'd still make a house dog out of it.  That's just me. 

In the last couple of months I've become a bona fide fan of Netgear equipment.  As most of you know we were suffering severe slow downs during the evening hours.  I purchased a Netgear N600 dual band router....installed it and turned off the wireless part of our RG.  We moved to the 5 gHz band and our problems with slow speed were over.  But...the RG and router are located in our computer room on the west end of our house and by the time the signal passes through 5 or 6 walls.....and all the way to the east end of the house the connection to my wife's iPad was not 100% dependable.  My laptop, however handled it ok.  But I gave in and this morning took delivery on a Netgear dual band range extender.  Set it up in the east part of the house and now we have full strength and speeds everywhere.  Set up was unbelievably simple.  Neither unit needs any software so no CD is included.  In fact the setups were almost totally automatic.  I think I had to push two buttons two times each on both units to get them working together on both bands and that was all.  Time will tell regarding durability.  The housings are plastic but once set up they aren't going anywhere so should be no problem there. 

Only problems I have now are 1.with my Toshiba laptop which works just fine with the wireless and Internet access but every time I try to get it to connect to our home net it refuses because Ipv6 isn't turned on.  That is a problem I've never had before and it means I can't access it from other PC's.  2.and the blasted Windows 7 operating system which keeps telling me that I don't have permission to access that folder or this folder or file is driving me up the wall.  I'm the blasted owner for crying out loud.  I should have access to everything on the doggone HDD.  I hate Microsoft!!!!!  I've tried making changes to permissions, etc. etc. etc.  I've messed with the system until I'm so out of patience that I could just pitch the whole set-up out into the yard. I've got two folders on my external hard drive (connected to my desktop) which are just flat inaccessible from my Dell laptop.  Unfortunately those two folders are both full of photo images and my family videos.  Of course they are available from the desktop itself.....just not from my laptop.  But other folders right next to them?......no problem.  I've turned on "sharing" on both of them and I've set permissions to allow all functions.  No luck.

     Well....one other thing I do like about the Netgear router is that USB port for an external HDD or any other form of extra memory.  So far I've never denied access to anything connected to that port.  By the way....that same port can be used to turn a non-wireless printer into a wireless unit.  But since my printer is already wirelss I don't need that function.

     For the astronomers among you......the crescent moon, Jupiter and Venus will be amazingly close together in the evening tomorrow and Sunday evening.  Late at night Mars has been fairly bright high overhead.

     Hope y'all have a wonderful weekend.  Alfie sends his heart felt thanks for all the birthday greetings.  It was a cold, windy morning today and he loves the cold temperatures.  I thought he was going to walk my legs off.  At his age he's supposed to be slowing down.  I know I sure am.

     Tomorrow a 106 year old rivalry comes to an end....as University of Kansas and University of Missouri meet in their last basketball game.  Both are nationally rated.  Missouri is leaving the Big 12 conference and going over to the South Eastern Conference.  I've been following the Big 12 since it was the Big 6....then the Big 7 and the Big 8.   Then Texas U. joined and started messing things up so we've lost  Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and Texas A & M.  Basketball is so very important at K.U.  The inventor of the game, Dr. James Naismith, was the school's first coach.  We lived on Naismith Drive when I was in school there.  Before our marriage I lived in the same dorm as Wilt Chamberlin.  Use to watch him duck as he walked through every doorway in the place.  The dunk shot was against the rules in those days....but during the pregame warm ups they let Wilt do spectacular dunks to whip up the fans in Phog Allen Fieldhouse.  Well....tomorrow is the end of a great series....Go Jayhawks!

Well....yes....that is what I set up...."Home Group".  It's my opinion tht they've made things just too darn complex....more than they need to be for home use.

I'm having the same problem, Phil, and in the interim, I'ver resorted to using logmein (until I have time to try another suggestion).   I had no problems in XP and 2K, but 7 is another matter.

Missed last week's discussion, tell Alphie Happy Belated Birthday.  He's a keeper.

And glad to finally see Uni's fox!

Now those people making their dogs or cats stay outside, don't get me started.  They're domesticated by humans and deserve to be indoors!  But, people who treat animals badly, usually feel the same about their kids (lack of parenting!).

As far as the fox pictures go, I really haven't posted many photos at all since they cut the size limit down to more than a third of what it used to be. Guess they figured we were going to overwhelm the forum storage capacity hence set the limit at 333K? If you use a high quality setting on your camera it's very difficult to post them w/o reducing the picture size drastically through cropping. Maybe that's why we see so few pictures posted anymore?

Here's a couple of photos I cropped which are about 1/3 the size of the original photo views.

Not the best picture but 3 kit foxes around the den I mentioned about 150' from our house. Charlie was getting a little too nosey after this litter was raised so the parents moved their den further up the hill.

Hugo, our Great Pyrenees. You can almost see that independence along with the spite for the camera in his eyes. And no matter what we put on his nose it was always dried up since he used it for digging holes like a hog! LOL.

Winter time so not exactly well-groomed and would have posted the photo smaller if I could.

On another note here is a story w/photos about 2 Bald Eagles and a duck that's pretty neat. Believe it's been around for a few years but someone just emailed it to me and hadn't seen it before.

http://lindberglce.com/Misc/Eagles/eagles.htm

Yeah, when I took the pics of those kit foxes I was standing on my drive only about 20' away. I didn't have my Olympus camera hardly zoomed in at all and the parents were away from the den.

