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[macmac]

Nope no fox squirrels, just grays and reds. Down in western Mass they have a all black gray I think, but maybe is is another type.

Winters have been hard on the grays as of late, so there are not enough to hunt anymore.

Yote is short for coyotee to me... Around here they compare to a large German Shepard about 85 maybe 90 pounds. Come in two colors a silveryand a gold.

We have timber wolves too, in deep chocolate brown, and maybe other colors, but I only know of the chocolate brown because i saw 3 at once plowing on the mountian, and getting a good look up real close.

They were trapped between my plow blade, a cliff with a rapids brook to the left and another cliff going vertical to the right. No where to go for 1/2 mile but run, and my plow truck is faster.

Never saw one since.

We have real Puma too, and I think the state has recently addmitted that.

Saw tracks many times in fresh snow, some so fresh I quit the hunt. The one I saw face to face was some what upsetting, since I had it corned on a old mans enclosed porch.

He lived 1/2 mile away or more and called me to come get a cat out of his trash on the porch.

I thought he meant a feral cat, or a pet cat someone left behind. I was not expecting a creaturer 9 feet long.

[cactusjack]

Mac,

We have 2 kinds of coyotes here in AZ...the four-legged kind and the two-legged kind.

[macmac]

Not here Jack.. But down south I hear there is lounge lizards.. i don't frequent any lounges these days, so I ain't to sure what forms of 'wild llife' exist in them.

[Kawhead]

Originally Posted by macmac

Well no one needs a rally near by to come here. If a solo guy and or he is solo with his SO, there is a bed in a clean small spare room.

Then there is a pretty big field with a pine shed partly open for storing a bike in over night, and if that ain't no good there is the barn.

NH in my part is very nice riding if you like mountains, rivers and lakes. The bad is there could be moose.

I went nawth one day a few years ago for kicks with my wife. We saw 16 moose, 1 bear, 1 yote, 3 red fox 1 silver, 5 racoons, 1 Buck deer with a moose no less, 1 ospray, 1 bald eagle, and i can't recall the rest.

That isn't typical, and most times you don't see a moose when time is limited.

3 years ago I started a place to just be out back. A woman came along and told me it was a lenia (sp) ??? Sounds like Len I.

What it is to me is just a place to be with dry laid stone walls set up in terraces. One wall has a fire place built in.

Looks like it will be 2 more years to get done, but most of it is other than the last big wall at the bottom, and a little bit of other walls here and there partly started. With all the recent rains I haven't been over there to get chomped by the bugs, but when things dry up some dinners will be there instead of in this box, called a house.

There is a few pics of that spot in my albums, and some shots showing small parts of the field.

Guns are welcome here too, and so if yer packin and want to shoot any one can. I just pop up a target on nasty old ply wood in the field.

The other day i was siting in a .22 with Aguilla shorts which have a monster 60 grain slug. The load isn't ewnough power to stabilize these rounds, and so the all key hole at 50 feet.

The 50 feet thing is because I need to murder a red squirrel eatting holes in the barn.

That sounds to much like an invitation. :) I hope I can take you up on it someday. But right now I'm back in the "I'm gonna do that one day" rut. If you find yourself in the South one day the invite is mutual.

You'll find the wildlife down here, compared to the moose much smaller and maybe much softer. If you come down around report card time in the fall, my son will make a good moving and screaming target with handguns and small caliber rifles. I'm not harsh, I do allow him to don a Kevlar vest and helmet. Gunfire tends to get my point across where civil conversation failed miserably. Maybe this will be good training that will lead to a career in this field.

[macmac]

Ah a one child in a cross fire.. lets do it for the children! LOL....
I don't know your town of course, but I did putt around in the area sort of, testing my skills riding in tunnels with no illumination on the Blue Ridge Pkway.

I find the ones you can see day light from the other end aren't too bad on a bright sunny day, but the ones with a curve under the mountain somewhere, and i do mean somewhere were a Royal pain!

If you ain't been to northern New England it should be a Must do with a Bike for any rider.

