Red Mountain and (on a really clear day) Mt. St. Helens to the West, Rattlesnake mountain to the Northwest, Horse Heaven Hills to the Southwest and just neighborhood houses to the East and North (of course, one day the open fields to the W, SW and NW will, no doubt, be sold and turned into houses and it will be time to move).

About 25 years ago, I was camping in the mountains of New Mexico and saw something quite like the OP. Saw a moving light (very high–the object, not me) and traveling straight across the sky like satellites do, when it made an abrupt 45 degree turn, rapidly increased in speed and disappeared. Does make you think.

All 50,but then I live here 🙂
(Have actually lived in 10 different states)

You need a big, tall turbine, big to get enough wind, tall to get away from roof lines, trees, turbulent flow, noise.

I grew up on a cattle ranch in Nebraska and we didn’t have electric power lines onto the ranch until I was about 5 or so. We had a wind-charger mounted on about a 50 foot tower that fed a big bank of batteries. Wasn’t great, but did provide enough power to run lights, etc. for a few hours each evening. God, am I getting old or what? 🙄

You are indeed correct, and the results are indeed mental!

I worked for an engineering contractor at the Nevada Test Site during the underground nuclear test era and have seen the whole area on the ground. Very interesting to see up close and kind of overpowering as well

And here I was, feeling all “fix-it busydog” when I replaced a door weather strip this morning.
Really quite a project and I am truly envious of anyone that do things like that.

Mid-70’s, I sat next to and talked with Emmylou Harris on a first-class flight between New York and Los Angeles (my company was paying, I couldn’t afford first class). A most lovely woman indeed!!

My first real job was with TWA in Los Angeles (about 1966 or so) and I talked with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton while completing a report on their lost baggage for a flight to Catalina Island. Another most lovely woman!!

The early grippers are annoying too

This as well^^

If you can get it there in the UK or online, try Lipigesic-M for the migraines. It is non-prescription and primary ingredients are the herb Feverfew and Ginger in a thick liquid that you put under your tongue at the first signs of a migraine.
I have had migraines for 40 years and tried every prescription out there. Most work OK, but the side-effects are crap. I have used the Lipigesic-M for 5 years now and it works as well, if not better than the RX drugs—and costs much, much less.
The ginger component really helps with the stomach issue as well.
Edit: their website is: http://www.lipigesic.com/

The “stink-eye” rule corollary:

Rule #1: it is OK for mrs busydog to constantly leave every light on in the house as she goes from room to room.

Rule #2: If I bring the subject up and make mention that our electric bill sure has been high, I am to immediately receive the dreaded “stink-eye” look in response.

cinnamon girl—it is one hell of a meal, but the big males weigh between 700 and 900 lbs now and will weigh over 1000 lbs by fall and time to go to the den

@cinnamon girl

You had asked the other day how many salmon the brown bears eat in a day and yesterday one of the NP Rangers spent some time observing one of the big males and he ate 37 fish in the space of a few hours. That’s about 185 pounds of fish and 148,000 calories. Would take a lot of MTB to work that off 😀

Not sure I’d want to be that close.

The camera compresses it and they are actually farther away than it looks. Visitor rules are you never approach any closer to a bear than 50 yards.
Have seen many a fisherman back slowly & carefully away when a bear wanders down the river.
In all the years that Brooks Camp has existed, I think there have only been a couple of minor injuries in bear/people confrontations (usually people being stupid). Park Rangers are on duty, dispersed around the camp, falls area and trails to keep things under control.

All visitors have to go through a bear orientation upon arrival.

Pretty hard to completely avoid the bears as there are an estimated 2200 bears in Katmai NP, although only a small number of those frequent Brooks River and Falls.

Wondering how many salmon each bear gets through in a day

The most I have seen is in a video someone made last year at the falls when a big male downed 20 salmon over a couple of hours. The fish weigh about 5 lbs on average and contain 4000-4500 calories.
They need all they can get to be ready for hibernation come late fall and no food for 4-6 months.

Just the one bear though?

There were 8 bears there early today and 3 or 4 off an on most of the day—-most have retired to the wood to sleep of their “salmon coma”. Most will return this evening/tonight for another round. The salmon travel in what they call pulses, with large waves arriving at various times. Edit: One bear ate 15 salmon earlier today in the space of an hour or so

I reckon operating the bear webcam could be my dream job.

Explore.org is always looking for volunteer cam operators. In fact, there is someone in the UK who is currently one of their remote operators.

This is worth watching

Pretty amazing. I am especially fascinated by the way the wings articulate through the full stroke. Can’t be easy to break free of the water

Have to say the brown bears of Katmai have become my all-time favorites.

The big healthy looking fella

He is one of the most dominant males who frequent the falls. Doesn’t take crap from anyone and when he wants a particular spot, he takes it. It’s cool when the salmon are really running as some of the bears stand up on the lip of the falls and catch them mid-air.

Anyone see a fish caught yet?

Right at the moment, not too many salmon running, but there is supposed to be another surge later today. Best times for bear activity at the falls and lower river tend to be early morning and early evening until dark, Alaska time.
During a fish run, you can see an endless stream of them trying to jump up the falls.

Is there a highlights package, or a commentary option?

