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Fucking awesome~! Did you do it? Now you have a Back Porch~!
Yes sir. Took 3 weekends but it's all done now.
First time in 5 years
really need to clay and polish it one day, and get it ceramic coated.Old girl doesn’t get a ton of miles put on her (‘08 535i)
When we moved to San Diego 6 years ago, it had 73k miles
Just sits on trickle mostly minus weekly warm up and short drive.
5 oil changes and only 3500 miles
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Last week, I got an old armoir that was scratched up real bad, and nearly falling apart. I decided to turn it into my new kitchen hutch. It was easy to turn the beveled mirror into window glass for it. Screwing the joints together took a while. I had no idea the armoir was put together so shoddy.
You can see the different colors of the wood shelves I had put in. It's OK. I painted them too.
You can see the different colors of the wood shelves I had put in. It's OK. I painted them too.
I was just sitting in my recliner when I noticed a rainbow of sorts on my ceiling, caused by sunlight refracting off water on the sidewalk. The dream catcher chime silhouette is of a dream catcher chime I made that hangs in the window.
The speckled appearance is caused by a light breeze blowing on the water that sits on the sidewalk with no place to go after all the rain we got from the past 3 days and nights.
The speckled appearance is caused by a light breeze blowing on the water that sits on the sidewalk with no place to go after all the rain we got from the past 3 days and nights.
So tiny...almost stepped on it.
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So tiny...almost stepped on it.
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Hubbs and I saw a frog at Umstead Park in Raleigh once that was smaller than my thumbnail. I looked down and it looked like a pebble moved, and he said, that's a frog! I had to get down on my knees to look at it closer. It was the tiniest little thing.
Love your pic. That is so cool. I like frogs as long as they don't get in the house. My sis used to call them "hoppy toads" when she was little and we were living in Central Florida. When it rained outside, which was damn near every day, if you opened the front door they would scoot inside and then disappear. At night when we were trying to sleep, then they'd start croaking. I can't tell you how many hoppy toads my mother had to fish out of the bottoms of closets, from under the couch, behind the piano, anywhere they could get where they felt secluded.
I didn't take this photo, but I love it. My weekend house guest took a walk Sunday morning. This is what greeted her upon return to my yard.
Nice job.
That really did come out nice.
Here's a re-purpose idea that I thought would be cool.
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Out bush and got some more nice wildflower pictures. Some are minute but look awesome.
First the purple one and then the mauve one.
Both the same size. But you'll see what I mean by minute with the mauve one. Thats the tip of my index finger.
These were blanketing the area. Bigger than the last two, size of I guess a thumb nail.
These grow in clumps of flowers with the plant itself just 10 inches or so high. Many of our bush wildflowers are pretty small but stunning. The ground is on the goldfields and highly mineralised, so anything growing does it tough as the ground is very hard and compact and just an inch or so deep after rain bone dry. They may at times not flower for a season or two depending on conditions.
These also only flower or show up when conditions are right, first time in years id seen them in this spot.
A close up.
This is a Honey Myrtle. This bush is about 8 foot high. They can take years to grow to this size. The smaller ones you will see but not flower until they grow to over a few feet high, even then they dont flower profusely. Its the older ones like this that put on the show.
First the purple one and then the mauve one.
Both the same size. But you'll see what I mean by minute with the mauve one. Thats the tip of my index finger.
These were blanketing the area. Bigger than the last two, size of I guess a thumb nail.
These grow in clumps of flowers with the plant itself just 10 inches or so high. Many of our bush wildflowers are pretty small but stunning. The ground is on the goldfields and highly mineralised, so anything growing does it tough as the ground is very hard and compact and just an inch or so deep after rain bone dry. They may at times not flower for a season or two depending on conditions.
These also only flower or show up when conditions are right, first time in years id seen them in this spot.
A close up.
This is a Honey Myrtle. This bush is about 8 foot high. They can take years to grow to this size. The smaller ones you will see but not flower until they grow to over a few feet high, even then they dont flower profusely. Its the older ones like this that put on the show.
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I was so worried.
Beautiful pics.
