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Well poo poo dude, is that a milk snake? I caught one of those in my back yard a s a kid. Kept it in a terrarium in the house until it got out (next day). never found it.... end of story.
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One forest-dweller to another: glad you're not dead! Got any new pictures of the house? Last I saw, it needed some siding.
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As an Australian, snakes freak me out till I know they arent dangerous. Judging by the name milk snake, im guessing that one isnt?
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As an American, I assume snakes aren't poisonous unless they have a rattle. There are some parts of the country where that's not true, but Apatite's winter pictures look too cold to be among them.
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Zhentar posted:As an American, I assume snakes aren't poisonous unless they have a rattle. There are some parts of the country where that's not true, but Apatite's winter pictures look too cold to be among them. All snakes arent poisonous. Some are very venomous though. edit : apparently there is one snake thats poisonous, but its in SE asia. NPR Journalizard fucked around with this message at 07:33 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Jul 12, 2016 07:27
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Zhentar posted:As an American, I assume snakes aren't poisonous unless they have a rattle. There are some parts of the country where that's not true, but Apatite's winter pictures look too cold to be among them. au contraire! We as a species have actually unintentionally been breeding the rattle out of rattlesnakes. Why? People kill snakes that rattle. The ones that don't rattle stay alive. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=216924322 Also here's a list of at least some venomous snakes of the US: Cottonmouths Water Moccasins Coral snakes Copperheads Rattlesnakes (which you listed) There are others but that's what I can remember. Admittedly, most of them are from the south, but don't be surprised if rattlesnakes come back to the northeast soon.
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Jul 12, 2016 20:15
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Cottonmouths and water moccasins are the same thing.
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wow, you're right. I guess I should have double checked those all before posting, since I last read about them when doing a school research project on texas like 20 years ago. Whoops 
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not ded yet, sorry for periodically abandoning thread for long periods of time. been eating stuff. free food good food     
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Aug 23, 2016 14:11
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I see a lobster.
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Cartouche posted:I see a lobster. It's a sailboat. (Those berries look delicious!)
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crime fighting hog posted:It's a sailboat. It's Crash Bandicoot.
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Aug 27, 2016 02:29
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toplitzin posted:It's Crash Bandicoot. That's totally earthworm jim
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Aug 28, 2016 14:59
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It's clearly Trogdor. Also interested in seeing how the homestead is looking these days.
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Aug 28, 2016 18:38
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Mr Krabs
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Aug 29, 2016 13:56
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Is it pretty colours time yet?
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It should be.
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Sep 21, 2016 12:47
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It's also the busiest season of the year. Lots of things for them to do to get ready for winter.
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Most of my foliage pics have turned out to be garbage so far. Here's a few--        (actually in VT) (ginseng?) (summer)We just finished processing a ton of apples into juice, hard cider (fermenting now), applesauce, pie filling, etc. Thankfully we have 4 mature trees left from when part of the land was a cow farm and know some other people with trees. There are also a lot along the road and on State/County land... Here's some pics of that         Parting shot:  Hopefully will be back soon with more pics, not online much these days
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Mmm that should be some good cider. Just posting to say that yes, I'm still deeply envious of your lifestyle. 
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apatite posted:
If this the kind of thing that if you owned the land it was on, and cleaned up the brush around it you could use as a firepit?
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beep-beep car is go posted:If this the kind of thing that if you owned the land it was on, and cleaned up the brush around it you could use as a firepit? If I owned land with something like that on I would literally build a structure around it, shore up the stonework and put it back to use.
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Hot drat that's a lot of apples. You ever think about keeping a pig or two?
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beep-beep car is go posted:If this the kind of thing that if you owned the land it was on, and cleaned up the brush around it you could use as a firepit? That'd be a badass firepit. I'd recommend you get started right away, then please share pics  Suspect Bucket posted:Hot drat that's a lot of apples. You ever think about keeping a pig or two? Yeah it's been the topic of many discussions, we just have a hard time balancing animal husbandry with desire to travel, gtfo etc. It would be a no brainer (IMO) if we had someone reliable/capable/trustworthy/willing to watch over things during brief absences but having little to no close by friends and an unhealthy distrust of people keeps it out of the playbook for right now
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apatite posted:That'd be a badass firepit. I'd recommend you get started right away, then please share pics Oh, yeah, totally understandable. Livestock means no vacations. Unless you take those vacations after they're in the freezer and no longer need direct input from you.
