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Old 09-17-20, 12:06 PM
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Originally Posted by 2manybikes
From yesterday.
In the suburbs in a cemetery.

I was checking out a couple new-to-me roads yesterday and came around a curve and saw a doe standing in the street in front of me. I saw the rear end first and, for half a second, thought, "damn that's a big dog!"
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Originally Posted by 2manybikes
From yesterday.
In the suburbs in a cemetery.

I would easily say our deer population has doubled in the past year. They are all OVER the place and they look pretty scrawny. No local predators means over-population. It will be a rough winter for Bambi.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I would easily say our deer population has doubled in the past year. They are all OVER the place and they look pretty scrawny. No local predators means over-population. It will be a rough winter for Bambi.
We have a ton here too. There are two that come into our backyard every night and eat my arbor vitae
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As a side, I was quite confused trying to figure out what 5 feet of power was, then impressed with an hour of 472 wattage, final got it.....probably shouldn't mention that units of measurements is kindof what I do....
Ha. If I could do 472w for an hour I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t be writing a JSP right now.
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Originally Posted by 2manybikes
From yesterday.
In the suburbs in a cemetery.

You can tell he's ready to jump out in front of me. It's in his eyes.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why not? Support Trsnrtr's neighbours.
I'm pretty sure that you can get pumpkin in anything this week in Morton, IL.
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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why not? Support Trsnrtr's neighbours.
The world's largest pumpkin factory* is 5.5 miles from me and luckily we rarely smell the refuse because it is pumped to field sprayers about 10 miles from us. The people in Morton, however, get to enjoy it every time there is a NE wind.

*90% of the world's pumpkin is processed here with over 5,000 acres of pumpkin fields.
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Originally Posted by datlas
I would easily say our deer population has doubled in the past year. They are all OVER the place and they look pretty scrawny. No local predators means over-population. It will be a rough winter for Bambi.
Some animal species have thrived under human expansion - deer, raccoon, coyote, opossum, egrets, turkey, turkey buzzard, geese, etc...
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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
The world's largest pumpkin factory* is 5.5 miles from me and luckily we rarely smell the refuse because it is pumped to field sprayers about 10 miles from us. The people in Morton, however, get to enjoy it every time there is a NE wind.

*90% of the world's pumpkin is processed here with over 5,000 acres of pumpkin fields.
Where I went to high school, there was a fruit processing plant. Generally no problems, unless they were running tomatoes. Then the whole town smelled awful. But the nearby town with the paper plant? That ALWAYS smelled bad. We hated away games there.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Where I went to high school, there was a fruit processing plant. Generally no problems, unless they were running tomatoes. Then the whole town smelled awful. But the nearby town with the paper plant? That ALWAYS smelled bad. We hated away games there.
Stevens Point, WI has several pulp paper mills and canneries. I always wondered about the air around there at certain times of the year though I never experienced any bad odors while I was visiting.
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Originally Posted by genejockey
Where I went to high school, there was a fruit processing plant. Generally no problems, unless they were running tomatoes. Then the whole town smelled awful. But the nearby town with the paper plant? That ALWAYS smelled bad. We hated away games there.
In Vancouver you could really smell the Camas paper mill during temperature inversions.

The Camas Papermakers are a force to be reckoned with of course

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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Stevens Point, WI has several pulp paper mills and canneries. I always wondered about the air around there at certain times of the year though I never experienced any bad odors while I was visiting.
Pulp mills don't seem nearly as stinky as they were back in the '70s
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Pulp mills don't seem nearly as stinky as they were back in the '70s
Which, as luck would have it, is exactly when I was in high school. We were not thrilled to have to go to Spring Grove, especially for Football or Track - outdoor sports.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
In Vancouver you could really smell the Camas paper mill during temperature inversions.

The Camas Papermakers are a force to be reckoned with of course

The Biglerville Canners, not so much. Occasionally, we had league-winning teams. Generally, no.
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Squeezed out for a short ride and some coffee beans. Along the way, I picked up a nice draft with a somewhat scary view

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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Squeezed out for a short ride and some coffee beans. Along the way, I picked up a nice draft with a somewhat scary view

Nom nom nom.
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Originally Posted by WhyFi
Squeezed out for a short ride and some coffee beans. Along the way, I picked up a nice draft with a somewhat scary view

Makes me think of Fargo.

edit: you know where that was filmed, right?
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Originally Posted by datlas
Makes me think of Fargo.
That was my thought at the time, too.
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Originally Posted by LesterOfPuppets
Pulp mills don't seem nearly as stinky as they were back in the '70s
We sometimes ride through a canyon where there used to be an egg ranch. It's a long, slow climb out and the rotten eggs were disgusting on a hot day, it even made people sick.
A guy I know worked at an egg ranch that had 2 million chickens. They had a 10 acre concrete slab where they would spread the poop for drying, then bagging it up to sell as fertilizer. He said they brought prisoners in from the local prison to work there.
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We sometimes ride through a canyon where there used to be an egg ranch. It's a long, slow climb out and the rotten eggs were disgusting on a hot day, it even made people sick.
A guy I know worked at an egg ranch that had 2 million chickens. They had a 10 acre concrete slab where they would spread the poop for drying, then bagging it up to sell as fertilizer. He said they brought prisoners in from the local prison to work there.
Dang, the old chicken manure place I used to ride by all the time has closed up shop.

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Originally Posted by Trsnrtr
Stevens Point, WI has several pulp paper mills and canneries. I always wondered about the air around there at certain times of the year though I never experienced any bad odors while I was visiting.
First cup of coffee I ever attempted was in a pulp town. Undrinkable. And then I tasted the water. Second try was successful.
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https://www.healthline.com/health/fo...umpkin-recipes

I don't remember pumpkin being such a big deal. Must be a new thing in the last 20 years.
Yes folks, somewhat hard to believe, but it's coming up on 19 years since we moved south.

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Originally Posted by Velo Vol
Why? Imagine the extra calories that could be burned fighting the storm.
I have just the opposite issue with calories and find them hard to replace.
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I have just the opposite issue with calories and find them hard to replace.
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