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[Flying Duck]

#1: Me behind a KLR 650




#2: An antique thresher by the side of the road. I've been by this thing a million times on the way to the cabin. Decided to stop and have a look.



Hint: Hit CTRL and + to zoom your browser if you want to see the plaques better.








#3: An eagle and an octopus in the same picture. That's an immature bald eagle. They don't develop their white head and tail until they mature. That big white blob is the remains of a Pacific Giant Octopus. We've had the cabin since 1965 and that's the first one of those that has ever washed up.






He saw me on the deck and got his feathers ruffled:




Then he flew away:








While I was waiting for the ferry (next to the Goldwing rider with assless leather chaps ):



I checked out the boats at the marina:




That is all. Carry on.
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[Ted]

Was the eagle chowing down on the Octopus?

Thanks for the pics
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[malcolmt]

Now this is a good topic for a thread.
I'll need to keep my eyes open.
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[ljjohns]

For whatever it's worth: I have memories from the early '50s of harvest season nin Wisconsin: while the threshing machine (like the one in your picture) was no longer steam-driven but ran off of a 10' belt attached to a tractor's PTO, it was the same basic machine.

Farmers banded together and moved from farm to farm, following the machine; the oats had already been cut, bound into sheaves and shocked (sheaves stacked in such a way that they would shed rain); then the crews would march their teams and wagons through the field, keeping up a steady flow to the threshing machine.

And every farm wife competed to serve the best noon-time meal to the crews...
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[drmalacarne]

THanks for the pictures.
Guilherme.
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[Freedom45]

+1 for the enjoyable pics.

FYI: Eagles consume carrion as well as live prey and, from my observations, don't seem too fussy about either. Ravens, crows and goldens can be seen on gut piles anywhere those three species are found.

[mnb]

You do know that all chaps are, by definition, assless, right? Otherwise they'd be pants.
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[miKeinWIs]

Thanks Drake,
Waxing nestalgic. Sorry for partial hi-jack...
Ljjohns-
Yup, growing up next to my grandpa's farm I remember threshing--and the binder that made the sheeves. Rode on the horse seat of the binder at 4-5yo. I have the "bull" (Drive) wheel from the binder. Never knew whether he owned thresher or it had been a group buy. There were about 5 farms on our road particpating. And yes, the noon meals were unbelieveable. Plucked a lot chickens for the event.
Can remember the night the combine was delivered and the thresher pulled away. Only time I saw my g-pa emotional.

Mike
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