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For Fourth of July weekend this year, we went up to Westminster, where I grew up, and spent a day with Grandpa Rich and Grandma Janelle. It was lining up to be a hot weekend, and when we arrived, we found grandma and grandpa sitting in the shade of a tree. After some discussion, we thought Paige would enjoy some fun in the water to cool down, so Marna went off to get a slip-n-slide.
While Paige was a little less than eager to throw herself onto a slippery surface, and slide out of control for almost twenty feet, she eventually took to it like all other water activities.
After some grilled burgers and potato salad for dinner, and as the sun started to disappear, we unloaded a bag full of fireworks (legal) that we didn't get to last year. Paige got her first run at sparklers, but enjoyed watching dad and grandpa prance around the backyard more, and handed of the responsibilities. After that we started with some small fountains. As the night progressed, there was a steady mix of both legal and, not-so-legal, fireworks.
After fireworks, Marna and I went to a nearby hotel to spend the evening, and wake up the next day for a little grown-up time. After a leisurely breakfast, we moved on to see Hancock. Although we hadn't heard any amazing reviews, we really enjoyed the comedy and twists of the movie. We then re-connected with Paige and the grandparents at Dairy Queen.
Paige had spent the morning tiring out the grandparents. She spent some more time on the slip-n-slide, then the hot tub, then the slip-n-slide, then ... Afterwards, Paige took her grandparents to the playground. When the heat started to rise, it was off to Dairy Queen for a mint Blizzard. The remainder of the day was spent back at home in Parker, CO playing with Paige's friends Hannah and Logan.
Found Kodachrome slide dated May 1980, showing a gold-coloured statue of a woman. I don't recognise it and neither does Google.
Original Image: A Day of Muni According to NextBus by Eric Fischer
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Slide by Bill Ferriter
The Tempered Radical
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Slides are a big part of his day to day activity. He loves em so much we even bought him his own little house slide.
57 and counting on this day.
He simply just can't get enough of them. I, on the other hand, am glad to see the end of it when those weary little legs kick in.
Seeing that this boy revisits whatever slide he encounters in constant carousel like motion, I decided to keep track of the number of times he took the plummet on this particular shute and I decided to let him go until he had enough.
I couldn't believe how much energy the boy had. Just say one plummet and one point of return takes an average 20 seconds. Going off count 57, he had been sliding, running around the bend, climbing the steps upto the platform, for in excess of 19 minutes.
I had to pull him aside and tell him that his little arse would be burning with friction by now, but of course he wouldn't understand a word of it. So instead I offered him an oreo in the car.
On a sidenote, I must say iPhones (5 and up, not sure about the older models) make great handy action cameras. This shot I held my thumb down on the shutter creating multiple burst shots whilst swiftly and quickly panning the phone in the direction of the downward movement. Creating the diagonal blurry streaks in the background which nicely gives the picture a sense of motion.
Tixall Gatehouse in Staffordshire owned by the Landmark Trust and a really good place to stay, we had an excellent week here. This was taken over the Grand Union canal from Shugborough Hall grounds.
Original Image Credit: My Social Networks by Gavin Llewellyn
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Quote Credit: Vala Afshar
As quoted in Tweet Your Way to Your Next Job
Slide by Bill Ferriter
The Tempered Radical
@plugusin
The pond slider (Trachemys scripta) is a species of common, medium-sized, semiaquatic turtle. Three subspecies are described, the most recognizable of which is the red-eared slider (T. s. elegans), which is popular in the pet trade and has been introduced to other parts of the world by people releasing it to the wild. Hatchling and juvenile pond sliders have a green upper shell (carapace), yellow bottom shell (plastron), and green and yellow stripes and markings on their skin. These patterns and colors in the skin and shell fade with age until the carapace is a muted olive green to brown and the plastron is a dull yellow or darker. Some sliders become almost black with few visible markings. The carapace is oval with a bit of rounding and a central crest with knobs, but these features soften and fade with age, adults being smoother and flatter. For determining an adult slider's sex, males typically have much longer front claws than adult females, while females usually have shorter, more slender tails than males. Their lifespans range from 20 to 50 years.
Etymology
The origin of the name slider stems from the behavior of these turtles when startled. Groups of sliders, sometimes quite large, as well as many other types of less abundant freshwater turtles, are often seen basking and sunning on logs, branches, and vegetation at or even well above the water's surface, but they readily and quickly scramble if they sense danger, shooting back in and darting away to safety underwater.
Distribution
Pond sliders are native to the south-central and southeastern United States and northern Mexico.
In the 1900s, many pond sliders were captured for sale. In the 1950s, millions of turtles were being farmed and shipped abroad as part of the pet trade.
These turtles often compete with native species for food, habitat, and other resources. Eventually, they bully many native species out of basking sites, where sunlight (and warmth) is available for the species. When basking, pond sliders commonly bask on birds' nests, thereby killing the eggs. They also prey on young birds.
Turtles that were raised in captivity can develop diseases that are unfamiliar to native species, which can be harmful. Turtles raised in captivity are often released because they become too much to handle or grow bigger than expected. Not uncommonly, they also escape.
Conservationists have warned owners of turtles to not release them into the wild. Many states also have passed legislation to control the possession and release of pond sliders. Two states have completely banned the sale of these turtles.
In Europe, T. scripta is included since 2016 in the list of Invasive Alien Species of Union concern (the Union list). This implies that this species cannot be imported, bred, transported, commercialized, or intentionally released into the environment in the whole of the European Union. By the first quarter of the 21st century, this species has spread widely across the waters of Europe and Southeast Asia, and is also found in the Urals and Siberia.
Hybridization between yellow-bellied and red-eared sliders is not uncommon where the ranges of the two subspecies overlap.
Alpine Triple Slide at the Playground by the Sound from the Tot lot with the Giant Tree Houses and Spiral Tube Slide in the background
Atlantis Water Park.
Marmaris, Turkey.
This photo was taken with a Nikon D3100 & a Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200mm f/4-5.6G.
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For Tina and Fargo.
Here is one more image from that playground for you.
The slide was huge and colored an interesting green, lights from above getting caught along the polished walls.
I used the texture Feathered Gold from Pareeerica on it and loved the surprisingly grungy feel.
Oh, and yes: For the photo I was lying pushed up inside the slide, knowing there was no chance I could scramble back outside from the tube before my son slammed into me. And I could not know when he'd come slithering down, cause the slide bends to the left abruptly above this.
Both kids inside the structure were afraid to try the slide, so I had a good reason for crawling inside it. For the sake of the other kid's parents outside, I pretended to entice my son and the other kid to come down, very selflessly. Only my husband didn't buy that. He muttered something about mad snappers, grin.
Data from the 2014 Speak Up Survey
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Slide by Bill Ferriter
The Tempered Radical
@plugusin
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original on 35 mm slide film, shot in the 1990's, on the farm, South of Peterborough. Shot with Olympus OM 4-T camera.
Copied to digital with Olympus slide duplicator attached to Olympus E-3.