Was out today again. Was great and at another place id not been to for easy 12 months since lockdowns. Was fantastic to go there. Saw some great things to take pictures of as I detected, but alas the weather changed dramatically after a few hours, stated to feel it in my breathing, I get athsma, on the range near by which was crystal clear when I got there it was very hazy then. I had heard that a thunder storm athsma warning was on the radar so packed up and headed for home. Very humid and ominous clouds above. Driving home I saw rain falling over where I was headed to home. But didn't drive through any. It was evaporating before hitting ground. One of those weird weather events coming our way. Think I timed it well. Looking from home now I can't see the mount that I was right near then. Usually can see it easy. Great day though there.
Beautiful. Spooky atmospheric.This is storm just hitting the west side of the bay. Which I heard on radio when I got home
@Lady Sarah
You like lizards.
Saw this one when out today. Going by the size of its stomach id guess a female ready to give birth. These dont lay eggs, they give birth to live young.
A very docile lizard that will just sit there looking at you. This was about a foot long.
Shingle Back or commonly called a Stumpy Tail.
You can feed them too. There used to be a couple at my parents place that they'd feed peaches to. They love peaches.
You like lizards.
Saw this one when out today. Going by the size of its stomach id guess a female ready to give birth. These dont lay eggs, they give birth to live young.
A very docile lizard that will just sit there looking at you. This was about a foot long.
Shingle Back or commonly called a Stumpy Tail.
You can feed them too. There used to be a couple at my parents place that they'd feed peaches to. They love peaches.
That looks kinda cute.
Our beardie is another matter altogether. When I feed her, our Yorkie gets jealous, so I pick him up where he can watch her eat. Then, the Yorkie starts shaking nervously and looks away. I haven't seen anything scare him as much as that beardie does.
From the newly discovered Fabricisumus Tree?
Lol, now that I look at it, maybe? Maybe that's why I kept staring at it? I woulda swore it was real, now I dunnoFrom the newly discovered Fabricisumus Tree?
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My misses has some plants in pots that utterly stooge me. The other day inside I was sneezing and blamed some flowers in a vase I hadn't seen before. She laughed and said take a closer look. Id did, it wasn't until I grabbed a stem and bent it that I could honestly tell they were fake.
The worst though was detecting. Someone had made and planted a fake nugget I found. Would have been worth thousands if real. I quickly put it in the car and kept looking for more. Wasn't till at home I saw some of the gold paint missing from an edge of it.
My misses has some plants in pots that utterly stooge me. The other day inside I was sneezing and blamed some flowers in a vase I hadn't seen before. She laughed and said take a closer look. Id did, it wasn't until I grabbed a stem and bent it that I could honestly tell they were fake.
The worst though was detecting. Someone had made and planted a fake nugget I found. Would have been worth thousands if real. I quickly put it in the car and kept looking for more. Wasn't till at home I saw some of the gold paint missing from an edge of it.
Now that's just downright wrong@dubya314
My misses has some plants in pots that utterly stooge me. The other day inside I was sneezing and blamed some flowers in a vase I hadn't seen before. She laughed and said take a closer look. Id did, it wasn't until I grabbed a stem and bent it that I could honestly tell they were fake.
The worst though was detecting. Someone had made and planted a fake nugget I found. Would have been worth thousands if real. I quickly put it in the car and kept looking for more. Wasn't till at home I saw some of the gold paint missing from an edge of it.
What's more wrong is about 20yrs ago I was told about some guys who were doing it that were working an area I knew well. They were detecting around a specific reef line. I thought "ill get you mongrels".Now that's just downright wrong
So I went there and got a lump of lead and hammered it into a crack in a large bit of quartz. It would have given a huge signal.
Several yrs later I forgot about it and went detecting there. Got a signal, thought "yes!"
But I had nothing to break it open with so put it into my pack.
Later smashed it open then the penny dropped when I saw the lead.
I never did it again.
Hey, gross out time.
I thought I'd show you guys what our infamous Bulldog Ants can do.
They are recorded even in the Guiness Book of Records as the Worlds most dangerous and Toxic ant. And most Toxic insect. They grow up to 5 cm in length. They say 3 to 4 but I've seen bigger so say 5cm to 6cm on rare occasions. They are not just aggressive, they are insane. When they see you they look up at you and come at you. They are so aggressive that I have even had them drop from tree's onto me to attack me when Iv been detecting near their nests. (They were feeding in the trees on gumtree flower nectar, the nest was in the ground beneath) Drop bears are a joke, Drop Ants are real.
