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  1. Ms3r4ISU

    ***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

    The Greater Iowa Credit Union in Somerset is closed due to flooding, they're hoping to be open Monday.
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    ***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

    Forgot to check the rain gauge before I left this morning, and now it’s pouring in Ames. Guess I’ll stay here at work until it stops and record one total for last night and today.
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    ***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

    Saw that on Midwest Weather’s FB account earlier today.
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    Is this where "Don't let it bite you in the butt" originated?
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    We're trying to figure out what's up with our mail delivery or person. For the past week or so, delivery doesn't happen until mid to late afternoon. Always before, it was morning and usually between 9-10. New person or substitute or someone doing two routes and has to go back and load up between...
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    Was just thinking, I have granddaughters age 6 and 4. They’re too far away at the moment to hug.
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    ***Official 2025 Weather Thread***

    Half inch of rain this morning, inch and a half this evening in half the time. West Ames.
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    My mom was diagnosed with it some years ago. Although I think it was not determined right away.
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    Holiday week or weekend?

    "But thanks for asking/trying/playing along."
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    Looks nice, but how do square bags go through a round hole?
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    Feedback: Paying to see a merged thread?

    Most mods have no access to programming, although I'm glad you shared what your experience was. I didn't know that's what happened after a merge.
  12. Ms3r4ISU

    Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread

    And strangely, this is the first in several years that the goldfinches are flocking to our finch feeders. Had given up on them a while back and went with sunflower seeds and similar mixes. Decided to try once more and here they come. Just need to refill them more often:)
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    I'll think of this while I'm at the state 4-H conference banquet.
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    Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread

    They are cool, though. I haven't seen one in many years.
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    Bobby Sherman has died

    He was only 81! ;) Teen idol of long ago. "Julie, do ya love me?" is one song I remember, and who could forget "Here Come the Brides" show? Maybe we need a celebrity death forum these days.
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    Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread

    TIL that is called splooting. Which is not what I thought that word meant.
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    Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread

    Cecropia moth, I'd say. It's not a bird :) We loved these as kids and I remember watching one "hatch" in a glass jar on our back porch. We also tried to raise the tiny larvae from eggs a female laid, but that didn't work.
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    I remember my dad telling us to stop piddle-farting around.
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    So you're saying they're upfront about "things"?
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    Hey 19 - Random Thoughts: In the year 2525...more or less

    Randomly? I wonder.