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I have a few pots on the patio with chives in them.
I love chives and good to see the bees loving them too!
One for my Honey bees on named flowers set
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This is a sign for Vicki's BBQ, a barbecue place on Warren Avenue in Detroit that is famous enough to have been featured on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's TV series. It has determinedly remained in the same location even as the neighborhood faded away around it.
I did not eat at Vicki's, but am using this shot to illustrate a "public service project" of mine. For some years now, I have been working on a spreadsheet that incorporates the American barbecue places that cook with wood and that have been listed as among the "best" by reputable critics.
The "reputable critics" include the fabulous Real Barbecue books, whose 1988 and 2007 editions are among my favorite books of all time; the invaluable quadrennial Texas Monthly lists of the best barbecue places in Texas; Johnny Fugitt's "The Best 100 Barbecue Restaurants in America," based on Fugitt's year spent eating barbecue across America in more than 300 restaurants; Food and Wine Magazine's periodic listings of the best BBQ places in each state; various national "Best Of" ratings by the Food Network; Thrillist.com's ratings of the 33 best BBQ places in the US and of the best BBQ places in each state; Wes Berry's "KY BBQ: The Kentucky Barbecue Book" (2015), whose author has a marvelous ear for dialogue and which is well worth reading straight through even if you never eat in a single one of the restaurants Berry rates; ratings by the regional magazines Southern Living and Garden and Gun; ratings by dedicated and knowledgeable BBQ bloggers like the estimable John Tanner and the BBQ Jew (whose blog has now sadly gone dark); and me (point of personal privilege).
The spreadsheet is probably too detailed to be of much interest except to the most fanatical BBQ gourmand (but is available upon request). However, I have prepared a Google Map that is publicly available at the link below of every currently operating restaurant that (a) has appeared two or more times on any of these "best" lists or (b) has received the highest rating from Texas Monthly, Real Barbecue, or me.
Here is a link to the map:
The map currently has more than 250 BBQ places on it, but there are some places that get praised far more often than the others. Based on the spreadsheet, I would say the following are probably the 93 US BBQ places that are the most famous and most highly regard by critics (listed by state) (* = I have eaten their barbecue).
This is not a list of my personal favorite places, but of those most often highly rated by critics.
This list will be updated periodically (and capped at a maximum of 100 places).
- Big Bob Gibson's - Decatur, Alabama*
- Saws BBQ - Homewood, Alabama
- Archibald's Bar B.Q. - Northport, Alabama
- Dreamland - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Little Miss BBQ - Phoenix, Arizona
- Craig's Bar-B-Q - Devalls Bluff, Arkansas
- McLard's - Hot Springs, Arkansas*
- Jones Bar-B-Que Diner - Marianna, Arkansas
- Bludso's Bar & Que - Fairfax, California
- Memphis Minnie's Barbecue Joint & Smokehouse - San Francisco, California
- 4 Rivers Smokehouse - Winter Park, Florida
- Fat Matt's Rib Shack - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Fox Brothers Bar-B-Q - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Heirloom Market BBQ - Atlanta, Georgia*
- Fresh Aire - Jackson, Georgia*
- Southern Soul Barbeque - St. Simons Island, Georgia
- Beast Craft Barbecue - Belleville, Illinois
- Lem's - Chicago, Illinois
- Smoque - Chicago, Illinois
- 17th Street Bar & Grill - Murphysboro, Illinois
- Joe's Kansas City - Kansas City, Kansas*
- Jones Bar-B-Q - Kansas City, Kansas
- Moonlite BBQ Inn - Owensboro, Kentucky*
- Old Hickory Pit - Owensboro, Kentucky*
