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Helotes, TX
Townsville City
New year's day and I'm working....the sugarcane season has gone for a month longer than normal due to rain. Today I am harvesting a trial investigating different farming systems and we did a burn during the day (normally evening) and this wild looking machine is a break pusher so the Harvester can start at the right spot in our trial.
PXL_20230101_012524833 (resized).jpgPXL_20230101_013018284 (resized).jpgPXL_20230101_013027279 (resized).jpgPXL_20230101_013037985 (resized).jpgQuoted from punkin:Beginning to think the scooter is more fun.
Scooter looks fun alright - I'm hoping this scooter is going to be fun, too! I've been working on it in the background for decades. It may finally come together this year.
Picture from a few days ago. 1949 Harley WL.
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The springer fork is ready to bolt back on:
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And here's the beautifully reupholstered seat that came in the mail a little while ago:
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Quoted from punkin:So the sun stayed up the other one?
Ha, that took me a second.
Quoted from DCP:Scooter looks fun alright - I'm hoping this scooter is going to be fun, too! I've been working on it in the background for decades. It may finally come together this year.
Picture from a few days ago. 1949 Harley WL.
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The springer fork is ready to bolt back on:
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And here's the beautifully reupholstered seat that came in the mail a little while ago:
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Helped a mate rebuild and customise a UL one year.
Bloody thing used to do circles on the sidestand while idling.
This photo is not mine, but it is fairly iconic of Alaska.
It was published in the Anchorage Daily News in the winter of 2007
when I work working on the north slope
and I remember it getting emailed around.
It is hard to believe that it is real.
It is a once in a lifetime photo.
Taken just outside Nome, while the musher and team
were on a training session in prep for the Iditarod.
FYI: the encounter turned out OK in the end without anyone getting hurt.
Anyone else watch for the International Space Station as it orbits over you? I've seen it a few times early in the morning recently, very bright and fast moving. It's 357 feet long, weighs 500 tons, and has over an acre of solar panels. It's easy to see with the naked eye as it orbits 260 miles up, traveling at 5 miles per second. It won't be visible again here until Friday, and then it will be visible in the evenings for a week or so.
This website will show you when the ISS will be visible passing over your location:
https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/index.cfm
My Dad the astronomer had a computer program that could move his telescope along with the motion of the space station so you could see it in detail for several minutes. You had to keep moving your head to keep up with the panning telescope. I remember being able to distinguish the H-shaped solar panels and the triangular shape of the Space Shuttle as it was docked to the ISS (this was in the early 2000s). It's amazing that it has been in orbit and in constant use for over 22 years.
ISSstockphoto (resized).jpgQuoted from jaytrem:A swan showed up at our local lake. Hope he sticks around.
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Apparently swans are very territorial. There is a pretty large pond at a home a mile down the road. It was well known to stay clear of their yard otherwise it would attack you! 
Quoted from EJS:Hour wait at discount tire so I’ll hang out with you guys.
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That nail is cute.
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no badging at all
Looks like a place for the Ford oval?
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Subaru?
Quoted from Atari_Daze:Looks like a place for the Ford oval?[quoted image]
Yeah, looking on-line it does not seem dissimilar to the Ford Everest
There is a Ford proving ground about 60kms away
Quoted from dirkdiggler:Life long Niners fan and finally snagged a set of NOS 49ers billiard balls. Now I just need to find a set of silver Raiders balls for the wife
I have been a Raider and Niner fan since early childhood
having grown up in the Bay Area.
Was even a Raider season ticket holder for a couple years when they moved to LA and I was living in SoCal.
My dad was a 49ers season ticket holder for years until they started charging fans for seat rights just for privilege to buy season tickets,
but he still went to home games on regular basis with a friend who was still season ticket holder.
Now I would have to say I am more a Niner fan, since Raiders moved to Vegas and of course the 49ers are winning.
Quoted from pinwiztom:I have been a Raider and Niner fan since early childhood
having grown up in the Bay Area.
Was even a Raider season ticket holder for a couple years when they moved to LA and I was living in SoCal.
My dad was a 49ers season ticket holder for years until they started charging fans for seat rights just for privilege to buy season tickets,
but he still went to home games on regular basis with a friend who was still season ticket holder.
Now I would have to say I am more a Niner fan, since Raiders moved to Vegas and of course the 49ers are winning.
Awesome! When I met my wife she chose the Raiders as her team. Chucky and the black hole cult just grabbed her. I love Raiders colors so having gear around to wear is always a plus. She has lost interest in football since the Raiders moved to Vegas. This was the first season where she didn't watch at least one game with me. I'll be downstairs tomorrow, shooting pool and watching my Niners beat up on the Shithawks by myself.
Some of my fondness memories was my dad and i going to watch the 49ers playing at Kezar Stadium
near the Haight Ashbury district between 1969 and 1970 when i was in 7th/8th grades
and getting to see John Brodie throw TDs to Gene Washington.
Though back in those days the summer of love was over already (just lots of dirty hippies roaming around)
and the Niners were pretty bad back then too, before Joe Montana.
But after the game my dad would take me bowling, in part to let traffic subside before heading home.
And one of the good things about the bowling, is that they also had an arcade with lots of pinball to choose from.
So that later added to my addiction to pinball.
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Hell No!
I am claustrophobic, and that just looks too tight.
It is pretty though.
I feel for you.
The entire neighborhood on a hilltop, where we own a home that we rent out to my wifes neice has same problem with water seepage thru the walls and even up thru the cement floor after heavy rains. Problem exaserbated by an underground aquifer, that raises the watertable. Fortunately the water drains off fairly quickly into the water drain in the basement floor to the sewer. There is even a drainage system with sump pump installed surrounging the perimeter of the home, but not enough to stop the sweepage, when it rains an inch in 24hr period or maybe even 0.25" per day over 3to4day period.
Just got to make sure any cardboard boxes are up off the floor, during rainy season and use plastic bins and strategic use of floor mats and maybe have a mop bucket and squeegy available.
Quoted from poppapin:Don't think you're in NJ
Not that day. That's I-70 in Colorado. I was on my way to work though!
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