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Also, pig poo poo is horrifyingly bad.
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So does this acreage you guys retreated to actually have a home on it or are you roughing it like cave men? Edit: I missed the indoor pictures, not trying to be snarky. What part of the country are you located in? It looks very cold! Edit: Also, in if you're off the electrical grid I'm curious about your energy solution. How do you heat your house etc? Check out some survival shenanigans: stayingalivetv fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Oct 21, 2016 |
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stayingalivetv posted:So does this acreage you guys retreated to actually have a home on it or are you roughing it like cave men? wtf
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OP, great photos- I've lurked this thread for a while. Where in the northeast are you? That looks like a NY plate on the black ranger there, and the scenery looks about on par as here, but then again, woods in the northeast all kind of look the same once you get down to it. FWIW, I'm in the finger lakes.
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Apatite lives in the middle of a big forest by himself and has so far conscientiously avoided posting any self-identifying information. From this you're taken to have inferred that he values privacy and are supposed to say "Thank you for the nature pictures" instead of "show us your house and tell me where you live."
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I think you might have a better heating system than me (again) apatite.stayingalivetv posted:So does this acreage you guys retreated to actually have a home on it or are you roughing it like cave men? Edit: I missed the indoor pictures, not trying to be snarky. did you seriously join SA and put that crazy "like comment and share" social media poo poo in your signature basically:
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DreadLlama posted:Apatite lives in the middle of a big forest by himself and has so far conscientiously avoided posting any self-identifying information. From this you're taken to have inferred that he values privacy and are supposed to say "Thank you for the nature pictures" instead of "show us your house and tell me where you live." "What part of the country are you located in?" Is in no way equal to "Tell me where you live." If he's bothered by my very unobtrusive questions he doesn't have to answer them. This great thing about free will, you know.
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kastein posted:I think you might have a better heating system than me (again) apatite. From the forum rules: "Your sig file and you. Keep in mind that everybody on the forums has to see your sig file over and over every time you post. Please make your sig file under 30k in size with less than three lines of text. Do not use images larger than 400 pixels wide and 125 pixels high." http://www.somethingawful.com/forum-rules/forum-rules/2/ I prefer to keep to the forum rules rather than what some random dude on the forum spews out. So sorry if I've offended you.
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stayingalivetv posted:From the forum rules: You're going to do real well here pal.
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kedo posted:You're going to do real well here pal. Yeah, apparently. I've haven't been in very many forum communities with such a hair-trigger default state of hostility before. It's like people are trying to see how outdo each other in a game of "how anonoyed / angry can you be for no reason at all."
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Do realize that a) nobody uses sigs around here, and b) your sig looked 100% to everyone like you were shilling for your YouTube channel, as if you thought SA was a good way to get some extra ad revenue. I'm not saying anything about what your intentions are, just how you were perceived. You should have been able to figure this out in the five days between when you registered and when you posted this here, so, dunno what to tell you beyond "lurk more".  SA will 100% rip your head off, but only if it thinks you deserve it. And frankly, the DIY threads are usually pretty accurate about who deserves headrippings.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Do realize that a) nobody uses sigs around here, and b) your sig looked 100% to everyone like you were shilling for your YouTube channel, as if you thought SA was a good way to get some extra ad revenue. I'm not saying anything about what your intentions are, just how you were perceived. You should have been able to figure this out in the five days between when you registered and when you posted this here, so, dunno what to tell you beyond "lurk more". Thanks for the heads up. And the civility.
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kastein posted:I think you might have a better heating system than me (again) apatite. You mean you haven't gotten around to building some sort of terrible blast furnace out of discarded Jeep carcasses to heat your place?
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Liquid Communism posted:You mean you haven't gotten around to building some sort of terrible blast furnace out of discarded Jeep carcasses to heat your place? Kastein heats his house by burning the parts of the house that he no longer needs.
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