I add up several thosand miles and never leave this state each year.

A better place yet to go tour ridin' is Cape Bretton NS. Just one view to kill for after another, and the locals actually like strangers, aka tourists...

Went there for 16 days once and used a motel 3 nights... The rest were free for a conversation. It is like stop and ask how to get someplace and the next thing you know, food and free lodging are offered in someone's home!

If that ain't enough they beg you to come back and stay again just to say good bye.

Last time I was there there was still 'Time' which we don't seem to have in the USA.

Oh this is pricless... The first time that happened a old guy came to look over my map, as I was just pulled up short to see what was next.

He tells me, and then says use this whole real Victorian house. Man that place looked haunted to me, over looking the sound off toward PI.

We (my wife) end up in this old geezers house right next door. He gets up some grub and says his wife is out walking the dog, and wants to know if we have any laundery.

I see a halloween pics of his 30 something sons, painted up in red devil suits and I became convinced the guy wanted to eat us!

I mean why else would you get food and free lodging, with the offer to fire up a cold 80 gallon hot water tank?

Well we did stay in that old Victorian home, and in the morning I was still safe, but I got dammned even anyway.

The sun beaming in the window woke me first and so I snuck out to watch the sun come up over the water. I sat in a ditch next to the postal box the guy had at the road, and he came down for the paper.

One look at me in the ditch set the guy right off, thinking I was a sea monster LOL. I was wearing my blue Balmora Hat with feathers.. What he saw was black thing in the ditch!

Love that place..

[Kawhead]

OMG We gotta do that place one day!!! Next year I gotta do the pacific ride with a friend who's been begging me for three years! I've been hesitant because of the unknown. That fear has passed! Anyway I'll get to you! :) I know this is for another thread but I met some folks out there on the road that changed my life! I'll never forget it. It almost makes me misty eyed to think about it.

NS is Nova Scotia ain't it?

[Cajunrider]

Mac, Down here we have "Bar Flies".

[macmac]

Yup NS is Nova Scotia , Cape bretton is the northern island part of NS, and the best part if you ask me, but all of it is pretty nice.

There is one way on and the same one way off that island. Once you cross the causeway, the very first thing you come to is a traffic circle. Go 3/4ers way around and leave to the west.

This is what others would tell you if they knew how to tour Cape Bretton, follow it all clock wise, other wise you get sun glare in yer face all the time.

AIn't much there in the way of shoppin's fer the women folks though, so have any needs met. No shoppin malls, and not much else but the best scenery in the east, that counts here where I am and all the way to Key West.

Mountians meet the sea all the way around Cape Bretton.

The lower part of NS has more than enough shoppin to make up for the lack if in the north.


We rode up thru Maine, crossed over to Cape Bretton asap, a week or more latter after going to Ft Lousiburg and wearing myself to a frazzel there, we crossed into the south, toured Halifax, crossed to the western side to see the waves in the Bay of Funday, crossed back to the east side rode south, crossed to the west side to check out Davey Jone's Locker ( A store with boat junk going by another name by the contents to interest me came from the Deep!)

I was in year 3 of finding real hemp line for boats, and no it isn't manillia. Hemp is as soft as cotton and will not shrink wet. manillia is what everyone calls hemp, and shinks like mad wet and is full of spines. Manilla makes great standing rigging, and help make the best hands on moving rigging lines, and bolt ropes in sails that get wet. ( I am part Pirate )

In Yarmouth I just had to go shopping myself, for cannon, real Hudson Bay blankets and etc etc. Then we took the slow boat to Portland maine, where they wanted to bust me for a few rocks... Ossifer I got them rocks in Maine at dear ol' grannies house!

When I am not a Pirate I am a cave man, and these rocks were for hammer stones. Just in case you wonder about me..

[macmac]

I fer got.... Fear of the unknown stops as soon as you are where ever it is you never were before, except in Nevada. Oh man there is way too much sky in Nevada, and you can feel it press down on yer shoulders!

I met skeeters there that were not smart enough to bite man! You and I live in the woods, compared to out there.