in this random rambling thread we post random pictures

[Smokerbill]

 

[Pasha838]

Wow that smells great

Yes, i can find a lot of interesting things in the garden and do a lot of interesting things with that

The day before yesterday, however, I removed the last tops from the greenhouse and let the ducks in there. That's it, winter is starting. At night it was - 10 C, the water on the street began to become covered with ice.

 

[Pasha838]

This is my attitude/thinking. I LUV adventure.
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That image is not one I participated in,,,,, But would LUV to in a minute. Half of my family enjoys life in the vertical world. 2 weeks ago I went to a family style climbers reunion. We climbed an artificial wall inside a barn. Different levels for different talents.
5 year old granddaughter.
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Below,, a person somewhat older than 5,, Cranking the roof.
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Please understand,, that we do not do things that are STUPID. Safety first. We climb with ropes and harnesses for protection. A fall is somewhat a bungie jump simulation.

OMG, I'm scared to even look at this. I'm very afraid of heights. If I need to climb onto the roof of a house somewhere and work there, sometimes I have to get used to it for almost two days. And only after that can I walk there freely.

 

[ChicksnMore]

OMG, I'm scared to even look at this. I'm very afraid of heights. If I need to climb onto the roof of a house somewhere and work there, sometimes I have to get used to it for almost two days. And only after that can I walk there freely.

My DH is like that. So he bought a nifty safety harness he can attach to the roof to make sure he can't fall. He tried it out and decided it wasn't giving him peace of mind...so he hires out for all roof work

 

[Pasha838]

My DH is like that. So he bought a nifty safety harness he can attach to the roof to make sure he can't fall. He tried it out and decided it wasn't giving him peace of mind...so he hires out for all roof work

My house is not very high, but nothing good will come from falling from this height. Actually, the house is made of wood, and the outside is lined with vinyl siding; in addition, there is quite thick insulation (we have relatively cold winters, here it can be - 45 C).
Previously, there was neither electricity nor gas in the village, so the heating was on wood. I built two stoves and a fireplace in the house. Subsequently, when gas heating appeared. I dismantled two stoves, using the bricks for other needs.
If you look closely, you can see a brick fireplace chimney above the roof. That’s where I climbed, afraid of heights, on a wooden ladder, dragging bricks and a bucket of cement there. I once built three chimneys over this roof.
There is also a small weather vane in the shape of a running horse, showing the direction of the wind (although the horse always turns in the direction from which the wind is blowing, that is, it runs against the wind). Its fastening was a little inappropriate, and I welded another one so that it could be screwed to my roof.
Well, I covered the whole house with this siding and other things, climbing the scaffolding.

And for the first two days I always have superstitious horror, to the point where my knees tremble. Then, for some reason, the fear passes, and I walk freely on scaffolding, ladders, climb on the roof and do work there.
But the first two days always scare me. And this happens all the time if there was a break. That is, if I constantly work at the top, I get used to it, but if I take a break for a year or two, I start to be afraid again. I do not know why. Then I get used to it again.
I don’t see the point in hiring workers - I’m not satisfied with the quality of the work. Here it’s easier to do everything yourself, even if you don’t know how, because the workers don’t come for the sake of work. but for the sake of money. Even professionals often make mistakes, which then have to be corrected afterward. This is very annoying, so I only hire workers for very simple jobs, like clearing debris from a ditch. I don’t trust anyone to cover or repair the roof. As a last resort, I can take some migrant who will give me iron, and I will still climb up, although I will be scared for 2 days
Well, life is also simple in that I am spared the pain of choice - hiring workers costs money, and I am not that rich. Maybe. I would be a little richer if I worked, but I'm very lazy and have been unemployed for 10 years. I just sit in the forest, dig a garden, grow vegetables and fruits, graze my small herd of goats, take care of poultry - ducks, geese, chickens, and do nothing else, except, of course, for the construction and repair of those things that I need.
Frankly, I fell from this roof once, but it was in winter, there was a huge snowdrift below and I was not injured. I just slid down with a bunch of snow, the snow actually shook me off when I was clearing the roof of snow in a very snowy winter (for some reason it stuck and didn’t move on its own, although it usually moves off - we make high roofs precisely so that the snow I didn’t lie there), so I fell into a snowdrift and more snowdrift fell on me.
In general, I don’t like, I hate climbing somewhere high. I have an apartment in Moscow in a high-rise building, I rented it out to other people, but I don’t live there myself, because it’s high there. Although in this particular house I am sitting in the attic and I like it there.
When I meet people in Russia who willingly climb mountains somewhere or jump from airplanes with a parachute, I don’t say anything to them, but in my thoughts I consider them completely crazy. Especially if they do it not for work, receiving a salary, but for their own money just like that. I can’t understand them at all - how can they just force herself to climb somewhere, overcoming fear)) I can only do this if I really need something, in terms of construction or repairs.
Although I know that the mountains are very beautiful. But I won't go there for anything in the world.

 

[cavemanrich]

As beautiful as these flowers are,,, in about a week, or so, I will have to bring them indoors into Utility room for Over-winter. Just waiting until frost warning overnight is announced.

