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Skriven 2010-06-16 15:22:02 av bill swisher (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: Re: RECIPES TO DIE FOR 00616
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Glen Jamieson wrote:

> A good guess.  Was that fixed?  When I was very small my wayward eye
> was operated on, but the problem was only partly fixed.

To me it was.  She still worries about it returning, over 30 years later.  It
did cause her lots of grief since I'm not really sure she has true binocular
vision.  They went in and cut some of the muscles away to weaken them and allow
the eye to point correctly.  I suspect the degradation of depth perception is
why the FAA pulled her medical, nice to know how far above the ground you are
when landing.  It's even worse when landing on a lake, with floats, since there
are times the lake is so flat that you can't see the surface (even without
polarized glasses) and zero in on the bottom thinking it's the surface,
speaking
from experience here.

> I have just the one pair, with graduated lenses so that I can keep the
> computer screen nicely in focus at around the centre of vision.

I've had that style.  I just prefer the old bifocal because of the larger
"window" for reading books/magazines, which we do a lot of around here.

> So how do you catch them?  Gun, traps or ferrets?  Good eating.

Out of town they'd be hunted with a gun.  In town probably with a trap, live
for
relocation (feral) or adoption (domesticated).  I don't think ferrets are a
native species in Alaska.  I did see a couple of ermine running in/out of a
wood
pile last week.  The owner of the property said there were 8 of them in there,
indicating to me it was a mom/dad and the spring litter.  Hopefully that'll do
a
job on the squirrel population.

> So no chance of starving!

You make the assumption I would actually eat stuff that lives in the water.

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your own."
                -- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter
                   Preposterous Words
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