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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 12, 2017 19:46:01 GMT -5
I always tell my wife, "I aim to misbehave!" I wear my Serenity Valley Browncoats Tee and make decisions by flipping my Jayne Cobb challenge coin.! And she totally don't get it. I doubt she's ever seen a single episode of Firefly. Extreme sacrilege and un shiny!!! Don't know how I ever hitched up with a gal what don't like sci fi or fantasy shows or books. Yet, she always has her face buried in one if those godawful long haired dude covered stupidass heaving bosom romance novels. WTF is up with that anyway? ....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 12, 2017 17:04:57 GMT -5
Rugose ( horn) coral maybe....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 11, 2017 20:56:18 GMT -5
Andrea, Sher was nice enough to send the recipe note for me. When we got Cherokee from a pet shop he was frankly a mess. Had more than a few vet visits and it probably took a year to get him healthy again. Sher has become quite adept at caring for a really really finicky bird and we have had him for many many, dare I say almost too many years now *L*. We've had multiple hookbills since we were first married and I believe he's tied with or surpassed our longest lived Amazon in terms of longevity and our bad hearing can attest to that. He is a noisy fellow!!!! Hope your little feller is happy and thrives....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 11, 2017 20:22:59 GMT -5
Avocados are toxic to hookbills! Do not feed them avocados! Do not feed them chocolate ( I know some folks try to), no onions, garlic, fatty foods, high sodium foods, Fruit seeds like peach pits, cherry pits, apples seeds. No dry beans.
Talked to the wife, Cherokee is her bird. She suggested feed your baby warm food, not hot, only warm. Same temp as his mama fed him. Dinner she feeds Cherokee is always warm and when it is cold he usually don't eat it well. Remember, he's still a baby so soft warm food are appealing. Right now he just needs to settle in so corn is OK if it keeps he fed. Wife says to not introduce him to too many new things at once but do it gradually. Maybe a little mashed banana mixed with the corn for starters.
I'll get the wife's warm cockatoo food recipe for you Cherokee thrives on it and keeps a very good weight and activity level....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 11, 2017 7:24:10 GMT -5
Wow, that purple agate is real uncommon now. Great find! I think your giant mossy piece could be Horse Canyon material. Your piece you think might be Owyhee looks more like Goldfield, NV Bullseye Agate to me ( actually a highly silicated rhyolite from the Goldfield Gem claims)....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 10, 2017 22:31:35 GMT -5
New large hookbills can be difficult as they are just so social and are pretty traumatized when they go to a new home away from their buddies. Cherokee, our cockatoo, was a capture bird and in quarantine they give them cooked corn, not seed. As a result, feeding him is still very difficult and , while he gets nuts and seeds and fruity pellets, fruit etc, mainly he just throws that all over the room or chews it up and swallows little. He gets cooked corn but will only eat one brand and that's not good for him as primary fodder so my wife actually cooks soft food for him every night, mix of fruit and various baby foods. We've also used a baby parrot food you can buy in the mix too. Had to be spoon fed at first but gradually he got so he would eat his warm food from his dish. Now he's so healthy and strong ( little thug) he will probably outlive us, but man, for the first year or so, it was really difficult to keep him from going light. Just takes patience and a little experimentation and maybe some advice from the breeder....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 10, 2017 16:33:07 GMT -5
My office used to be in the FBI building on an old military base. The base was full of escaped hookbills because one of the old hangers was a bird import place and a Moluccan Cockatoo got loose and opened every cage in the warehouse and turned all his comrades loose. Cockatoos are great with door clips! Unfortunately, only the birds that were more temperature tolerant made it through the first winter but we had loose Amazons and Senegals and some kind of weird jay around for years. The parrots seemed to subsist on citrus and Brazilian pepper tree fruits..mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 10, 2017 16:24:41 GMT -5
Way better to start with agate and jasper in the beginning. Much easier to tumble...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 10, 2017 8:30:36 GMT -5
Very cool! Goffin's are some the sweetest, goofiest of cockatoos. We've always had hookbills as pets. Our lone survivor is an Umbrella Cockatoo we've had since 1982. He's a bit noisy and a giant goofball but you get used to having him around. He'll probably be around long enough to crap on our graves *L*. I do hate it when he plays on my bed though as that dang powder they groom with makes me sneeze the nose off my face. Umbrellas don't seem to bite at all. Macaws and Amazons we've had were another story and judging from those I've met, Sulfur Crests are really nasty......Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 9, 2017 20:29:28 GMT -5
