I need to see a photo of your wood pile.
As someone who has done a turn splitting and stacking firewood, I admire a well-stacked wood pile.
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XMAS ARRIVES EARLY FOR WILLIWAW
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My husband had his 4th surgery of the year recently - he'll be fine - and will be "out" until March-ish. . . meaning I've had to do all of the outdoor chores myself, like getting ready for winter this fall (brag: my wood piles are works of art) and winter itself now, like splitting all the wood and alllll the snow clearing: shoveling around the house and blowing the snow on our mile long road/driveway, no small joke in the high Colorado mountains.
Our old snowblower attachment for our Toolcat is almost 20 years old and had a whole host of problems, including a hydraulic system that kept going kaput (see: https://mltshp.com/p/1Q1B3). Alas, we can't just haul it on a trailer to the mechanics so last year we had the Bobcat people here twice to fix problems we couldn't do ourselves, which was a thing considering the nearest Bobcat dealer is 3 hours away. . . a very expensive thing. Grrr!
SOooooo after realizing I was going to have to do all the snowblowing for the winter alone and, not wanting to spend hours in <0 degree temps swearing at whatever broke this time, hoping that a little grease gun action would fix it or desperately applying JB weld to holes and blah blah blah - doable when we were splitting the work but now has turned from "just irritating/part of life" to actually problematic - I asked for a new snowblower attachment for Xmas. Had to take a loan for it (thanks Trump tariffs! JFC!!) but now it's here! It's here!!!
It's A M A Z I N G. The skid-shoes haven't been re- welded on multiple times at multiple levels. There's no holes in the chute so it actually blows out at a distance instead of falling out. The auger doesn't freeze whenever you look at it wrong. The two stages actually work in parallel. The chute itself is on a sprocket wheel, not a chain, so you don't have to stop every 10 minutes and clear ice chunks out.
Our push/walk behind blower - a lovely Honda 2 stage, self-propelled blower with treads/track drive which throws snow 50 feet and starts when it's 20 below that I also love - is called Odin because it's so powerful and our troublesome old Toolcat blower was Loki. So obviously this new one is now Thor.
THOR!!! All praise THOR!! We received Thor in time for a snowstorm which dumped 4 feet of snow in 3 days and I already LOVE LOVE LOVE Thor. I never want to be without Thor again. You can have your awesome tech doodads and cooking geegaws and music fun widgets and things your kids made for you for Xmas: all I want is Thor. And I have him! I'm soooo lucky!!!
I'M SO HAPPY.
edit: the machine is not new, just the attachment!
Our old snowblower attachment for our Toolcat is almost 20 years old and had a whole host of problems, including a hydraulic system that kept going kaput (see: https://mltshp.com/p/1Q1B3). Alas, we can't just haul it on a trailer to the mechanics so last year we had the Bobcat people here twice to fix problems we couldn't do ourselves, which was a thing considering the nearest Bobcat dealer is 3 hours away. . . a very expensive thing. Grrr!
SOooooo after realizing I was going to have to do all the snowblowing for the winter alone and, not wanting to spend hours in <0 degree temps swearing at whatever broke this time, hoping that a little grease gun action would fix it or desperately applying JB weld to holes and blah blah blah - doable when we were splitting the work but now has turned from "just irritating/part of life" to actually problematic - I asked for a new snowblower attachment for Xmas. Had to take a loan for it (thanks Trump tariffs! JFC!!) but now it's here! It's here!!!
It's A M A Z I N G. The skid-shoes haven't been re- welded on multiple times at multiple levels. There's no holes in the chute so it actually blows out at a distance instead of falling out. The auger doesn't freeze whenever you look at it wrong. The two stages actually work in parallel. The chute itself is on a sprocket wheel, not a chain, so you don't have to stop every 10 minutes and clear ice chunks out.
Our push/walk behind blower - a lovely Honda 2 stage, self-propelled blower with treads/track drive which throws snow 50 feet and starts when it's 20 below that I also love - is called Odin because it's so powerful and our troublesome old Toolcat blower was Loki. So obviously this new one is now Thor.
THOR!!! All praise THOR!! We received Thor in time for a snowstorm which dumped 4 feet of snow in 3 days and I already LOVE LOVE LOVE Thor. I never want to be without Thor again. You can have your awesome tech doodads and cooking geegaws and music fun widgets and things your kids made for you for Xmas: all I want is Thor. And I have him! I'm soooo lucky!!!
I'M SO HAPPY.
edit: the machine is not new, just the attachment!
dark side of the moon
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A view from the surface of the moon: a vast white expanse under a starry black sky. In the top right of the sky sits the earth, a blue and brown half-moon covered with white clouds. Visible in the distance are mountains. Closer to the viewer is a round hole in the ground. A ladder is sticking out of it, leading down to who knows where. Next to the hole is an orange warning cone. The painting is signed "Chris Silverman".
Access for the celestial mechanics?
✊🏼
FIFA Awards
Problem Solved
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A black 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled “RAM Doubler” by Connectix for Windows, promising “More memory with just one click.” The label features a tan and blue design.
I seem to think I needed this to play street fighter 2 on my 486sx.
This worked so well for everything but games. Iit absolutely murdered some of them more than going without for some reason.
I remember Keanu using this trick in JOHNNY MNEMONIC, to reach a whopping 160 Gigabytes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
I am confuse.
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Pictured are two hominoid stick figures. The one on the left has two smaller squares near where their shoulders might be the one on the right has two smaller squares down where their hips might be.
