Check out Primal Scream's 'Vanishing Point'. Their most dubbiest. and yes, there's a song 'Kowalski'.
Crazy couple of days you had there!
Crazy couple of days you had there!
Growing in Cougar Country Thread...check my response#72:
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=235024&page=5
I live in one of the most heavily-populated areas of mountain lions in the US and what you said about being aware and not being prey is ultimately the first step in being in tune with our Wild brothers and sisters.
I, too, have a friendship prayer that I say every time I enter the Wild Kingdom...probably should have one for the city as well but I never have issues there. Nor in the wild with the friends that live there. I have been within 6 inches of rattlesnakes about 8 times over the years. Three at night in my garden..sat down on a log to take a break and saw in the moonlight a funny round rock near my feet. Flashlight showed different, ha. An Arizona Black nicely coiled waiting to see what i'll do. No rattle from any of the 8 I've been so near to and that's the rub...if you're going to step on one make sure you step on its head.
You'll be able to stand a second if your reflexes are well-trained and decide how you plan to jump away. Usually I don't get such a chance because I've jumped so fast and quick that my mind catches up later.
A friend jogging jammed down next to one such rattleworm and it struck the bottom of his tenny as he kept running, before he could react. Didn't break through rubber but it bent his mind...wears snake gaiters now when jogging on rough, brushy trails.
I always look down as I move in the desert. Stop to look around and then back to scanning. One day I saw a nice Mojave moving through Manzanita bushes...three feet off the ground! I had always been looking to the ground...now I don't just blast through shrubs and Manzanita without awareness.
Honey is fine...the bee keeper I worked for lived near Terra Bella and had a honey house with a massive cetrifuge. I would sit and fill 5 gallon tins (62 ilbs of honey each) for hours...licking my fingers between each fill. later we took several hundred tins on his sorely-overloaded 2-ton flat bed ford to every health food store from LA to Santa Rosa. came back empty each time. Yum.
ha! should change your user name to "the rambos" with that knife!
should change your user name to "the rambos" with that knife!