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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 02:52 pm |
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acook wrote: StewartM wrote:
... Don't be blind to growth just because you don't like it. Its up to our Town Council to plan our future to be ready for it.
... Change is inevitable. It is only how we choose to deal with change that is debatable. We can choose to ignore it and let chance decide our fate, or we can choose to embrace it and create our future. DOGGETTJA wrote: ...if we don't learn from the history we are in danger of repeating the errors.
Well said you three.
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 06:24 pm |
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I have to share this conversation I had with everyone. One day I was having a conversation with one of our new council members. I asked this person, "How do you see our town growing?" He/She said nothing and looked at me kind'a puzzled. I think shem really didn't know where i was going with my question or how to answer me. Then I followed up by asking my question in another way, "How do you see our town in 10 or 15 years from now? What will it look like?" Then the answer came... now hold on, it was a doozy, stay with me....... the answer was, "I don't know, I'm not there yet." Tada!! And that folks was my conversation with our new council member.
Thanks fer sharin' that, Skiddles. I wish't I knowed if it was Bozo the Clown or Bozo the Clone what said it. But, no matter. Pappy sees three possibilities fer somebody givin' such a answer:
1. You were not deemed worthy of actual two-way dialogue with a up and comin' demigod.
(Be thankful you weren't smote on the spot with lightnin' comin' out their eyeballs or else trampled by a plague of frogs.)
2. That person, or speech-enabled lump of organic material as the case may be, was just duckin' the question in a less than artful dodge.
(Pappy gives it a generous 1.5, and most o' that is for audacity.)
3. You may have delivered the question at a slight angle or without sufficient velocity to get through such a thick skull and it simply ricocheted off.
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StewartM
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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 06:35 pm |
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| Pappy you do have a way with words........
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 08:26 pm |
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| Thankee, Mike. Sure am glad to see you on the forum. Love that new down home goodness avatar!
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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 08:54 pm |
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| Pappy, I believe the prize is behind door number 3.
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FatPappy
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Posted: Jan 31st, 2006 09:02 pm |
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| Tee hee! You may be right, Skiddles. I wish we had some lovely partin' gifts for them. Yeah, well. It'll give us all somethin' to laugh about at the park Grand Openin' this summer!
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Posted: Feb 1st, 2006 11:35 am |
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| Pappy they are having beaver problems at the park...chewing on the good trees.....you still got your traps
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FatPappy
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Posted: Feb 2nd, 2006 12:35 am |
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| I heard about them beavers! Pappy ain't run no trap line in many a moon. It's amazin' how much damage some pesky critters can do with their mouths. I didn't mention no names...
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Posted: Feb 2nd, 2006 08:59 pm |
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Pappy's eagle eye just happened to notice this tidbit about the local bald eagles. Sounds like they're doin' good! I think that's excitin'. If my hair (singular) ever falls out, people will be callin' me bald.
http://www.piedmontbirdclub.org/baldeagle.htm
"EAGLE UPDATES
A pair of Bald Eagles has been nesting in Guilford County, NC, for a number of years. Lynn J. Moseley, Ph.D., a past president of our club, is the Professor and Chair of the Department of Biology at Guilford College has made these eagles a special project of hers since they have been here. Following are updates on their nesting and breeding activities.
1/15/06
The pair of eagles has been sighted several times since December in the area of the nest, and has been seen in the nest itself (the same nest as they've used for the past two years). The birds seem to be on schedule for a successful breeding season. -Lynn Moseley"
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 02:52 am |
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Pappy, Thanks so much for sharing this. This is really exciting news. I did an article on the pair of adult eagles a few years ago, so maybe it's time for a follow-up.
In thinking about the eagles and what eagles eat, it made me think about the lake there at the park property. Is the lake stocked? If not, is that part of the park plan? And if so, will fishing be allowed?
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 01:08 pm |
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Pappy thinks it's very excitin'! I'd love to see a follow up story. Pappy's never seen the eagles up close in the wild. Does anybody know exactly where the nest is?
It's especially excitin' because they've been around so many years now. I figgered surely some idiot would have shot one of 'em by now or else their fish catchin' skills would have been publicly questioned by some polemic poultry.
(I bet Oak Ridge ain't got no bald eagle.) Hee hee!
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 02:59 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Pappy thinks it's very excitin'! I'd love to see a follow up story. Pappy's never seen the eagles up close in the wild. Does anybody know exactly where the nest is?
It used to be on the north side of Lake Higgins North East of Carson Dairy Road at the entrance to the first cove. Yes, it can be seen from the bridge. Used to be you could go to the lake and rent a boat and get within a few hundred feet. It may have moved since I got sick. I had heard several fisherman say something about chaining a beaver to the tree. Anyway, the white heads can frequently be seen flying the upper end of Lake Brandt at 220. I've seen them many times. The young (get a bird book) can be seen... they look just like a small golden,,, at times.... Did you know Ben Franklin considered them scavengers and so devoid of honor he voted against them being our national symbol and proposed the wild turkey instead?
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 03:10 pm |
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FatPappy wrote: Does anybody know exactly where the nest is?
edited to add:
oops, wepete posted a better description and I didn't see it before I posted mine.
Years ago when the eagles first showed up here, the nest was over by Higgins lake and could be seen from the bridge on Carlson Dairy Rd. I think I've heard that eagles always return to the same spot to nest but I don't know if that's where they are now. I can't believe I actually posted something in Summerfield  I'm a Summernot but I do like to take a gander over here once in a while 
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 03:56 pm |
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wepete wrote: Did you know Ben Franklin considered them scavengers and so devoid of honor he voted against them being our national symbol and proposed the wild turkey instead?
Ok.. that's one little smudge on ol' Ben's dossier... Interesting that you pointed that out Bill. I hear that Ben Franklin is Fat Pappy's Hero!!!
Thanks for the eagle info...One of my kids says she watched a movie about eagles and folks were rescuing eaglets. She says that when the people feed the eaglets they have to wear an eagle puppet and pretend to be the bird's mom.
She also said this puppet was a very lame rendition of an eagle. We got a kick out of that.
I don't know if the eagles are still nesting in that spot off of Carlson Dairy or not. That was a good viewing spot. We did see a lot of "birdwatchers" stopped on the side of 220 last year looking toward the edge of the lake behind Bur-mil. I don't know if there's anything to that or not.
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Posted: Feb 4th, 2006 04:26 pm |
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Much obliged, y'all. Here's where Pappy got confused. The site talkin' about the eagles kept mentionin' the nest at Lake Brandt. So I wasn't sure if they'd moved or not. Excerpt below.
1/5/04
Yes, I do have eagle news! On Monday (Jan. 5), Carolyn Allen and I went out to Lake Brandt and confirmed the presence of two adult Bald Eagles and a "new-and-improved" nest! The nest is the same one they used last year (in a pine tree on the far side of the lake) but has been enlarged so that it is noticeably bigger now. No eggs have yet been laid; we're still about a month away from that event. -Lynn Moseley
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