There you did it... I gotta drag out the chupacabra story... I should save this on the hard disk so I don't have to type it every time, but it sometimes it gets better....
I was running a crew cutting pines for firewood at about 7K ft in northern New Mexico mountains, and we started early. Frijoles y kava was way before sunup. By military tactical twilight and before sunrise, we were on the mountain, cutting down trees, bucking logs, singing Monty Python songs...
A mist filled the hollow that we were working in, as it was early fall.
The elks were.... sexually frustrated....
Did I mention that my crew didn't speak a word of english?
We took a break to sharpen blades, gas up, etc... and in the distance... an elk, a lonely, horny elk, bugled...
I cocked my head to one side as if to listen better, nodded my head sagely, and said "Chupacabra".
We were scheduled to be off the mountain by 1500. We had all the wood cut and loaded by 1100.
Those guys never worked for me again.
/johnny
Those guys never worked for me again.
I don’t often laugh....You and A&W Root Beer may owe me a replaacement laaptoup couympyutr,,,[`
That story fits classic adventure fiction from the 30’s! (as a starting lead)
That reminds me of an interesting story about California Condors, who after a successful breeding program were released in the mountains of central California. Soon they were also in northwestern Arizona, and some made it down to Baja, Mexico. Some of the Condors have been sighted over 200 miles away in Colorado and Wyoming, though are believed to have returned home.
However, though not really under observation by the Condor program, northern Mexico has some mountains as well, and, after a few years, in Texas there were several, unconfirmed, of course, reports of “Pterodactyls”.
Adults have a 3m (9.8ft) wingspan.