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Finally got some new pictures of Sable and Indigo today. I tried to get pictures of them both in the sun and the shade.

First up is Sable, a High Orange female. The pictures of her in the shade did not show her color well at all.

And here is Indigo, a dark reddish male. He was not cooperating at all, so his pictures didn't turn out the greatest. I would say that his color is best represented by the shade shots.

I plan on breeding Sable with Flax, and Vermillion with Indigo next season. Hopefully they will reward me with some little slimeballs!
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Aubrey Ross

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Great looking snakes you have there. I know the feeling about them not wanting to cooperate, I tried to take pictures of my CRB tonight as she just shed yesterday but she just wouldn't have it.
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Thank you,

Tim

Thanks, and yeah... I know what you mean! Its always great to get them photoed right after a shed... but only if they will let you!! lol!
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great pics hopefully in the near future we will be seeing tail lock pics and then goo pics

ps. on a personal note lots of vodka then ever clear hurts

Tail lock and goo!!! Oh I sure hope so! And by the way... too much alcohol just might burn off some brain cells..... then how are you going to show off your gorgeous male BRB!!!!
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the mroe i drink the more i wanna take out the fiesty snakes but it seems then is when i never get bit lol its kinda odd. but we have been having a summer is ending parties and things have been well not the best fo rme latley alot of bad personal things so i decided to go over board on drinking lol

Ahhh... yes, must make the best of the remaining Summer! Sorry to hear things aren't going so well for you lately. Hopefully your snakes and their babies will keep your spirits up. (No, not those spirits!)
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lol eh they help alot of the times but sometimes when things get real rough and everythign comes at you at once in a bad way it dont help but its 1:30am want some company lol every1 i know is passed out lol. wait i dont think 1/4 of a tank will get me out to mad. and back ohwell looks like it smore mindless zombie internet time

LOL, you are welcome to visit any time! But at these late hours you'll have to come to the Dane County Airport. I just got done putting 220 gallons in a Citation Jet... gotta work some of the time I guess...lol!
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
....Do you work for Wisconsin Aviation?
Jeff

>>LOL, you are welcome to visit any time! But at these late hours you'll have to come to the Dane County Airport. I just got done putting 220 gallons in a Citation Jet... gotta work some of the time I guess...lol!
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Yuppers!
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Aubrey Ross

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You got military contract fuel? What is commercial and Mil. contract price for jet fuel these days?
Jeff

>>Yuppers!
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you got a jet that your hiding from us jeff? or you using the fuel for your awesome car lol

Tim,
...This is what I used to fly.

www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/ch-47d.htm
Thanks to all the taxpayers for buying me over a million gallons of jet fuel.
Jeff

>>you got a jet that your hiding from us jeff? or you using the fuel for your awesome car lol

nice but i bet if you put wings on your car it would fly lol

Is that a Chinook? I remember you said you flew helicopters... but I didn't know it was the bigguns! Way cool! Got any neat stories of the good ol days?
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
..Yes, that is a CH47D. The PIC was taken in Honduras around the time I was there in 1989. I spent 6 years flying Hueys and Kiowas and got into Chinooks in 1979 and flew them until I retired in 1993.
Jeff

>>Is that a Chinook? I remember you said you flew helicopters... but I didn't know it was the bigguns! Way cool! Got any neat stories of the good ol days?
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Awesome!! Someday I would love to learn to fly helicopters. Training is about 3 times more expensive than plane training though.... yech! So for now I'll just enjoy them here... we had a Eurocopter come in a couple hours ago. I love marshalling copters in.... gotta be careful fueling them though or you might get a bath. Did the Chinooks ever spit while fueling them... or did you have 'people' for that?
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
....I have refueled a bunch of helicoptors. Earlier Chinooks had a seperate fuel cap for each of the six fuel tanks. When I was in Korea my second time in Special Ops C Model Chinooks we flew a mission called the fatcow with 4 500 gallon fuel tanks strapped to the floor. We could use all that fuel ourselves or set up rapid hot refueling points for other helicoptors. D Model Chinooks have closed circuit refueling systems which sometimes did not work well with commercial nozzles. The contract fuel price would fluctuate a lot but most of the time the FBOs were real happy to see us.
Jeff

>>Awesome!! Someday I would love to learn to fly helicopters. Training is about 3 times more expensive than plane training though.... yech! So for now I'll just enjoy them here... we had a Eurocopter come in a couple hours ago. I love marshalling copters in.... gotta be careful fueling them though or you might get a bath. Did the Chinooks ever spit while fueling them... or did you have 'people' for that?
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Wow, sounds pretty cool to me! I bet those FBOs were very happy to see you with the possibility of selling you a thousand or two gallons of fuel.
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
....If I had a flight of 6 or 8 Chinooks it could be a whole lot of fuel.
Jeff

