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I've never even broken a bone. The sickest I've ever been was after the second covid shot.

There are an unlimited number of ways to die out there. Fire is terribly horrible way to go, and crushing is right there with it. Any long, suffering death in the hospital would be my nightmare. In fact, I really don't want to die in a hospital. I want to leave from home or the wilderness.

I am eating breakfast. My phone is 7 inches away from my hand. I can see the birdbath through the glass of the door. The birdbath is six feet from my chair. The door glass is two feet away. I see a bird that I have not logged into my birding book. There must be a pic that accompanies the entry. I see the bird drink and take a quick bath as I prepare my phone to get a pic. Probably one out ten times, I actually get the pic before the bird is gone forever. And about one out of twenty of the one out ten pics is clear enough to identify it. That is for a close up bird. To get a clear pic of a sasquatch would be a lot harder to do than my calm attempt to photograph a little bird.

I had two brushes with death on the fire dept. The chief sent us on the roof to ventilate and two cuts into the roof the roof sagged about a foot and me and another fire fighter did the tango off the roof and down the ladder. The roof went into the 9000 degree basement. Luckily the wall held where the ladder was propped up. We should not have been up there but there was a lady trapped inside. She had been smoking with oxygen. The other one was simply black ice and a crash. And flares and flashlights didn’t seem to slow people down. So when they realized the road was blocked they would lock up the brakes and skitter in and out of the ditch and one of the cars bumpers almost touched me doing 50 sideways. Dumb people. Ive had bulls throw me through fences and rode bare back in rodeo but the closest I ever came to death in the woods was we were packing in Moose creek in Idaho and my buddy’s horse was acting up which made my mare act up. She stepped off the trail and we rolled. Luckily I fell next to the dead fall with the stob, if I had landed on it? I wouldn’t be here. It took some of her weight. And I don’t know how many ribs I broke. Sleeping on the ground after that was murderous and we cut the trip short. Ive been shot at, by pot growers, but they were just trying to scare us I think. We shot back and retreated out of the area which was their goal I think. Now it’s perfectly legal. Im glad you made it Huntster! Awesome stories! Our Canadian friends have a couple of Griz attack stories too!

Both shotgun incidents were on bird hunts. The quail hunt was when I was 16. The buckshot incident was during a ptarmigan hunt by snowmobile in 2001. The guy who shot me had the buckshot in his pocket in case he got a shot at a wolf. He wasn't paying attention reloading his gun. We were 44 mikes from a road, and another 80 miles to the nearest clinic. Fortunately there was a remote lodge just a few miles away, and they had. radio-phine. I was evacuated by helicopter. It was 37 degrees below zero. The 7.62 round was sent by a sniper while I was working on the perimeter fence around the base. The round passed between my torso and upper arm and blew the tool bag up in front of me laying on the flatbed of the truck as I was working on something. I was under the truck before the burn on my arm made me realize that I'd been grazed. It was another few seconds before I realized that my rib was busted.

Hi B, hope all is well ? The 2 years of data consists of mainly audio, however, good timing, because there's high end (imo) videoing equipment coming imminently that the boys are crazy excited with, although that's not my thing and i don't know a great deal about that stuff. Yep, all me RE the analysis. I'll juggle best i can with life and work to get it done soonest but realistically i'm back in a 5 month hard stretch of work now with free time at best, next Jan, when i get a three month window that i can get my head in to it. I hope to drop anything i can do in this period publicly whenever possible though, if i can get stuff done.