YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN ARNIE NAKKERUD - DECADE 8 - UNIVERSAL TRAIT - HYDRATION - LARGE BLACK BEAR - COYOTE

ARNIE NAKKERUD, YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

Graduation photo from Army Helicopter flight school class 1966-17, Fort Rucker, Alabama.  Lost in-country 1967.

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Eighty years nearly completed. I think this is next decade is going to be one of the most challenging to get through just because of complexities of aging. Decade 8 could be as unpredictable as the previous seven. 

I have been writing for a month now for this post. Stepping back as I re-read it, seems much like an older man's Jibber Jabber. Less is more!

Some wisdom, though, tilts my head as I look down this new path. What lies ahead?

"Curly" said he knew the secret of life.  I do not claim to know that, but he has a point.

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 A UNIVERSAL TRAIT? Found on Busted Knuckles and I have watched it several times and grin. Most likely staged to make the video, but I bet that has happened. 

A GOOD BRIEF READ. From Divemedic on Aera Ocho.

I asked one of the fellows here a couple years ago how they work in the Texas day heat and stay hydrated. He said he adds pickle juice to his water jug. The crews we see working in the summer heat appear to have mastered the art of staying hydrated. I share this because it is easy to be working outside, sweating and not realizing the importance of staying hydrated.

BIG BEAR IN CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE

The bears have been out now in central NH for a few weeks. This video from "FoxHat" is a great example of bears being drawn to bird feeders and how easily they destroy them. 

A good friend of mine was attacked by a black bear while we were flying helicopters out of Eagle, Alaska. He had landed on a river bank and after a few minutes, a bear on a near river bank saw him and started running towards him. He was armed with a cowbooy rig .44 magnum pistol and that gun saved his life. He turned the bear on the 5th round just a few feet in front of him. Great dinner time story but a hell of a lesson for anyone outside in the same area black bears roam. No one is coming to save you. 

In the case above, the bear had a "kill" on the river bank that it was protecting. The bear was doing what bears do. 

Typical areas dropping off geologists for an hour or so to collect minerals and soil samples.
 

I never walked away from my helicopter without a 12 gauge shotgun loaded with slugs. .

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GAME CAMERA 

Set up a game camera a year ago. Let it run a couple weeks, turned it off and eventurally took it down. I never took the time to look at all of the photos.

 

 One of the members of the family of deer that lives across the road.

 

Coyote is a big boy. This photo was worth all of the other throwaway pics.

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Thanks for the visit this week.