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[doug293cz]

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Parking lot at a brew club meeting?

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

Parking lot at a brew club meeting?

Brew on

random grocery trip to the local Safeway

 

[pvtpublic]

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A meeting of the... *long loud belch* ...minds

 

[VApatriot]

Agapanthus blooms

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Looks warm...

 

[nobadays]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

Me, travelling through Tuscany

 

[grampamark]

On Saturday, after we’d returned to the farm, I went out the side door of the garage and found two baby skunks scurrying around inside the two-sided enclosure around the transformer and meter loop for our electrical service. The were cute, about the size of young kittens, but I made a mental note to keep an eye out for their mama. We hadn’t seen the babies, or mama since, until this morning…

We put food out for the barn cats on the deck off our kitchen/dining room. When I went to the kitchen to make coffee this morning mama skunk was helping herself to the food left in the cat’s dish.

 

[BongoYodeler]

On Saturday, after we’d returned to the farm, I went out the side door of the garage and found two baby skunks scurrying around inside the two-sided enclosure around the transformer and meter loop for our electrical service. The were cute, about the size of young kittens, but I made a mental note to keep an eye out for their mama. We hadn’t seen the babies, or mama since, until this morning…

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We put food out for the barn cats on the deck off our kitchen/dining room. When I went to the kitchen to make coffee this morning mama skunk was helping herself to the food left in the cat’s dish.

They're cute, but........

 

[Skeeter686]

They're cute, but........

Skunks are cute... especially the really young ones.

Raccoons are sorta cute.

Chipmunks are cute.

And I don't want any of them living on my property.

 

[InspectorJon]

Analog baggage scanner. He went through the whole cart and checked baggage against a list.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Wife's fun car got an upgrade yesterday after work, the factory flex pipes are junk and I got tired of replacing it, so my buddy who is a much better welder than I am helped me with a solution. 3 inch straight pipe from cat back. The car is a 99 saab 9-3 viggen with 205k miles.

 

[fourfarthing]

Wife's fun car got an upgrade yesterday after work, the factory flex pipes are junk and I got tired of replacing it, so my buddy who is a much better welder than I am helped me with a solution. 3 inch straight pipe from cat back. The car is a 99 saab 9-3 viggen with 205k miles.
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I had that car until someone rear ended me and totalled it. Still probably my favorite car of all time.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I had that car until someone rear ended me and totalled it. Still probably my favorite car of all time.

I have 2, one for me and 1 for her. I've owned several saabs over the past 20 years of driving, I liked the 2 900 spg's I had also but the viggens are where my heart is. Sorry to hear that someone ruined yours.

 

[Agent]

I'm perpetually jealous of you rust-free southerners.

Meanwhile, my 2006 Ford with 200k miles is reverting back to the earth from which it came.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I'm in PA and for from rust free.. those cars stay in the garage for salt (snow) season. Our daily drivers are not so lucky.

 

[Brew_Dude41]

I'm in PA and for from rust free.. those cars stay in the garage for salt (snow) season. Our daily drivers are not so lucky.

Advantage is there are standards for the cars on the road in PA. If something, say like a bumper, is missing you need to get it fixed. Rusting out wheel wells won't pass the state inspection process, and will require to be replaced, if I remember correctly.(it has been 20+ since I went through that process there)

Some states have no such requirements and literally (literally) just about anything is allowed on the roads.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You are correct sir.

 

[govner1]

I just bought my first new car in 17 years. Replaced my 2007 Infiniti FX-35 with 188000 miles with a Toyota Highlander. It may take me 17 years to figure out all the buttons!!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

My newest car is a 2007 4runner, but I drive company cars that are new... so I get to see some of the new technology. Oh, my wife has a 2017 Corolla base model, it's not exactly sophisticated haha..

 

[day_trippr]

It may take me 17 years to figure out all the buttons!!

And the indicators! Keep this decoder handy!

Cheers!

 

[GrogNerd]

Skunks are cute... especially the really young ones.

Raccoons are sorta cute.

Chipmunks are cute.

And I don't want any of them living on my property.

they promise to leave the beagle alone, they can hang.

 

[GrogNerd]

I'm in PA and for from rust free.. those cars stay in the garage for salt (snow) season. Our daily drivers are not so lucky.

lived in MN for a few.

"winter beaters"

 

[nobadays]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

After being overcast nearly all day and having a downpour.

 

[corkybstewart]

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Where is this?

 

[balrog]

Where is this?

Capalbio Italy.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Where is this?

Capalbio Italy.

Really cool picture. I saw narrow alleyways quite like this when I was in Sevilla, Spain a few years ago.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[nobadays]

 

[day_trippr]

Really cool picture. I saw narrow alleyways quite like this when I was in Sevilla, Spain a few years ago.

Amazing stone works are everywhere in Italy, buildings, arches, tunnels, etc. We found them from Rome to the Amalfi Coast and up through Tuscany to Venice. The immediate impression I got was the entire peninsula must've been denuded of forests one thousand years BC

 

[corkybstewart]

Amazing stone works are everywhere in Italy, buildings, arches, tunnels, etc. We found them from Rome to the Amalfi Coast and up through Tuscany to Venice. The immediate impression I got was the entire peninsula must've been denuded of forests one thousand years BC

As we travel around France every year we love to look at how the people incorporate whatever kind of stone is available into their architecture. In our area the white limestone has been used for 2000 years to build everything from fortresses to tool sheds and out houses because it is soft and easy to cut. In the Auvergne area volcanic rock is used. I've seen walls made of hexagonal columnar basalt chunks fitted together, and thin plates of lava are used as roofing material. The limestone of our area is cut into blocks and cemented together, other regions use flat rocks and lots of mortar-outside of Paris this week we were looking at beautifully patterned agate pieces used to build walls.
We have a boundary wall that needs repair, it was built in the 1850s using cut blocks on the outsides, and irregular chunks in the middle, glued together not with mortar but with mud. We have to redo the mortar in the original farm kitchen, it's deteriorated badly because it's mud, not mortar. We'll have to remove enough of this old mud to be able to get modern mortal between the stones, a job I'm not looking forward to.

 

[ncbrewer]

We have to redo the mortar in the original farm kitchen, it's deteriorated badly because it's mud, not mortar. We'll have to remove enough of this old mud to be able to get modern mortal between the stones, a job I'm not looking forward to.

I would be holding my breath the whole time.

 

[corkybstewart]

I would be holding my breath the whole time.

The wall is 3 feet thick, I'm just dealing with the exterior 4 or 5 inches. My BIL's house is on the other side of the wall, we re-mortared it about 20 years ago. We didn't do this side because somebody put an inch thick layer of concrete to cover the bad mortar/mud. I removed the concrete last year because it holds moisture and makes the stones soft. Everything is pretty much dry now so it's ready for mortar.

 

[balrog]

 

[Sailingeric]

When you need to get the Coors in Texarkana back to Georgia with the whole family