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    America’s Toughest, Ugliest Warplane Is Going Back Into Battle

    Nothing ugly about that machine. I think they have class.
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    No fan of the Washington Post either but this is a good article. I do get tired of people telling me when I tell them in Saudi Arabia it was hitting 122 every day I was there from Mid April on that "Oh but it was a dry heat,it probably didn't feel as hot as it does here at 90 because of the...
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    730 this morning my truck said -4 degrees.
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    I understand that you are long dead before you actually freeze,by the time your core temp gets down to 60 or so your dead,brain dead before that.Frostbite is actually freezing.Frostbite usually doesn't kill you but the accompanying gangrene will. Freezing to death I believe is a commonly used...
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    Also found the suicide note person they were looking for in Maurice River Bluffs for a whole week last month.He was frozen and in the river,they believe he drowned.I guess he meant what he wrote in the note.They couldn't find Him,How do you drown yourself if you can swim? weights?
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    Found a homeless person frozen to death in Vineland I believe it was yesterday.
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    I used to love winter.After working in ungodly heat for the last eight years it seems to have killed my cold tolerance.Also my arthritic left ankle and left hand don't seem to care for the cold at all.The last couple days my limp which normally goes away after a few minutes on my feet just won't...
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    I made it home and only had to pass two cars,both doing about ten mph.I did 35 to 40 with four wheel.got behind a snow plow for a few miles which was nice but once he pulled over it was on! Past him roads hadn't been touched. Not too slick but snow piling up under the front wheels would throw me...
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    2017-18 Winter weather

    about a half inch here now.I have to drive to work at midnight in this! Oh Joy! then home in the morning! Bigger Joy!
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    Pine Barren Flora

    1st pic upper Batsto above Hampton gate and next pic fertile fronds Curly grass
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    Pine Barren Flora

    sixth one down is right here.http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.67148135766897&lng=-74.53620571296693&z=17&type=nj2015&gpx= this is my dog beach.The next pic is same spot in creek looking downstream
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    Pine Barren Flora

    sixth down Amanita muscaria.You can trip on this
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    Pine Barren Flora

    Top one cardinal Flower.One above Bottom is a front foot coon track and below that Sweet pepperbush in flower
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    Where is this?

    I knew I had seen it before but couldn't place it for anything.Been too long since i canoed the Wading.
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    Pine Barren Flora

    Third one from bottom i would guess is a cecropia Moth.
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    Pine Barren Flora

    Third picture down looks like a Robust Conehead.They are loud enough to give you a headache at close range.I found this out while tracking one down Bill was recording and when i stuck my head in the grass next to it instant headache.You can hear them as you drive by fields at high speed.
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    Bogs above Constable Bridge

    I remember the canal had quite a current in it.
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    Bogs above Constable Bridge

    I am going on ten year old memory,maybe more but I think the south side of that reservoir is easily negotiable,you just have to wade the creek at the bottom,the northern side turns into a morass as you are at the bottom of the Great swamp there.From the reservoir downstream Sleeper Creek is a...
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    Bogs above Constable Bridge

    I have driven the Rockwood road all the way through twice.Both times was with a four wheel drive suzuki vtara.It was mid summer and about as dry as it gets.The ponds were still there but you could skim around the sides of some of them.Where I could see tracks going in and out i followed the...
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    Bogs above Constable Bridge

    Last time i was at that resevoir it was fairly easy to get to though a bit wet.It wasn't a far walk but I came in from Pleasant Mills and drove most of the way to here http://maps.njpinebarrens.com/#lat=39.663338320390935&lng=-74.67639941375734&z=16&type=nj2015&gpx= but the bridge has been out...
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