Ethan Builds With Grandpa

dockattner · Tuesday at 7:11 PM

Dean62 said:
We have a few squirrels, rabbits, ducks, raccoons, etc. I am sure you have a lot of wildlife on your land Paul! Lots of distractions!
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Ethan is here right now. He thinks a duck in a tree is the funniest thing he has ever seen ROTF

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RogerD said:
We are calling this little Canadian guy ETHAN in your honour:

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He loves this! He says this guy is 'so cute'!

Dean62 · Wednesday at 8:52 AM

dockattner said:
Ethan is here right now. He thinks a duck in a tree is the funniest thing he has ever seen .

LOL...They are called wood ducks. They usually make a nest in tree cavities. We have a lake across the street from us, so they visit our trees often!

GrantTyler · 2026-02-20T04:56:50-0600

Hello Ethan. I’m a little late responding here but I thought you may want to see some of the animals we get on our golf estate in Cape Town where I live:
Springbok:

Cobra

Mongoose

Tortoise

Water/reed buck

And a Caracal.

You have to be a little careful if you see a caracal or cobra but they do stay away from us……mostly

Cheers Grant

Dean62 · 2026-02-20T06:34:06-0600

GrantTyler said:
Hello Ethan. I’m a little late responding here but I thought you may want to see some of the animals we get on our golf estate in Cape Town where I live:
Springbok:
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Cobra
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Mongoose
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Tortoise
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Water/reed buck
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And a Caracal.
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You have to be a little careful if you see a caracal or cobra but they do stay away from us……mostly

Cheers Grant

Where are the squirrels? Oh yeah…they got eaten by the other animals! ROTF

dockattner · 2026-02-20T08:56:02-0600

GrantTyler said:
Hello Ethan. I’m a little late responding here but I thought you may want to see some of the animals we get on our golf estate in Cape Town where I live:
Springbok:
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Cobra
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Mongoose
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Tortoise
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Water/reed buck
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And a Caracal.
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You have to be a little careful if you see a caracal or cobra but they do stay away from us……mostly

Cheers Grant

Cool pictures, Grant. You live in the middle of the Nature Channel! Ethan will be over later today for piano lessons and 'craft night' with grandma, I'll show him your pictures then. Let's see which one is his favorite!

Kurt Konrath · 2026-02-20T09:28:32-0600

The old Snake and Mongoose brings back memories of the race cars from Mattel car sets, and I think there were a pair of dragsters called by those names back in the day.

Kurt Konrath · 2026-02-20T09:29:45-0600

I live out in rural area east of big town, and we have deer, rabbits, squirrels and road runners here all the time.

Corsair · 2026-02-20T12:41:38-0600

Kurt Konrath said:
The old Snake and Mongoose brings back memories of the race cars from Mattel car sets, and I think there were a pair of dragsters called by those names back in the day.

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Yes, Snake and Mongoose were real "funny car" drag cars and the mattel cars were modeled after them.

Corsair · 2026-02-20T13:01:54-0600

There was also a movie about them.

Dean62 · 2026-02-20T13:59:15-0600

Corsair said:
Yes, Snake and Mongoose were real "funny car" drag cars and the mattel cars were modeled after them.

I built models of them when I was younger.