As someone that helped my mom plant every garden plot and has spent the last 20 years landscaping (fun fact: I was originally hired to be "the plant guy") I can say with complete honesty that you do not want to see seed porn.
It's fascinating.
I have a friend on snapchat I regularly bother to get footage of her mowing her lawn. It is so utterly fascinating to me.
I send her pics of the cityscape in exchange.
Behold, the stamen. Standing tall and proud, full to bursting with life-quickening pollen. Awaiting naught but a gentle breeze, or the touch of an obliging pollinator, to release its gift.
Behold, the pollen. Gently alighting upon the welcoming and waiting stigma. It lovingly gives itself to its partner in order to produce a child.
Behold, the pistil. Ripe and fertile, it envelopes the pollen, carrying it to the ovules, allowing it to combine and bring forth the seeds which carry the next generation.
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Or something like that. It's been a long time since biology class.
And of course I'm nekkid for seed porn.
This sounds nice and seed porn-y.
It's Party Time, it's Party Night,
Gonna put on my Disco Drawers!
My Disco Drawers are nice & tight,
Look at me in my Disco Drawers!
Ugh! Ugh! Disco Drawers!
D-D-D-D Disco Drawers!
Ooh! Ooh! Disco Drawers!
Disco Disco Drawers!
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That song is going to make my FORTUNE.
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Apparently my work is garnering international attention. Some of the Canadian big wigs for one of the companies we get a s$#& load of pavers and block are flying out this weekend to tour a bunch of jobs I've built using their stuff.
Edit: It turns out this weekend is a holiday so it I guess it's next weekend. And I apparently have a 3 day weekend.
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It's fascinating.
I have a friend on snapchat I regularly bother to get footage of her mowing her lawn. It is so utterly fascinating to me.
I send her pics of the cityscape in exchange.
If you're fascinated by mowing lawns, I know some folks in Iowa who will not only let you mow lawns for yourself, they'll let you mow as many as you want, and will even pay you for it.
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Canadian big wigs for one of the companies
Techo-Bloc?
Canadian big wigs for one of the companiesTecho-Bloc?
Yes.
We use a lot of that and Belgard.
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Impus Minor: So when you're not playing it, how do you carry it?
Impus Major: I just grab it by the neck and carry it around and try not to bang it into things, kind of like my kid.
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Did I miss you becoming a grandpa?Impus Minor: So when you're not playing it, how do you carry it?
Impus Major: I just grab it by the neck and carry it around and try not to bang it into things, kind of like my kid.
No; just Impus Major being Impus Major.
He does have a girlfriend, but it was typical Impus Major fashion. She decided he was funny and fun to hang out with and declared him her boyfriend; he had no say in the matter.
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If you're fascinated by mowing lawns, I know some folks in Iowa who will not only let you mow lawns for yourself, they'll let you mow as many as you want, and will even pay you for it.It's fascinating.
I have a friend on snapchat I regularly bother to get footage of her mowing her lawn. It is so utterly fascinating to me.
I send her pics of the cityscape in exchange.
WHERE DO I SIGN?!?
My father always mowed the lawn in an inward spiral. I never understood it until I had an epiphany yesterday while reading about Freehold's fascination with mowing (most likely performed by scantily-clad young women):
If you mow in a spiral, the first cuts are the longest, and then they get progressively shorter until the final cuts are trivial. Thus, as you get more tired, the lengths of the cuts adjust accordingly, and you've managed a pattern whereby the lengths of the cuts match your exhaustion level.
It's 100% the kind of thing my father would have thought about and implemented, whether or not he considered lawnmowing an "exhausting" activity. "Optimize everything."
Thanks, Freehold! I finally understand one more of my father's weird habits.
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Hmm. That makes a lot of sense, and I've never thought of it that way before.
It's been a long time while since I've lived in a space with my own lawn, but if anyone had ever asked, I would have noticed that my path tended to end up spiralling inwards, no matter how I started.
Just for aesthetic reasons, if nothing else. Who doesn't like spirals? (See also: Spirograms, crazy straws, curly fries, labyrinths, knotwork...)
And that last, trivial push is deeply, lizardly satisfying.