- Starnes Barbecue - Paducah, Kentucky
- The Joint - New Orleans, Louisiana
- Arthur Bryant's - Kansas City, Missouri*
- LC's - Kansas City, Missouri
- Bogart's Smokehouse - St. Louis, Missouri*
- Pappy's Smokehouse - St. Louis, Missouri*
- Abe's Bar-B-Q Drive-In - Clarksdale, Mississippi*
- The Shed Barbecue & Blues Joint - Ocean Springs, Mississippi*
- Leatha's - Petal, Mississippi*
- Fette Sau - Brooklyn, New York
- Home Town Bar-B-Que, Brooklyn, New York
- Dinosaur Bar-B-Que - Syracuse, New York*
- Buxton Hall - Asheville, North Carolina
- Bum's - Ayden, North Carolina
- Skylight Inn - Ayden, North Carolina
- Grady's - Dudley, North Carolina
- Wilber's - Goldsboro, North Carolina*
- Stamey's - Greensboro, North Carolina
- B's Barbecue - Greenville, North Carolina
- The Barbecue Center - Lexington, North Carolina*
- Lexington BBQ #1 - Lexington, North Carolina*
- The Pit - Raleigh, North Carolina*
- Red Bridges Barbecue Lodge - Shelby, North Carolina*
- Sam Jones Barbecue - Winterville, North Carolina
- Midway BBQ - Buffalo, South Carolina
- Home Team BBQ - Charleston, South Carolina
- Lewis Barbecue - Charleston, South Carolina
- Rodney Scott's - Charleston, South Carolina
- Scott's BBQ - Hemingway, South Carolina
- Sweatman's - Holly Hill, South Carolina
- Brown's Bar-B-Q - Kingstree, South Carolina
- McCabe's - Manning, South Carolina
- Hite's Bar-B-Que - West Columbia, South Carolina
- Maurice's Piggy Park - West Columbia, South Carolina
- The Ridgewood - Bluff City, Tennessee*
- Helen's - Brownsville, Tennessee*
- B.E. Scott's - Lexington, Tennessee*
- Bozo's Hot Pit Bar-B-Q - Mason, Tennessee
- A&R Bar-B-Que - Memphis, Tennessee
- Central BBQ - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Charlie Vergos Rendezvous - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Cozy Corner - Memphis, Tennessee
- Payne's - Memphis, Tennessee*
- Peg Leg Porker - Nashville, Tennessee*
- Martin's - Nolensville, Tennessee
- Franklin BBQ - Austin, Texas
- La Barbecue - Austin, Texas
- Valentina's Tex-Mex BBQ - Austin, Texas
- TRUTH Barbecue - Brenham, Texas
- Vera's Backyard Bar-B-Que - Brownsville, Texas
- Cattleack Barbecue - Dallas, Texas
- Lockhart Smokehouse - Dallas, Texas
- Pecan Lodge - Dallas, Texas
- Sonny Bryan's Smokehouse - Dallas, Texas
- The Salt Lick - Driftwood, Texas
- Southside Market - Elgin, Texas
- Gatlin's BBQ - Houston, Texas
- Snow's BBQ - Lexington, Texas
- Cooper's Old-Time Pit Bar-B-Que - Llano, Texas
- Black's Barbecue - Lockhart, Texas*
- Kreuz Market - Lockhart, Texas*
- Smitty's Market - Lockhart, Texas
- City Market - Luling, Texas*
- Killen's Barbecue - Pearland, Texasa
- CorkScrew BBQ - Spring, Texas
- Louis Mueller Barbecue - Taylor, Texas
- Tejas Chocolate + Barbecue - Tomball, Texas
- Stanley's Famous Pit Barbecue - Tyler, Texas
- The Barbeque Exchange - Gordonsville, Virginia*
- ZZQ - Richmond, Virginia*
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at Sheringham for their Steam Gala Event, I moved along to Weybourne where 8572 was just coming from the sheds and had moved forward to the Station Platform ready to start work on Steam Gala activities.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
Cab photo of Locomotive 8572 is a Holden designed and Bayer Peacock built for the GER (later LNER) Class B12 - 4-6-0
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Okay, I suck. I haven't been updating Flickr and my pain in the neck store manager is on my case - she even made a spreadsheet!. Please go to Nuke's flickr page and tell her to lay off poor, overworked, tired Sliye. Extra points and maybe free stuff if you call her a hobag. xox
This is the [RnR] Montana Bench - it was released at our beloved Cosmo two weeks ago, but now you can pick it up in store :)
It comes with menu-based texture changes, and they're interchangeable, so you can have dark wood with light leather, or light wood with dark leather or inbetween or all dark or all light! Fancy!
