Story time....

[michael parris heuberger]

A friend of my brother worked for the Ministry of Natural Resources and often came across critters....one time he came across a baby racoon and as there are no rehab people around here, he raised it with the intent of releasing it to the wild.........it became a pet and a really smart pet....

He said each evening he would put it in a kennel then he and the wife would go to bed......sure enough the critter would come in, climb on the bed and go to sleep....but it was getting big and heavy and hogging the bed so his wife said it had to stay in the kennel...

So in it went, they went to bed, and shortly after it came in....so he put it back in and then hid to watch it.....it stuck it's paw through the cage, found the latch, unlocked it and cautiously opened the door and came out right towards the bedroom where he was standing in the door, when the racoon saw him it ran back into the kennel and closed the door behind it and pretended to curl up to sleep..

When I visited my brother I'd see him and his wife taking the racoon out for a walk in a harness and leash and it walked along as good as any dog....and as it was around 50 lbs or so, it could defend itself pretty good too.

I think it lived until it was 14 or 15......

Then he found a baby skunk.......and the cycle began again....he said that skunk was as good as any cat and would catch mice and curl up with them on the couch when they watched TV.....they never removed the stink bag and it never sprayed......he figured it would be an excellent deterrent to any burglar's so he had a sign made up that said "guard skunk on duty." Any new delivery people looked around quite a bit when they delivered anything....the regular delivery people always carried a treat for it....

Hi. Bee that is some wonderfull stories. One day a girl I went out with lived in New Bedford MA. On the way to dinner it was mid March it was about 39°. On the way out she found a tiny pink thing in a puddly of water. She picks it up brings it back in side. There goes dinner. It turned out to be a rat. She kepted it for years. It's name was of corse baby. It grow to be about 18 inchers. If was very frendly and she let it run around the house. She also had fish in a 70 gal tank she would snap her fingers and the fish would all come to the end of the tank and she would feed them. It looks like this has turned into am animal thread.

 

[Bumblebee]

Hi. Bee that is some wonderfull stories. One day a girl I went out with lived in New Bedford MA. On the way to dinner it was mid March it was about 39°. On the way out she found a tiny pink thing in a puddly of water. She picks it up brings it back in side. There goes dinner. It turned out to be a rat. She kepted it for years. It's name was of corse baby. It grow to be about 18 inchers. If was very frendly and she let it run around the house. She also had fish in a 70 gal tank she would snap her fingers and the fish would all come to the end of the tank and she would feed them. It looks like this has turned into am animal thread.

Animals are some of the best people.....

We sometimes dog-sit a neighbor's Weimaraner and he's a great dog....we've been spending so much time with him that sometimes he'll listen to me over his owners and there are a couple tricks he'll only do for me....His owners and us refer to him as our "grand-dog"

 

[michael parris heuberger]

Animals are some of the best people.....

We sometimes dog-sit a neighbor's Weimaraner and he's a great dog....we've been spending so much time with him that sometimes he'll listen to me over his owners and there are a couple tricks he'll only do for me....His owners and us refer to him as our "grand-dog"

Hi. Just think of this. There are about 200 spiders in every squre meter.

 

[Bumblebee]

Hi. Just think of this. There are about 200 spiders in every squre meter.

With respect but what the heck does the spider count have to do with our dog-sitting?

 

[WuzzaCBXRider]

Where’s that meter located so I won’t go there?

 

[Red05]

Animals are some of the best people.....

Hi. Just think of this. There are about 200 spiders in every squre meter.

With respect but what the heck does the spider count have to do with our dog-sitting?

My guess is in MPH's head animals = spiders and MPH doesn't like spiders. 200 spiders for every square meter didn't sound right but...

Disturbing

 

[michael parris heuberger]

My guess is in MPH's head animals = spiders and MPH doesn't like spiders. 200 spiders for every square meter didn't sound right but...

Disturbing

Hi. No spiders are not anamels to me. I did not go out and count them as I gave up after only 2 square meters as I could get to only 180 and 125 so and average of only 152.5 spiders and thoes .5 spiders are very very small. It was from a documentary on spiders. You should watch it. It was an about 1 hr long.

 

[michael parris heuberger]

Hi. No spiders are not anamels to me. I did not go out and count them as I gave up after only 2 square meters as I could get to only 180 and 125 so and average of only 152.5 spiders and thoes .5 spiders are very very small. It was from a documentary on spiders. You should watch it. It was an about 1 hr long.

Hi. OH I really did not go out and count spiders either. I thought you would get a kick out of that part!

 

[Red05]

Hi. OH I really did not go out and count spiders either. I thought you would get a kick out of that part!

 

[Bumblebee]

I'm not a real fan of snakes.....we were in a Florida swamp conducting training when I was up to my chin in the water crossing to another position when I saw what appeared to be the muzzle of a large snake coming towards me, the light was low so it was hard to tell which kind it was and if I should be worried....as it drew closer I saw it to be a stick......

