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07-05-19, 04:09 PM
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Open air furniture mart? (nah I just caught them in mid demo)
07-05-19, 07:20 PM
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Originally Posted by conspiratemus1
(As with the P-51 Mustang, the Packard Motor Company built the Merlin engines for Canadian Lancasters under license from Rolls-Royce, enabling the bombers to fly to England from the factory outside Toronto.)
07-08-19, 07:56 AM
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@hazetguy, we have a fair amount of those black snakes in upstate New York. I like 'em. When the house was under renovation, they came through, inside the house! They left us three skins over the years. Since the house is sealed, we haven't seen any more inside. I don't want our guests freaking out with snakes around their ankles, but I sure don't like mice.
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07-08-19, 11:56 AM
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Yep, in NW Pennsylvania, blacksnakes are a farmer's friends. 👍 At Granma's, they put us babies out in the weeds, close to the grape arbor, and we played with blacksnakes. I guess there were plenty of grapes for everyone. 😁
07-08-19, 12:09 PM
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07-08-19, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by hazetguy
Saw this black snake on my July 4th ride. About 4' long. It was crossing the bike/multi use path. I stopped to watch it, and also to make sure no bike path warrior would come flying along and run over it. It's the first live one I've seen in a while (I see plenty of dead ones). They are non venoumous and help keep the rodent population under control, so they are good in my book.
A short time later I remember passing the "Bad Habitz Wine and Liquor Store." The letters in the sign were rendered to look like they had been assembled from worn and weathered barn boards. I really should have taken a picture of that, but I was too shy.
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07-08-19, 06:49 PM
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Head art?
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07-08-19, 07:15 PM
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Originally Posted by gna
And they all used Whitworth threading and bolts, for the C&V crowd.
I was told many years ago that Whitworth threading was "created" to make it so germans couldn't work on captured enemy planes.
It sounds plausible enough, and I want to believe it enough, that I have not googled it for confirmation.
07-08-19, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by jackbombay
I was told many years ago that Whitworth threading was "created" to make it so germans couldn't work on captured enemy planes.
It sounds plausible enough, and I want to believe it enough, that I have not googled it for confirmation.
It sounds plausible enough, and I want to believe it enough, that I have not googled it for confirmation.
07-08-19, 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Lemond1985
I remember seeing the models of them at the hobby store as a kid:
07-08-19, 10:02 PM
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Was riding the bluffs by Pismo Beach. Saw some whales breaching action off shore. Was lucky to catch this one!
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07-08-19, 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by gorillimo
Was riding the bluffs by Pismo Beach. Saw some whales breaching action off shore. Was lucky to catch this one!
07-09-19, 06:38 AM
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Seagull attack in North Texas...
07-09-19, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted by The Golden Boy
Lots of those little parks have tanks- I don’t recall seeing parks with jets (I’d bet there’s one in a park for Lance Sijan around here)
There is a park around here with a HueyCobra - I think that thing is badass.
There is a park around here with a HueyCobra - I think that thing is badass.
Originally Posted by Lemond1985
I remember seeing the models of them at the hobby store as a kid:
Originally Posted by Pompiere
I assembled one of those kits when I was a kid. I think it came from the model-of-the-month club.
Our club rides from the NC Global Transpark and we frequently see one of the heaviest airplanes to take to the sky, a Russian Antonov An-124
07-09-19, 08:56 AM
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Originally Posted by jackbombay
SPY hopping!!!!
07-10-19, 09:14 PM
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These little carefully balanced stacks of rocks are very common in my area. Mostly along trails and on the shore. Do people do this everywhere?
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07-10-19, 09:18 PM
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Vintage balloon tire bike with very crafty sidecar locked up at the marina in Poulsbo, WA.
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07-10-19, 09:31 PM
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Gargantuan Alexander Calder (above) and Richard Serra (below) sculptures. These are at Myrtle Edwards Park, the starting point of a really nice bayside trail from downtown Seattle to the Magnolia neighborhood north of there.
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07-10-19, 09:43 PM
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My last contribution tonight: a mountain beaver who was almost as curious about me as i was about him, along the road to Hurricane Ridge...
MtBeaver by Tim Chamberlain, on Flickr
That was supposed to post as a video. Click here to see some serious scurrying-away action: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156192...posted-public/
MtBeaver by Tim Chamberlain, on Flickr
That was supposed to post as a video. Click here to see some serious scurrying-away action: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156192...posted-public/
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07-11-19, 02:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Lascauxcaveman
These little carefully balanced stacks of rocks are very common in my area. Mostly along trails and on the shore. Do people do this everywhere?
07-11-19, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Lascauxcaveman
My last contribution tonight: a mountain beaver who was almost as curious about me as i was about him, along the road to Hurricane Ridge...
MtBeaver by Tim Chamberlain, on Flickr
That was supposed to post as a video. Click here to see some serious scurrying-away action: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156192...posted-public/
MtBeaver by Tim Chamberlain, on Flickr
That was supposed to post as a video. Click here to see some serious scurrying-away action: https://www.flickr.com/photos/156192...posted-public/
07-11-19, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Lascauxcaveman
My last contribution tonight: a mountain beaver who was almost as curious about me as i was about him, along the road to Hurricane Ridge...
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