Who just goes back and forth across the whole lawn? That sounds like a recipe for making the chore even less exciting than it ever is. :)
My father always mowed the lawn in an inward spiral. I never understood it until I had an epiphany yesterday while reading about Freehold's fascination with mowing (most likely performed by scantily-clad young women):
If you mow in a spiral, the first cuts are the longest, and then they get progressively shorter until the final cuts are trivial. Thus, as you get more tired, the lengths of the cuts adjust accordingly, and you've managed a pattern whereby the lengths of the cuts match your exhaustion level.
It's 100% the kind of thing my father would have thought about and implemented, whether or not he considered lawnmowing an "exhausting" activity. "Optimize everything."
Thanks, Freehold! I finally understand one more of my father's weird habits.
...DAIRY QUEENS CAN MOW LAWNS?!?
WHERE DO I SIGN?!?If you're fascinated by mowing lawns, I know some folks in Iowa who will not only let you mow lawns for yourself, they'll let you mow as many as you want, and will even pay you for it.It's fascinating.
I have a friend on snapchat I regularly bother to get footage of her mowing her lawn. It is so utterly fascinating to me.
I send her pics of the cityscape in exchange.
Show up to my house. You don't have to go as far as Iowa.
My father always mowed the lawn in an inward spiral. I never understood it until I had an epiphany yesterday while reading about Freehold's fascination with mowing (most likely performed by scantily-clad young women):
Pushing a mower is easy. Turning it is hard. Stopping it completely and losing all your momentum to pull it back like a vacuum is a pitt (neccesary on small lawns with fences and trees though). So if your lawn is open enough to allow you to do that (and you don't care it looks "wrong" by some standards) A spiral would be the optimsl way of cutting things.
I Would want to work out rather than in under that paradigm, because then you're turning the mower less as you're more tired. The passes are irrelevant. But working out to in may make it easier to overlap with your previous passes.
I own a scythe, but I've found that it needs to be a good deal sharper that it is if it's to mow lawns with any facility.
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I own a scythe, but I've found that it needs to be a good deal sharper that it is if it's to mow lawns with any facility.
Try sandpaper wrapped around a dowel or a stick. Strop the blade from the tool down to the edge. Start with fine 220 and get something finer if you can. Its a lot more forgiving than trying to sharpen it the "right" way.
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they'll let you mow as many as you want, and will even pay you for it.WHERE DO I SIGN?!?
...DAIRY QUEENS CAN MOW LAWNS?!?
Cows. Mowing lawns before it was cool.
Here's where I workthey'll let you mow as many as you want, and will even pay you for it.WHERE DO I SIGN?!?
You guys do great work! You use a lot of Rockwood in your retaining walls I see (as I'm pretty sure everyone in the Midwest does).
Former Coworker used to work for them 20 some years ago so he gets super excited every time we use it and spends half the time reminiscing.
...DAIRY QUEENS CAN MOW LAWNS?!?My father always mowed the lawn in an inward spiral. I never understood it until I had an epiphany yesterday while reading about Freehold's fascination with mowing (most likely performed by scantily-clad young women):
If you mow in a spiral, the first cuts are the longest, and then they get progressively shorter until the final cuts are trivial. Thus, as you get more tired, the lengths of the cuts adjust accordingly, and you've managed a pattern whereby the lengths of the cuts match your exhaustion level.
It's 100% the kind of thing my father would have thought about and implemented, whether or not he considered lawnmowing an "exhausting" activity. "Optimize everything."
Thanks, Freehold! I finally understand one more of my father's weird habits.
Have you never been to Wisconsin? Dairy queens can do everything! Especially ice cream.
Noone showed for my group today. This sucks as I cannot run any more groups this month and my numbers for this month are therefore stuck where they are. Not the kind of thing you want to have happen when you just applied for a promotion.
Noone showed for my group today. This sucks as I cannot run any more groups this month and my numbers for this month are therefore stuck where they are. Not the kind of thing you want to have happen when you just applied for a promotion.
Ugh. I'm sorry.
You use a lot of Rockwood in your retaining walls I see (as I'm pretty sure everyone in the Midwest does).
Close--it's mostly Versa-Lok. Heavy as mud (82 pounds per block), but absolutely worth it.
A lot of the photos are from before I started working at the company, but they did get some nice photos of the ridiculous house-in-a-concrete-box we did for Habitat For Humanity.
Give me actual rocks or give me death! With an actual rock on top!
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Give me actual rocks or give me death! With an actual rock on top!
Given how the "natural stone" wall and stairs we've been working on has been going, I'd gladly take death. Possibly with an actual rock on top.
