Random Picture Thread

[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

 

[corkybstewart]

Happy birthday America

 

[Sailingeric]

Had a nice visit with the neighbors down the street this morning.

 

[GrogNerd]

 

[balrog]

Maple splined, walnut pic frame.
And Cran-ApfelWein.

 

[BongoYodeler]

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nice head

 

[corkybstewart]

I call this "Still life, caught up in the web". Luckily there are no dangerous spiders over here but the cobs sure are busy spinning webs.

 

[corkybstewart]

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Why oh why did I ever agree to this.

 

[Agent]

Whoever coined the phrase of "being chicken" for those who are easily frightened has never taken the opportunity to retrieve eggs from an angry broody hen before.

 

[GrogNerd]

First clue you're not in a "real" italian restaurant