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I've seen those up close and personal out there. Very frustrating when the "firenado" picks up burning tumbleweeds and distributes them into unburned areas.

I wonder which idiots were firing tracer ammunition this time of year. Used to be it wasn't even issued once the cheat grass was dry enough to burn. (Spent 30 years in the NG here, very familiar with range fires in the OTA.) Visiting units perhaps, locals should know better.

My car was covered with soot and ash this morning. I wondered where the fire was.

Back in the 90s one dropped its load at the west end of the Boise airport. It hit the canal and made a huge orange mess. A second earlier and that load would have hit the road. I bet it could easily take out a windshield.

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

A unit I was in did that after the injury rate got quite high. We were beating the crap out of each other on the playing fields. Even volleyball became a blood sport.

Just racoons and bats AFAIK. The rebuilt house just sold for 1.2 million. Getting pricey up here.

I used to see bats all the time around here, not so much these days. The attic of the old "abandoned" house across the street used to be where they "hung out". Haven't seen any since they tore down and rebuilt that house.

I saw them used with good effect on a range fire S of Boise a number of years back - also saw the aftermath of one of the tankers dropping his load just after takeoff and the entire orangey mess ended up around and in the canal at the end of the Boise Air Terminal runway west side.

I used to rent that little house at that address back in the 80s. Dirt cheap too, $180 a month.

I used to work out in the desert south of Boise. Encountering irresponsible shooters was a regular event out there. At one point a group was shooting straight down the road. When confronted they generally become indignant and start on about how it's BLM land and they have a right, blah blah blah

Multiple firefighters shot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, while responding to a brush fire, CNN affiliate reports | CNN Multiple firefighters have been shot while responding to a brush fire in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, according to the Kootenai County Sheriff’s office, CNN affiliate KHQ reported.

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The "Check Engine" light on my 2001 Toyota Tacoma came on for the 1st time ever a few days ago. Turned out to be an oxygen sensor. You really can't beat those old Toyotas for reliability. One repair in 24 years, other than the usual fluid changes and new tires, that's all I've ever put into it.

It's been years since they opened up the old one. Pretty neat when they do, sirens go off before the plume begins to shoot upwards into the sky.

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Last time I saw the old "rooster tail" was quite a few years back when they had an anniversary of some kind for the dam. Like you say, the new one is alright, but no way does it compare to the old one.

So the suspicious mole I had carved off my face by the VA turned out to be cancer. The mildest type of skin cancer, least likely to spread, so I've got that going for me.

Sunscreen - I should have used it all those years of working in the desert.

ACHD just hates Boise period.

I cannot imagine anyone driving one who isn't a D-bag. Clueless at best, but still a D-bag.

After 24 years of flawless performance, my 2001 Toyota Tacoma has a check engine light on. Hopefully it's nothing major. Kinda attached to the old thing.

Had one. A 12 ton chunk of firewood peeled off of it onto the neighbors roof. Cost me 1500 to get rid of the rest of it. Not a fan - nor was the neighbor.

I remember well the sinking feeling of seeing team buses in the parking lot of the hotel. A noisy night guaranteed.

I finally managed to log on, only to be dumped off a minute later. Not sure what is going on, but with current events being what they are, I can't help but suspect tampering by musk-o-vites.

Looks like Elon and his minions have worked their evil on the Veterans Administration website. I can't log in to check on my prescription status, order refills, make appointments, or anything else.

Just back from the VA hospital where I had a suspicious mole carved off my face. Lucky for me there were still people there. I wasn't so sure there would be, what with current events and all.

I love the VA hospital - it's one of the only places I can go where I'm part of the "young" crowd.

I've been getting those tests. Kinda gives it away as a scam w hen they get sent to people who are nowhere near PA.

Locally they're called "Whistlepigs" for the alarm calls they make. There are also Townsends ground squirrels, not sure how you tell them apart. They all "whistle", AFAIK.

I get irrationally angry at the very sight or sound of him. I've never loathed anyone to this degree.

Same. The orange menace cannot stand to be upstaged by anything. He always has to be the center of attention.

The problem is who gets to define what a hate group is. The republicans will call any organized resistance a hate group.