Yes, but the width to height ratio on this one unsettles me slightly. It needs to be about an inch narrower.
Just bought the newest Kindle Paperwhite (Gen 11). My Voyage battery was only holding a charge for about 4 days of use rather than a month or more. I'm going to miss those page turn buttons, but I am looking forward to the slightly larger screen. It won't be delivered until the 27th of this month, So I am waiting with Bated Breath FYI, I just looked "Bated Breath" up. I always thought it was "Baited Breath", which never made sense to me. Why was anticipation associated with sushi?
The college where I work gave employees tickets to the local corn maze. I took my grandson and a couple of friends. The kids had a blast: corn maze, tractor-pulled cars, petting zoo, pumpkin cannon, bouncing mats, and I don't know what all. Pretty nice free afternoon.
I got about 50ish pounds of meat this morning with my bow. Also nearly got into a fight with a black bear, but that's another story.
Can’t you come over here and hunt the scumbags that walk my streets, instead of these beautiful animals?
No season on scumbags and you can't eat them anyway. (Cue Lecture 345A on deer herd management to maintain healthy ecosystems in areas where wild predators no longer do the job.)
No, it was just my ham-fisted way of airing my disapproval of blood sports. But I know nothing of the wildlife eco-system over there, or how it needs to be controlled, so I’ll find other subjects to comment on. And besides, the number of ‘likes’ the post in question received tells me I’d be vastly outnumbered and on a hiding to nothing anyway.
My friend, I'm not trying to start a contest between animal lovers and hunters (they're often the same people). I did want to offer a bit of insight into the realities of maintaining modern ecosystems and deflect the notion that hunters as a species are wild-eyed beer-drinking camo-clad hillbillies baying at the sight of Bambi bleeding on the ground. There are a few of those types around, but they're in the minority. If you're interested in wildlife management practices in the American West, I can send you some references. Predators serve a purpose, and death by bullet or arrow is generally cleaner and faster than death by wolf, wolverine, or other natural predators. It's certainly easier than death by starvation which results from allowing ungulate populations to explode with resulting habitat destruction. But there I am starting Lecture 345A. Sorry. Hard for an educator to not educate, even when information is not solicited. Guess that comes under the heading of "things you recently got" so we're still on topic.
No, not at all. I wasn’t suggesting so for a second. I don’t think hunters are bad people, although as you say there are those types. It’s just my ignorant, over-sentimental Britishness clouding the facts.
Believe it or not, deer, and even black bears are prolific enough in North America that their respective populations need to be managed in many rural and semi-rural/suburban settings. My wife did considerable damage to her car when she hit a buck early one morning on her way to work at 4:00 am. Another time, she barely grazed a doe crossing the road, and later discovered tufts of hair caught in the trim on her car door. We live in the Capital of Illinois, Springfield, right on the edge of the city. (very suburban though I live near 16 acres of woods). Where I live, we can also hear coyotes hunting rabbits, and the rabbit's screams when they are caught. Fortunately, they a very shy, so worry about protecting pets and children is relatively rare. Do a computer search on nuisance bears, in the very urban state of New Jersy. You will discover they are enough of a problem that the State of NJ has Web pages dedicated specifically to how to report a nuisance bear, what to do when you encounter one. I don't know what it is like in England, but I suspect our perspective and experience on wildlife encounters is a bit different. We agree they are beautiful creatures, but they do need to stay out of our gardens and away from the things/people we love.
And off the highways would be nice too, especially late at night. I barely avoided being t-boned by a running deer that suddenly veered out of the woods right in front/beside my car. I slammed on the brakes and it passed just in front of me. Luckily there wasn't a car behind me or it would have been bad.
Maybe if we had stayed out of their garden at the very start, we wouldn’t be having these problems now.
