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…Padstow is marauded with tourists (us included) in season but it is still very much a working harbour - the two main activities are Fish & Sand! Two shots today depicting just that:- Sand being unloaded from the dredger Sand-Snipe and Fish being loaded directly into a refrigerated lorry on the quay…..
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Seen in my set entitled "Mississauga"
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I've often mentioned that I work at RONA, which is a Canadian competitor to Home Depot and Lowes.
When I was growing up, our family business (Pleasant View Farms) was engaged in the wholesale and retail sales of farm and landscaping/nursery supplies: hardware, fencing, pesticides, plants, hay/straw for bedding, containers, firewood, seed, clothing, paint and on and on.
In 2002, after many years in various endeavours (museums, teaching English, marketing, I was accepted in the seasonal department at RONA, where I employed the skills and knowledge that I had garnered so many years before at Pleasant View Farms.
If you visit while I'm at RONA, you'll likely find me in the greenhouse and/or garden centre. I also spend a good deal of time on the seasonal hardware floor.
It's just part-time... a day or two a week, but it suits nicely.
About RONA
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Rona Inc. The Group's principal activity is to retail and distribute hardware, home improvement and gardening products in Canada. The Group operates in two segments namely Corporate and Franchised Stores and Distribution. The Corporate and Franchised stores segment relates to the retail operations of corporate stores and the Group's share of the retail operations of the franchised stores in which the Group has an interest. The Distribution segment relates to the supply activities to affiliated, franchised and corporate stores. As of 19-Feb-2008, the Group had 77 Big-Box stores, 327 Proximity stores and 235 Specialized stores and 40 specialized ICI.
RONA.ca Information
www.rona.ca/content/investor-relations
General Links:
www.mssociety.ca/en/events/biketour/default.htm
RONA History
1982 - Ro-Na purchased the assets of Botanix.
1984 - Ro-Na created a purchasing alliance with Ontario-based Home Hardware Stores Ltd. through Alliance RONA Home Inc.
1988 - Ro-Na merged with Dismat, another building materials company, to create Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc.
1990 - Ro-Na formed an alliance with Hardware Wholesalers, Inc. of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1997 - ITM Entreprises S.A., a France-based group, invests $30 million in the Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. ITM becomes a shareholder and forms a purchasing alliance with Ro-Na.
1998 - Ro-Na eliminates the Le Quincailleur and Dismat names and introduces RONA L'express, RONA L'express Matériaux and RONA Le Rénovateur Régional. It also changes its name from Ro-Na Dismat Group Inc. to RONA Inc.
1999 - RONA opens a new warehouse adjacent to its headquarters, measuring 654,000 square feet (61,000 m²), doubling its warehousing capacity and achieving considerable cost savings.
2000 - RONA acquires Cashway Building Centres, with 66 stores. It permanently opens its online store on the rona.ca website.
2001 - RONA acquires 51 Revy, Revelstoke and Lansing stores and thus owning many more stores in the Greater Toronto Area.
2002 - RONA closes a public offering consisting of a total offering of $150.1 million of Common Shares. RONA's Common Shares are then traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol "RON".
2003 - RONA acquires Réno-Dépôt Inc. from British Kingfisher plc, including The Building Box stores. RONA also opens its third large distribution center in Calgary, Alberta.
2004 - RONA acquires Totem Building Supplies Ltd., an Alberta company. RONA Dream Home airs on Global. RONA also joins the AIR MILES Reward Program.
2005 - RONA Dream Home 2 airs on Global.
2006 - RONA acquires a majority (51%) stake in Matériaux Coupal Inc..
2006 - RONA acquires Curtis Lumber Building Supplies
2007 - RONA acquires Burnaby, BC based Dick's Lumber
2007 - RONA acquires Nova Scotia based Castle Cash & Carry
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"According to a 2020 study using a molecular clock calibrated with 27 chelicerate fossils, spiders most likely diverged from other chelicerates between 375 and 328 million years ago.
The discovery of Chimerarachne in early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) aged Burmese amber has also demonstrated that taxa existed until the Cretaceous that had both spinnerets, and a whip-like telson."
(Source: Wikipedia: see Evolution of spiders)
Freightliner 70007 (Heavy Haul Rail) transporting building materials (probably cement) from Dewsbury Blue Circle to Hope (Earles Sidings) passing through Moorthorpe, at 10:54, working 6M89.
Jericho Beach Park,
West Point Grey, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Beavers build dams and lodges using tree branches, vegetation, rocks and mud; they chew down trees for building material. Dams restrict water flow, and lodges serve as shelters. Their infrastructure creates wetlands used by many other species, and because of their effect on other organisms in the ecosystem, beavers are considered a keystone species.
A slither of fabulous northern pebbledash and a painted wooden fence. Compliment each other perfectly:)
Rüdersdorf, Germany – 2017, April 23
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心情的故事....
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2018.07.01 Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA USA. © copyright by May Lee 廖藹淳
Metal screws casting long shadows in bright spotlight, artistic lighting on white surface and wall background
A back-alley corner in Chiayi, a study in mismatched materials side by side. The house on the left is fenced in timber; the one on the right wears corrugated steel and plastic sheeting on both its wall and its fence; and through the gap, an older brick building shows further back. Wood, metal, plastic, brick — every era's material fused into one ordinary view.
Teil einer Skulptur von Benjamin Bergmann.
Dazu noch eine Treppenandeutung und eine Art Farbfehler beim Wandanstrich.
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[This is a series of 10 photos about Red Fox Farm) Approximately 2 miles north of Skipwith, Mecklenburg County, Virginia is Red Fox Farm, part of which is visible from the highway. All images were taken from the shoulder of the road and restricted me to the beautifully maintained tobacco barns. The farm is an excellent example of late 19th and early 20th centuries tobacco farm in Southside Virginia. Robert Jeffreys acquired the property about 1887-1888 and introduced the flue-curing technique of curing tobacco to the region. He focused on growing bright-leaf tobacco, used mainly in cigarettes. The dark-leaf previously grown in the area was used for chewing tobacco. There are five tobacco or curing barns on the property, dates unknown, all are about 18' square with a single opening where tobacco was hung to dry inside. Four barns also have an open shed. Unskinned logs were the building material, approximately 8 inches in diameter. The gaps between the logs were chinked with clay and sticks (see image 6 in this series). The gable roofs have metal roofs. The setting is picturesque with many standing trees contributing to the aesthetics. The farms economic and historical significance and the well-preserved outbuildings typical of the times justified inclusion on the National Register of Historical Places June 10, 1993 with ID #93000508
The farm implement is an antique animal-powered cultivator
See the National Register nomination form (in pdf format) for an informative discussion of tobacco growing and curing at the Virginia Department of Historic Resources
www.dhr.virginia.gov/VLR_to_transfer/PDFNoms/058-0131_Red...
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7DWF Crazy Tuesday Theme: Backlight.
You have to have a mighty acorn to produce a mighty oak.
By Sean Walsh.
Berlin, Germany – 2017, April 14
(Pentax 67, Super Takumar 55mm F3.5, Kodak Ektar 100)
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This ton of bricks hit me when I walked into the first barn (see what I did there?) on the tour. I'm assuming it's a pile of bricks salvaged from an old building.
This is the first picture I took at this event. The next picture is the LAST picture I took.
DeKalb County Barn Tour
Egan's Farm
Sycamore, Illinois 41.998683, -88.619702
August 9,2025
My pictures from the 2025 DeKalb County Barn Tour
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