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Was it a furry animal print? I've actually thought about ordering "cow" fur seat covers for my car (it has light tan upholstery). The steering wheel cover is leather, but I still would consider getting the furry cow cover for it (I wonder, do they make stick shift knob covers in that material?). I think it would look great, as I have a "lightning red" Impreza!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by sundial
OK, we were only going to take a pic of it. :D:p
So, I didn't find this on a ride, but I didn't know where to post this so it's going here. This was scrounging in our yard yesterday morning. It looked very wild. It was about the size of a large lab, except it was very lean and muscular. Long white face. Ringed tail and large black paws.
Labradoodle experiment gone wrong???? Definitely not a red fox (I've had a lot of people say that). It was about twice the size of a fox and, as I mentioned earlier, it has a ringed tail.
hmmmm that definitely looks like a cat of some sort - its the wrong shape for a mt lion cub though.....
Very strange - have you contacted your local wildlife authorities? It might be an escaped exotic.
I haven't contacted anyone yet. I thought about emailing the DNR. Maybe I'll do that.
looks like a fox with ringworm (no tail hair)
poor thing!
here's a fox with a full feathered tail.
Hmmmm, could be. But it didn't have big pointy ears. They were smaller and rounder than that.
its ears certainly don't look right. Maybe the poor creature was in a fire and its eartips were damaged too?
and instead of ringworm, that's scarred tail?
That is one weird looking animal- I can't tell what it is!
Foxes are nowhere near as big as large labs. Doesn't look coyote, or cat, or even dog. :eek:
We have a whole family of poor mangy red foxes in our neighborhood lately- apparently the mother was injured and her adolescent cubs all scattered about into people's yards, including ours. Mostly they're being left alone to wander off and find homes somewhere. Today my neighbor told me she saw a 3 legged fox go up our driveway. :( It's been guessed that they don't have rabies, but are mangy. Poor things.
The MI Wildlife Conservancy said they think it is a fox with a severe case of mange. :( Poor guy.
:D On a tour along the Lewis and Clark trail a friend collected state license plates she found along the road. After 6 weeks she had 5 plates from different states.
A Coozie with a zipper.
Two weeks ago I found cans, cans, and cans. Not to mention an obscene ammt of trash. I went back the same way and we collected enough cans to fill two 13 gallon bags and I also took a yard waste trash bag and filled it as much as we could. (I took my 7 yo. son with me to help.)
It kinda worked out for me because I am using all the cans to recycle to put towards my MS ride next month.
Yesterday, I found a credit card reader on the road. :confused:
I picked it up and brought it home - definitely the heaviest thing I've carried in a jersey pocket.
The merchant was not identified on it, but there was a toll free number for a help desk. So I called. The woman was shocked that I found it and was making an effort to return it. DH said the unit probably has credit card numbers stored in it somewhere. I figured someone was pretty freaked out about not having it. She couldn't give me the name of the merchant but could connnect me directly. So she did, and I left a voice mail.
But, it was Saturday a.m. I wonder if this guy won't get this message until Monday a.m.?
Well...I can only do what I can do.
My headlight picked up something sparkly on the pavement this morning, so I pulled over and checked it out. Turns out that it's a little gem--almost certainly a cubic zirconia because the setting is sterling silver. The setting was pretty beat up, probably got run over several times. Looks like it was once an earring.
Some bling for Margot? ;)
Well...Quote:
Originally Posted by 7rider
Turns out our card reader belongs to a mobile windshield repair service. They did a repair, the guy put the card reader on a bumper or roof of the truck or some such, and drove away. Card reader fell off...and viola....I picked it up.
They were very happy to have it found....and we have a free windshield replacement if we should ever need one! :D
What does a credit card reader look like? I'm guessing it's a scanning device?
I'm thinking of you with one of those old machines that produces carbon copies stuffed in your jersey pocket:p
But I know that's not right.
The mobile card readers I've seen don't look much different from the fixed-in-place ones at store checkouts. Just a little bigger to accommodate a battery and the wireless "stuff," and maybe tending more to rectangular than square so they fit better in someone's hand.
Like most things, they're getting smaller all the time. Waiters have them in their apron pockets at a lot of restaurants, now. A windshield repair place has probably been using it for a long time and so probably has a larger one, more the size of the things you sign on when you get a UPS or FedEx parcel.
So 7rider, you did your good deed for the day! :D
Yeah, at first, I thought it was a calculator/adding machine. It was about 8" long x 5" wide by 3" thick (~20 cm x 13cm x 8 cm), with a roll of paper at the top (the plastic cover was off, but I could snap it back on), but the paper roll was smooshed. It had a slot at the bottom to stick the card in and an biggish LCD screen.
My SIL has one for running charges at crafts fairs where she sells her jewelry.
WELL,
I was riding along thinking, why dont I ever see anything interesting on my rides, for this thread?( yes , Its sad but I have no life!)
Just then, I looked over and saw a bag , laying in the greenbelt ditch, between the road and myself. So I thought, hmm that looks promising. I opened the bag and found a fresh bouquet of daffodils! So, I decided hmm, I want that so I put into backpack and decided to visit my husbands nanna in hopsital.
Well, it was a epic ride - freezing cold and gale force winds, large hill- but I made it to the hopsital, only to find she had left!
So I took the flowers home, and washed the bag. It looks like it will be good fit for my freemasonry swords( hard to carry those around, unless you have a hockey bag or) something.
