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Targets only. It’s a 55lb draw weight, so I could hunt with it…but that’s not what I’m into. No sights either, so nailing a bullseye is exceptionally satisfying (even if I’m only 15m from the target  )The limbs were interchangeable, but this model hasn’t been made in like 20 years and those limbs are impossible to come by. Still, 55# for an old recurve isn’t so bad 
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Oct 1, 2021 20:36
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Oct 1, 2021 22:51
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There’s an Instagram page (@wildgreenmemes) having a field day with frogs right now. They’re hilarious and wholesome, you might have seen “the oily bird gets the warm” about penguins secreting some kind of oil that helps them stay warm in Antarctic waters 
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Oct 1, 2021 23:19
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I picked up painting models after I got home from Afghanistan. All of those are long gone, but I’ve been painting a ton over the last year as well for pandemic-related reasons. Turns out it’s a great stress reliever for me.    It may seem daunting at first, but it’s not really so bad. It’s a great solo hobby, and it’s a bonus if you actually get to play games with people (these are all from Star Wars: Legion, and about 1.5”/32mm tall [aside from R2-D2]).
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Oct 2, 2021 13:55
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bulletsponge13 posted:Looking good! Nah, strictly Star Wars (and the Aliens board game) for now. I have the Doom 2016 board game as well, but that ruleset has been iterated upon so much that it’s effectively evolved into the system Aliens uses now
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Oct 2, 2021 14:05
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CommieGIR posted:It looks great, makes me want to go 3D print some Battletech minis to pain. Go for it! I heard fun things about Alpha Strike, but haven’t gotten a chance to play it yet. A friend has it, and I’m going to see him next week.
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Oct 2, 2021 14:56
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pantslesswithwolves posted:
This reminds me of Hebron falls, outside of blowing rock, NC
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Oct 2, 2021 18:22
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Not gonna lie, if you had said the triforce was in there somewhere I would’ve spent entirely too long searching for it. That’s pure 
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Oct 2, 2021 18:54
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Handsome Ralph posted:Spent a solid chunk yesterday watching football and working on completing my UCS Millennium Falcon build  Is that the actual lego kit? I didn’t think it was that big, but I still want it  Found a box turtle chilling in the road. A van passed over it before I could get back to it, but thankfully didn’t hit it  Shellyboi got a lift to the grass on the other side.
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Oct 4, 2021 14:48
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It feels good to finally play some board games again I finally got to try a few games of the Aliens board game (Another Glorious Day in the Corps) with a friend, and put my painted models to use.   Of course, we got overrun because we didn’t work fast enough, and Newt ran away from the marines into the far corner of the board as a xeno hoard was closing in   Ripley had already been lost, tunnels were appearing near our characters, there were more blips on the motion tracker (plus the xenos that we could actually see, pictured above)…it was a gloriously brutal mess. Each alien you see in the pic is on a stack, so there’s at least 2 aliens on every tile (and up to 5). Of course, Newt remained unrescued as the marines got their brain-meat sampled and Bishop got torn apart 
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Oct 6, 2021 19:07
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Went hiking yesterday along the blue ridge parkway. The smell of autumn up there, the waterfall’s constant white noise…it did something to my brain. Like how a sore muscle or joint feels a ton better after you stretch it out some.  
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Oct 14, 2021 01:32
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Burt posted:My mother in law has terminal cancer. She elected not to have chemo as she wanted some quality of life before she succumbed, but she was given a fairly new antibody treatment instead. She went for a cat scan 6 weeks ago to see how the disease had spread and to give her some idea of how long she had left and got the results yesterday.
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Oct 14, 2021 20:41
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Jaguars! posted:I bought my brothers kids a couple of kites for Christmas today. I forgot just how fun it is to wander round a toy store. I consider myself lucky that I only ended up buying a small model plane for myself, I felt a sudden urge to buy a lego cargo ship in a box the size of a vacuum cleaner that luckily passed. If I ever see the lego Millennium Falcon (the big one), it's going to be a superhuman feat for me to not buy it right then and there  I'm thinking of getting it anyways and leaving it at a friend's house for use as a terrain piece on his Star Wars: Legion board 
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Nov 14, 2021 11:56
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Ataxerxes posted:Here is a livestream of newborn puppies: These puppies squeak in their sleep 
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Nov 26, 2021 12:12
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Got my old job back babysitting sea turtle hatchlings and shorebird chicks, got a volunteer spot lined up at an aquarium until that kicks off, and heading back to the east coast real soon. It’s a good day e: look at my brave little buddies go 🥺 
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ASAPI posted:Jesus are they adorable. Barely the size of an oreo, and awkward as all hell on their way to the water. It’s completely We did a mass release ahead of a storm last year, that’s where the pic came from. Every nest that was in its timeframe to hatch, we dug on and pulled out any hatchlings we found so they wouldn’t drown in the egg cavity. We released like 400 that week this way
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not caring here posted:There was one of them, I think they were trying cheese cake, and an old dude was just in absolute bliss with this food. And he says something like "this man brings great honor to himself and his family by making this" and it was just the most pure thing. Was it Gowron? Just picked up some painting supplies, about to get back into it after a few months off. I’ve got a bunch of Star Wars models to assemble/paint, including a Bandai X-Wing that a friend gave to me for Christmas
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Dec 28, 2021 15:44
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Back to volunteering at my local aquarium, made a new friend today 
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Had lunch today with a friend I haven’t seen in years, after being on the beach this morning and catching a pelican crossing the sun reflecting off the ocean. The pelican pic would’ve been a decent start, but catching up with a friend beyond that left me glowing for a bit Pellie-friend in the rising sun:  e: ZOOM/ENHANCE! 