Believe wild animals can sense pretty quick if you and/or your dog are any threat to them. I've mentioned before when we used to have this huge 12-point buck who would bed down real close to our drive (50') almost where the fox den was. I could drive right by this big guy and he wouldn't even flinch because he figured he was safe. Hugo paid him no mind and believe the buck would even use Hugo's bark as a warning something was amiss.

I had driven right past this big buck many time and one day and decided it was time to get a photo of him. Grabbed my camera/binocs  and tried to creep down my drive. Lots of luck trying to creep up on something walking on gravel. Heard a crunch from my foot and the big buck was not laying where he was just a few minutes earlier. Scanned the area with my binocs and saw him standing not far away but almost invisible since he had his rack in in some low tree branches which blended right in. As soon as I had my binocs trained on him he knew it and bolted out of there like lightening. Never could get a photo of him and he was back in the same place all the time.

Yeah, Hugo went about 185 like Charlie's' Dad was but he was carrying too much weight. When his hips went out the last year he lost about 50 lbs. At least he lived to be 11 and often giant breeds like a Pyrenees may only have a lifespan of 8. Charlie goes about 125 but as I've mentioned before he's small because his growth was stunted his 1st year by the previous twit owner.

If Hugo was still around we would not have coyotes here because it was his instinct to keep all predators away. But I had to keep him chained to a to a 100' dog run line a lot of the time because he would wander for miles and even cross the busy road. Hated to do this but it was for his own safety.

I think the critters sense who is animal-friendly, too, LOL!

Charlie and Hugo never met?  I just love HUGE dogs!  Had a fixation on St. Bernards as a teen, and see now they are nowhere near as big as Charlie or Hugo!  Someone in the 'hood has a Bernard that they take for evening walks, but must be a female, because looks small.  But, the bigger the breed, the shorter the lifespan they say.

I still can't get over how y'all don't have fences up there!  But you probably aren't in a subdivision, so you can enjoy the wild countryside and not see how trashy a neighbor's yard could be! 

I just ran my generator for a few minutes as I do every Monday never want that Ike experience again.

Have you hugged your fridge after Ike I did not have a working one for 2 weeks that quickly told me which device in our home had the nost seniority.

I know, I need SERIOUS backup here!  I was just discussing the constant outages here with a neighbor (I've been here the longest), and she was told that it's the underground lines going to pot (like UV's copper?).

Hugged your fridge, LOL!  Well, I think A/C got hugged here more--remember, my windows don't open and ones that do, it would be a cat escape route.

What I found I REALLY missed was ICE!!!!  

Davy Jones dead at 66 from a heart attack (of The Monkees fame).  Yes, I admit I was a big fan back in the day.

Yup, another dead monkey story for PITAfolks to go ape over.

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He wasn't old enough to go.  My prayers go out to his wife and family.

Pretty sad and I also grew up with Davy Jones along with the Monkees TV show/music.

They said on the national news little did people know the Monkees TV show was the beginning of music videos. They also said in 1967 the Monkees sold more records than the Stones and Beatles put together. Unbelievable and goes to show their popularity back in the daze.

We used to go to a friend's house to watch The Monkees' show because they had a color TV!

I still have all their original LPs (including the disaster that was the movie, Head).  Songs are on my iPod, too.

Seems a lot of singers I liked have died lately, and I end up making a playlist.

I think Peter had some sort of cancer (?), but is still fighting it.

Every Monkee fan knows that Mike's mom invented Liquid Paper (guilty of using that still, and now no toxic fumes for kids to huff).

I remember seeing Micky's daughter in a movie, She's Out of Control (think she's in her 40's now!).  Where does the time go? 

I want this car!  And if I had it, I'd never speed again (NOT!).

I liked "Last Train To Clarkeville"  I was more into The Beatles and The Stones.

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oz_1 wrote:
On sharing have you tried home group or work group on PC's I use the later.

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OZ, I think I have solved my problem.  At least it seems to be working OK right now.  I disconnected my 1 TB external HDD from the desktop and plugged it into the USB port on my Netgear dual band router.  Then I moved the 500 GB external HDD over to the desktop PC and plugged it into a USB port there.  Now....I have access to all the folders that I want access to from my Dell laptop.  I still have absolutely no idea what errant setting was causing the denial of access to those particular folders.  But all is OK for now.  I imagine I'll manage to mess things up again at a later date.  You know how that goes.  Well....when one gets desperate enough one will try anything.  I got lucky this time.

Uni....that is a gorgeous photo of Hugo.  If I had room for a large dog THAT is the breed I would go for.  I can see the intelligence in his eyes....I'll be he was always one step ahead of you.

Have you ever gave it much thought about getting a networking drive we use one at work and I have even contemplated it for my home it seems to be the easiest way to transfer data from one computer to the next not to mention different OS's. I also like the fact that well WD anyway has an app to access folders and info to a smartphone when away.

Davy Jones died.

I'm a Bereaver.

Yeah, we've been discussing it...

http://forums.att.com/t5/The-U-verse-Lounge/Weekly-Off-Topic-Thread-225/m-p/3070233#M51168

I saw a report on TV this AM that said he had just gotten his annual physical a month ago.  Dr. said he was in perfect health with the heart of a 17 YO! 

I get so frustrated with the medical profession and what they don't really know.

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dhascall wrote:

Davy Jones died.

 

I'm a Bereaver.

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How can you be in two places at once, when your not anywhere at all?
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I really want to become a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
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There are three kinds of people, those that can count, and those that can't.
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“Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature has made them." :Bertrand Russell