You can drag the red Live feed line at the bottom of the cam picture back with your cursor and rewatch up to about 4 hours or so. You can also sign in (green button near the top) and can comment. If you don’t sign in, you can still follow all the postings from viewers by scrolling down the page. There are several thousand followers, including quite a number in the UK, EU and elsewhere.

The big males who fish at the falls now weigh in the 600-800 lb range and by the end of summer and the salmon run, some will go well over 1000 lbs.

It really gets crazy as we move through July and the salmon run intensifies. I have seen 15 bears at the falls fishing for and fighting over salmon. It goes kind of quiet through August, then picks up steam in Sept and Oct as the spawning salmon are dying and the bears eat till they can’t anymore. The big males can eat 20+ 5 lb salmon a day (4500 calories each). The mothers and cubs stay around the lower river cams more to keep the cubs safe from the big males.

Must have missed it–sorry for the duplicate post

What, another one?

Only one I have heard about, although a marathon runner was attached by a black bear in New Mexico about 10 days ago, but not too seriously hurt

Spent a few weeks in Cartagena and on a mining project in Barranquilla back in the late 70’s.
Really liked the people and some of the most lovely ladyz on the planet.

I’m pretty sure i’m the only dog on here….

Maybe not 😉

Mrs busydog has never met a light switch she doesn’t want in the “on” position. I leave to walk the dogs in the morning before she gets up and when I come back, lights are on in the bedroom, bathroom, closet, kitchen, living room, garage and laundry room—and it’s broad daylight with lots of large windows.

She also covers every flat surface in the house with pictures, knick-knacks, vases, bowls.

Highly adverse to ever getting rid of anything. We have enough glassware to open a bar. My approach is if we haven’t used something in the past year, it’s time for it to go, which generally meets with stiff resistance.

In her behalf, she does put up with me, so suppose that maybe makes us even.

USA (lately of Washington State–just moved here after 32 years in New Mexico)

It is a vexing problem and one that is only going to be on the increase as someone mentioned above.

Both my parents are gone, but my MiL is 85 and living in an assisted care place, but 1500 miles away. She can’t travel so mrs busydog makes a trip back about every 6 months for a week or so visit. My SiL lives in the same small town so she bears the brunt of care on an ongoing basis, i.e. taking her to the store, doctors appointments, etc. We talked about bringing her here to live with us, but she can’t as our altitude is just too much for her medical condition.

It also makes us worry about becoming a burden to our 2 sons.

What’s F1 and F3? One quicker than t’other?

It is a generational designation, with the F1 being the first labradoodle produced from a lab and standard poodle. The F3 is a third generation of labradoodle/labradoodle breeding. In my experience, the succeeding generations tend to be a little smaller (our F1 is 68 lbs and the F3 is 48 lbs) and tend more to the tighter curl coat.

Oh and yes, the F3 is definitely now much quicker than the 10 year old F1 😀

Mattie – 10 yr old F1 Labradoodle

Echo–5 yr old F3 Labradoodle

73 here, going on 30 (or so mrs busydog says). Still MTB a couple times a week, but for some reason, trails I have ridden for 25+ years seem to take longer with each passing year. I have gotten past the point where I really “need” a new bike every other year. All things considered, I can’t complain.

“shirley” when they mean “surely”

Second MTB I owned was an Outland, a full sus that had the original Virtual Pivot Point suspension design, that they later sold the licensing to another company (Santa Cruz I think) when they went out of business. Second bike that just felt right from the beginning was my Ibis Mojo.

This thread got me to thinking and realized just how many vehicles I have owned over my lifetime. Some very utilitarian and some not so practical.
First one right after graduation from high-school to present—-some new, some used. The 4X4’s started not long after I moved to New Mexico.

Mercury Sedan
Austin Healey
Porsche Speedster
Corvair
VW Beetle
Fiat 124
VW Diesel pickup
Datsun Pickup
Mustang
Datsun sedan
Porsche 924
VW Scirocco
Nissan Pathfinder 4X4
Chevrolet pickup 4X4
Dodge pickup 4X$
Ford F250 4X4
Toyota Tundra 4X4
Toyota Tacoma 4X4

Since we just had new granite kitchen countertops put in this past week, that was the mutually agreed Christmas (and birthday and anniversary) present with Mrs busydog.
Stepson and wife coming by for dinner in a couple of hours and rumor has it they are bringing me a very expensive bottle of Japanese whiskey, so all is not lost.

Merry Christmas from this side of the Atlantic to everyone there in the UK (as well as the other posters scattered about the world). Hope you all have a great 2016!!!!

Just turned 73 and still on the MTB after 25 years, albeit much more selective about the trails I ride, certainly slower and I only ride a couple times a week now. Still feel safer on a technical single-track than I ever have riding on the road (TBH, the only time I ride on the road is to get to a trail)

“The Dark Tower” series by Stephen King. I heard there were plans underway, but haven’t seen anything further.

Edit: I actually think it was a movie planned vs a TV series/show

I’ve got the Phillips one as well. Use it daily in addition to brushing and flossing. A good tool to enhance dental care and, at my last visit to the dentist, was told that the gum pockets around teeth have gotten significantly smaller.

Could use it for cleaning out those hard to get to parts of the cassette.

Haven’t tried that, but do use an old electric toothbrush to clean out small nooks and crannies on bike parts