Rhyme nor Reason Main Store:
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Don't forget, RnR is running a photo comp, any photo containing an RnR item that tags us on flickr is eligible to enter and voting will be done at the end of month live music event in the Paracosm club beneath the store. Last Friday of the month at 7am SLT. Lovely L$ and lots of fun stuff up for grabs. :)
The 2th annual kawaii Fair
Date: 12 - 26 April
Price: L$ 2500 Lindens, 100 prims.
Rules: docs.google.com/document/d/1hyg06WpCWqW0sKDXp15zmkS5qLDL4...
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Orange pollen loads visible.
Botanic Park Belfast a couple of weekends ago.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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also known as Sweet box or Christmas box.
The start of a corbicula pollen load is visible and is more white than cream.
At Rowallane Gardens today, this is growing next to the entrance of the main house (tearoom) - temperature was 9C and dull. The bees were out and about and working this plant hard. The beautiful scent today from this plant was amazing - and reaching maybe 20 metres from the plant!
I get the impression that this would be an extremely useful honey bee plant to put in a garden. It is now on my list of plants I want to add to my garden in the future.
A new entry for Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Instead of dividing into eighths, I used a spreadsheet to pick four numbers between 0 and 90. They fortunately fell within foldable parameters.
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A Photo from the last Day of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
After an overnight in Doncaster, I went to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) for a trip up the 1 in 49 from Grosmont to Goathland.
Here, after the journey back down From Goathland to Grosmont Station, this is a Cab Photo of 65894, a J27 Locomotive which is maintained along with 3 others by The North Eastern Locomotive Preservation Group (NELPG) has an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement was Designed by Worsdell/Raven and built at Darlington Works as Class P3 when NER owned it from new in 1923 until LNER and later BR took over.
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at Weybourne Station hauled by Double Header of WD 90775 "The Royal Norfolk Regiment" and LNER Loco 8572 I got this photo of Riddles designed and Horwich Works built BR Std, 4MT Loco 76084 which I think was the only one of the 6 locos I didn't managed to get hauled by during this Steam Gala..
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
For More Info about Loco 76084, see ...
www.nnrailway.co.uk/portfolio-items/br-std4-76084/
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I feel like this is the Common House Spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum), but my spider senses aren't that acute (get it?). Anyway it clearly was on the site on the site the USDA National Honey Bee Lab where they have research buildings not houses. Photo by someone in the lab who did not fill out the photo spreadsheet. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
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PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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there was some solar explosion on the 14th of november. i was hoping to see an aurora or something on the sky. i was lucky. two days in a row it was clear sky and really quiet weather. and i saw.. "something". it was beautiful!
on other note.. could you take this survey? i need it for school :) thanks!
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Does the BBC give good value for money? What does it spend on Mad Men and other shows? How does its budget compare to other broadcasters?
Original Guardian post here
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Data here
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More visuals here
In a previous EB thread, I proposed a collaborative Nostalgia Train Layout for this Summer's Brickworld Chicago: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/146028-b...
There is a new EB thread is to determine participation so this is your chance to sign up: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/122-lego... We hope that this collaboration will attract many participants by recreating the nostalgic look and feel of the older train layouts featured in Lego catalogs and the train idea book. Unfortunately Brickworld won't permit us enough floorspace to do the large "L E G O" layout I first proposed. Therefor we are moving forward with the alternative shown here: a moderately sized "50" nostalgia layout to celebrate 50 Years of Lego Trains! Here is a description:
- The overall size is 16'x13'
- Only official Lego sets will be featured: track, trains, stations and other sets. We have limited space so priority will be given to train specific sets first, then to general town sets as needed. Upgrades and part substitutions are fine as long as the trains still look original (for example replacing 12v traction tires, re-gearing an Emerald Night, etc).
- This is a floor layout. The green and tan areas are created with colored roll paper taped to the floor. Tracks will be laid down over the colored paper.
