"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

I was awakened at about 2:50 am this morning by a noise inside my house. I grabbed my pistol and started looking around but I never did see anything. After I was confident that there were no intruders I started a pot of coffee and sat down in my easy chair.

A couple minutes later a Bat flew into the living room where I was sitting. Freaked me out man! That must have been what I heard. I think he was in the bedroom banging up against the walls and that's what woke me up.

I opened the front door and just stood there on the porch with the door wide open. Thank goodness he flew outside about 15 seconds after I opened the door. I guess he wanted out as bad as I wanted him out.

I had no idea how I was going to contain him if opening the door didn't work. My wife slept through the whole thing despite the fact that I turned the bedroom light on looking for intruders.

I'm really glad he was so easy to get rid of. Now I have to figure out how he got in my house and if there are any more in there. I feel like I should be at home doing that right now. Sometimes work just gets in the way.

That’s pretty crazy! :D

Last summer we had a woodpecker get up into the rafters inside our garage. He must’ve flown in there when the garage door was up. I didn’t know he was there until I was sitting in the house and heard him trying to escape by busting a hole in wall! :mad: Of course, it’s illegal to shoot a woodpecker with a BB gun, so instead I had to ask him politely to leave, which he did.

Scorpions are a lot of fun. We lived in Arizona for a few years before we ever saw one. After finding a couple in the house (they blended in perfectly with the tile we had on the kitchen floor :eek:), I started hunting them outside in the evenings. Someone had recommended a blacklight to find ‘em and a blow torch to kill ‘em, but I found it easier to just smash them with a walking stick. Gotta be fast, though, those little buggers are quick! :D

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I took these picture from our front porch this morning before we went to town for a dentist visit and groceries. Very smoky.

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Not to be melodramatic but on days like this, when you leave home, you kinda wonder if the roads will be open when you are on the way back home and wonder if there's a chance your house will be in peril when you do return.

There are no fires within 10-miles of our house today so, I wasn't really worried when we left and everything was fine on the trip back and when we got home. However, the fires are moving and the wind is blowing so it could get a little dicey later today or tomorrow.
 
Modoc ED Modoc ED , be safe man.

I like bats, I have fond memories of watching them flutter and dance in the air eating tons of bugs growing up in NH next to a river, we had loads of bugs. Neighbor had one in his house and was trying to shoot it with a bb gun, I told him to get a pillow case and I went into the room and just ducked down watching it circle the room looking for a way out, and I caught it in the pillow case and took it outside to release it. My weirdest bat story is, me and a friend were riding our bicycles at night on a back road, My bike had a generator light that worked off of the front tire...well, we were rolling along and suddenly I felt something warm and leathery wrap around my face! I had collided with a bat in flight, and when I got on the brakes and stopped, I had no light whatsoever!!! That one got my heart racing...some things you never forget.
 
So far, a successful cataract operation:D - took about 15 minutes of staring at an intensely bright light,:eek: plus some tugging and pulling , , , , ,:rolleyes:View attachment 1403655


Arrrrgh! Yer a pirate now for sure.

I got both mine done a couple of years ago, one at a time, about 6 weeks apart. An interesting fact: as the human eye lens ages, it yellows. The synthetic lenses are clear. During the time I had one synthetic lens and one natural, I could see the difference. I'd look at something using the eye with the natural lens, then look at it with the new. Looking at it with the old lens, the item definitely had a yellow cast to it.
 
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