Many years ago, nephew Rod was stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola near the western end of Florida\u2019s Emerald Coast. Thus, this location caught my attention.
\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/FLA-Emerald-Coast-300x91.jpg\")
The town of Fort Walton Beach is along that stretch and is home to 3 Cash Moore Liquor Stores. Another resident of the Emerald Coast is the Virginia Opossum. ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Virginia-Opossum-150x150.jpg\")
Opossums are skilled climbers.
\nAwesome the Possum got into the rafters of a Cash Liquor store and came down onto a shelf holding bottles of bourbon. Oops!
\nWith a broken bottle on the floor and a thirsty Possum, and nothing better to do \u2013 Awesome got snockered. In the morning the police were called to take the tipsy marsupial into custody. She was taken to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge, sobered up, and released. <\/p>\n
Item #2: Detroit’s Silverdome<\/span><\/p>\n This is funny, except to the on-site folks that expected something different. A second day of explosions finally got the Pontiac Silverdome to collapse. Embarrassing, might be the word. Item #3: The Sense of Smell<\/span><\/p>\n Hultquists and Brittanys go back a few years. In about 1959, give or take a year, John\u2019s oldest brother Ken bought a liver&white Britt. Shortly after that, John saw his first “point.” The bird was an American Woodcock (some call it a Timberdoodle). These have a long bill, and are related to the Common Snipe. The eggs are buff-colored and mottled with brown. Very pretty. Item #4: Alcohol And Throwing Axes<\/span><\/p>\n I have several axes. We used to go to garage\/farm sales. Such is the source of my small collection. The shape of the handles and the head vary. The photo below shows double bit axes. Some of these have one bit sharpened and honed as a felling edge and the other was ground to be slightly more blunt for use on knots and other difficult grain. Often called “cruiser” axes, the single tool serves multiple purposes. When designed for throwing, the two edges are similarly shaped, as these appear to be, and the handles will be straight. He explains the activity at Axes and Ales <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n More than you want to know about axes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n And that, for this week, is the not so nasty news. . . . . from John, awaiting Nancy\u2019s draft of her week\u2019s news. Item #1: A Drunk at a Cash\u2019s Liquor store Many years ago, nephew Rod was stationed at Naval Air Station Pensacola near the western end of Florida\u2019s Emerald Coast. Thus, this location caught my attention. The town of Fort Walton Beach is … Continue reading “This Week\u2019s Not So Nasty News {TW\u2019NSNN}”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-random-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72iNf-1EC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6368,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6362\/revisions\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Superdome-falling.jpg\")
\nSTORY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\nBut I digress.
\nElephants and Silkmoths can detect certain things miles away but neither are useful when it comes time to putting the nose to use for the benefit of humans that are smell challenged.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sniffing-Britt-a.jpg\")
Our doggy friends have an ability to discriminate among smells. At Auburn University there is a Canine Performance Sciences center. (Yes, that\u2019s the place with a football team.)
\n See: Dogs & Explosives<\/strong><\/a>
\nAn Auburn trained dog has followed the path of an individual across the campus a day after the person passed, after thousands of people had crisscrossed the area.
\nThe ability of dogs to discriminate among smells and be trained to alert handlers to some situations (drugs, explosives, people — alive or dead) makes them the go-to-choice when a nose is needed.
\nWhy then does the USA mostly rely on imported dogs for these activities? There are several reasons \u2013 and we and our many friends in the Brittany world understand.
\nRead about this National Security issue here:
\n America needs more bomb-sniffing dogs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/rocknponderosa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Double-bit-axes.jpg\")
A reporter named David Hookstead writes – – –
\n“I\u2019m actually kind of an expert on this issue because I know a lot about weapons and I know a lot about beer. Generally speaking, combining the two isn\u2019t exactly a genius idea.<\/em>”<\/p>\n
\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"