- Scenery will consist of loose trees, vehicles and figures placed on the paper between the sets (just like in the catalog pictures :-) Open areas will remain so people can step around for access.
- Security will be addressed by having special stanchions up all show days (not just the weekend public days). These stanchions will feature a additional lower horizontal pipe to prevent young ones from entering the layout area. There should be about 30" between the stanchions and the outermost tracks.
The signup sheet is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TWLe2n5GGTr_nSR4KT4gXIht1...
Please signup by May 15.
And its from here, about a month on from their introduction, that I started to get up to speed with the E400MMCs back in the pre-Pro 2019 upload days. 11198 was, annoyingly, really evasive when I first built up my bus spotting spreadsheet over the spring lockdown of 2020, but it turns out that I didn't have that much trouble through just hanging around in Queen's Gardens in July 2019! Looking back in retrospect, no wonder this is a favourite spot of mine. Right, that's the double-decks done, onto the single-decks!
The final upload from this part of the new bus assuage of 2019, Stagecoach in Hull's 11198, a 2019 ADL Enviro400 MMC, passes by Queen's Gardens on a 12 to Bransholme Centre.
For dinali -who always posts the most amazing bathing birds shots!! Taken on my break today...Well I have to quit early tonight...the eyes just don't last after staring at spreadsheets all day...
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A Complexity limits of 100,000 will be enforced through the first weekend.
You can find a list of participating designers here:
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Shopping guide:
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at Rowallane
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
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Chaenomeles x Superba - 'Rowallane' (Flowering Quince)
In the walled garden at Rowallane - this cultivar is named after the gardens. The bee hives are just the other side of the wall and there are a couple of feral colonies in the roof of the building beside the garden that seem to have overwintered extremely well judging from the numbers of bees coming out from under the roof there on Saturday.
The very out-of-focus yellow pollen load can be seen in this picture.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
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(1950) Voigtländer Vito III (lens: Ultron 50mm f/2)
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A Photo from Day 7 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
A horrible wet day on the East Lancs Railway (ELR) where I went on a trip from Heywood to Rawtenstall and back.
Normally I would get out to see and photograph the run round at the far end of the line but it was so wet I just stayed in the carriage.
Here, at Heywood Station, 60009 "Union of South Africa" or Number 9, as it is often known as, is ready for the next journey to Rawtenstall.
60009 is a Nigel Gresley designed and Doncaster Works built for the LNER A4 Pacific Streak Locomotive 4-6-2 for work on the East Coast Main Line (ECML).
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A Photo from Day 2 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
At Didcot Railway Centre, their "Diamond Jubilee Gala" had 4 steam locomotives with 2 each on the "Main Demonstration Line" and the shorter "Branch Line." 2 diesels powered some early morning and evening trains.
Several Steam Locomotives were also on Static Display and it was possible to go round the sheds.
Here,
6023 - "King Edward II" - King or 6000 class 4-6-0
and
29 - The Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Loco on loan from NYMR
No 29 is in steam and will later run on the branch Line
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There is a moment here that few ever come to realize---
A proverbial two fingers of ‘reserve proof’ poured into a crystal tumbler, there to be savored sip by sip in just reward---
An equilibrium of sorts in the push and the pull of everyday, a stasis in the corporate heartbeat which those who count beans and stare at computer screens in Fort Worth and Omaha and Jacksonville are perhaps unknowingly deprived of---
Moments that never register as a spike on a graph or spreadsheet or a figure on a quarterly earnings report, and one in which those poor souls sheltered in the glass and concrete facades of Wall Street are seemingly, and hopefully, oblivious to.
They are jealously reserved for those hearty individuals who laced up boots and learned a skill or trade or craft, one that doesn’t involve the tying of a Windsor Knot around the neck every morning and enduring a commute to a cubicle or corner office, there to lash it as a marionette to various rungs about a corporate ladder.
Yet, they are instants of brevity that rarely, if ever, convert to dollars and cents on a direct deposit slip that arrives in the mailbox every other week.
