Random Picture Thread

[GrogNerd]

our hearts are with our shipmates onboard USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)

heading to the eastern Med into a conflict zone...

and having to eat this.

my gods, what did that cow do to deserve that fate?

 

[Rodent]

Had a small hillside collapse a couple weeks back, and spent 4-1/2 hours spread over Sat/Sun hand digging the loose dirt to reclaim my lower yard access road. Total volume removed one shovel at a time was 6"-18" deep by 6'-10' wide by ~130' long

I'm still a bit sore

 

[nobadays]

That's where this comes in handy!

 

[Rodent]

That's where this comes in handy!

I have a JD 2025R with front loader and backhoe, but the road is too narrow to make use of it this time. Believe me I definitely tried to find a way, but the image doesn't capture how steep that road is, and how I'd have had to back up over 100 yards around two tight corners (that have a 30' or higher drop-off) in order to empty each front loader scoop.

Here's an image from when I cleared this same area in the Spring using the tractor. Since the deposit was smaller I was able to take it all down the slope to a switchback

If I move much further out from the bank it's all soft dirt, so there's little support for even the tractor itself without a load in the front loader

 

[beermanpete]

 

[day_trippr]

A couple of sunset pics from the island of Eleuthera...

Cheers!

 

[balrog]

Had a small hillside collapse a couple weeks back, and spent 4-1/2 hours spread over Sat/Sun hand digging the loose dirt to reclaim my lower yard access road. Total volume removed one shovel at a time was 6"-18" deep by 6'-10' wide by ~130' long

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I'm still a bit sore

Given the sunny location, I'm thinking that the planting of fast growing vegetation should help with further issues.


Hops.

I'm talking about hops.

 

[Warthaug]

Got a new telescope a few weeks ago, so naturally we've had 2 weeks of continual cloud and rain. Got a small window of opportunity Sunday night to play with it, and got some nice views of the moon and Saturn.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

You got me beat, got the moon last night but my I just use my phone for photos at the moment, imaging equipment to come eventually. We also got good views of Jupiter, could see the bands clearly but no pics of that, just planet and a few of its moons pictured.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

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Got a new telescope a few weeks ago, so naturally we've had 2 weeks of continual cloud and rain. Got a small window of opportunity Sunday night to play with it, and got some nice views of the moon and Saturn.

What scope did you get? I'm currently just using a 5 inch newtonian on a manual equatorial mount that I got for my daughter, we both share the hobby and I'm looking to upgrade for her bday. Nice pics btw.

 

[balrog]

I haven't had my 6" newtonian out in years (this is 2017, partial eclipse, with my homemade solar filter)

 

[Warthaug]

What scope did you get? I'm currently just using a 5 inch newtonian on a manual equatorial mount that I got for my daughter, we both share the hobby and I'm looking to upgrade for her bday. Nice pics btw.

Its a celestron 130SLT, which is a 5 inch Newtonian. Computerized mount mind you, although we didn't have enough cloud-free time last night to try that out, so this was all manual alignment. Photo's were just through the eyepiece using my cell phone.

 

[balrog]

If I'd gotten out there earlier I bet it would've been frost...

 

[balrog]

Ok.
So, there's "general knowledge", and "everybody does it this way", and then

there's this guy.

 

[BongoYodeler]

Ok.
So, there's "general knowledge", and "everybody does it this way", and then

there's this guy.

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What the duff?!?!

 

[day_trippr]

I think that car might be swapping paint with that stanchion

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Wow...

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Well, usually the people that do, do not broadcast about it.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Leaf peeping “up state” NY.

 

[Dland]

Looks like a close call in frame 1, good on ya for keepin calm and getting the picture. What w the giant flying aracnid overhead.

 

[balrog]

Looks like a close call in frame 1, good on ya for keepin calm and getting the picture. What w the giant flying aracnid overhead.

It’s a mosquito.

They grow em big in upstate NY

 

[beermanpete]

What the duff?!?!

What the duck!?

 

[BongoYodeler]

What the duck!?

No, it's "what the duff."

I've been saying that for 30 years or so whenever the situation warrants it.

 

[balrog]

Same for this mess...

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UPDATE: because I saw this image, Big Brother put the following news story on my FireFox home page:

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-s-weird-couch?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Tried to get Saturn last night. Looking through the scope it was a nice crisp image, this is best I could do with my phone.

Then the moon again

Then this morning, tried to get venus in there but its barely noticeable. It's a speck of light up and to the left of the group of trees on the right of the second photo.

 

[grampamark]

Spring and Fall (AKA “Still Winter and Almost Winter”) are the shortest seasons in this part of the world. This year we had just over a month between Summer and Winter, which is longer than the interval in many years. Last year, Fall was on a Thursday.

Anyway, once again, we have snow before Halloween.

 

[ncbrewer]

Spring and Fall (AKA “Still Winter and Almost Winter”) are the shortest seasons in this part of the world. This year we had just over a month between Summer and Winter, which is longer than the interval in many years. Last year, Fall was on a Thursday.

My grandparents lived in Syracuse, back when they really got a lot of snow. They always said they looked forward to summer and hoped it would fall on a weekend.

 

[beermanpete]

UPDATE: because I saw this image, Big Brother put the following news story on my FireFox home page:

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/...-s-weird-couch?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

Sorry about that. If we openly discuss Big Brother will we get in trouble?

 

[doug293cz]

Sorry about that. If we openly discuss Big Brother will we get in trouble?

If you get close to current politics, then yes.

doug293cz
HBT Moderator

 

[balrog]

 

[balrog]

This is actually an idea.

I think, in my case, I would also stuff it with walnuts.

 

[Rodent]

staged and ready for install tomorrow morning

 

[Ki-ri-n]

Had to do a double take. For a second I thought I did something wrong.

 

[day_trippr]

The last tomatoes of 2023. It was a hella good year here for tom's, especially heirlooms...

Cheers!

 

[GrogNerd]

got the wife & the dog, so not technically "alone"

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

Winter is coming...

 

[Erik the Anglophile]

And I'm goona go out soon to smoke a piece of beef knuckle for a chili, it definitely has the potential to become an interesting experience...

 

[nobadays]

A little dusting here in the Southern Colorado Rockies, 9,500' forecast is for possible single digits by Monday morning.

 

[bruce_the_loon]

From this in January facing water rationing....

to two full dams and one filling up....

 

[grampamark]

Here in cattle country more than a few ranchers have started feeding, finishing, and processing some of their own calves instead of selling them to the commercial feeders and packers from which they’ll end up as shoe leather “steaks” at Applebee’s. We buy meat from several such small processors, so I’m pretty sure this is legit-

 

[Pkrd]

Winter is coming...

Nope