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It’s not a lot, but it’s enough sometimes. Found a turtle trying to cross a road, so I moved my dude into the brush in their direction of travel.  
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May 28, 2022 22:28
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bulletsponge13 posted:I love helping turtles. This is me, but especially when I find a sea turtle nest: https://youtu.be/CMNry4PE93Y I loving love turtles
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May 28, 2022 22:54
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Had a very impatient aspiring mom haul out before sunset and leave her eggs.  They normally come up in the dead of night, getting to see one before sunset was a rare treat
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I work for NPS doing sea turtle monitoring, and had a rare find the other day! I had a near-albino hatchling in a nest I excavated. These are rare to start with, but what was even rarer was that it didn’t have any deformities. Typically the white ones have some sort of birth defect to them, but this little dude beat those odds and didn’t have anything apparent. He was just ready to loving go little dude even beat his 2 siblings to the water, he had places to be and jellyfish to eat  (Put it as a timg, not sure how that works for gifs 😬)
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Use "url" tags, not "timg" ones. It’s a loggerhead! A.o.D. posted:Was it albino or leucistic? Blurring the line between the two. At least a really strong leucistic, but that really pink spot on its head made me start to think think more albino. Other/better pic, with siblings:  These came from the same nest, but mom had laid over 130 eggs and these were the only 3 hatchlings still at home. The white one was the strongest of the 3, but everyone made it to the water (and that’s as much as I can ever do for them  )
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Torrannor posted:Poor guy, being pushed back to where he started. At least he seems to finally made it to the sea at the end? They get rolled in the waves a lot. When the only time you’re on land* is between the nest and the tideline, you can afford to be a little awkward along the way When we release them after a nest excavation, rarely one can’t make it out to the water (for whatever reason). They get walked out as far as we can go without taking a swim and dropped in a receding wave. They’re far better swimmers than they are walkers, so we never know who’s going to survive based on how they’re acting on shore. *statistically we hatch more males than females here, we’re on the northern/cooler end of the loggerhead nesting range and their sex selection isn’t genetic like a lot of other animals. It’s temperature-based, with cooler nests producing more male hatchlings. The switchover temp is hilariously specific, I think it’s like 84.6° F.
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bulletsponge13 posted:You can share these little guys daily if you want. Last night was the time this year I got to release any. They all did so good 🥺 I see the way home!  Got this one just as the wave was reaching up to take it out to sea.  A different one, on the way home all the same. https://i.imgur.com/ZqsBQ5S.mp4
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bulletsponge13 posted:Because it has brightened everyone in my life's day, you guys get to see me with my pet Hen in Green Zone Someone in GiP a while back had named their chickens “clustercluck” and “cluckface”, and I giggle every time I think about it (which is more than I’ll admit to).
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Thought I was out, and got pulled back in one last time! We got storm-swells off of hurricane Fiona for a few days, and these little guys’ nest had taken a few waves already. The next high tide was going to come up even higher, so we did our storm protocol for this nest and checked on it. Hatchlings have it rough enough as it is, and adding “drowned underground” to that list is not a good way to go. We were worried about what we’d find once we dug in for the previous overwash, but the nest’s drainage was juuuust enough and we found 96 little dudes that were happy to be released  Leaving the island today at 1, and the sunrise was also pretty drat solid 
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Unfortunately, no more turtles for the year…but yesterday’s sunset across the valley at Shenandoah National Park was magical  e: might’ve slightly overdone it (8.5mi hiked total, ~178 flights of stairs climbed according to my phone; my shins are yelling), but here’s a pic of Old Rag and the valley below. 
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Soul Dentist posted:What on earth is wrong with peppermint patties? Nothing, aside from them not being in my belly
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Nuclear Tourist posted:I'm usually extremely skeptical about flavored coffee, but this stuff is amazing. I would’ve bought that on bag art alone
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Anyone got any recs for things to go see around the Great Smoky Mountains/blue ridge parkway near Asheville? Asked a former coworker if she wanted to go up there and got an enthusiastic “YES LETS GO” I’ve got a list of places to go, but other ideas won’t hurt. I know the Parkway near Boone fairly well (it’s my backup plan if the weather fucks it all up near Asheville), but never really explored around Asheville/GSMNP.
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So, I was a camp counselor in summer 2017 for a marine science camp my university was running. One of my camp kids then had been accepted to my school, and turns out he managed to get a paid internship (post-graduation!) at the aquarium where I volunteer. Dude has an eye on getting a full-time spot there as an educator (think like an NPS ranger, except working at an aquarium instead). Feels good that he did good, and will probably keep at it
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The turtles are starting to come back, y’all   (2 angles of the same turtle crawl, she left a pile of eggs )
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Sea turtles are a lot of work for us, but they’re cool enough that I actually like doing it. I say that because my little island picked up 3 new sea turtle nests yesterday morning, bringing us up to 9 total. We’re also about to go into their peak nesting season, so more to come
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It’s a story in 2 parts:  It’s not much, but my little box turtle-friend got across the street with a quick lift, and slinked off into the tall grass
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It’s not that magical time of year just yet, but we’re getting close to sea turtle hatching season! I’ll post the pics as I get them. Our first nest comes into the hatch window this week, but those tend to run a little long. Early august, we’re off to the races (with up to 6 nests coming into their window on the same day  )
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