Litiquette VII

[rubydlite]

Happy Friday!

I was thinking about neighborhood gardens and for them to thrive, everyone needs to do their part. In theory of course.
Which brings me to today’s question.

If we had to use the bartering system instead of money, what would you contribute to make your community stronger?

I'd be the community sewer....only you lot would always be naked so I'm not sure what I'd sew...clothes for seducing and ripping? lol

 

[Trekka]

Don't tell the others. I might get to see tits.

Trekka at 8 PM cooking dinner: oh what a nice thought. blade's going to keep us safe from premature wrinkling and age spots and dangerous sun damage.

Trekka at midnight: fuck me, he meant tits.

I'd be the community sewer....only you lot would always be naked so I'm not sure what I'd sew...clothes for seducing and ripping? lol

i was hoping you'd show up! phew.
absolutely not. this is gonna be a fashionable apocalypse.
i'll trade you a steady supply of keylime pie and mango chutney for a medicine woman get-up and a head wench outfit. i plan to multitask.

 

[blade_rocknut]

Trekka at 8 PM cooking dinner: oh what a nice thought. blade's going to keep us safe from premature wrinkling and age spots and dangerous sun damage.

Trekka at midnight: fuck me, he meant tits.



i was hoping you'd show up! phew.
absolutely not. this is gonna be a fashionable apocalypse.
i'll trade you a steady supply of keylime pie and mango chutney for a medicine woman get-up and a head wench outfit. i plan to multitask.

I always mean tits!

 

[Trekka]

My apocalypse medicine woman license, dontcha know, requires at least 150 CEs a year of communing with nature. While impeccably clothed, threads provided by RubyD.

Sooo....

When was the last time you saw an unexpected, or really cool, animal in the wild? Ya ever think, "Hey! This panda is trying to tell me something!" or "Yo lynx, how's your day goin'?"

No? Just me?

Do wild animals spook you, then? Do you notice them, welcome them, run from them, learn from them? Seek them out?

Got a bucket list wild animal?

Let's get primal.

 

[Willingtoshare]

Well I’m good at making and building stuff if that’s any help...

I got all the tools and a tool belt to keep them all at hand, ready to be called into action.

 

[hotwords229_A]

I'd be the community sewer....only you lot would always be naked so I'm not sure what I'd sew...clothes for seducing and ripping? lol

When I first read this I thought it meant "sewer" as in, an underground conduit for removing sewage and I thought, "Geez, she's really down on herself!"

So glad I kept reading.

 

[blade_rocknut]

When I first read this I thought it meant "sewer" as in, an underground conduit for removing sewage and I thought, "Geez, she's really down on herself!"

So glad I kept reading.

Indeed. Occupational bias on my part.

 

[Endless_Night]

Eh, I take the wild animals as they come.

Animal speak? Of course.

Possibly my strangest experience was with a squirrel. Life had tossed a curve ball, and I was struggling to make a decision. While driving to work down a tree-lined street during the period of mental chaos there came a loud and terrifying *thunk* on the hood of the car.

Brakes. Slammed.

Me:
Squirrel:

We sat there for a few seconds, looking at each other, stunned. He took off.

Decision made.


Huh. No animal bucket list, but the coolest thing I’ve seen to date was on a work related boat trip down the Amazon. Pink dolphins, otherwise known as Amazon River Dolphins. They really are pink!

 

[Endless_Night]

*dashes back in*

No answer for yesterday's question. I don't really think of myself as being exceptionally skilled in any particular area.

I'll just have to sit around and be a drain on resources.

*dashes back out*

 

[hotwords229_A]

A few years ago I saw an animal walk out of the woods and down my driveway. I stared at it for about 25-30 seconds, in broad daylight, about twenty feet away. It was walking slowly and I had absolutely no idea what it was.

It had the front legs of a miniature bear, a feline-like face, and the ass of a raccoon.

It was a very bizarre moment to see something totally real and completely new.

Later on, I found out it was a Fischer Cat. A relatively nasty, aggressive animal that lives in my area that I have never heard of before and didn’t know existed.

It wasn’t aggressive toward me and I had no real reaction to it other than to say out loud “what the hell is that?” to no one.

But I did take a moment to think that this is exactly how Chupacabras and Bigfeet sightings occur. I could easily have told people that I saw the Chupacabra of NY. Instead, I went with the story about how I was abducted by aliens, stripped, stroked and probed.

 

[Orchidea73]

I saw a wolf, time ago. I was with my father. The wolf was alone. We just freezed. I was scared and my heart was racing. He/she (?) stopped and looked at us. Might have been 2-3 seconds and he left. It felt like long minutes to me and I felt like those eyes were spearing right through my heart and brain.

Funny thing, wolf is my "spirit animal" and the wild animal I love the most. I also love eagles.

 

[SassySheDevil]

My apocalypse medicine woman license, dontcha know, requires at least 150 CEs a year of communing with nature. While impeccably clothed, threads provided by RubyD.

Sooo....

When was the last time you saw an unexpected, or really cool, animal in the wild? Ya ever think, "Hey! This panda is trying to tell me something!" or "Yo lynx, how's your day goin'?"