They are as a fringe benefit that only the worthy are afforded, those sage and seasoned souls who earned their credentials in the extremes of physics and metallurgy, and the temperature and other elemental challenges that Mother Nature seemed fit to bestow upon their existence in a 24-7-365 fashion.
When, at midnight, a knuckle lets go and gladhands separate on a grade, and the curses emanating from the locomotive cab are as angry as the lightning slashing from the darkened sky, with sheets of rain arriving in chapter-and-verse proportions straight from the pages of Genesis, threatening to wash from the land all those who dare venture into it---
Someone still has to go out and replace the damn thing.
These character-building moments are steeped well in tradition, their seeds first planted in the Welsh soils of Penydarren, there to be watered fully with saturated steam at the hand of a Cornish fellow by the name of Richard Trevithick.
Water is powerful, and useful, and ancient---
And in its antiquity, it is patient.
That which has fallen upon the geologic ramparts that schism the land from north to south, needs some place to go.
For eons it has sought the seas, and in an effort to reach them it has flowed from headwaters in the Sawatch Range and the Sangre de Cristos, scouring prehistoric and ever-changing channels across the land in a seemingly random and meandering fashion.
The Arkansas and the Cimarron and the Canadian Rivers, along with their local tributaries and a thousand other flows, have removed sediments from the land since the Laramide orogeny, 80 million years ago, and faithfully deposited them into the oceans, leaving the High Plains of today’s continental United States anything but flat.
Water, perhaps more than any other natural element, has been the bane of railroad builders and operators for more than two centuries. It has created rivers to bridge, canyons to blast rights-of-way out of, and then it has sent raging torrents down to destroy both; yet without it, Trevithick’s contraption would remain as fanciful as anything Jules Verne could imagine.
And though the builders of the Southern Kansas Railway had no gorges to contend with, they were nonetheless saddled with the watersheds that rippled the land across Indian Territory and all the way to the bluffs of the Llano Estacado over Texas way.
Here, in the cool and colorful and splendorous moments that precede the dawn of an April morning, is evidence of such.
While the eastbound grade up out of the valley of Wolf Creek is by no means as mentionable as that which tunnels under Raton, it is still held in respect by those who throttle their charges along BNSF’s Panhandle Subdivision.
Our crew aboard an old Dash-9 has reached a brief interlude, an over-the-hump equilibrium of sorts on the great curve at Gerlach, Oklahoma. Just moments before, our hogger set his units for dynamic braking, and trumpeted for the South County Road 198 grade crossing as he coaxed 6,000 tons and just as many feet of train up from Shattuck, in the process rolling over names like Buzzard Creek and Boggy Creek, and running along the margin of Sand Creek, there to push over the top of the grade and have the windshield view filled with this.
In days long passed, when conductors and engineers were revered and respected and were the absolute authorities over their realms---
When brass was polished and boiler jackets shined and lace curtains could be found in the cab and caboose alike---
Coffee brewed on a potbelly stove or was kept hot in a mason jar placed strategically against the locomotive backhead, there to be shared in drowsy moments along a run that began in Amarillo sometime after midnight.
Today, the waycars are long gone and backheads have morphed into digital control consoles, but coffee is still the nemesis of fatigue, with fresh aromas filling the cab as the hot contents of a stainless-steel thermos bottle are poured into a travel mug---
A Rule G-compliant version of ‘reserve proof’ not quite hot enough to burn the tongue with the first sip, but just right.
And in that savoring, there is only the rumble of an FDL behind the bulkhead, and the whine of dynamics as the aged GE performs as advertised.
Nothing else.
No words to spoil the moment.
Only a brief intermission when all the world is right.
A stasis between the push and the pull of life.
While the tie knotters are still fully in slumber, the fortunate take their pleasure in hot coffee and a gaze out over the valley of the North Canadian River, and there before them, as an ornament dangling on the invisible bough of orbital gravity---
The last dying sliver of a crescent moon---
Faint and struggling in the eastern sky, trapped between the receding colors of night and the luminance of an emerging day---
A gift from the universe, either by chance or by design, presented to them at this particular spot on a curve they’ve rounded countless times.
