I have a neighbor ..... Steve.
Steve is a smart guy as evidenced by his bespectacled Mr Beedle looks.
Steve is so smart he has a "Meteor 2016" bumper sticker on his car voicing his displeasure with the 2016 elections, preferring a meteor strike on the planet to any candidate.
I bet Steve watches any show with Neil Degrasse Tyson. Probably anxiously DVRs them, nervous the machine wont record properly.
Anyway Steve and I are outside yesterday shoveling, he his driveway, me mine. Keep that in mind, we were shoveling snow.
So as we shovel Steve asks if I heard the coyotes the other night. One was in the middle of the street, one behind his house and one a street away all calling to each other.
I commented thats neat and Im amazed at the amount of animals now in the neighborhood - coyotes, rabbits, hawks even a rare deer.
and than Steve triggered me.
"Yeah, Its probably due to the winters getting warmer"
Poor Steve you exposed yourself as a total dumb ass as I scooped a full shovel of "tropical" snow.
So I told Steve winters are not getting warmer and pointed out coyotes have those beautiful coats for a reason. I machine gunned him with how the state has done everything it can to destroy the hunting and trapping cultures. In my 45 or so years living in the neighborhood rabbits were non existent but now with enforced leash laws and people choosing to have rats that bark for pets the rabbit population has exploded providing food for the coyotes, foxes and hawks that have had their populations rebound.
Before he could hit me with "We have encroached on their habitat" I added "The coyotes are coming into settled areas as thats where the rabbits and other food are".
So Steve says "Hmmm"...
and immediately moves into "The number of turkeys is unbelievable now a days, at my parents house........."
so I guess turkeys are some tropical bird maybe like a parrot and I explain hunters reintroduced the birds into the western part of the state in 1986 or so and the program has been successful beyond belief. The state touts the program for its success never mentioning sportsmen and probably their Pittman act taxes are the reason why it has succeeded.
When its a heavy snow I usually snow blow the windrow at the end of Steves driveway so he doesnt have to shovel it but I think Ill let him do it from now on to gauge how warm the winters are getting.
Steve is a smart guy as evidenced by his bespectacled Mr Beedle looks.
Steve is so smart he has a "Meteor 2016" bumper sticker on his car voicing his displeasure with the 2016 elections, preferring a meteor strike on the planet to any candidate.
I bet Steve watches any show with Neil Degrasse Tyson. Probably anxiously DVRs them, nervous the machine wont record properly.
Anyway Steve and I are outside yesterday shoveling, he his driveway, me mine. Keep that in mind, we were shoveling snow.
So as we shovel Steve asks if I heard the coyotes the other night. One was in the middle of the street, one behind his house and one a street away all calling to each other.
I commented thats neat and Im amazed at the amount of animals now in the neighborhood - coyotes, rabbits, hawks even a rare deer.
and than Steve triggered me.
"Yeah, Its probably due to the winters getting warmer"
Poor Steve you exposed yourself as a total dumb ass as I scooped a full shovel of "tropical" snow.
So I told Steve winters are not getting warmer and pointed out coyotes have those beautiful coats for a reason. I machine gunned him with how the state has done everything it can to destroy the hunting and trapping cultures. In my 45 or so years living in the neighborhood rabbits were non existent but now with enforced leash laws and people choosing to have rats that bark for pets the rabbit population has exploded providing food for the coyotes, foxes and hawks that have had their populations rebound.
Before he could hit me with "We have encroached on their habitat" I added "The coyotes are coming into settled areas as thats where the rabbits and other food are".
So Steve says "Hmmm"...
and immediately moves into "The number of turkeys is unbelievable now a days, at my parents house........."
so I guess turkeys are some tropical bird maybe like a parrot and I explain hunters reintroduced the birds into the western part of the state in 1986 or so and the program has been successful beyond belief. The state touts the program for its success never mentioning sportsmen and probably their Pittman act taxes are the reason why it has succeeded.
When its a heavy snow I usually snow blow the windrow at the end of Steves driveway so he doesnt have to shovel it but I think Ill let him do it from now on to gauge how warm the winters are getting.
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