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Don't know what it is. Direct eye contact can have risks when an animal is cycling through the 5 F's: Friend Foe Fight you Feed on you F, it will hurt Stay safe

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Over the years I remember storms or storm series (like the past couple of weeks) when we got dumped on, but most of those were spring storms. It's kinda' early for this kind of volume. If we get lots more or fail to get a mid-winter chinook (thaw), it will become a problem. I'm already running out of room to push all this stuff. The labor shortage and supply line problems are affecting it, too. I heard that 1/3 of Anchorage's snow fleet is down waiting on parts, and 1/3 of their equipment operator positions remain unfilled. Our neighborhood would have been snowed in had the few of us with pickup plows hadn't plowed single lane paths through. We also had to plow out our neighbors cause the commercial plowers are overwhelmed. I was hoping to spend time ice fishing this winter after my inside projects get caught up, but now that means using the pickup to plow out a spot to fish. That's scary. I can't afford to sink another pickup and plow.........

Look into dogman sightings. Wether or not you believe that something like this can exist, the videos of stories and articles that are written about are them are entertaining and the people who claim to have encountered them usually have the same feelings from the encounter as you described.

My Thoughts: 1. You need to distinguish between more current images and the PGF, so you can try to define the color variability in fake furs. in 1967 fake fur was pathetically unrealistic in general. I didn't see any really impressive natural-looking furs until around 1976, when Rick baker showed me a color swatch of premium fake furs (for fake fur coats) from Europe, but you had to buy the fur a bolt at a time, minimum, which was enough for 10 full suits, so out of the price range for your average creature maker or hoaxer. Fake fur rose to very realistic levels in the mid 1980's with National hair technology (now called National Fibre technology) custom weaving fake hair strands into a spandex base. I has them do so very complex color blends, and they succeeded splendidly. By the mid 70's, they also had course guard hairs and base fur combined for a more natural look. 2. Where experimentation might be worthy is testing real and fake furs under daylight and open shade outdoors, to see how each photographs. One example of a test would be to take a taxidermy full body figure (using the animal's real pelt) and then take an identical manniken and dress it with fake fur to match the real animal as best one can, and photograph both side by side under same lighting. That might reveal differences that can be quantified. Something like the attached image, the two upper right photos of a real chimpanzee and a fake one, side by side. Bill

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