Naw, been trying to get the darn cat out of the tree. She's not coming down and I sure ain't climbing up. She'll come down when she get hungrier.

edited for inappropriate language...cih



I live in the Sierra Foothills. We have lot's of wildlife ... including the rare but ocassional Mountain Lion.

I think I will be having that nap this afternoon.

Dataman -- I've been having a bit of a problem with Cedric of late. Seems his battery has developed a short memory (sounds like me as I age). Recently, his cleaning cycles have dropped down to about 15 minutes before he needs to go home for a recharge. I found this which states: "If your Roomba Red, Roomba (sage), Roomba Discovery, or Roomba Discovery SE is indicating a full charge, but it only runs for 15 minutes when you press clean, you need to reset the charging system. You can do this by removing the battery from the robot and unplugging the charger from the wall and robot. Please hold the power button down for 30 seconds. You then should charge the robot....."

I am doing this right now and will let you know how it works out.

Hmm -- I have had no problems with the side brushes. As a matter of fact, I am still on the original set and they still look pretty good.

Cute dogs! Not such a fan of cats though.

Hi Mike. Good to hear from you again. You've been busy lately I take. Hope things are going well. Breaking into a highly specialized field like you want has to be extra tough. There's a surprising amount of wildlife in towns these days. Atlanta has a pair of Perigrine Falcons that decided to call one of the town skyscrapers home. We've had coyote in an area called Buckhead. That's the "old money" section of Atlanta. You've got downtown, midtown above that and then Buckhead. CEOs and fooltball team owners like to nest there. I'm about 60-65 miles north-northwest of downtown. It still fairly rural out here but "civilization" is only about 15 minutes away and subdivisions are starting to pop up in the area. Haven't seent any bear here though we've had a couple hit and killed on the loop freeway down in the old "burbs". Supposedly, the eastern rattlers are common up here, at least according to the neighbors. They must stick to the woods though. All I've seen snake-wise was a baby copperhead sunning on the road once. Squirrel, rabbit, turtles and frogs are common as are deer (some white tail but mostly mule). There's a brood of wild turkey that come through the yard on occassion lately. There's about two dozen of them in the brood. During the warm weather, the circadia can really liven the place up. Add a few monkeys howling and you'd swear you were in the jungle from the sound of it. Kind of a bit of the best of both worlds I guess.