I modified this from the original photo that I saw because it had asinine verbiage next to it.
Pockets up top
Pockets in your pants
Pockets in your pants
How'd you get the beans above the frank?
brovaries/ovaries
breasteses/testiclees
lowercase 𝕚 that’s mad/lowercase 𝕚 that’s dancing
am i doing this right?
breasteses/testiclees
lowercase 𝕚 that’s mad/lowercase 𝕚 that’s dancing
am i doing this right?
Y U JELLY?
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A can of “jelly shot” yuzu sake
Surprisingly tasty, but a little weird if you missed the “jelly shot” on the label.
GIMME DAT
If it ain’t baroque don’t fix it
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Photograph of a smiling, glasses-wearing, light-skinned woman with pink hair in a black blazer, sitting beside a Baroque orchestra with her Baroque equipped violin, playing in a modern sanctuary with a lit Christmas tree and large windows.
Snuck a quick video (find the video on my various socials) and selfie during sound check for our awesome #Baroque #gig yesterday, where we performed Vivaldi’s Gloria and Vivaldi’s Autumn. I can’t tell you how much I LOVE playing with a Baroque ensemble… If anyone out there needs a Baroque violinist, just hit me up! 😇
#baroqueorchestra #baroqueviolinist #vivaldi #earlymusic
#baroqueorchestra #baroqueviolinist #vivaldi #earlymusic
Barok is the best. Brava
Another beautiful day in the garden.
I gotcher merry christmas right here
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vintage add for a singing teddy bear with a peppermint stick sticking out of its lap
if you know what I mean
crack: not even once
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It must be the weekend for old guitar repairs:
https://mltshp.com/p/1RFT5
This is an old Univox acoustic that i got cheap like 25 years ago and shimmed at one point to get the action within reason, but i thought i'd try to do a proper fix on.
It was badly glued once before (maybe by me? I don't remember), so odds of success are low, but also the guitar is really nothing special, it's a plywood '70s or '80s made in Japan guitar with a bolt-on neck. It's probably not even worth the bench fee for a luthier, so i'm working on it myself. I just want to have it reasonably playable.
https://mltshp.com/p/1RFT5
This is an old Univox acoustic that i got cheap like 25 years ago and shimmed at one point to get the action within reason, but i thought i'd try to do a proper fix on.
It was badly glued once before (maybe by me? I don't remember), so odds of success are low, but also the guitar is really nothing special, it's a plywood '70s or '80s made in Japan guitar with a bolt-on neck. It's probably not even worth the bench fee for a luthier, so i'm working on it myself. I just want to have it reasonably playable.
Today I learnt a new word "luthier"
I had never heard that word before, probably because I have never played any musical instrument (succesfully) in my life.
It's good to learn new words.
I had never heard that word before, probably because I have never played any musical instrument (succesfully) in my life.
It's good to learn new words.
#housepanther
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A two panel screenshot from an episode of the Wire. Walon (Steve Earle) leans into the guy standing next to him and says:
1st panel: "Bubs, I've only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me"
2nd: "Four tops"
1st panel: "Bubs, I've only got two, maybe three Motown puns left in me"
2nd: "Four tops"
What's he building in there?
how I work
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feet sticking out of a retro-future pod rotating
Touch the fishy
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Painting of an orange cat poking a fish on a dinner plate that's sitting next to a pickle. Touchy da fishy!
THAT PRECIOUS BABY CAN DO NO WRONG
OK, but imma touch da fishy
Assaulted?
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Sunset view of large metal pistachio by roadside
World’s Largest Pistachio by Tim McGinn. New Mexico. 2007.
Have not visited.
https://www.tumblr.com/theweird...
Have not visited.
https://www.tumblr.com/theweird...
Gremblin
Yul to see Yul
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Yul Brenner dropping in to see Yul Brenner at the premiere of The Ten Commandments in 1956. In a sweet Mercedes 300SL by the way.
Man could pick a car
I still think "just don't smoke" was his most important role
fight me, ya bastard!
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YE SHIVERED YE LAST TIMBER
Restoring it? Or giving up on it?
Old Yamaha or Peavey guitar? Those cutouts are too pointy to be a Fender. Looks like plywood, like my recent Danelectro bass purchase.
The name kinda lingers
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Sign - Welcome to Licking County
That's not a dry county.
I live there (really)!
@cwhartman ++
So I had to look it up... why Licking?
"It is named after the Licking River, which is thought to be named for the salt licks that were in the area. However, one account explains it as an English pronunciation of the river's indigenous Delaware name W'li/'ik'/nk, which means "where the flood waters recede"."
So I had to look it up... why Licking?
"It is named after the Licking River, which is thought to be named for the salt licks that were in the area. However, one account explains it as an English pronunciation of the river's indigenous Delaware name W'li/'ik'/nk, which means "where the flood waters recede"."
SILF
Zero what now?
2025.
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Photograph, at night, of a hand-stenciled white sign planted in the verge of a road. "He sold you / flowers / and ICE took / him".
"ICE took him" is underlined.
"ICE took him" is underlined.
Yuck.
🚑
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Product photo of an offline ChatGPT.
It's a branded magic 8-ball with a goatse logo. Answers typical of ChatGPT are shown
It's a branded magic 8-ball with a goatse logo. Answers typical of ChatGPT are shown
that logo is the uh Greatest Of All Time, see
ChatseGPT
Somebody needs to make this, I would buy one right now
English (Strine) test - Avago ya mug
Thor is very beastly, for me doing that would be so much fun, but I'm sure after a while it's just a chore