Give me actual rocks or give me death! With an actual rock on top!Given how the "natural stone" wall and stairs we've been working on has been going, I'd gladly take death. Possibly with an actual rock on top.
Is it natural stone in that ever element in it appears on the periodic table or...?
My project is going great I expect I'll wrap it up Tuesday or Wednesday. I spent most of the last two days cutting the pavers along the edges so all I have to do is fill in around the fire table with these old world looking pavers in a 45 degree herringbone pattern and then the outside curve on the edge of the hillside.
As well as a whole bunch of boring s&#* like edging it all in with concrete and sweeping in the poly sand and whatnot.
You use a lot of Rockwood in your retaining walls I see (as I'm pretty sure everyone in the Midwest does).Close--it's mostly Versa-Lok. Heavy as mud (82 pounds per block), but absolutely worth it.
A lot of the photos are from before I started working at the company, but they did get some nice photos of the ridiculous house-in-a-concrete-box we did for Habitat For Humanity.
We have one designer that has decided every seat wall should be built only with corner blocks, which are all solid, and weigh accordingly.
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Give me actual rocks or give me death! With an actual rock on top!*Hurls rocks at BigNorseWolf until he dies.*
Satisfied? Yes, they were actual rocks.
you know it only took ONE rock to take out your entire species mister dinosaur....
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Today is when I prove to the vet that I am a very, very bad person.
Vet: So, what are you expecting for the Cranky Calico?
NobodysHome: Well, we're hoping that she'll pass away as quickly and as painlessly as possible.
Vet: But... there's nothing seriously wrong with her!
NH: And?
You bad, bad person.
Back from Conan.
After some serious thinking, overthinking, and a failed attempt to approach a major enemy peacefully (and then put her to sleep with a gas bomb made by the alchemist, which was thwarted by the enemy taking out our dashing, charismatic captain with contact poison), we faced her and three guards underneath the mansion we were visiting...
And it was an epic fight where blows were exchanged with savage fierceness, utter determination, and a lot of risk taking!
The battle was epic and we managed to get the GM burn through all his accumulated DOOM tokens (around 20 at the worst point), even despite generously giving him more tokens during the final combat.
I ended taking blows for two other characters - the squishy alchemist Nuriya, and the big, tough, absolutely murderous with his axe southlander barbarian !Kebe.
The later costed me the shield that I would find very useful two or three rounds later, when our big enemy (or so we thought at that time) finally managed to score a serious hit on me. I was taken out, alive but incapacitated by my fourth wound, but not before I dealt her two wounds and burned through almost all her Vigor (one more point of damage and I would score a third wound out of five needed to kill her!) opening her to hits from !Kebe and Darius.
We survived and now we have to decide what to do with a sorcerous portal that leads to the land of evil wizardly beings that might or might be ancient humans bent on conquest and domination.
BTW: Have you been given that jury duty, rejected because of reasons, or are you still left hanging?
what the bloody hell are 'tactical shorts'?
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what the bloody hell are 'tactical shorts'?
Army recruiting cartoons?
BTW: Have you been given that jury duty, rejected because of reasons, or are you still left hanging?
I was dismissed, but in an "odd" way:
Monday the 15th: We showed up, and all but a handful of us were assigned to a single felony criminal case. We had to fill out a questionnaire, including whether we were victims of previous crimes. In the middle of the questionnaire, it listed the crimes the person had been accused of. The crimes were in a very similar vein, so I expected to be released.Monday the 22nd: I didn't get released, so I sat in the court all day as they selected jurors. I was actually surprised and refreshed by the process; I'm used to the prosecution and defense throwing out 90% of the jurors who come up in a maddeningly frustrating process. This time they honestly only threw out jurors who really did need to get thrown out in the first batch, so of 18 questioned jurors they sat 11. Round 2 was a bit stupider as the defense saw that he had a LOT of good jurors to work with, so he threw out maybe half a dozen, but by the end of the day they had the 12 "official" jurors all seated and sworn in, and 2 of the 3 alternates chosen. It was surprisingly efficient, and FAR better than any other case I've been on the panel for.
Tuesday the 23rd: With around 45-50 jurors to choose from to fill 1 slot, the judge released about a dozen of us. I was one of that dozen.
So no juicy stories after the case would finally end?
what the bloody hell are 'tactical shorts'?
They're cargo shorts but perceived to be more manly. And "tactical". Because urban camo or something.
Pockets. All the pockets.