when I was growing up it was always cool to see the first robin of spring.
nowadays, they seem to be here all winter.
they’re cute in their little galoshes
I’ve seen pictures of teams of sturdy draft horses moving small houses or cabins… but here are what look like two carriage horses moving a mansion, with some sort of rotary contraption.
I googled the image, and found out this is on Steiner Street, but it took visiting a bunch of websites to finally find this, an article in a 2021 issue of SF Gate, an online newspaper that used to be part of the San Francisco Chronicle:
“The house would be jacked up and placed on greased beams. As the home inched along, workers would pick up the planks and ties that were left behind and rebuild the track in front of the house. A capstan, or drum, was placed in the middle of the street and connected via a pulley to a huge cross beam on the structure. The two horses would circle the drum, winding the pulley, slowly pulling the home down the street.”
Wow. Today it take big trucks, lots of workers, and piles of money, not just for the moving, but insurance, permits, lot preparation at the new site… probably temporarily closing streets… a huge production.
Back then… two horses.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was safe. I wouldn’t want to walk under that elevated house!
I dunno… but now I’m curious, cos I’m an R. Crumb fan.
Looks like it in some ways, but to me, doesn’t quite have Crumb’s style. He has a unique way of cross-hatching halfway, and AFAIK always in black ink, not in the color fill.
And he almost but not quite always distorts the drawing, to give it his signature cartoon look.
Most of his blues portraits are of earlier musicians, precursors of Muddy Waters… with the exception of BB King, of whom he drew many illustrations.
So I just looked and couldn’t find the artist for this book cover, nor anything labeled a Crumb portrait of Waters.
Here are his blues musician cards, but they’re not all there… So I can’t say for sure that he didn’t do one
Wow, I was closing up my search when I finally ran into an image of all 36… but I didn’t want to take up too much room here, even though if I screenshot it, it’s awfully small to see each one.
Plus I don’t know where this link will work. It not I’ll do a screenshot.
so I’m putting it in a spoiler to look at it you like.
It’s all just confusing because of the reflections and shadows.
I finally realized… The material underneath is loopy, probably a towel, maybe plush or carpeting.
Remind yourself before you look that the forks are upside down.
We’re looking at the back sides, with the hallmarks; the tines are slanting down, not up.
Our eyes want to automatically turn them the other way, so the shadows on the edges of the metal look like they’re on the towel, making it look 3D, when it’s actually flat… It’s the forks that are 3D.
Once you see it the right way it’ll look normal… Nothing jumping out, or reversed.
An odd collection… Some are beer, some soft drinks.
Probably a few of these caps are old… But some are from the late 20th century, or even more recent.
Red Dog Cola… the bulldog one… was kind of hip in the 1990s, not that I ever drank it, but it was sold in chic sandwich shops. The one with the miner on a mule, too. I don’t know the name.
Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Sam Adams… those are modern brands. Others look like modern caps for what night be old brands, like Bass Ale, Paulaner and Carlsberg.
Sounds like I know a lot of beer brands… I do, but not cos I ever drank them . I just like logos.
We had tins of Black Label beer bottle caps to play with as kids. (think Charles Chip cans). We would build forts, have wars, stack towers. Everything “normal” kids would do with wooden blocks, we did with beer bottle caps.
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He hears the can opener…
How big is a can of lion food?
I’d hate to have to bring home a case from PetSmart.
The antelopes can walk on their own.
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This is why the English scorn our American “Robins.”
Scorn??
Why would anyone scorn my happy little spring visitors?
The fact that one is maybe a bit cuter doesn’t mean the other isn’t also adorable.
I look forward to their arrival… the cute way they hop and chirp helps to shake off winter doldrums.
Don’t worry, robins… I wouldn’t scorn you, from either side of the pond.
when I was growing up it was always cool to see the first robin of spring.
nowadays, they seem to be here all winter.
they’re cute in their little galoshes
Time for a picture then!
