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My personal favourite...
for the FQ retreat sample swap...
Tried to think of something "me" which was also small & also useful. I think these tick all the boxes...
The corner reference sample.
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I was back at the Benjamin Moore paint store and noticed these 18"x18" paint samples. Many color choices and would make nice walls for playscale dioramas. They are thin so they would need to be double face taped to foam core. Just love all of the color options.
I still love mat board best for dioramas. I get one big sheet in the framing dept of Michael's with a 60% off framing coupon (so about $12). Then, I cut it in half for 2 giant walls in the color of your choice. I need to get one for a diorama I'm hoping to do at some point.
By the way, Benjamin Moore is the best paint I've used. Does not drip and awesome coverage. Expensive though - $51 for a gallon. It washes well, too. I usually use pearl finish, but I'm going to try eggshell for my next set of rooms - a little less sheen. Pearl is great for high traffic rooms because it is so washable.
There have been a lot of changes in the bird world in our area over the last couple of weeks. The wiser ones have either already flocked off or are having loud conferences about which routes to take south before they actually leave. One aspect my wife has noticed in our neighborhood is how quickly they fly to the bird buffet that she puts out early each morning. The easy availability of food in the wild is changing.
This young downy woodpecker has shown up lately and scrounges around for insects that may be hiding in various wooden structures. Though he has favorite foods, he is not adverse to sampling other things that might please him as seen in this photo. This woodpecker is a member of the smallest and most widespread woodpecker species in North America.
Extremely agile bird on trees, you can often spot them circling a tree looking for food as they cling to the bark with their long and sharp claws.
In our brutal Minnesota winters, they often join other small birds like chickadees when they forage for food.
Interestingly, male and females downy woodpeckers normally hunt in different locations if they are on the same tree. Males tend to go lower on the tree while females like larger branches that are higher up.
Not quite sure what that means but I never fail to consider there may be important concepts that may be transferable to humans.
There are an estimated 14 million downy woodpeckers alive at any one time so they always have friends in the areas they inhabit.
(Photographed near Cambridge, MN)
Sweet pea and her sister-in-law sampling flavored moonshine. Ole Smoky Moonshine opened for business in July of 2010. I think they did 50,000 cases that year. This year they expect to produce 900,000 cases. Quite a success story.
Having been truely inspired by the cupcakes I have seen on Flickr, I wanted to try my own. These were made as samples for a customer, who ordered - so it was well worth it!! Really enjoyed making these. Vanilla cakes
The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic interplanetary delivery.
The sophisticated robot, known as the Sample Transfer Arm or STA, will play a crucial role in the success of the Mars Sample Return campaign. The joint endeavour between NASA and ESA aims to bring back martian samples to the best labs in our planet by 2033.
The robotic arm will land on Mars to retrieve the sample tubes NASA’s Perseverance rover is currently collecting from the surface. Able to “see”, “feel” and take autonomous decisions, the Sample Transfer Arm will identify, pick up and transfer the tubes into the first rocket fired off another planet – the Mars Launch System.
Only after the robot closes the container’s lid, the martian samples will be launched for rendezvous with ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) and bring the material back to Earth.
The Sample Transfer Arm is conceived to be autonomous, highly reliable and robust.
Its architecture mimics a human arm with a shoulder, elbow and wrist, and has its own built-in brain and eyes. The robot can perform a large range of movements with seven degrees of freedom.
Credits: Leonardo/Maxon/GMV/ OHB Italia/ SAB Aerospace s.r.o