How's your day so far?

[RoadKingLarry]

 Decided I needed a recharge early this morning.

Left the slip by 0510 sails up 15 minutes later.







Of course to pay me back for such a nice morning Karma let the vultures at the marina chew up the windshield wipers and some of the door weather striping  on my truck.

[TommyGunn]

  BEAUTIFUL!

[230RN]

Great fortygraft.  Reminds of one taken by the family who sailed above the arctic circle at midday.  Same kind of rigging, same sky coloration, same composition.  If I can find it I'll link it.

ETA: I think it was in this book, but that's all the research I'm going to do.  Damn the Win7 internal search function, which stinks.  I know I have that pic captured, but I can't find it on my machine.
https://www.amazon.com/Into-Light-Familys-Epic-Journey/dp/1930086040

Of course to pay me back for such a nice morning Karma let the vultures at the marina chew up the windshield wipers and some of the door weather stripping  on my truck.

Seriously?  "Vultures?"  What do you mean ?  I'm not good at allegories.

[RoadKingLarry]

Vultures, buzzards.. flying carrion eaters. When I came back in to my slip there must have been 2 dozen of them parked on my pickup. Picked at the weather stripping out from around the doors and ate part of the windshield wipers. Wipers were overdue to be replaced and I haven't decided yet if I'll bother with the weather stripping. They also picked at my kayak and damaged some of the rod holder tie downs, nothing major there but an annoyance none the less.

[Angel Eyes]

Is it legal to hunt vultures in your area?

[230RN]

Hm.  OK, I wondered if you meant vultures literally

Sounds like there aren't enough varmint hunters in your neck o' the woods to provide provender for them.  Or enough road kill.

When I used to go prairie dog hunting, I used to say "I'm going out to feed the raptors."

Almost always if I went out two days running, I would not be able to find the ones I shot the day before.  Or at least there was not much left of most of them.  (I usually scouted around after the day's shooting sessions.)

[RoadKingLarry]

Turkey vultures and Black Vultures, they're protected here. otherwise they'd already have been , mine is only the latest of many vehicles that have been worked over.

[K Frame]

Yesterday generally sucked. I had to commute into Washington.

Today, I'm working out of our Springfield office. That makes the day a whole lot better.

And, my boss told me they're starting the process to getting me moved to Springfield permanently.

Woo hoo!

[bedlamite]

Today sucked. Meeting 20 minutes before the end of the shift. No longer running three shifts starting in July. 3rd shift will be folded into 1st and 2nd based on seniority. Layoffs expected shortly after that. Spent the morning looking through job service. Still need to update resume.

[Ben]

Great image!

I've never heard of vultures doing that. We have tons of turkey vultures here, but I've never seen them go after anything but carrion. I don't think I've ever seen a vulture on a non-abandoned vehicle. Seagulls on the other hand... 

Wonder if it's an inherited instinct based on region?

[RoadKingLarry]

The marina has a fair sized group of hard core fishermen. Not all of them are particular about where they leave their fish cleaning residue. That tends to draw the birds in and they take it from there.

[Ben]

The marina has a fair sized group of hard core fishermen. Not all of them are particular about where they leave their fish cleaning residue. That tends to draw the birds in and they take it from there.

That will do it.

[Tuco]

how's your day

Just got out of the E.R. for some non specific stress related symptoms that had me thinking "stroke".

[230RN]

Pretty good so far.  Did some letter and fiction writing, which always feels good.

Yesterday I gently advised the family visitors of the people in the apartment downstairs not to flick lit cigarette butts into the forest litter.

Worked out well after I mentioned that the fire danger in Colorado is never zero.  Apparently, they're city folks to whom the whole world is either non-flammable asphalt or non-flammable concrete and butt-flicking doesn't matter fire-wise.  Just for grins before I talked to them I got some closeup photos from my balcony showing butts that had burned down to the filter and lying right on bunches of nice, dry pine needles, which were slightly scorched around the burning tips.

Expected a bunch of "Yeah, but" resistance from them, you know, automatic self-justifications, but it went well.  Didn't have to show the pix.  They just weren't thinking about things like that.

Terry