No? Just me?

Do wild animals spook you, then? Do you notice them, welcome them, run from them, learn from them? Seek them out?

Got a bucket list wild animal?

Let's get primal.

In the wild. A bear. We have lots of bear around my area. Not often do they come out across the roads though. But you do see them from time to time. We have seen Cougars, Coyotes, Deer, rabbits, all kinds of little critters. I know I'm missing some.

Now in a captured setting. My favorite place is a Cat Sanctuary that has tons of different wild animals. I've been a couple times now. Got to feed a bear and a Tiger.

I have a picture of me as a young teen petting the Tiger at our local fair.

Getting up close with both the Tiger and the Bear were both amazing. You temp forget they are wild beasts that can rip you apart and just want to cuddle with them.

I'd still like to get up close with an Elephant though.

 

[Lord Pmann]

My apocalypse medicine woman license, dontcha know, requires at least 150 CEs a year of communing with nature. While impeccably clothed, threads provided by RubyD.

Sooo....

When was the last time you saw an unexpected, or really cool, animal in the wild? Ya ever think, "Hey! This panda is trying to tell me something!" or "Yo lynx, how's your day goin'?"

No? Just me?

Do wild animals spook you, then? Do you notice them, welcome them, run from them, learn from them? Seek them out?

Got a bucket list wild animal?

Let's get primal.

The other day I saw this creature that I had never seen before. I spent hours trying to find it. Turns out it was a giant otter. I’ve seen plenty of otters before. But never, ever have I seen one this size. It never crossed my mind it could’ve been in otter. They way they move is all slinky and weird. It’s like a rat snake cat hybrid.

My bucket list animal is a big panther. I’ve seen bobcats. But never a panther.

 

[Portobelllobelle]

Love any encounter with critters big and small.

It’s urban here so we don’t get too much out of the ordinary wild life, but the Most recent awesome animal I’ve seen was last time I was down visiting friends in FL, out in the canals some manatee were passing through, I would have sat there and watched them all day, so beautiful. When I’m down that way I still will always get excited for a gator too.

My favorite though was probably up in Northern Maine, waaaaay past Acadia, was able to see several moose, a young female came relatively close (still a safe distance) for some great pictures, saw some bulls from further away, you could still just feel how massive they are though.

Bucket list animal? There’s so many but maybe an anteater, they are so unique, and if I’ve made that trip there are so many others you’d get to potentially see.

 

[SMNaughtywife]

I brake for squirrels.
There’s a neighborhood fox that visits at least once a week around my house.
Last summer in Canada I saw more bears than deer in the mountains.
Seeing kangaroos in the Blue Mountains outside of Sydney was pretty amazing.
My latest conversations was scolding a bunny a few weeks ago for nibbling on my flowers. Felt bad and gave him some Romain lettuce instead.

I’d love a panda bear as a pet and name her Margret. And maybe a hedgehog named Herman. They’d be BFF.

 

[Trekka]

The other day I saw this creature that I had never seen before. I spent hours trying to find it. Turns out it was a giant otter. I’ve seen plenty of otters before. But never, ever have I seen one this size. It never crossed my mind it could’ve been in otter. They way they move is all slinky and weird. It’s like a rat snake cat hybrid.

My bucket list animal is a big panther. I’ve seen bobcats. But never a panther.

Dude, those giant otters are something else. They're in the canals down here -- they've made quite a come back. I saw a group of them once when I was a kid swimming near the park in my neighborhood and it looked like a pack of swimming sea monster puppies!

My most recent wild animal sighting of note was a 17 ft (give or take) bull shark that came in off the ledge as we were spearfishing. Bloody 25 lb grouper in one hand. Other hand making the sign for SHARK! at my dive buddy.

Saw a couple sea turtles on that trip too. Those are cool to watch.

I have *so many* bucket list animals but the ones that come to mind are all ocean critters at the moment -- I can't go on much longer without seeing an octopus. And I'm dying to see the annual hammerhead migration in the Bahamas. And manta rays. And a whale shark. And a seahorse. And don't even get me started on giant squid!

 

[rubydlite]

Trekka at 8 PM cooking dinner: oh what a nice thought. blade's going to keep us safe from premature wrinkling and age spots and dangerous sun damage.

Trekka at midnight: fuck me, he meant tits.



i was hoping you'd show up! phew.
absolutely not. this is gonna be a fashionable apocalypse.
i'll trade you a steady supply of keylime pie and mango chutney for a medicine woman get-up and a head wench outfit. i plan to multitask.

I show up when my boobs need attention lol or my favourite group of people are in one space! I'd be so down for the medicine woman and wench outfit. And mango chutney!!!!!

My apocalypse medicine woman license, dontcha know, requires at least 150 CEs a year of communing with nature. While impeccably clothed, threads provided by RubyD.

Sooo....

When was the last time you saw an unexpected, or really cool, animal in the wild? Ya ever think, "Hey! This panda is trying to tell me something!" or "Yo lynx, how's your day goin'?"

No? Just me?

Do wild animals spook you, then? Do you notice them, welcome them, run from them, learn from them? Seek them out?

Got a bucket list wild animal?

