Random Thought Thread

[Tensegrity]

You need to up your glasses prescription, brother. Nothing meticulous about that overgrown hedge. I take a golok or machete to it and occasionally a manual cutter or battery operated trimmer. It's a monster. It started out tiny when we bought the house.

I do appreciate the kind words though, thank you very much... and I'll ask the missus to remember to update those images...they were taken by her yesterday with her iPad.

Relative to the bittersweet and rose chaos plaguing our front fence line, that thing looks like a botanical garden example!

 

[Blues]

We like to let nature dictate the course of things...maybe a little too much. (The deer seem to appreciate our lack of effort, however, as do the rest of the critters that visit. )

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Most of my "landscaping" is done with roundup

 

[Blues]

Most of my "landscaping" is done with roundup

I skipped buying it this year after the price increase...and I am paying the price on my gravel driveway big time. I may have to relent next spring.

 

[Grenock]

Diesel is cheaper and has longer lasting residual effect on regrowth, or so I have heard.

 

[Blues]

Diesel is cheaper and has longer lasting residual effect on regrowth, or so I have heard.

Then my tires will spin out...

 

[Grenock]

Doubles as an undercoat and keeps dust down too. So many benefits over Roundup.

 

[ferider]

Diesel is cheaper and has longer lasting residual effect on regrowth, or so I have heard.

Just stinks. Maybe mix with Froglube ?

 

[Grasshopperglock]

Well, it's here. The cold, 49°F. While it might not seem that cold. That's freezing in Texas.

"If you have to wear a coat on Halloween. Extra cold winter."

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Man, all the leaves are falling like crazy today. We're not going to have leaves on the trees for the get together here...

 

[Mendoman]

The locals here must be getting pumped for the get together. I can see if they will let you borrow the sign to show the way to the compound.

 

[yoko]

Both my wife and my grandfather were part of WW2 she doesn't know much about her grandfather other than he was at pearl harbor and we just remembered it

2 things she has from him , some kind of knife... my guess is it looks Polynesian/Samoan and a Japanese soldier's field manual

 

[Blues]

Looks like a barong.

 

[Blues]

 

[yoko]

Looks like a barong.

This carving looks Samoan/Polynesian to me..... but I'm not sure

 

[yoko]

Excellent looks similar

 

[Blues]

The barong is a type of sword unique to the Islamized peoples of the southern Philippines, the Moros. It is distinguished by a heavy single-edged blade of elliptical shape and a gracefully curved pommel that resembles the stylized head of a cockatoo or parrot.

While it can be found in Mindanao, North Borneo and other Moro islands, the Barong is the unique national weapon of the Tausugs Moros of the Sulu archipelago. The barong is the only knife of purely Moro origin, not having evolved from the designs of other tribes or known in war or trade.

 

[yoko]

Awesome thank you Blues

I think you nailed it

 

[Blues]

The fact that it has its origins in one place wouldn't mean that neighboring island cultures wouldn't have copied the same style...so it's possible that it can be from anywhere from Hawaii to the South Pacific...but you have a pretty good idea of the general region absent further info.

 

[DocJekl]