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Bruno

Bruno

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I ran 12 km yesterday. It surprised even me. I improvised from my normal 5 km route, thought I'd extended it to 7, and decided to tack on another 3. Afterwards I used google maps to figure out the actual distance and discovered that instead of 7, I'd extended my normal run to 9. So it became 12 in total.
 
32t

32t

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Last night 02;20 I awoke to a rap rap rap etc. Someone pounding on my door or maybe the neighbors as it wasn't real loud. I also was half sleeping.

Enough for me to go downstairs and check it out. Nothing.

Later the same thing happened I followed the sound and a picture in the hallway on the other side of my bedroom wall was vibrating!

I tilted the picture slightly and the noise went away.

I live two long blocks probably 4 average ones from the railroad tracks. It was the trains shaking the house slightly.

I haven't been bothered by the trains for a long time and my last house was much closer to 2 different tracks.:D
 
Bruno

Bruno

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When my wife and I started living together we rented an apartment close to where we worked. It was also very close to the railway. We usually didn't hear much, except on rare occasions when a long train loaded with steel stock ( bars 6 yards long and a foot in diameter and such things) drove by. In Belgium, trains such as that tend to run at 60 mph and those particular one weigh hundreds or thousands or metric tons. They propelled a mechanical blastwave through the tracks that was so loud we'd wake up in the middle of the night. It started as a low hum, barely perceptible. And it would keep getting louder until the train passed by and it really was as if an earthquake hit the walls.
 
verndahl

verndahl

AKA tintin
My wife and i were eating lunch one saturday when the dishes started rattling in the cupboards. Thought is was odd and wondered what caused it. Found out later that there had been a small earthquake tremor! (which was odd as we aren't in a normally earthquaky zone)
 
32t

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verndahl said:
My wife and i were eating lunch one saturday when the dishes started rattling in the cupboards. Thought is was odd and wondered what caused it. Found out later that there had been a small earthquake tremor! (which was odd as we aren't in a normally earthquaky zone)
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You live close to the Madrid fault don't You?
 
Victor Creazzi

Victor Creazzi

King of Bondo
On a trip to see the Sand Hill Crane migration we camped half way between the highway and the train tracks. Probably 50 meters to each. While I was setting camp up a few trains went by. My wife had to do some internet work, so she was going up to the restaurant, that also owned the campground, and said that she would ask about the frequency of the trains. A local told her that they had recently cut back to 96 trains per day!

Fortunately both my wife and I like trains.
 
Bruno

Bruno

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Right now, the Rona numbers are going through the roof again. Problem is that the age group 20 - 30 has decided they're fed up with restrictions and they 'deserve' to party. Every day the police bust 'lockdown' parties. Especially students seem to have just given up. I get that that is the age when you want to go out and have a social life. But too many people seem to be unable to live without being around other people.
 
geezer

geezer

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Well said!
I've been locked down in a care facility, on and off, since August. I was locked in my room for the last three weeks due to a positive CV-19 test that affected 11 of us. That was after restrictions were relaxed for a couple of days. I was just told yesterday that it was a false positive. There are many false positives released who will go out and about, while thinking that they are immune and not continuing to take precautions. Our State is among the highest infection totals mainly due to improper decision making from changing Government pronouncements.
 
RezDog

RezDog

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‘‘Tis the season for mice on the move. Last shift I killed one with a sledge hammer. It was just sitting there super still, I presume hoping it was in no danger, the hammer was right there. I thought it was more instantaneous than stomping it. I hope no one is planning to cut my balls off.
its good cats that keep the rodents away. I keep thinking I should get a shop cat, but with being away as much as I am, I think it’s best to wait.
 
32t

32t

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Actually to me it is an insult to name your pet after someone. For example to name your pet King or Queen. Then when you call the King beckons.

We had a dog once named Sam or Sammy...............
 
RezDog

RezDog

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A friend that has an RV storage facility swears by Irish Spring soap for keeping rodents away. He grates it and distributes it around his facility. I don’t know what you would do if you had a large facility. His is quite small on the scale of RV storage areas. I have heard of people using various mints to keep the little pests out.
 
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