 

[cavemanrich]

Pasha838​

I do like to throw in some HUMOR into posts. Consider this.

No one should be afraid of heights, or falling. It is just that sudden stop at the bottom that is of concern. .........

 

[Beaker99]

 

[ChicksnMore]

Pasha838​

I do like to throw in some HUMOR into posts. Consider this.

No one should be afraid of heights, or falling. It is just that sudden stop at the bottom that is of concern. .........

All my life I've wanted to try hang gliding and parachute from a plane. Never too late...Bush senior got to on his 90th birthday . Wish hubby had an interest too though. No sudden stops at the end though please!

 

[Pasha838]

All my life I've wanted to try hang gliding and parachute from a plane. Never too late...Bush senior got to on his 90th birthday . Wish hubby had an interest too though. No sudden stops at the end though please!

I heard that the impulse when landing with a parachute is similar to that obtained when jumping (not falling) from the third floor. Therefore, I definitely won’t do this; with my weight it will probably even be dangerous (I weigh 130 kilograms. True, my weight is unstable, when I start doing a lot of housework, forgetting to have breakfast, lunch and dinner, I quickly lose around 15-20 kilograms. I'm not on a diet, I just sometimes get busy and forget to eat. After which I remember and start eating as much as people usually don’t eat.) In general, with my weight, the parachute does not suit me at all
However, to jump with a parachute at the age of 90... This act testifies to both great courage and good health. When I'm 90 years old, all I'll likely do is sit in a chair, sleep, and watch TV.
There were indeed various flying entertainments here - training to be a helicopter pilot (low level, amateur), parachute jumping, riding a small airplane, but these were quite expensive entertainments. Sometimes balloon lovers with hot air balloons gathered nearby to celebrate the city’s day, and a ride in a hot air balloon was surprisingly cheap, but I was somehow afraid, especially since I had had a good lunch before, and I’m afraid of heights. What if I need to go to the toilet or something.
Now I really don’t know, it’s probably all closed due to the conflict in Ukraine, it’s unlikely that they’ll be allowed to ride on a small plane now, what if the military decides that it’s an enemy drone flying towards Moscow and shoots it down. I haven't seen small planes for a long time. They used to fly here often, and some of these planes looked as if someone had assembled them in a garage from old, unwanted plywood. They flew slowly, looked strange, and when flying their engine sounded like it had been removed from a lawnmower or chainsaw. We often grumbled because there were cases when such unlucky aviators fell anywhere.
One of the stories that luckily ended relatively well. The plane fell on the temple grounds, breaking a tree. One person, probably the pilot, was taken to hospital.

I can imagine the feelings of the temple visitors - they came to pray peacefully, and then a plane crashed down next to them with a roar.
As I understand it, the plane’s engine and propeller are also hopelessly damaged. It seemed to be some kind of plane for spraying fields. But it looks like the plane was manufactured at a factory, it’s not homemade from plywood.
In general, these homemade products were often in the news at one time, as I understand it, these are former children who played airplane modeling in schools as children, they grew up into grown-up guys who were bored and who began to build airplanes from all sorts of very cheap or even free rubbish, not at all related to the aviation industry. And then they began to fly anywhere, without having a pilot’s license, or permission for this “plane,” or permission to fly. These amateur flights only stopped with the events in Ukraine, when the military began monitoring the skies over Russia for drones. And before that, these “aeronautics” flew anywhere, except, however, in large cities, where flights are completely prohibited.
There were cases when the police caught them and put them in a police station for two days for hooliganism (as I understand it, there was no law under which even a fine could be issued). Now it’s true that the military has gotten involved in the matter and the situation is different, no one will risk flying without permission and identification marks.
And in general, they are quite desperate guys - in our village there lived one such person who was a man of helicopters (not even airplanes), so he made a platform right in the garden, close to fences and tall trees, where there was a very great danger of hitting these trees . Local residents argued with him a lot and in the end they wrote complaints somewhere, and he was forbidden to make a helipad in his garden. Moreover, as I understand it, the helicopter will not be new and certified, but some kind of craft, and it’s good if not with motors from lawn mowers. In general, we have a proverb - "everyone goes crazy in their own way"
In this regard, I am not much better than him - there was a case when I mistakenly entered a seemingly abandoned plot, overgrown with unmown grass, and grazed a herd of goats there, and when some woman began to kick me out, I began to quarrel with her, motivating this is because what does she care about my animals and why did she pester me. After which it turned out that this was her plot, not an abandoned one, and she was going to build a house there, she just hadn’t done anything yet and arrived today.
And once I almost got into a fight with another neighbor, but it was his own fault - he began to swear and threaten me because of the animals on the territory that does not belong to him at all and where the law does not prohibit grazing animals.

And so, about parachutes - I have one distant relative who served in the army, where they had to jump with a parachute, and they jumped often. But I don’t communicate with him, because after the army he stopped being an honest man, joined the mafia, and then emigrated somewhere in Europe, it seems to Austria. I don’t like the things he did at all, so we stopped communicating about 20 years ago. He was not involved with drugs, but his activities were connected with brothels. And we stopped communicating with him, refused him the house.