in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[cavemanrich]

 

[Finchbreeder]

That pic makes me feel even smaller than usual.

 

[cavemanrich]

That pic makes me feel even smaller than usual.

That is General Sherman. Largest living thing on Earth.

 

[CombNWattles]

That is General Sherman. Largest living thing on Earth.

Wow!

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Random items my chickens have excavated from my yard! We figured out what the Jet Dry item was from, but we are having a hard time figuring out the Telstar thing. My son thinks it's part of the handle of an old transistor radio. Both items are OLD and I can't help but wonder how they got where they were found. I grew up in this house and I do remember the Jet Dry bar that we used in our dishwasher. But I have no clue about the Telstar plastic strip!

The back has this fake leather texture and the color is much brighter, probably because it wasn't exposed to the sun.

Telstar was a Czech brand of transistor radio, but we didn't have one and neither did my grandparents.

If only the chickens would find something valuable in the yard!

 

[Pasha838]

I don't do it now, but I used to breed turkeys for meat. (Now I mostly only have geese and ducks, and a few chickens). In general, in almost every second turkey in the stomach I always found grated aluminum balls. It seemed that they pecked aluminum wire (very short stubs) and these pieces somehow later became balls, and sometimes even relatively large, clearly much thicker than this wire.
I cut the turkey for meat, take the stomach and find an aluminum ball there, or even two.

I must admit, I really had a lot of aluminum wire, after the hurricane of 2000 I had a whole bunch of torn aluminum cables, but the fact that turkeys would eat them was news to me.

 

[Pasha838]

A story from Internet ))
"I was fishing on a lake one summer. A herd of animals was grazing in the distance. I was drowsy in the sun and dozed off. I woke up and a horse leaned over to me and asked, "So, how going the fishing?" O_O
Only later did I notice that there was a shepherd sitting on the horse."

 

[Pasha838]

The old polycarbonate on the greenhouse gradually began to break. One of the sheets had to be replaced. In principle, such a sheet usually lasts 10 years, this one lasted almost 15, and it was clearly time to change it. I replaced one sheet for now, I think I'll leave the rest for a year or two, I'll change them when they also gradually start to turn into dust. I knocked together a ladder to climb onto the roof from some trash - these were two rowan trees that the wind had torn out by the roots this spring (they were growing in a goose pasture, the geese had dug them up for a long time and gnawed at the roots, as a result, when there was a strong wind, the trees fell). The geese were locked in the barn at the time. I also made the crossbars from some birch and pine branches that had been broken off by the wind. The ladder turned out to be a bit heavy, but quite strong. I didn't want to buy boards for money to make a temporary ladder that I would only climb once this year.
What's good about such greenhouses is that heavy snow does not stay on such high roofs in winter, but slides down on its own. In addition, due to the large volume of air, they retain daytime heat for a long time, and I can take my time harvesting tomatoes until late autumn, when my neighbors in low greenhouses had to remove everything long ago because of late blight, which attacks plants during autumn night frosts. I can afford to take my time almost until the first severe frost.To attach the polycarbonate, I simply screw long metal strips (about 4mm thick) onto the welded frame with bolts and nuts from above.

 

[cavemanrich]