Naw, just trying to figure out which one was the most tender and juicy... Beevo K7BVO -----Original Message----- From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stan Gorodenski Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 11:01 AM To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Report: Friday night at the Antennas site... I don't remember who it was, Gerry Rattly?, who said that years ago at a California star party there was a mountain lion off to the side laying down looking at everyone. No one else knew it was there. Could it have been devising a strategy on getting the most observers it could in one frontal assault? Stan On 8/7/2011 9:50 AM, pulind@xxxxx wrote: > I didn’t think you guys were crazy at all. I did one-nighters with my 12.5 > inch a few miles north of there at Hovatter Norte several times in the dead > of summer. The trick is to get out of there before 9:30 am the next morning. > It was actually very pleasant. I would usually try to assess whether the > western boundary of the monsoon air mass was somewhere between here and there > before going out. I was always concerned about stepping on a lime-green > Crotalus Scutulatus because they are out at night in the summer and that is > one venomous critter. Fortunately, like all snakes, they head for the hills > if they sense you stomping their way. It is nevertheless wise to shine a > bright red light on where you are going to step because they could be > cornered. They do rattle like a machine gun if frightened, so you will get a > warning that invokes an instantaneous primordial reaction (levitating, > shrieking, and backstepping mightily all in one action). I did fieldwork out > in tha t > > -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list. -- See message header for info on list archives or unsubscribing, and please send personal replies to the author, not the list.