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The Clay King

(Formerly HalfDan)
Oct 2, 2018
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Chesterfield, UK
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Enjoyed a tasty Snap Dragon apple, and have passed the half way mark of this bowl of Wilke Little Round Top in an undated straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Sterling bulldog 150 with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. Finished work for the day. Lately, Tomato the Brave has gotten very picky about the wet food we offer him. Dunno why because he never was before. Daisy's picky once in a while. Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger are picky at times. Harry the Hairy and Abner the Eager don't get wet food.
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@JimInks I haven't bought any fruit for a couple of months:) I keep picking apples or getting free fruit from outside people's houses when I'm out & about. Jane & Dave brought me some of their fruit off their trees and I make crumble with foraged / free fruit - Mum & Dad sais how much they enjoyed theirs I made them!
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Half way through this bowl of year 2020 Angler's Dream in a 1984 Stanwell Antique 124 egg with a smooth brown front and a black sandblasted back with a dark gold ferrule and black vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Spent a bit of time feeding my cats and the ferals. Lots of traffic copping was involved. Sleepy Suzy was by my side when Harry the Hairy jumped up to be with me. Suzy hissed and took a swipe at Harry, and he ran to the back door. I put the poor little fella out after giving him some much needed attention. I'll end the day with this smoke.
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MisterBadger

Can't Leave
Oct 6, 2024
319
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Ludlow, UK
I had just finished loading some items in the storage shed and was smoking some Virginia talking to a friend on the phone while sitting in my lawn chair when two coyotes came around the corner of the house; I saw them first and let them know I was there and they started grunting at me and charging towards me and I had to get up and charge them back to chase them away. What really startled/scared me was that they seemed to be identical twins and had black faces almost like shepherds. I didn't know coyotes could be twins and hunted in pairs. I'm wondering if they were coywolves (???). They are still running around in the woods on the hillside so I am restricting myself to the porch for tonight just in case. Bold things !!! (And I like wild animals).
@Hillcrest - Last night I was pondering the strangeness of this with a friend, who suggested that the critters who charged you might have been Coyote/Malinois Shepherd crossbreeds. There will, of course, be a lot of wolf DNA in the latter. Malinois, she told me, are great escapologists and have had plenty of time to escape into the wild and breed since their introduction to the USA in 1911. Malinois are - so I'm told - much used by the police and the military, and this too might explain the unusual aggressiveness of the pair, who might well be litter-mates.

And with the possibility of it being an omen in mind, maybe it would be wise to take a look at wherever in life your boundaries are being challenged/transgressed, and by whom?
 

Ben.R.C

Lifer
Nov 20, 2022
4,461
97,710
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North Carolina
Chenets cake in an Eltang snail lumberman with camel bone. I think non fossilized bone probably holds up better to mammoth unless the mammoth has been stabilized. It is subject to cracking with temperature changes. I would think any bone that stays on a pipe long enough would be in that category as it dries out. The cracks I’ve seen don’t really look that bad or fall off, if they were made right.
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PaulRVA

Lifer
May 29, 2023
4,697
78,787
“Tobacco Row” Richmond Virginia USA
Chenets cake in an Eltang snail lumberman with camel bone. I think non fossilized bone probably holds up better to mammoth unless the mammoth has been stabilized. It is subject to cracking with temperature changes. I would think any bone that stays on a pipe long enough would be in that category as it dries out. The cracks I’ve seen don’t really look that bad or fall off, if they were made right.
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Send it up here and I’ll take a look at it for you to be on the safe side😂