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Got a bunch of upgrades for my side by side :)... and now it is too damn cold to install them. Went from 60's with chances of tornados to 32 (with 10-15 mph wind) with chance of 2+ inches of ice/snow. :mad:

I need a heated shop, or at least one completely closed in.
 
My phone app didn't update on the preview/widget thing this morning. I thought it was like 50. I walk outside and it was 34 :lol:

Great weather for working outside, but shit I'm tired. And work is sapping the life out of me. A stupid project that I hate, but it has to be done immediately.
 
Fuck I hate architects. I have to say this every single time I work with them.

They hire us to do civil. They then interject trying to tell us how to do civil and get it all wrong. Yesterday, one Architect has a hissy fit over the new electrical transformer for the building being on the street in front of the library that's 50 feet off the road. Does anyone not notice that those transformer boxes are EVERYWHERE by the sidewalk? It's because utility companies need access to it and there's a requirement for space around their location. It's no big deal. But Archs get so worked up in their perceived aesthetics that they don't care about the real world, just the vision inside their head.

Speaking of the real world, a VA site I'm working on in Tampa, the Architect makes their own site plan, building layout, etc. First, I fucking hate that these assholes hire us to do this and then create their own sheets of a site layout and send it to us. They always fuck it up. Don't check codes, setbacks, landscape buffer requirements, wetland setback requirements. In this case, they didn't get a survey, they just assumed the as-builts were perfect and just went to town. I know better (plus the as-built is shit) and checked street view. It wasn't built like they thought, so their entire layout doesn't work. They're actually in Tampa, they can go to the fucking site and take pictures of existing conditions. This is especially important for us since we don't have an actual survey. Landscaping blocks my street view from verifying other information that I'm 99% sure is wrong.....I have to nicely ask them if they ever actually went to the site that's a few miles down the road or did they just make assumption off of years old drawings like fucking retards.
 
Just made my daughter cry by telling her one of our cats died. Our neighbor found half of her.

We think maybe a coyote got her.
That sucks.

We see coyotes out here pretty frequently. There are so many loose cats, chickens, rabbits, ducks, peacocks, possum, coons and other shit out here. They will never go hungry.
 
How old is she?

"one of"....sounds like you have multiple outdoor cats? It's kind of inevitable.

She’s 9. We had two cats, they go out at night mostly. We live in suburbia - I accept the risk that it’s possible they get hit by a car or have a run-in with a neighborhood dog (no one on my street has a dog big enough to kill a cat). But I wasn’t quite prepared for something big enough to eat them.
 
Eating half of it, yeah that's big. But a cat outside....a big owl or hawk will kill it depending on the size of the cat. A young one, definitely.

Mike is probably right, coyote. Fox's can easily live in suburbia without being seen often, but an adult cat can defend itself from a fox. You live by the water right? A gator would eat the whole thing though.
 
Yeah, we live on the water and see an occasional alligator. We do have hawks, owls and ospreys. Otters, too - an otter could fuck up a cat royally I think. Never seen our cats go near the water though. Anyway, my money is still on coyote, too. They are around - in fact, I saw one a few years ago only a couple miles away.
 
The kid taught me a fun fact about sea otters a few weeks ago. It sounded so absurd I had to laugh and said she was making it up. I googled it and it turns out to be true.

The males will wait until momma sea otter goes fishing, will kidnap their baby, and hold it for ransom and exchange the food she caught for the baby's return.

That is hysterical to me.
 
We have coyotes out here, but I've only ever seen one. We know where they are, though, because when the train goes by, about a mile away, it sets them off howling. We're pretty sure they are what got our chickens.
 
Shoot a coyote and leave it laying there as a warning to his friends like farmers do.

Back when I did enviro consulting me and a biologist at my company walked this farm in Texas that was going to be developed as a power plant and we were talking to the farmer who said “don’t worry about the dead coyote he got lead poisoning” and the biologist didn’t get this meant he got shot. I just assumed he was legit retarded after that
 
Why do I even bother sending out an email with detailed instructions, including screenshots, if these fuckers are just going to call in...
 
Fucking rats. I have an agricultural garbage can type thing, 40 gallons or so, that I put feeder ports in for bulk chicken feeding to avoid daily shit. There was some still in the bottom since I got rid of my chickens, below the feeder ports.....rats chewed right through the bottom and made a big hole. Saturday morning I leave out of town for a few days and need to move the chicks to the big pen now.

More slammed at work than I've been in months.

A lot of shit going wrong right now.

Juggs is angry. I could really go for killing something right now.
 
That line curves all over the place. When they ran the line, they just dropped it with all its slack and it was all over my yard. When the trench guy came to bury it, he followed the cable zig zagging all over the fucking yard.
 
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