<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Ron,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good stuff.  Keeping one's eyes open when out in the middle of "nowhere" pays unexpected dividends.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>David, I've seen all of these things in our area--except for a beaver a= nd an armadillo!  Despite the urban sprawl that surrounds us, nature manag= es to survive!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Did I say piano?  Gotta stay on topic, here!  When I first re= ad this subject line on the original post, I thought it was going to be a "cockroaches in the piano" story.  Well, way back in '81 there was this= rental piano that came back to the store as a cockroach aircraft carrier...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 12/29/2005 8:19:24 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, ilvey@sbcglobal.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>So where do you live, Ron?   <BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, California<BR><BR><BR><BR>----- Original message ----------------------------------------<BR>From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman@cox.net><BR>To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Received: 12/29/2005 8:15:13 PM<BR>Subject: R= e: wildlife plus<BR><BR><BR><BR>>> Good luck catching one...they are veritable Einsteins compared with the <BR>>> ones we eat at holidays.  And they can actually fly! <BR>>>  <BR>>>= Weird lookin' critters, kinda like quail on steroids.<BR>>>  <BR>>> Dave Stahl<BR><BR><BR>>I stopped to eat a sandwich for lun= ch out in the country one day, <BR>>between tunings. I was in a relatively= cool low shady spot by a <BR>>creek beside the road, munching away, whe= n I saw movement in the <BR>>brush beside the road. About a dozen turkeys cautiously appeared one <BR>>by one from seemingly nowhere, ambled leisurely across the road just <BR>>in front of me, and evaporated into= the cover on the other side of <BR>>the road. I was struck by how right and= natural they looked in that <BR>>setting, and how much they obviously belonged there. It was great!<BR><BR>>At various times, I've stopped fo= r deer, bobcats, coyotes, skunks, a <BR>>beaver, an armadillo, squirrels,= bunnies, and steered around or <BR>>helped across various snakes and turtles. Even saved a bird tangled <BR>>in monofiliment on a fence once.<BR><BR>>Another time, after a big wind storm the night before, I found a <BR>>newly dead great horned owl at the roadside, with a $1, an= d a $5 <BR>>bill lying next to it. One can only wonder.<BR><BR>>So I won= 't ever get rich, especially at $6 a pop, but it would sure <BR>>be hard t= o take a real job at this point.<BR>>Ron N</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Arial size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"= >Dave Stahl<BR><BR>Dave Stahl Piano Service<BR>650-224-3560<U><BR><A href="http://www.dstahlpiano.net/">http://dstahlpiano.net/</A></U></FONT><= /DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>