Soon enough the signal at West Gerlach will come into view, and they’ll roll down into Woodward on a ‘clear’ indication.
But for now, in the last few semi-tranquil seconds, there is little else to do but admire creation in all its multi-hued glory.
It never gets old.
One might wonder, only in a joking manner, really, if the view from corporate headquarters could be this magnificent.
Perhaps not audible above the throb and drone of diesel locomotion, a slight chuckle offered forth from the right-hand seat might answer that question---
Not a chance in hell.
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Special thanks to Jeff Ford for his assistance in the preparation of this piece.
Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) in Bryansford this afternoon.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
You know that feeling when you've created a spreadsheet, then spent hours entering data from a paper copy? Then, after a few hours, you think "that's not right". So you investigate, and find out that you haven't been given all the sheets? So now, you need to go through every month, checking if there is missing data?
And you lose the will to live?
That.
I needed a break from the computer. I had a cream cake for afternoon tea break, but needed to wash up first.
I've got another task now, so tomorrow will be yet more data entry. Oh, and there is no elegant way to eat a chocolate eclair!
Still flowering (it has been since early January this year) and still being worked by the bees!
Chaenomeles × superba 'Pink Lady' in Rowallane.
AKA: Japanese quince 'Pink Lady'
Rowallane gardens.
& in my Honey bees on named flowers set
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& some music if you like
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
WE CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE DONE!! This has been going on for MONTHS AND MONTHS. It's ABOUT TIME! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY -- This is the happiest we'd been in a LOOOONG time.
Notice how my sock has become a slipper -- close-up in a separate pic.
Actually, we still had some final touch-up sanding to do... But nothing that required wood stain, polyurethane, ventilation, masks, gloves, dropclothes, painter's tape, and all the hassle. Just some casual final touches with the least rough (400-grit) sandpaper to ensure that the finaly (usually 4th) polyurethane coat was smooth.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
celebrating, doing shots, standing, wood staining.
Cutty Sark, chair, newspaper, shelf, slipper, sock, stool.
dirty. happy.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 26, 2007.
... Read my blog at ClintJCL.wordpress.com
... Read Carolyn's blog at CarolynCASL.wordpress.com
LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.
To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.
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A Photo from Day 5 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
The East Somerset Railway (ESR) runs trains from Cranmore station to Mendip Vale station and back on a 5 mile round trip along its Heritage Railway line.
Along the line, there is also a halt and Cranmore West Station which is near the Sheds.
There is ample car parking at the Cranmore end of the line on normal running days so I started there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there was only 1 steam Locomotive running although another was at the sheds and could have been steamed if thought necessary.
Here, at Cranmore Station, 46447 has just powered the return journey the Steam Train I have a ticket for.
46447 is an Ivatt designed LMS "Class 2" 2MT 2-6-0 loco.
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Closer again. Tonight's attempts initially started off as a test for my calculations and recordings spreadsheet that I've spent the last few days trying to write. I learned some excel to do it. Seeing as it seems to give me close estimates of timings, I had a good try to get a certain shape. Not there yet, but a step closer at least.. I just need to get a grip on the controller now.
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A Photo from Day 8 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
When planning this "Rail Tour" I had hoped to go the Great Central Railway (GCR) at Loughborough but a lack of Timetables on their web site and a shortage of anything i viewed as attractive in terms numbers of Steam Locomotives in service on this day (Saturday) prompted a change of plan.
I decided to go to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway (EBA) in the morning and I can move onto the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) in the afternoon. It is only about 30 minutes by car between the 2 railways.
I joined at Embsay and was given a whole compartment to travel in to keep me away from other passengers. I think the railway must have been wanting to be careful and not take any risks of possibly allowing Covid to spread on their Railway.
Here, after travelling along the line to Bolton Abbey Station and back to Embsay Station, No. 7 "Beatrice" is almost ready to run round the carriages to get ready for the next journey.
"Beatrice" No. 7 is a Hunslet Works No. 2705 0-6-0ST loco.
