Cowboy Dave

Retired Machine Designer, Photographer, Skywarn spotter, CoCoRahs, 3D printing.

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

@j3nf1nch I was right on the edge, not a lot of hail & didn't tear anything up too bad. One close flash-bang bolt made me jump tho!

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Getting spicy E of here ! #cowx

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Big boy toys headed north !

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Had twin dust devils a bit ago, couldn't get out the phone quick enough ! Now getting pea hail. #cowx

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

I saved purple, blue & black petunia seeds. I got this color! 🤷

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

No words... 🙏🙏🙏

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

We are saddened and heartbroken to share the news of the passing of Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup champion and one of our sport's greatest and fiercest drivers. He was 41 years old.

We extend our deepest condolences to the Busch family, Richard Childress Racing and the entire motorsports community.

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

TIL I'm Generation Jones. Also its my 67th Birthday ! 🤠

[Supersonic Redhead🛫 @Supersonic_Red]

There’s a generation a lot of people forget exists. We were born at the tail end of the Boomers, but we are not culturally the same as people born in the 40s and early 50s. We are Generation Jones.

And honestly, it explains a lot.

We grew up in a world that still felt fundamentally analog, but we were young enough to be dragged headfirst into the digital revolution. We are the bridge generation between rotary phones and smartphones, between slide rules and AI, between Walter Cronkite and algorithm driven media.

We remember when there were only a few television channels and the entire country watched the same thing at the same time. We also adapted to the internet, email, forums, social media, streaming and now artificial intelligence. We lived before and after the technological singularity hit everyday life.

That is not a small thing.

People born in the 40s came of age in a post World War II America that was still industrial, deeply hierarchical and institutionally stable. Their formative years were shaped by the Cold War, Vietnam, the civil rights era and a society where information moved slowly.

Generation Jones came later. We inherited the aftermath of all of that.

We were the kids who watched Watergate destroy blind trust in government. We watched manufacturing begin to collapse. We saw divorce rates explode. We were the first truly latchkey generation in massive numbers. We learned independence early because many of us had to.

We grew up with one foot in old America and one foot in whatever this new thing was becoming.

We played outside until the streetlights came on but we also learned DOS commands. We learned cursive and keyboarding. We had card catalogs and Google searches. We went from vinyl records to cassette tapes to CDs to MP3s to streaming in one lifetime.

We remember maps. We remember memorizing phone numbers. We remember life before GPS and before every human interaction became filtered through a screen.

And because of that, I think Generation Jones developed a very unique perspective. We are adaptable because we had no choice but to adapt. We learned technology as adults instead of being born into it. We remember a slower world but were forced to survive in a rapidly accelerating one.

That creates a very different mindset than either older Boomers or younger Gen X and Millennials.

A lot of us also reject the caricature people now associate with “Boomers.” We were not buying houses for the cost of a sandwich in 1965. The interest rate on my first house was over 14% and that was after buying down a point. Many of us got hit by recessions, outsourcing, pension collapses and economic instability just like younger generations did. We watched promises evaporate in real time.

We understand older generations because we were raised by them. We understand younger generations because we had to evolve alongside them.

That’s why the Jones generation often feels culturally homeless. We are rarely discussed, rarely defined and usually lumped into categories that don’t actually fit us.

But we exist.

We are the human transition point between the industrial age and the digital age.

And frankly, there will probably never be another generation quite like us again.

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

@spazzaturina First time buying from them, they've got some cool varieties.

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Just had this crawling on my leg, I've never had ticks here before. 🤬
I smashed it's ass!

[Tina Quillen Photography @aHeartSoFull]

✅ Important Hummingbird Health Alert

Please share so we can help protect these tiny birds!

While photographing last night, I spotted this hummingbird at my feeder with clear signs of candidiasis — a serious fungal infection that can be fatal.
Visible symptoms:
• Tongue appears "broken," bent, or flopped over
• Tongue stuck to the roof of the mouth
• Struggling to feed

This spreads quickly through dirty feeders and spoiled nectar.
Take action immediately:
• Remove all feeders right away
• Clean all feeders thoroughly (1:9 bleach solution or hot soapy water/vinegar)
• Use only fresh 1:4 white sugar-to-water nectar (no honey, brown sugar, or red dye)
• Change nectar & clean feeders every 2–3 days (1–2 in warm weather)

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Sweet ! Good wet snow. 1.8 E of Galeton. #cowx

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Big flakes rn, 1.8 E of Galeton. #cowx

[BuffaloRon @BuffaloRon]

If you haven't gotten anything yet for Mothers day, we put together a little bundle with a decent discount...
there are 45 bundles left.

Pretty much guarantee she will love it.
https://t.co/jzP0uX4J4N

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

@ivagonefishing @CReppWx Glad it's dumping up there ! Have fun & be safe. 🤠

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

@ivagonefishing Thanks !

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

Living on the edge !
I'm the blue dot...

[Cowboy Dave @davidbarrellco]

And so it begins ! ❄️❄️❄️