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Morning early bird.

I left the bedroom window open a inch overnight.

At 445 am the Crows have a great horned Owl nest that they just won't let alone.

It often attracts all other Crows to the tree site from 5 other counties. (seems like anyway)

Caw caw caw caw for a half an hour long....is not the Rooster.

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Good morning Randall. Isn’t it something how us humans get all caught up in psychologics and the world and all its life pays us no attention. My favorite time of day here on the lake in NH is right when it changes from the dark of night to a bit of light, long before the sunrise, and the wildlife comes alive letting everything know they’re still there.

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Yeah and over time you can identify each bird telling the rest, that the "Sun" is rising.

Be glad, be grateful, be joyful. The hardest day was yesterday.

Cheer up cheer up! So claims a Robin with a belly full of Ze bugs and worms

(Yeah...Ok too far?) Hahaha

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Predawn was always my favorite time to scuba dive when the fish that hunted at night gave way to the day fish emerging from under the coral heads and I could watch the shift change on the reef. (Bonaire, Virgin Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Hawaii, and FL Keys)

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Yes, Psalms 46:10

Be still and know that I am God;

I will be exalted among the nations

I will be exalted in the earth 🌎.

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James, it's "they're" not "their".

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"...too much for their spouse or their children to bare."

Yeah and it's "bear" not "bare".

"Grammar Snobs are Great Big Meanies"

--June Casagrande

...and to flagellate a deceased equine,

"Try a Little Tenderness"

"...It's not just sentimental, she has her grief and her care

But a word that's soft and gentle makes it easier to bear"

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Thank you Jim corrected!!!

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This is refreshing for me as well. It is so rare to see someone in these comment sections (not only this one) who doesn't blow up over some small, usually well intended, constructive criticism. Kudos to you Sir.

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It appears that this site attracts a higher level of bipedal, hairless hominid than about 99.9?% (not counting myself as that would be rude) of the entire WWW. It's like a cyber oasis. 'course the smile evoked by the emu and goose playing grab ass alone is worth the price of membership.

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Retired teacher? It's a never-ending job. Weaker people eventually give up.

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Growing up our father used to correct our use of language all the time. Sometimes mom did too. Then I started with my children and mentioned it's demeaning to your intelligence and to my acute hearing to mimic poor use of words. Truly I will never accommodate "ain't got no". Mistakes in writing like-sounding words - there, their, they’re are common. I’m guilty of that because my proofing entails reading what I ‘thought’ I wrote. James, you are off the hook!

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Many written formats like MS Word use an auto-correct function, which I often stubbornly override. But this feature does little to teach us.

Perhaps one day Mr. Gates will roll out an AI correction device for vocalized communication. Little electric shocks administered through our collars. He'll really teach us good. ZZZZZT. I mean well.

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Language is a rich art. I always thought I had a pretty good command, but in these last ten years or so, I've often resorted to checking usage rules, only to find that I've been making mistakes all this time.

Even the great ones weren't perfect. If you go back and read "The Great Gatsby," you'll see characters who said "could of" instead of "could have." And Fitzgerald's not alone.

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Just be sure you aren't using too new a source for verifying the rules. I wouldn't trust some of them.

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Defeating MS Word’s auto-correct is my act of rebellion.

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Just turn it off.

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How do you like "preventative"?

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It fits right in with the idea to preventate mechanical failure by using proper maintainanence procedures.

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Using the correct torquation for all attachmentative hardware is critical.

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I'm glad I wasn't drinking coffee at that moment. Military or industrial sector? You've been included in my 740 page (and growing) "Quotes" file.

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Military, manufacturing, educational mgmt, then back to manufacturing.

740 pages?! WOW!

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If it's manufacturing, you may like this one:

"The most prevalent inadequacy found in our audits is the failure to recognize that timely production of high quality components requires almost infinite capacity for painstaking care and attention to detail by all elements of the organization, both management and non-management.”

--'The Never Ending Challenge', 44th Annual National Metals Congress, New York, 29 October 1962

I'm a life-long reader and generally clock about 1200 hours/year online and the old analog book things. After over 3/4 century, I've developed advanced CRS and if I don't write things down, they evaporate.

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That's great! And so appropriate to come from someone like an auditor that's getting paid for it. That must have been a creative mind to come up with that.

From 1962? Well, that makes me feel a little better. If we've been dealing with those 'troubles' since at least then, we're probably still going to be able to cope.

If CRS is what I think it is, sorry to see that it's advanced. I think my whole family lives with it. We keep 3M in the black, I'm sure. (post-it-notes EVERYWHERE) My Mom always said a sure-fire way to remember something or where something was left, is to go look in the fridge. That's obviously 'something or somewhere else' than what I wanted to remember, and while there, it should come to me.

