Random Picture Thread

[Kee]

My wife thought the burn pile might qualify for a modern sculpture. I think it qualifies as random enough.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

 

[pvpeacock]

WARNING: THIS IS A GRAPHIC PHOTO OF THE TSUNAMI THAT HIT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAST NIGHT

 

[day_trippr]

Waiting for the inevitable "We will rebuild" memes...

 

[pvpeacock]

 

[bruce_the_loon]

WARNING: THIS IS A GRAPHIC PHOTO OF THE TSUNAMI THAT HIT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LAST NIGHT
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The best California coverage I saw was on the BBC with the reporter asking beach goers what they were going to do. One family decided to drive to higher ground because the youngest daughter got scared when the reporter spoke to them, while a pair of long boarders were going to wait at the beach to see if they could catch one of the waves. Just a perfect slice of California culture.

 

[pvpeacock]

Surfers will be surfers:

 

[Sailingeric]

Waiting for the inevitable "We will rebuild" memes...

 

[fluketamer]

 

[HBT_Admin]

 

[Snuffy]

I’ve decided to unload some of my oxygen avoidance gear. Make me an offer.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Been power washing for a couple hours, started out front now on to the deck and back patio area... guess it was a bit overdue ... and butterfly on the butterfly bush, imagine that.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Yes chef, I’d like the Soylent green please.

 

[corkybstewart]

11 kilos of Mirabelle plums from my brother in law's trees. Yesterday we harvested just over 10 kilos. He's on vacation so we're picking and putting them in his freezer. He and his daughter in law will make jam later. A friend is collecting all the rotting ones on the ground to ferment and distill into eau de vie. Apparently he has about 100 liters of rotting plums
so far and we've still got half the plums in the trees.

 

[corkybstewart]

I know this is basically a large drinking club but how many of you still drink alcohol in your sleep?

 

[Snuffy]

I know this is basically a large drinking club but how many of you still drink alcohol in your sleep?
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Whoa! That could explain the hand stamps and why the girls at the package store call me "boxer dude".

 

[Pkrd]

 

[balrog]

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I love it. "Escher's Cat"

 

[Pkrd]

I love it. "Escher's Cat"

I can't look at it without my brain wanting to explode.

 

[day_trippr]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[Snuffy]

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Paul, less his Les Paul and Les Paul less Paul and his Les Paul and a Paulless Les Paul less Paul and Les Paul

 

[corkybstewart]

My youngest BIL lives next door, he has 3 rental properties in the village. One renter moved out a few years ago and left two 5 gallon jugs of eau de vie-one plums, the other peach. Since the BIL doesn't drink he gave them to me. It's about 100 years worth at the rate I drink it. My oldest BIL lives across the street, his yard is full of fruit trees, which we've been picking. The 2 brothers desperately hate each other so I used the plums from one and the eau de vie from the other.

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Am I right in my assumption eau de vie is basically moonshine but in France most often made from fruits? Sort of like slivovice and rakija in eastern europe and the balkans?

 

[fluketamer]

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Paul, less his Les Paul and Les Paul less Paul and his Les Paul and a Paulless Les Paul less Paul and Les Paul

buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.

- an 8 word grammatically correct English sentence using only the word buffalo.
this shows how crazy and difficult (and stupid) the english language is.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Nope, you didn't capitalize the first Buffalo

 

[corkybstewart]

Am I right in my assumption eau de vie is basically moonshine but in France most often made from fruits? Sort of like slivovice and rakija in eastern europe and the balkans?

It's fermented and distilled fruit. In addition to the pretty fruits we also collected the rotting, wasp eaten, stepped on fruit from the ground and put it in a separate, not very clean, bucket to be fermented. Plum and pear are the most common but almost any fruit with juice will work.

 

[fluketamer]

Nope, you didn't capitalize the first Buffalo

oops

 

[balrog]

oops

Oops.

FTFY

 

[Dland]

It's fermented and distilled fruit. In addition to the pretty fruits we also collected the rotting, wasp eaten, stepped on fruit from the ground and put it in a separate, not very clean, bucket to be fermented. Plum and pear are the most common but almost any fruit with juice will work.

How does it taste and what estimated ABV? sounds like a real windfall, but on reflection, I'd still mostly be drinking the beer I brewed.

On the other hand, that's a pretty cool vessel and free booze is not a bad thing. Good to have a STB, strategic booze (or beer) reserve.