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Beavers frequently are responsible for wetlands where there wouldn't be any without them. They create entire ecologies that had been just streams before. The only other species that have that much impact on the ecology are termites, and us... :ugeek: Some of the herd animals- including elephants! -...

You might try not feeding that cats the day of the move until you're almost ready to leave . . . cats tend sleep after eating. And putting butter on the top of their feet after you arrive is reported to help them adapt to their new home. Apparently it inspired a full-body bath that removes the scent...

Or a tribe of beaver over years . . . the largest beaver dam I ever saw was 8-10 feet (3-3.6m) high and 500-600 feet (150-180m)long . . . they'd been expanding it for at least ten years at that time, according to my late father, who had seen one (long gone) even larger maybe twenty years before. --F...

I'd say that it's more a personal trait of Valerie . . . some people tend to over-think things, and usually the wrong things.

--FreeFlier

I believe that Digit's facial muscles are fully functional . . . but she doesn't remember to move them . . .

--FreeFlier

berkelianism . . . the idea that things only exist because they are observed. There was a professor named Dodd Who said “God must think it exceedingly odd, to find that this tree Continues to be When there’s no-one about in the quad.” Which drew the reply: “Dear sir, your astonishment’s odd; I am al...

I'm wondering what actually happened . . . if maybe Briar's friend may have faked a suicide to set things up to induce an investigation . . .

--FreeFlier

Conversation bomb dropped . . . it's super effective.

--FreeFlier

There's a short movie about stairs in the woods too, though I don't know much about the "plot". I never cared enough to look.

--FreeFlier

No, it's the stairs in the woods that are a cause for concern... I've seen those, a sturdy freestanding staircase made to reach an upper story entrance to a house that no longer exists, I even remember when the house was still being lived in for at least one of them. I've seen several of those . . ...

Is it as crackpot as getting caught in a World Grid anchor?

--FreeFlier

Briar broke Pickle . . .

--FreeFlier

"Older than dirt", huh?


I once asked an older co-worker why they had invented dirt . . .

He tried to pretend he was mad, but he was laughing too hard.

--FreeFlier

I was a reader, so my parents bought me a set of books.

My reaction was "It sure seems like a lot of trouble/fuss . . ."

--FreeFlier

Obviously, she didn't learn to STOP DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER!

Not yet, anyway . . .

--FreeFlier

For a transdimensional terror, Pickle sure just screwed up . . .

--FreeFlier

'Stela, you need to pay more attention . . . Friend came up with a theory to explain why children have such a skewed sense of time: their sense of time on things they don't like is proportional to their lifespan to date . . . actually, this continues throughout life, which also explains older folks ...

This! This is one big reason I like this forum! I love to see the tangents and the bunny trails that result from a post, and all the various fields of knowledge that come together on any given subject by the various forum-goers. You should try the Cross-Time Cafe . . . topic drift is a calling ther...

Ah. I've encountered vehicles like that . . . I also encountered a Canadian Kenworth that had been completely rewired . . . entirely with white #10 wire . . . my father wound up striping the wires with colored felt markers. Fortunately it was a 1973 off-road, so it didn't have much wiring, since the...

I did okay with HughesNet . . . aside from the ping time and data limits. I hit the limits a time or two . . . when I did I went to bed and it was back in the morning once the limits had rolled over. I took that as a sign that I had the right plan. Then Frontier finally got around to adding more DSL...