[SOC] Quiet...Isn't it.

[Bob Nielsen]

Yes it does.  When we lived in the hills above Tucson, Arizona, my wife
and I used to walk along the roads in the neighborhood quite a bit. 
Occasionally we would see a bobcat and steer clear of them.  However
once my wife saw a good-sized one (about 50-60 pounds) approaching and
crossed the road to pass on the other side.  The bobcat immediately
crossed the road also.  She stopped taking walks after that.

We also had rattlesnakes, coyotes and great horned owls.  There weren't 
any stray dogs or cats, however....

73, Bob N7XY

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 04:29:42PM -0600, Jan Clute wrote:
> I thought I had fallen off the list. Paul was always a tough act to follow.
> Although I don't contribute much, I always very much enjoyed his
> contributions. I'll just have to try a l ittle harder and contribute the
> gems I run across on his behalf. Walking vacations are very much a British
> institution, aren't they? You'd get run over here if you tried to walk very
> far in any given direction (also someone says they saw a mountain lion
> perusing deer near a golf course in nearby Iowa City. Gives one pause, it
> does.) 73 Jan N0AAA
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Redding" <chris.redding at g4pdj.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Second Class Operators' Club" <soc at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2004 4:01 PM
> Subject: [SOC] Quiet...Isn't it.
> 
> 
> > Brethren
> >
> > It's very quiet in SOC-land.
> >
> > Paul's sudden and untimely passing has perhaps kicked us all in the
> guts...I
> > know I felt it because (being a medical man) he was very supportive to me
> > off-group when I had my operation, and he took a lot of my fear away.
> >
> > When he died, I was away for two weeks walking holiday, and so I didn't
> find
> > out what had happened until long after the event.
> >
> > But I think it would be a great shame to let SOC die too.  Looking back
> > through the archive, I really don't think that Paul would want that...do
> > you?
> >
> > Chris, G4PDJ
> > Newbury EN
> >
> >