>>Wow, sounds pretty cool to me! I bet those FBOs were very happy to see you with the possibility of selling you a thousand or two gallons of fuel.
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RAF CH47 working out

Great clip, simply amazing how that huge chopper can appear to be so nimble!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Cool video Jeff and I think this is the most times I've seen your name in one thread so I know what topic gets you going. Those novedives looked awesome for that big ole' thing, thanks for sharing and throwing a good whirybird clip in on a thread is always a good idea
Bob

WAY COOL!!! Thanks for the awesome video.... I didn't know that Chinooks could be so agile! Did you do some of those maneuvers in your free time?
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
...I never got a Chinook completely inverted. The rest of that stuff is pretty simple to do. During typical Chinook flights the flight engineer and crew chief are walking around the back of the aircraft wearing monkey harnesses. You have to get them into seats and strapped in tight before doing extreme maneuvers.
Jeff

>>WAY COOL!!! Thanks for the awesome video.... I didn't know that Chinooks could be so agile! Did you do some of those maneuvers in your free time?
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Actually I have no idea, our front desk takes care of that sort of stuff. I think, though, that the airlines buy their own fuel and we just store it for them and fuel their planes with it. Not sure how much they are paying. Sorry I didn't have the answer for ya! The only price I know of is what we charge for general aviation: Jet-A is $4.17/gallon right now (with prist), $4.14 without prist. That, of course, changes every day... just like good little gas prices should, lol.
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Aubrey Ross

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lol do i get to fly one of the planes lol that would be scary of course i wouldnt even get it off the ground just sitting in one i would puke prolly well right now i would boose still in the system lol. man 220 gallons i would hate to see that bill lol

You only get to fly if I'm in the pilot seat, and when I'm off the clock..lol.... but I wouldn't want to take you right now... eeeewww... would have to saran wrap everything in the plane as a precaution. lol!

Yeah... the bill is just under $1,000... wish I had that kind of money to throw at gas!
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Aubrey Ross

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lol dave does lol mr. 15k calico lol

Not after that he doesn't!!
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Aubrey Ross

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he will make up for it in no time lol after this coming season he will be back to good ol dave money lol

Seriously... Dave has got it made! He'll be quitting his day job in the next few years for sure....lol!
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Aubrey Ross

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One can only hope......

And wassup, talkin bout me when you thought I wasn't here....
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Oh shoot, he found out! Quick! Run and hide!!
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Aubrey Ross

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LOL, there's no place I can't find you muhahahahahaha
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I never said I paid that much.....
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Well, I figured you might've gotten a discount for not taking the two females, and buying the Anerys..... but you still probably unloaded a big figure huh??
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Aubrey Ross

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Definitely spent way more than I saved!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

well of course you didnt pay that much your super dave lol. plus gettingt he anery etc. but thats a solid number that we all know it was goin for and no matter how much he dropped it for you it was still one hefty penny lol.

I am in love with Indigo. Such a stud!
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Danielle

Herps:
2.1 BRBs
1.0 Black Milksnake
1.0 Amel Motley Corn
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Other critters:
1.0 Great Dane
1.0 Siamese
1 Senegal Parrot
1 Blue Fronted Amazon

Thanks Danielle... I hope he can prove his studliness when he meets up with Vermillion!
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Aubrey Ross

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Really nice set of pics, isn't it funny how one will look better in the shade while the other was better in the sun. Just goes to show how hard it is to capture the real color in these gems.

Thanks for sharing!!!!
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Thank you Dave! Yeah go figure..... same locations, same light, same camera.... only different snake. You'd think their best color would show in the same conditions! LOL
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
..Great PICs. The best part about keeping these snakes is the amount of natural variation between normal specimens.
Jeff

>>Finally got some new pictures of Sable and Indigo today. I tried to get pictures of them both in the sun and the shade.
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>>I plan on breeding Sable with Flax, and Vermillion with Indigo next season. Hopefully they will reward me with some little slimeballs!
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Thanks Jeff... yes, that is definetely one of the things I love about BRBs. They all can be so different from each other without even being a morph.
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Aubrey Ross

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Aubrey,
....Now I know why the Variable Kings are your other favorite snakes. Up late tonight?
Jeff

>>Thanks Jeff... yes, that is definetely one of the things I love about BRBs. They all can be so different from each other without even being a morph.
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You hit it right on the head, Jeff. There is SOOO much variety in the Thayeri realm, even in the same clutch of eggs. It's just too much fun!

What I find very interesting is that there is no "pure blood" Thayeri that has a genetic morph. It seems like almost all snakes nowadays at least has an albino morph, but not these guys! I think some people claim to have albino Thayeri, but from everything I have heard, those specimens have Ruthveni blood in them.

Oh sheesh... now here I go blabbing on about Thayeri... shutting up!
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