I didn't know a person could sweat while in the water......

I saw lots of them in the various locations I spent my time....everything from King Cobras to Anacondas and everything in between....

The safety brief given to us by the ASAS in Australia was almost as long as the exercise...the list of what to avoid was as long as my leg......it sure made us sit up and take notice....

When that same unit came to Canada, it was summer so the biggest thing they had to worry about was black flies and mosquitoes....they sure enjoyed not having to worry about being attacked by the myriad of critters they have there....

 

[michael parris heuberger]

I'm not a real fan of snakes.....we were in a Florida swamp conducting training when I was up to my chin in the water crossing to another position when I saw what appeared to be the muzzle of a large snake coming towards me, the light was low so it was hard to tell which kind it was and if I should be worried....as it drew closer I saw it to be a stick......

I didn't know a person could sweat while in the water......

I saw lots of them in the various locations I spent my time....everything from King Cobras to Anacondas and everything in between....

The safety brief given to us by the ASAS in Australia was almost as long as the exercise...the list of what to avoid was as long as my leg......it sure made us sit up and take notice....

When that same unit came to Canada, it was summer so the biggest thing they had to worry about was black flies and mosquitoes....they sure enjoyed not having to worry about being attacked by the myriad of critters they have there....

Hi. Yes it is like every thing in Australia is tring to kill you.

 

[Bumblebee]

Hi. Yes it is like every thing in Australia is tring to kill you.

It's like this in many countries...I'm sure there were more than a few nasties in Vietnam that were trying to bite you (and not just the Viet Cong or NVA)........

The safety briefing going into the swamps in the southern 'states were quite long and scary as well......lots of critters there to hurt you....

 

[Bumblebee]

I was talking to a friend last night on the phone and he came across a '20 GSXR 1K that has never been licensed or ridden on the street as it was used for testing for emissions by the Canadian government....it has less than 2000kms on it all in a lab on a dyno...

He was asking me if I thought it would be a good bike to pick up-he found it while he was working in one of their buildings, it was sitting under a cover in the corner and one of the people that worked there said they sent it to a bike shop to put it in long term storage in case they wanted to use it again but the dept stopped the program so it's just sitting there....he could purchase it through Crown Assets.

I told him that if he got it cheap enough he should be ok....and I'd drop and change out all the fluids right away as well as the spark plugs.

He is thinking about it but doesn't know if he would like the seating position for long.

 

[sixpack577]

I was talking to a friend last night on the phone and he came across a '20 GSXR 1K that has never been licensed or ridden on the street as it was used for testing for emissions by the Canadian government....it has less than 2000kms on it all in a lab on a dyno...

He was asking me if I thought it would be a good bike to pick up-he found it while he was working in one of their buildings, it was sitting under a cover in the corner and one of the people that worked there said they sent it to a bike shop to put it in long term storage in case they wanted to use it again but the dept stopped the program so it's just sitting there....he could purchase it through Crown Assets.

I told him that if he got it cheap enough he should be ok....and I'd drop and change out all the fluids right away as well as the spark plugs.

He is thinking about it but doesn't know if he would like the seating position for long.

Cheap enough means mod money.
An ABM top clamp and a set of dirt bike bars with your choice of seat, gives the Gsxr1k a completely different feel, but still with excellent handling.
Unless it's a base model, it will also have a factory quickshifter, and you know how fun those are.
I like my '03 with the dirtbike bars, and a friend of mine still has his '09 with them, but I would love to put them on my friend's '18 that I keep...but he's not having it, I've tried, lol.
If I ever did another one, it would be a '17-'24 for the power and factory quickshifter.
That bike is also a great flip if he can get it for a good price.

 

[Bumblebee]

Cheap enough means mod money.
An ABM top clamp and a set of dirt bike bars with your choice of seat, gives the Gsxr1k a completely different feel, but still with excellent handling.
Unless it's a base model, it will also have a factory quickshifter, and you know how fun those are.
I like my '03 with the dirtbike bars, and a friend of mine still has his '09 with them, but I would love to put them on my friend's '18 that I keep...but he's not having it, I've tried, lol.
If I ever did another one, it would be a '17-'24 for the power and factory quickshifter.
That bike is also a great flip if he can get it for a good price.

I personally doubt he will pick it up.......I think he was more shocked that he found a bike like that in the building he was in.......he must have thought he was "Indiana Jones" discovering some sort of lost artifact....

Apparently the guy he talked to said the bike was pretty much forgotten for 2 years when the project stopped....he even forgot about it himself until my friend mentioned it. Normally that bike would have gone to auction a while ago.

I recall years and years ago, when I was still in uniform we could go into the Crown Assets auction site and there were all kinds of things in there for sale......once in a while it was open to the public but mostly only open to registered clients.