Let's get primal.

They're not so crazy wild but the deer come in my yard...ate the nose off my kid's snowman. Blue herons still make me feel magical....and on my bucket list....if I don't get to snuggle an elephant baby before I die, I'm just not dieing.

When I first read this I thought it meant "sewer" as in, an underground conduit for removing sewage and I thought, "Geez, she's really down on herself!"

So glad I kept reading.

Hazard of the word. I'm the opposite...headline reads....man dies in a sewer...and I'm like....how does a sewer kill a man....with a seam ripper?

Indeed. Occupational bias on my part.

You guysssss lol

 

[aussiegeekygal]

I feel you on the "hey wild animal, what's on your mind?" vibe. Normally it's just neighborhood cats, but once it was a tiny bear cub. As soon as I saw mama I backed away through, because you know, mama bears be fierce!

I've been lucky to see some awesome animals over the years. I laugh when people are in awe of kangaroos. I used to shoot them Not my proudest revelation but I did make sure the eat them. Blade, they're like vension. I also laugh every time someone has a cockatoo as a pet. Those fuckers are feral. My neighbor had to replace his roof because of cockatoos.

One of these days I'll get to see African plains. I don't have a bucket list per sey, but I'll be thrilled to see whatever I see.

 

[SMNaughtywife]

I feel you on the "hey wild animal, what's on your mind?" vibe. Normally it's just neighborhood cats, but once it was a tiny bear cub. As soon as I saw mama I backed away through, because you know, mama bears be fierce!

I've been lucky to see some awesome animals over the years. I laugh when people are in awe of kangaroos. I used to shoot them Not my proudest revelation but I did make sure the eat them. Blade, they're like vension. I also laugh every time someone has a cockatoo as a pet. Those fuckers are feral. My neighbor had to replace his roof because of cockatoos.

One of these days I'll get to see African plains. I don't have a bucket list per sey, but I'll be thrilled to see whatever I see.

Your shoot kangaroos!!?!
Kangaroo soup.
But.... but....
Please not koala too!
I could see them being like deer, maaaaaybe.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

Your shoot kangaroos!!?!
Kangaroo soup.
But.... but....
Please not koala too!
I could see them being like deer, maaaaaybe.

Kangaroos and deer have very similar faces.

Koalas aren't bears. They're vicious and smell like feral cats who mark their territory and then sleep in it. But I'd never shoot a koala. They're not really pests.

 

[hotwords229_A]

https://pics.me.me/straya-23710798.png

To be fair to Aussie I checked the records and that kangaroo was a dick.

 

[aussiegeekygal]

https://pics.me.me/straya-23710798.png

To be fair to Aussie I checked the records and that kangaroo was a dick.

Most kangaroos are dicks. But the day one beat up my sister, I kinda started to respect them just a little.

 

[Orchidea73]

I visited South Africa when I was little and I remember monkeys riding on our car and being on top of the hut that we stayed in. They terrified me. They weren’t doing anything too aggressive, but to this day, monkeys creep me out.

They can be vicious.

 

[Portobelllobelle]

Dude, those giant otters are something else. They're in the canals down here -- they've made quite a come back. I saw a group of them once when I was a kid swimming near the park in my neighborhood and it looked like a pack of swimming sea monster puppies!

My most recent wild animal sighting of note was a 17 ft (give or take) bull shark that came in off the ledge as we were spearfishing. Bloody 25 lb grouper in one hand. Other hand making the sign for SHARK! at my dive buddy.

Saw a couple sea turtles on that trip too. Those are cool to watch.

I have *so many* bucket list animals but the ones that come to mind are all ocean critters at the moment -- I can't go on much longer without seeing an octopus. And I'm dying to see the annual hammerhead migration in the Bahamas. And manta rays. And a whale shark. And a seahorse. And don't even get me started on giant squid!

This post speaks to me.

Was the bull shark interested in you? As you had the grouper or let you be?

Can relate on the sea creatures, I’ve only seen a small octopus in person, was crawling over rocks back to deeper water while the tide was out in a bay in Cali, would love to see a big pacific octopus in the wild though, they are so incredible! Seeing the hammerhead migration would be jaw dropping. I’ve only Seen whales once, some grays were in a cove in the pac NW, watched them for hours. After that ive always wanted to see more whales.

 

[tnman03]

Community bartering and wild animal encounters. Wow, these threads always something. SMN and Trekka are forces of nature; they’ll rock any barter system if nothing else by sheer magnetism.

As for what I can bring to the barter table? I think I’d be more akin to the tinkers you read about who went around mending pots and pans, sharpening or repairing cutlery, scissors and such. I can regrind and sharpen broken bladed knives and put new handles on them, or make one from available metal. But overall, basic blacksmithing, small engine, and older vehicle engine repair. IOW, nothing practically out of the ordinary…


Now as to wild animal encounters. Pretty much everything in the SE US and out west I’ve seen antelope, buffalo, and elk. I’ve walked up on black bear and been as surprised as they were, been eyed over by a timber wolf, and seen an actual bobcat. Probably the most breathtaking wild animal sighting was having a bald eagle flying over the lower field of a property I used to own.