Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things

[jerryd6818]

Raspberries anyone?

YES PLEASE!

[Paladin]

Just about everything here is in bloom, yellow bells, plum trees, tulip trees, daffodils, etc.

Probably all will get frost bit.

Charlie Noyes

Yep and dandy-lions, too. I am going to put some tomatoes out later today.

Ray

[jerryd6818]

I am going to put some tomatoes out later today.

Ray

Planting a tomato is still almost three months down the road for us.

[Eustace]

Eustace, I can figure most of the stuff out, but what is the "staff" of gold columns in the skeleton's right hand, some kind of ceremonial scepter?

These are two ceremonial axes. One stone, the other copper. Yes, this person has been in a high social position - king, chieftain or high priest. It was about 45 years old, 1.75 meters tall.

And, uh, is that this at the far right a penis cap???? From it's position in the skeleton that's the only thing I can come up with.

That's right.

Tomorrow I'll tell you about Noah's plate.

[Eustace]

The mummy

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

Early metallurgy is a fascinating topic. When I think about difficult it must have been for the earliest people to figure out how to smelt metal from natural rock ore, it is simply amazing that anyone figured it out. Who was that guy that decided he needed to make a fire hot enough to melt rocks?? I think it is remarkable that we aren't all still crouching in caves collecting different colored sticks and rocks!

[jerryd6818]

I get'cha Petal. I've asked the question many times, who thought "Hey wouldn't it be great if we picked these berries, dried them, roasted them, ground them up and mixed them with hot water, then drank the resulting dark bitter elixir?" Did they start by chewing the coffee beans and how long did it take to get to what you know today as your daily grind?

I gotta think a lot of this came by accident with someone smarter than the rest of the crowd recognizing the possibilities.

[zzyzzogeton]

It's speculated that meadmaking was "discovered" by a forager who found a beehive, robbed it of its honey and put the honey in his water "bag". Later when the honey had been removed, some honey remained and fermented after the water "bag" was refilled.

On the ore smelting, my uneducated guess is that someone probably used some ore rocks to make a fire pit and after the fire was put out, a blob or two of copper/silver/gold was discovered.

Flint knapping was probably discovered when someone whacked a rock with another rock for some reason and a sharp shard flew off and said -

"hey, this thing will cut stuff."

A lot of "discoveries" were the inadvertent side-effect of something else.

[royal0014]

Maybe this should go in the 'moron' thread, too ....

[gypsy jim]

Ok, lets go.

[jerryd6818]

Well Chris, this is the litigious era and as Ron White says, "You just can't fix stupid".

[gypsy jim]

Caution!

[TheMadHungarian]

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

I used to have a picture (unfortunately now lost in the great hard drive meltdown of 2014) of a sign I saw at the edge of a very high cliff in Australia. It said: CAUTION! Falling off cliff may cause death. And it included a little pictogram of a guy falling off the cliff with sharp rocks below. It was priceless.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Amazingly, those guys, despite their excited expressions, are probably not going all that fast.

As to the other topics of conversation, I suspect God had a hand in man’s advancement in knowledge, just as He does today.

Charlie Noyes

[zzyzzogeton]

Yep, they are traveling at the unbelievably fast speed of.....

ZERO MPH.

[RobesonsRme.com]

https://www.google.com/search?client=sa ... ucClVFE%3D

For “Danger, Cliff” signs.

Charlie Noyes

[bighomer]

Photos for the past week or so, spring is in the air.

[Quick Steel]

MAIN STREET

[philco]

MAIN STREET



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Looks familiar.

[Quick Steel]

It's quite a bustling little town. Several big manufacturers (car parts/cooperage/distilleries) support the economy. Unlike many places across America, the local Wal-Mart has not devastated the main street.

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

And your Main St still has parallel parking! No one around here even knows the proper technique to do that anymore.

[Quick Steel]

Having spent years in Sothern CA traffic, e.g. the 60-10-105 freeways, experiencing the local traffic here and being able to park curbside without meters, was like moving to a different planet. In my top photo you will see one of our worst traffic jams.

[RalphAlsip]

QS, that's relaxing small town America view. Here is a picture of an Axis deer (aka Chital) that I happened to see on my neighbor's ranch. Axis deer are pretty common in my part of Texas. They are not native. Sounds like they were introduced in 1932. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chital

[Quick Steel]

RA are the axis free range in Texas or are they stock? Speaking of stock, here are two of my next door neighbors.