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Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork?
Guardian piece:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/24/information-...
Data:
spreadsheets1.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?authkey=CMb7wa8P...
best of a set of not so great pictures a few weeks ago. Must revisit next year.
This is a row of these shrubs at the Ulster Museum in Botanic Park
This picture does show the pale yellow pollen load well
A new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And, when i eventually get round to updating it, will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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12 politicians in Japan are against the inhumane decision by the ministry of education raising the limit of annual radiation exposure to the children in Japan from 1 mSv to 20 mSv.
Tomoko Abe (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 4th term)
Yoshifu Arita (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mitsuji Ishida (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Tetsuo Inami (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Azuma Konno (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Kusuo Oshima (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryuhei Kawada (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryoichi Hattori (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Hirayama (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mizuho Fukushima (Member of the House of Councilors, Social Democratic Party 3rd term)
Hiroyuki Moriyama (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Yamazaki (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Special Advisor to the Cabinet , Kosako Toshiso resigned today. He said that it's not acceptable for raising annual radiation limit for the children 1mSv to 20 mSv. He also criticized that the crisis management of the government is disorgnazed and haphazard.
www.mbs.jp/news/jnn_4712952_zen.shtml
There's no future for the country which neglect their children. - Masayoshi Son Softbank CEO and Donates USD$120 million to Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts. Also he will set up an advisory group on the use of natural energy sources.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&us erstoinvite=...
This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
In the walled garden at Rowallane.
showing pollen load - dull yellow colour
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Reto de La Familia FoteraAquí podéis ver al resto de participantes:
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Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
health and store update!
I am recovering from health concerns, slowly but surely! Seeing doctors now only every 3 weeks instead of every week. Sweet sweet progress.
Real life also has me swamped. Am having a studio built for me in my backyard to work on: real life art (painting/photography/collage/hand made jewelry/crafts), streaming set up, possibly teaching one-on-one art classes, and content for my patrons on Patreon. As well as re-opening my online store! We've had a great number of set backs when it has come to the studio construction. Oy vey! But electric gets finished this week, then hvac, the RE-DO the plumbing, and we get to start on making it pretty.
With studio coming up, I am also re-learning a whole lot about new online store set ups, different ways to stream, new (to me) programs, making new graphics/logos, and digital content creation. My head ASLPODE.
In Second Life, I am not absent! Just quiet. I am doing and re-doing a lot of behind the scenes changes for major overhauls (and this was even BEFORE the E2V news. man! So much change!). New content creation has been put on hold in SL till I get all the back end stuff done. I have big spreadsheets, elaborate checklists, boxes in boxes... it's nuts but chipping away at it a bit at a time!
You will know when I am getting close to done when I post the new blogger search! Hopefully within the next month.
There is so much more to say and so much left out, but I thought a quick overview to say I am still here and working in SL, just quiet like on the new content end. I am a one woman (plus 2 dogs and a bird) team, so it all goes as fast as it can but also as slow as it will.
Thank you for being understanding. *paper moon* thanks you for still caring and loving what I make.
You can always see what I am doing outside of SL on Instagram, Patreon, Twitch, & Facebook!
Emily is curious as to what the grownups are always looking at on the computer. Unfortunately for her, Sebastian was the one just working on it, and it's spreadsheets full of numbers! Not very interesting...
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
Retos de la Familia Fotera: www.facebook.com/groups/retosfamiliafotera/
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Visita mi blog: vanishingpointperspective.wordpress.com
Nothing nicer than a cold beer on a beautiful sailing boat with your colleagues after a long day looking at figures and spreadsheets... Cheers!
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A Day Trip to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the first day of their Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, Just passing the Gromont MPD Sheds area on a train between Levisham and Grosmont behind 60163 - "Tornado" is Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Colliery No. 29 is a Kitson designed and Hunslet built 0-6-2T.
This my last photo of this visit to the 2021 NYMR Steam Gala and my last steam photo of 2021.
For more info about no 29 ... see ...
www.nymr.co.uk/lhjc-0-6-2t-no-29-peggy
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