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[Saratoga Dave]

Probably one of Stefan’s spares. He’s got a million of them!

 

[MTO]

 

[Prairie Dog]

With harvest season in full swing, we typically see more local traffic along the narrow stretches of rural roads where we ride. This large combine with its high-capacity grain header is much too wide to legally transit to another nearby field so it simply detaches and tows it from behind.

 

[BlackHand]

I didn't have this on my bingo card for Tuesday.

Maybe this owl heard about the US Fish and Wildlife plan for mass extermination of barred owls. If word spreads I imagine the raptor response could reach Hitchcockian proportions.

Mass killing of PNW barred owls could begin as early as spring

The plan outlines the path to killing as many as 450,000 barred owls in three states — in a bid to save the threatened spotted owl from extinction.

www.seattletimes.com

 

[fooferdoggie]

This is so acme spat nature imitates cartoons.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Watched this junk truck lose its loads right in traffic.

 

[Watana Bob]

Watched this hunk truck loose its loads right in traffic.
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There's a reason they make pickup trucks.

 

[fooferdoggie]

There's a reason they make pickup trucks.

the thing is even if it got run over it would not have reduced the value

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Watched this hunk truck loose its loads right in traffic.
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Hard to imagine someone who's hauled junk for money even twice driving off with a load like that.

A different made-up story popped into my head. Looks more like part of a household than random junk on the white SUV. A lot of low- and even middle-income people are getting pushed out of their apartments and homes these days — sometimes through no fault of their own.

This is what it looks when that happens to someone with no experience and no mechanical sense. You don't develop much of the latter growing up on screens.

 

[fooferdoggie]

There was a small plane crash 2 miles from the Troutdale Airport about an hour before we got here. The vertical line was where we were and the horizontal was to the airport 2 miles away. I was surprised I did not see the smoke it took out 4 houses and power to 10,000 we were headed to the airport to see the planes land and then ride a path next to a slough

 

[BlackHand]

Gnarly dude

 

[Prairie Dog]

A couple of days ago, we came across this dried-out bed underneath a road bridge nearby the route where we ride. We’ve had very little moisture over the summer and this is further proof to how dire it’s been. The water that you see originated from the nearby wetlands that inhabit the roadside ditches and fields. We had no idea that there were even fish living among the cat tails and marsh grasses. Since these fish aren’t native, I suspect people were releasing their aquarium captives into the water where they flourished and as a result multiplied until their untimely demise.

 

[fooferdoggie]

Dead fish always freaked me out in the ditches when I was a kid. really turned me off fish.

 

[Prairie Dog]

The majority of motorists that pass us along rural roads and highways have been accommodating to say the least. Occasionally we’ll have a few close calls particularly with those who drive larger vehicles. Trucks and trailers hauling grain during this time of the season are a common sight and as long as they respect the lateral distance between and decrease their speed when overtaking then it’s all good.

On roads where marked shoulders do not exist then it becomes more of a challenge particularly when drivers tend to increase their speed to pass when they see another vehicle in the opposing lane. The turbulence that these B-trains create as they whiz by can result in a few anxious moments.

 

[fooferdoggie]

this happened overnight a long trail of trash that was dumped in the middle of the path. it got moved over by the time we came back. it looked like homeless collected trash moved from one spot to another.

 

[Prairie Dog]

We were passed by two of these tractors this morning hauling high capacity fully automatic hay balers (center) and accumulators (rear). Hay baling in the field couldn’t be any easier. With the machinery pulled from behind, the cut crops are fed into the Baler’s front auger where they are compressed into neat square forms, knotted then fed into the bale chamber. The accumulator at the very back (when unfolded) holds the bales and drops them back onto the field depending on the dump pattern chosen by the operator. This cuts down on the time that is required to collect them and also reduces the amount of wheel compaction on the field. Pretty slick.

The canola crop to the right has yet to be combined. Moisture content for canola needs to be 10% or lower in order to be sellable. With the month long spell of dry weather we’ve had, perhaps this landowner is waiting for the optimal time to harvest which saves aeration time when the grain is being binned.

 

[Prairie Dog]

We followed the graceful flight of this hawk for several hundred meters on this overcast morning likely on the hunt for voles or mice. Prey would be much easier to spot once crops are harvested.

 

[fooferdoggie]

so this cart owner has been at dinner since noon yesterday. I have seen so many of these signs up for days.

 

[fooferdoggie]

this is a wierd intersection where a curved road blends into a new road going straight with a crossing and another blend. so they made it into a little skate park.

this

 

[fooferdoggie]