in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[Nomadicus]

We never left doors open in FL.

That's well and good if you have solid doors closed all the time. One lady made the news when a big one came through her screen door and made its way to her kitchen. Another lady was trimming her hedge by her house and got drug off into the lake for the reptiles dinner. That still didn't have any effect on lake front property prices.

 

[Cynthia12]

Austin my son and daughter in law came out to check out the cool looking sky. Full moon and white puffy clouds. Beautiful! Then on our way in, Austin leans over and says..cool. I go back and he says, don't move. It's a wolf spider. Not sure how he could tell in that low light. I turn on the carport light. Huge! He says, it's a mom one, with babies on her back. I took this photo then got a big broom out of the garage to scare her away. I stomped the broom..she started moving away..all of a sudden a lot of tiny little babies go scattering around. Oh dear. We left her. They eat grasshoppers, crickets and other insects. They don't need a web because they move ..fast. Glad she didn't come my way. And oh yeah, I was barefoot walking that way before we saw her! Socks is all. That would have freaked me out.

 

[cavemanrich]

 

[CapricornFarm]

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Welcome to Grannyland!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Austin my son and daughter in law came out to check out the cool looking sky. Full moon and white puffy clouds. Beautiful! Then on our way in, Austin leans over and says..cool. I go back and he says, don't move. It's a wolf spider. Not sure how he could tell in that low light. I turn on the carport light. Huge! He says, it's a mom one, with babies on her back. I took this photo then got a big broom out of the garage to scare her away. I stomped the broom..she started moving away..all of a sudden a lot of tiny little babies go scattering around. Oh dear. We left her. They eat grasshoppers, crickets and other insects. They don't need a web because they move ..fast. Glad she didn't come my way. And oh yeah, I was barefoot walking that way before we saw her! Socks is all. That would have freaked me out.View attachment 3623029

Yes, i think we have those in the barn. Huge!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Feels like 77° outside right now. Just came in, because i discovered a chick under the polish bantam hen who decided to go broody. So i took the chick, and had to set up a bin. I sure hope she hatches a buddy for this one. You might know, i think it's a boy. I have way too many roosters as it is! I really didn't expect her to hatch any.

 

[Beaker99]

Gotta ask, what is that?

Baphomet moth

 

[Beaker99]

 

[ChicksnMore]

Fun fact:

"A cat once co-authored a physics paper.
That distinction belongs solely to F.D.C. Willard, a Siamese cat otherwise known as Chester.

While it’s fun to imagine Jack H. Hetherington — the paper’s very human author — working alongside his cat to explore atomic behaviors at different temperatures, the reason for the feline’s inclusion was actually a matter of pronouns. Before submitting his paper for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters back in 1975, Hetherington noticed that he’d used the royal “we” throughout his work, and a colleague informed him that the journal only used such verbiage when a paper had multiple authors. Unwilling to go back and change the entire paper (these were typewriter days after all), Hetherington instead invited Chester, under the more official-sounding pseudonym F.D.C. Willard, to be his collaborator. Hetherington’s deception was baked right into the name: Felis Domesticus Chester Willard (Felis domesticus being the genus and species of the common house cat, and Willard being Chester’s father’s name). According to Hetherington, the journal’s editors didn’t find the feline contribution especially amusing, but time heals all wounds. In 1980, Willard even went on to become the sole “author” of a scientific paper in French. In 2014, Physical Review Letters granted free access to all cat-written physics papers as an April Fools’ Day joke."

 

[pertnear09]

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Leggo my Eggo!!