Random Picture Thread

[balrog]

I am 85% sure it is bubinga... I do enjoy wood working have used it before.

Hm.
You may be onto something.
Given the images Google shows me, it's hard for me to tell bubinga from padauk.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

 

[Sailingeric]

Hm.
You may be onto something.
Given the images Google shows me, it's hard for me to tell bubinga from padauk.

Padauk is very red and has a sweet smell when cut, almost like playdough and the dust is very very powdery.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Now that's privacy

 

[day_trippr]

"Honey, we're all out of milk! Go get some please!"

 

[pvtpublic]

Now that's privacy


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It's not privacy if someone took a picture of it...

 

[BongoYodeler]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.

 

[Skeeter686]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.


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This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

 

[BongoYodeler]

This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

Yeah, I couldn’t do it either. Our cottage was on an island, nearly 10 miles long though, with a bridge connecting it to the mainland and room to roam.

 

[balrog]

When I lived in NY we had a cottage in the Thousand Islands region. There were quite a few cottages/summer homes like the one above, where you better not be a sleepwalker.


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This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

Agree completely. There's no place to play Kubb.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Didd somebody mention Kubb, the Swedish national summer-sport, and drunk entertainment, and favourite childrens game?

 

[balrog]

Didd somebody mention Kubb, the Swedish national summer-sport, and drunk entertainment, and favourite childrens game?

Indeed.

 

[scrap iron]

Hey OZ, what Ozark Lake is that. Mine is at Truman Lake, used to have a home with acreage there.

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[GrogNerd]

This impresses me as something that sounds amazing and beautiful and tranquil and lovely... right up until you actually have to deal with the reality of living on a rock that's scarcely bigger than your house. To each, his own.

might as well live on a boat.

at least you can haul anchor & move away from any intense weather

much as I DON'T MISS the navy, I LOVE the thought of unmooring & just floating away from any place you don't like.

 

[Ozarks Mountain Brewery]

Hey OZ, what Ozark Lake is that. Mine is at Truman Lake, used to have a home with acreage there.

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I take pictures at table rock lake and Pomme de Terre

 

[balrog]

I thought of many of my HBT brethren when I ran across this, except for the “won’t shut up part” of course; y’all are never too much.

 

[day_trippr]

Frightening!

 

[pvtpublic]

Frightening!

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[Erik the Anglophile]

@corkybstewart

 

[pvtpublic]

What mushrooms are those?

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

What mushrooms are those?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_tubaeformis

We just call them autumn chantarelles up here.

 

[corkybstewart]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus_tubaeformis

We just call them autumn chantarelles up here.

I know them as golden chanterelles.

 

[Sailingeric]

Short time lapse I did of my neighborhood.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

I know them as golden chanterelles.

Then someone told you wrong, these are golden chantarelles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus_cibarius

 

[corkybstewart]

Then someone told you wrong, these are golden chantarelles.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus_cibarius

Okay

 

[GrogNerd]

Didn't know Tim Burton directed 2022's version of The Batman

 

[BongoYodeler]

Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

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Background, the next crossing is 25 miles upstream. Your call.

 

[balrog]

Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

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What *IS* the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow crocodile?