I took a photo but will have to post it later,as I am so tired from ride that I havent uploaded pics.
Oh and stopped on way home, 1 km from house and fell asleep resting my head on my arms on the stem standing up!:rolleyes:
Cute guy woke me up, and said are you ok?Which was embarrassing, so I mumbled, yeah, rode farther than I have before , so he took off.
Tonight I saw 8-10 condoms (unused) spilled on the bike path. I didn't pick them up.
Pam
could be the same guy who lost the bag of daffodils "oh &^%, I dropped the flowers. Now I have no chance. Whado I need these for?" ;) :p :rolleyes:
I found a large white envelop with a person's name on it in the middle of the road. It said "George (last name) #77". It was ripped partially open, exposing a metal clip holding a bunch of papers together. I left it propped up on the side of the road against a sign. I didn't want to go opening up someone's package, but there was no way to i.d. who this person was or where he was from what was on the package. I just did a quick search on Universal White Pages for his name, but came up with no one local.
LOL ... someone's party was ruined.Quote:
Originally Posted by PamNY
A daschund. The little gal was chasing DH and I on the mountain bike trail while her owners frantically tried to catch her (off leash trail). I figured out she was going to keep following us so I scooped her up. She repaid me with kisses and gave her back to the sobbing little boys. The were probably 3-7 and of course the youngest thought she was gone for good when she ran away. She was only a puppy, maybe a leash would be a good idea? Or training?
I also found a ponytail holder. Grosses DH out that I pluck them from the dirt but I soak them in rubbing alcohol for a couple hours to kill the gross germies. :rolleyes:
I found $20 once on the W&OD Bike Path. Someone must have reached into their back pocket, pulled out a snack and the $20 fell to the ground.
The cutest find, though, was a snapping turtle the size of a dime. I saw something very small and round moving as fast as it could along the bike trail pavement. I pulled over and it was the tiniest snapping turtle ever. He/She was working so hard to cross. I had to help him/her before someone ran it over.
I found a wallet, with cash, credit cards and driver's license. I couldn't get a phone listing, so I went to her building and left a note with the doorman. Luckily the park where my hawks live was nearby and I was still there watching birds when she called.
Returning the wallet in person was fun. We were both on bikes. She's a grandmother who's planning to do a century. My kind of woman.
Pam
Yes! That's exactly what happened! Thank you :DQuote:
Originally Posted by kmehrzad
haha ... sorry Zen, money is spent and way gone on some bicycle or kayak accessory.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zen
I rode past a ladies bike today, that was just laid against a bush, just seemed an odd place for a bike to be.
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One hour later I came past it again and not sure why but I just felt uneasy about it. The bike was not in very good condition but all the cables where fine, plus tyres and there was a padlock but it was not being used.
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I now realise how deserted the place was and that if somebody had pinched it, they would have probably just left it on the ground. If the owner had left it there, they would perhaps have locked it up, although there is nowhere to really go along there.
Then my mind goes into overdrive, has some poor girl been dragged off her bike and, and goodness knows what might have happened to her. I look around at all the bushes and a short distance away there appeared to be a white sheet. :confused:
I decided to take some photos instead of touching the bike.
Had been home a short while and decided it was no good, I thought it better to phone the Police.
Very soon after that they returned my call, to tell me that the front wheel of the bike was not working and also that they had checked the area out and everything was OK.
Clock :rolleyes:
This doesn't really count as being seen "on a ride", but anyway: when I got to work one morning and parked my bike in our underground parking area, I passed this:
Yup, one of my colleagues taking his or her rock for a ride :rolleyes:
That's hilarious. I hope the rock had a lovely time.Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
Pam
On my ride last weekend, sitting on top of a guardrail piling at the top of a hill in the middle of freakin' nowhere (not a building in sight, and I could see a long way from the top of that hill), a pair of swim goggles. :confused::p
So lph, since it's a colleague, you must have found out the story behind that rock? Just ballast for training? ;)
speaking of worrisome
On a trail near our house my DH found a little kid's backpack. It was surrounded by a cell phone and little girl's clothing, including underwear. He really freaked out. He picked up the cellphone to see if there was someone he could call. As he picked it up, it rang. It was the kid's mom.
15 minutes later, a very angry mommy and contrite little girl met him to get the pack and cellphone. Mother said "WHAT WERE YOU DOING THIS FAR FROM SCHOOL?" the girl was about 9 years old.
Lord, that would've freaked me out properly too.
From the bike it seems that the rock belongs to one of the "non-cyclist" cyclists, so it could any one of about a hundred amiable nature-loving nerdy colleagues that I don't know that well...
I'll have to keep a eye on that bike.
Yipes for the backpack and kid tale. I don't know if I'd WANT to know the full story on that one.
I'll have to remember this rock, each time I lament the weight of my commuter bike vs. my road bike. My DH feels that riding a heavy commuter is a fine thing, as it makes rides on my lightweight road bike seem more like flying. If you can slog it up that hill on a heavy bike, think how fast you'll go on a light one! :D
So...no doubt, THAT'S what your co-worker is doing. Training. Yeah. That's it. Training...
I’ve a wildlife salvage (road kill) permit, which I never used. There are always a few road killed opossums around here. There was one right on a sharp corner along the way to my office. Many of my colleagues ran over it earlier. They asked me to remove it, so they won’t have to drive over it again. I took a look at it and rode off.Quote:
Originally Posted by SadieKate