OK, based on my experience with trying to tumble Wyoming, CA, and Washington nephrite, nephrite is a tough one to tumble. Many nephrite types are multi hardness stones. Many have inclusions of softer material like magnetite, serpentine, tremolite etc. It really varies from one nephrite type to another as nephrite is very fibrous. Jade Cove jade tends to undercut some. Porterville Jade has black magnetite inclusions that undercut. Wyoming and Washington stuff can really undercut badly. (undercutting in case you do not know, is where the softer areas are gouged out by the grit and it become difficult or impossible to achieve a uniformly smooth finish on the surface). This problem can even vary from piece to piece from the same location. Best polish I've seen on nephrite was on the Mariposa, CA material. It finished pretty well but is relatively homogeneous and inclusion free too. For me, jade is better worked on wheels with very worn sanding wheels used for the sanding to control the undercutting. You might want to start with a small batch with lots of ceramic filler and check the rough after a few days n coarse to see how it is doing. If it comes out all bumpy or wood grainy, you might try starting with a sorted fine grind grit rather than cheaper split grit, and see how that does. Hope for the best and be prepared for the worst.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 9, 2017 7:10:00 GMT -5
I like orbs too, so side #2....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 8, 2017 13:57:33 GMT -5
I've got a lot of tumbling material but most will have to be broken or trim sawed up a bit more if you want smaller pieces. Do you have any variety in particular in mind?....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 21:12:21 GMT -5
Moonbeam has shot himself in the foot with the sanctuary city stuff. Immigration says fine, if Commiefornia will not hold criminals for ICE, then ICE will simply do street and business raids which will result in a lot of collateral arrests of non criminal illegals ( although really all are illegal, therefore criminals). Final result will be many more illegals deported than there would have been if the state had simply co operated with the feds. So instead of getting rid of real serious crooks, Moonbeam has screwed folks, who though illegal, have been working and behaving themselves. Dumbass Moonbeam doesn't have the brains of a friggin gerbil!!!!!!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 20:53:41 GMT -5
Yep, mook for sure.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 18:25:14 GMT -5
Alien Gear makes a nice holster for a reasonable price. I wear them when clearing trails for hours while bending, lopping, sawing etc and they are quite comfortable even in our Texas heat.
Gorram anti gun Commiefornia is hardly a part of Merica any more. I think Trump's wall should go along the eastern Commiefornia border. Texicans wouldn't put up with any of that crap. They'd tar and feather Jerry the Fairy and run his ass out of the state.....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 18:09:55 GMT -5
Yeah man, that Luna is fantastic!!!!!....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 6:19:20 GMT -5
Awesome, a Springfield gal. I carry an XDS myself sometimes, though I often carry a high cap 40 cal XDM when I'm in the field. ( dang hogs) Very reliable pistols and I prefer a grip safely for reholstering. I put grip sleeves from Midway on my XDS's as the 45ACP was pretty uncomfortable to shoot. The 9mm was not bad but still a sleeve way improves grip and feel.
Good shooting with a sort barreled gun too. Almost all five pointers! Sounds like you're hooked. I always find it interesting how many gals in the glasses outshoot us guys. The top shot in our class was a gal shooting a 1911 45 and her whole target was one hole about two inches in diameter. Looks like you're gonna be outshootin the boys too. Think of how good you'd shoot with a longer barrel and adjustable sights....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 7, 2017 5:59:58 GMT -5
Well them folks in Colorado do smoke a lot of hooterweed. I suspect that college is pretty dang high....Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 6, 2017 18:23:02 GMT -5
Yeah difficult if your saw leaves rough cut marks. I used to have one of those Richardson Rch high speed sanders. Sanded dry and had to use a vacuum and work outdoors as that is hazardous to your health. Got rid of that machine real fast. Polshed on a bull wheel which was a big slow 12" pad rig. Trick with the sanding wet or dry is to really keep the work piece moving in all directions and use a light touch so as not to just simply leave more scratches. Cross contamination can be a real problem too...Mel
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Post by Sabre52 on Oct 6, 2017 13:54:06 GMT -5
Not like any India green moss I've ever had but green moss occur in a lot of other areas....Mel
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