Today I saw...

18 August 2013, 09:30 PM

rontuner

Today I saw...

A couple of towns on the "rails to trails" around us saved the old street lights when they were updated about 20 years ago. Each one has a plaque, so there must have been a good deal of fund-raising to get them installed on the path. Makes for pleasant strolling or biking as dusk turns to dark...

19 August 2013, 04:27 AM

CTPianotech

Last minute run up to Boston to catch a Sox/Yankees game.

Game summary:
A-Rod got drilled. Yankees won.

Fans of both went home happy.

19 August 2013, 09:22 AM

wtg

quote:
Originally posted by CTPianotech:

Game summary:
A-Rod got drilled. Yankees won.

Fans of both went home happy.

CTP, you crack me up...

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We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal proverb

Bazootiehead-in-training

19 August 2013, 04:10 PM

big al

quote:
Originally posted by Mikhailoh:
This. This is an 18" tall corn cob stool that one of my daughter's roommate's dad foisted off on them.

There is also a pink margarita lamp that I have not seen.

What's the foreign receptacle doing there on the wall? That looks like the ones we had in Australia in both the socket configuration and the little 0n-Off switches.

Big Al

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Money seems to buy the most happiness when you give it away.

Why does everything have to be so complicated, all in the name of convenience. -ShiroKuro

A lifetime of experience will change a person. If it doesn't, then you're already dead inside. -MarkJ

19 August 2013, 04:18 PM

big al

quote:
Originally posted by Rick Zimmer:
The only UNESCO World Heritage Site I have ever visited.

That surprised me, given that there are two in California, two others relatively close to that one as well as Carlsbad Caverns further south in New Mexico as well as the Grand Canyon in between.

Big Al

19 August 2013, 06:35 PM

BeeLady

The other front yard art I have been passing. I got out of the car to take the photo and only then realized it was a mosaic.

This is located in the front yard of a rental house at a very busy intersection.

19 August 2013, 06:43 PM

wtg

Very cool, BL.

And I love the corn cob, Mik!

Hi, Mom.

19 August 2013, 07:51 PM

Bernard

So pretty, WTG.

Yesterday this tree--which is was loaded with berries--was standing upright. Today the berries are gone and the tree is not upright. I think my friend Smokey is around.

19 August 2013, 08:03 PM

wtg

Smokey gets around. Be careful.

19 August 2013, 08:38 PM

Bernard

quote:
Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
Smokey gets around. Be careful.

Yeow. Unfortunately she did not take the recommended like of action for a black bear attack (it's different for brown bears): don't run! (They can run faster than humans and climb faster than humans, and it may just excite them). Up here they recommend making one's presence as big as possible, to stand very tall, wave one's hands high, and if the bear actually attacts to fight back as aggressively as one can.

I've been seeing them around since I moved here. Saw one crossing the road ahead of me over in Rumney a few weeks ago.

Had one at the bottom of the porch steps which I didn't know was there until I looked up from my spinning. I caught this pic of him/her after it had meandered to the edge of the lawn:

FYI, for those who followed this on FB: The bird feeders were put away a few months ago. Just the hummingbird feeder left and the bears haven't discovered it, and I hope it stays that way.

19 August 2013, 09:22 PM

BeeLady

quote:
Originally posted by Bernard:
quote:
Originally posted by well-tempered gardener:
Smokey gets around. Be careful.

Yeow. Unfortunately she did not take the recommended like of action for a black bear attack (it's different for brown bears): don't run! (They can run faster than humans and climb faster than humans, and it may just excite them). Up here they recommend making one's presence as big as possible, to stand very tall, wave one's hands high, and if the bear actually attacts to fight back as aggressively as one can.

I've been seeing them around since I moved here. Saw one crossing the road ahead of me over in Rumney a few weeks ago.

Had one at the bottom of the porch steps which I didn't know was there until I looked up from my spinning. I caught this pic of him/her after it had meandered to the edge of the lawn:

FYI, for those who followed this on FB: The bird feeders were put away a few months ago. Just the hummingbird feeder left and the bears haven't discovered it, and I hope it stays that way.

Pretty exciting and beautiful!

While I still have my internet handle, BeeLady, I no longer have my hives in the front yard due to a lovely Mama bear and her cub who visited us a few too many times...They visited all the neighbors as well, an orchard, a barn with molasses horse feed...

19 August 2013, 09:22 PM

Jack Frost

For Bernard....

http://www.nydailynews.com/new...ng-article-1.1430921

jf

20 August 2013, 08:10 AM

rontuner

Pretty much every day in our house....

20 August 2013, 08:55 AM

wtg

Hey ron, what brand is the popper? Does it work well? Some of them seem to have a pretty flimsy stirring mechanism that jams or falls apart...been looking for something to replace my glass microwave popcorn popper from Germany. It really isn't very practical and is more of a collector's piece.