OT: It's Whiny Friday

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Alison...

The Birmingham Choir complaints was funny too:)

BTW Have you seen the panda sneezing video

sighthounds & siberians...

That's extremely, extremely cute.

Mustang Sally

MauiJNP...

fun song, thanks for sharing.

montana wildhack...

This is great!

shore...

My favorite was the complaint about cutting down the old
forests to make toilet paper and yet still not finding paper
in the bathrooms.

Judy...

And mine was the part about why didn't their ancestors choose to live
someplace sunny?

sighthounds & siberians...

Mine too. I'm interim/acting/whatever choir director at the church
where I'm organist, and the congregation happens to be of Finnish
heritage. I forwarded the link to some of our Finnish-speaking folks.
If we only had a few more members, we could learn it!

Mustang Sally

shore...

(Looking out window ... ) It would be!

Judy...

Uh, not now. The temperature is starting to DROP here and the wind - which
has been brisk all morning - has started to pick up substantially. DH was

shore...

Our temperature still hasn't started to drop. Huh. But at
the NWS forecast page there are six alerts: flash flood
watch, hazardous weather outlook, high wind warning, severe
thunderstorm watch, short term forecast (they put those up
when there's something special going on), and a special
weather statement, and it's the first time I think I've ever
seen that many at once. A bunch of the schools have been
let out and Watkins Glen cancelled Christmas (their
Christmas festival, that is).

going to leave for the Adirondacks for a last hunting trip but is instead
hanging around at least tonight to see what happens here. Besides, he
didn't think it was going to be a great night to spend in a tent near Caroga
Lake!

shore...

I should think. I don't mind being wet and I don't mind
being cold but I do not like being cold and wet. I also
don't like being in the woods when trees and pieces of trees
are coming down around me. But we've still got a week of
regular deer season here in the southern zone so he'll still
have time if he misses this weekend. (Speaking of which,

Judy...

And ours stopped dropping as soon as I said that. Rain and thunderstorm has
passed - and wasn't all that impressive. I just got the dogs outside in
blue sky and sunshine. Just a little breeze. And now the wind is picking
back up. A lot. But the sunset shows almost totally clear sky in the
west - just a few clouds on the horizon.

Judy...

Ah - and I know you'll understand this, but that isn't wilderness hunting in
the Adirondacks. It's a whole different world. And a whole different set
of challenges. Campiing way back in where no one else will go because it's
too much work - and too scary for most of them to get that far off the
beaten track and trails. And too few deer - you have to actually HUNT not
just go out and sit and wait. He and a friend carted in a tent and stove

chris jung...

We went to the Adirondacks for a week of camping before Labor Day and I was
surprised that with all that time in the woods we never saw a single deer.
OTOH, in our neighborhood (NE Ithaca) we have at least a dozen plump
complacent ones including one huge buck who has been munching on our acorns.

Judy...

Not surprising. It's not unusual for relatively experienced hunters to
spend a week in the Adirondacks and not see a single deer.

Chris and her smoothies,
Pablo and Lucy Goose

and firewood at the beginning of the season. They had broken their camp and
hauled it all out last week so would have been tenting in the parking lot -
but it still would have been wild and wooly there tonight.

He'll go hunting down here in the southern zone - but mostly to get a doe or
two. (I lose track of how many tags he has.) He'll doe hunt because it
helps the overall deer herd and their health (and thereby the health of our
woodlands) - something he is getting very active and vocal about here in
Pennsylvania. But the Adirondacks is for survival hunting and bucks only.
And that's what his real love is.

Robin Nuttall...

Just FWIW, but a study here in Missouri seems to be pointing to the
harvesting of button bucks having more of an impact on future numbers
than doe. It was in my Missouri Conservationist a few months ago. We
have far too many deer here of course.

Judy...

Found it! Thanks.

With a quick read, I'd say the math is different than for PA. Our yearling
does almost all have fawns and adult does all have either twins or triplets.
And in spite of the number of hunters (can't remember - may be the highest
license sales in the country?) hunting doesn't keep the deer herd even.

But it is interesting. One of the reasons they use for needing to greatly
reduce the deer numbers is that higher concentrations lead to Chronic
Wasting Disease, which has been out there in the mid-west and has just
arrived here in the last couple of years.

(Speaking of which,

yesterday I heard a couple of blasts that sounded very close
so I snagged the binoculars and went out on the deck only to
find that I didn't need the binoculars because some asshole
was out back only about 300 feet from the house. He saw me
come out on the deck and skedaddled, but SHEESH!).

Judy...

I once had to go out on my front porch and yell at a guy who was shooting at
a deer ACROSS the length of my front yard. I told him to move on up the
road to the field and then get OFF the road. He yelled back at me but he
went.

But most of all, I'm grateful that it's cooling off so we
can get back to training.

Judy...

Bah, humbug. I guess you're due for the type of winter you want and need.
But I could sure do without it.

MauiJNP...

that was my favorite as well.

Tara...

Me treble.

I had to post this elsewhere as there's this pesky Finn who hangs out there
. heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATXV3DzKv68