They range from the colour of the one shown in the below picture to brown, rusty and black to full black. The huge ones that I spoke of have all been fully black and I once got stung by one and couldn't walk for a week.
They grab a hold with those evil mandibles then sting you with the stinger in their abdomen injecting venom.
I was stung on Monday when out, after about an hour I felt nauseous for roughly an hour, later that night my heart was racing a bit, yesterday the day after the toxin had kicked in to the surrounding tissue. You feel like getting a cheese grater to scratch it with. But to touch it hurts, and after sitting then the first few steps it throbs with pain.
Truly an insect to be very wary of and avoid.
This is the type that stung me.
This is the result from 1 Bulldog ant.
I thought I'd show you guys what our infamous Bulldog Ants can do.
They are recorded even in the Guiness Book of Records as the Worlds most dangerous and Toxic ant. And most Toxic insect. They grow up to 5 cm in length. They say 3 to 4 but I've seen bigger so say 5cm to 6cm on rare occasions. They are not just aggressive, they are insane. When they see you they look up at you and come at you. They are so aggressive that I have even had them drop from tree's onto me to attack me when Iv been detecting near their nests. (They were feeding in the trees on gumtree flower nectar, the nest was in the ground beneath) Drop bears are a joke, Drop Ants are real.
They range from the colour of the one shown in the below picture to brown, rusty and black to full black. The huge ones that I spoke of have all been fully black and I once got stung by one and couldn't walk for a week.
They grab a hold with those evil mandibles then sting you with the stinger in their abdomen injecting venom.
I was stung on Monday when out, after about an hour I felt nauseous for roughly an hour, later that night my heart was racing a bit, yesterday the day after the toxin had kicked in to the surrounding tissue. You feel like getting a cheese grater to scratch it with. But to touch it hurts, and after sitting then the first few steps it throbs with pain.
Truly an insect to be very wary of and avoid.
This is the type that stung me.
This is the result from 1 Bulldog ant.
Stayed up all night at Glacier Point Yosemite Nat Park for the meteors on a clear August night. First saw Half Dome by moonlight, then the moon set and later saw lots of meteors... around 3:00 AM saw my first Aurora (northern lights) Never did get a pic of a meteor but got these:
The first one brings to mind a Van Gogh painting.
Seeing those radiation curtains are awesome. I lived on our OZ surf coast yrs ago.
I was mesmerised when I first saw the Southern Lights! Green and Pinkish curtains hanging down from the sky. Was on the Barwon Heads bluff, high ground looking out at the ocean at the time doing a security night job. Never forget. I was dumbstruck and frozen in awe.
It's a beautiful leaf... and a nice pic.
This is another special pic from Glacier Point area (Yosemite Nat Park) it was such a special dark sky night (you could actually see without a flashlight, no moonlight, if your eyes adjusted to the darkness, you could see just from the light from the stars (the milkyway galaxy) we even closed our eyes while lighting a cig (I know... wish I vaped back then) We did three years in a row every August at Glacier Point... nothing but coffee, hot chocolate and Malibu rum:
That's half dome in the background.
That's half dome in the background.
I have so many more... but wish others would post a few (if not, I'll be back)
Here's a totally unique image. 35 mm manual camera with the lens replaced by a home-made "pinhole" aimed directly at the sun.
I'm an amateur but got really into it years ago. Have more but will spread them out (one a day) Maybe that will get others to post more too.
0400 walk with my 13yo Golden.
Not sure what those dots are, but three of them are symmetrical
No idea what the 6 horizontal ones or the 9 are overall
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I've posted these before, but the pics are gone 
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2WW... that last one kicks ass!
Santa Cruz CA boardwalk:
Reflection of that ride on the wet sand near the boardwalk:
Reflection of that ride on the wet sand near the boardwalk:
South San Diego (literally 1.5m from border) looking at San Diego bay and Point Loma.
Uncharacteristically warm weather the past few days, hazing the skies, allergies etc.
Today was 86* and in some places in the county near 97*
Wednesday back to our regularly scheduled high 60’s
til early February and 95* for a week then 70’s til 4th of July.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Nice! Do you know kind of birds made that?