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.