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Best use is by planned parenthood's "how to plan your family" . . . it is meant to prevent a failure just like Mike's post.

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I actually like it, it makes me think and I learn. It’s like a double bonus!!

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That's very refreshing! :-) Thanks!

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Retired teacher here too, and it’s bear not bare, but that’s what happens when we use dictation!

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That’s funny I spelled it that way at first and asked my wife if it was bare and she said yes!!!! So it’s her fault. I will switch it, I love learning!!!

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My bird problem is a robin that this spring decided his (or her) favorite perch in the mirrors of my 4Runner. Not so bad except the way robins like most birds lighten the load as they take flight leaving potentially corrosive white streaks down the doors. The only partial solution is to tie grocery store/Walmart bags on the mirrors and, of course, remove them any time I leave. This discourages the bird and catches most, but not all, of the bird poop. So I guess at least I have a way to recycle the nasty plastic bags used to haul groceries.

Postscript

After several weeks the robin apparently found a mate, built a nest, and gave up mirror sitting! Thanks to James Goodrich for reminding me I needed to add this postscript!

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Try a sign in Robin verse that says this is not a free parking and pooping site and hang it so it catches the droppings because we know that birds can't read.

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If you park in the same spot everyday, try a weighted owl decoy on the roof.

Or an imitation cat or any real predator. Any fake raptor may keep the robin off the SUV.

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I found a fake owl I bought a couple of years ago and tried that but no luck. The robin totally ignored it. The next step would be a semi automated owl with a turning head but the nesting season is progressing and the robin comes by less frequently. As I recall robins are good parents so hatching baby robins are likely taking precedent to sitting, etc on the mirrors.

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I think you are correct with the fact that the mirror is a great watch tower and escape height

Especially if the tree nest has eggs or baby Robins. Try a crow decoy at nesting sites too.

The crows raid bird nests for the eggs and the snack inside it.

Maybe the owl is not the best deterrent.

But the cat poised up on the roof might be.

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Last evening my mocking bird was on the chimney singing melodies with an occasional lift-off, about two feet (here I am). This morning he was out front atop a tree doing the same. They wait for quite times so their melodies can be heard - no lawn mowers running.

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Interesting birds (state bird of Texas). Have had a pair nesting in an ash tree for years now and saw them give a fox a real hard time for getting too close. They can be dangerous. One actually pecked out the cataract implant of a family friend...one who had nested with them for years.

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Rambler, Don't mess with Texas or you'll have the Rath of our State bird!!!

Lol 😆 🤣 😂 😹

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Wait, what? Who would implant a cataract? Or did I read that wrong Michael? If I had known that I would not have paid to have mine removed. I eventually paid for new lenses but not the extra for corrective vision. Now, had a bird taken off with my new lens . . .

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The implant was the new lens repairing the cataract. The bird actually pecked it out (the old ones often had a glimmer to them that may have attracted the bird..one of my 2 does). The poor guy had to be ambulanced to Pensacola for emergency surgery.

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Oh, sounds so awful. I had know idea that a bird would get that close to a human's head.

I just got an email from a friend telling me about her retina tear. She took too long to see a doc and now will live with blurred double vision the rest of her life. She had all sorts of things done to the eye to correct it and did not have insurance. I think she is about 68.

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Not fun. Once had 3 of them corrected by laser. One full of fluid I watched leave my eye as steam. Only have 20/40 in that eye. Was in my 50s then. My wife actually had a retina detachment. That was a lot of fun repairing. She had to lie on her face for a solid week after surgery, able to get up only 15'/day.

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Modern Medical Miracles My Medicine Man Might Mismanage,

For $100 Alex..........

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Wow -and I could not believe all the stuff she went through. Never new eyes could have such problems. Good to know a few medical treatment have good results. Prior to laser, fixing torn retinas probably did not occur. It makes my eyes hurt even thinking about it. At least they used caution when reattaching your wife's retina - means they learn as they go what works. 15 years ago I got an ache in my right eye while in D.C. at a week long meeting. I finally went to the ER (don't ever need an ER in D.C.) and they poked and prodded on both eyes and left me with black and blue eyes. Once back in Salem the pain took me to a local ER and it kept me there and had a taxi take me the next morning to an eye doc. He decided I had a glaucoma attack and put me on eye drops but nothing could be done for the dilation in the right eye. It's still dilated today. Also was sent to Portland for total evaluation. Had all sorts of test and I never got any answers and was eventually taken off the drops because I had never, during each exam, showed high levels of pressure. This was after he poke two laser holes in each eye. Ever since a gooey substance sticks to my eyelashes. All the drops did was flow down to irritate the heck out of my sinuses. Finally had cataracts removed and new lenses installed, did not pay the extra to correct my vision. Always wear sun glass if I even think about going outside, even on a cloudy day!

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