You go!
No problem….
That’s too cute! 😀
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I’ve seen pictures of teams of sturdy draft horses moving small houses or cabins… but here are what look like two carriage horses moving a mansion, with some sort of rotary contraption.
I googled the image, and found out this is on Steiner Street, but it took visiting a bunch of websites to finally find this, an article in a 2021 issue of SF Gate, an online newspaper that used to be part of the San Francisco Chronicle:
“The house would be jacked up and placed on greased beams. As the home inched along, workers would pick up the planks and ties that were left behind and rebuild the track in front of the house. A capstan, or drum, was placed in the middle of the street and connected via a pulley to a huge cross beam on the structure. The two horses would circle the drum, winding the pulley, slowly pulling the home down the street.”
Wow. Today it take big trucks, lots of workers, and piles of money, not just for the moving, but insurance, permits, lot preparation at the new site… probably temporarily closing streets… a huge production.
Back then… two horses.
Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean it was safe. I wouldn’t want to walk under that elevated house!
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Wow!
Yikes… amazing… but I’m not sure I wanted to know. Urp.
Probably a good way to evict unwanted visitors, too.
😀 What Susan said, Urp…
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Did you know that Muddy Waters’ unlikely sounding real name was McKinley Morganfield?
But he was called Muddy as a childhood nickname.
I was lucky enough to see him in concert about 400 years ago.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe should be much better known. A real pioneer.
Looks like Crumb’s work.
good catch. I think so , too
Of course it is.
Of course?
I dunno… but now I’m curious, cos I’m an R. Crumb fan.
Looks like it in some ways, but to me, doesn’t quite have Crumb’s style. He has a unique way of cross-hatching halfway, and AFAIK always in black ink, not in the color fill.
And he almost but not quite always distorts the drawing, to give it his signature cartoon look.
Most of his blues portraits are of earlier musicians, precursors of Muddy Waters… with the exception of BB King, of whom he drew many illustrations.
So I just looked and couldn’t find the artist for this book cover, nor anything labeled a Crumb portrait of Waters.
Here are his blues musician cards, but they’re not all there… So I can’t say for sure that he didn’t do one
Wow, I was closing up my search when I finally ran into an image of all 36… but I didn’t want to take up too much room here, even though if I screenshot it, it’s awfully small to see each one.
Plus I don’t know where this link will work. It not I’ll do a screenshot.
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Why does it refuse to look like what it is?
It’s probably due to the texture of the cloth.
Genetic memory?
Reddish colors are warnings or food and pop out on us.
BTW, as I understand it, it looks like the forks were shaped backwards of the design and what should be the back of the fork is now the front.
They’re shaped correctly, just lying face down.
It’s all just confusing because of the reflections and shadows.
I finally realized… The material underneath is loopy, probably a towel, maybe plush or carpeting.
Remind yourself before you look that the forks are upside down.
We’re looking at the back sides, with the hallmarks; the tines are slanting down, not up.
Our eyes want to automatically turn them the other way, so the shadows on the edges of the metal look like they’re on the towel, making it look 3D, when it’s actually flat… It’s the forks that are 3D.
Once you see it the right way it’ll look normal… Nothing jumping out, or reversed.
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I recognize one!
Got 9.
An odd collection… Some are beer, some soft drinks.
Probably a few of these caps are old… But some are from the late 20th century, or even more recent.
Red Dog Cola… the bulldog one… was kind of hip in the 1990s, not that I ever drank it, but it was sold in chic sandwich shops. The one with the miner on a mule, too. I don’t know the name.
Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, Sam Adams… those are modern brands. Others look like modern caps for what night be old brands, like Bass Ale, Paulaner and Carlsberg.
Sounds like I know a lot of beer brands… I do, but not cos I ever drank them . I just like logos.
They”re all here….
https://www.flickr.com/photos/fragmented/albums/72157604029485302/with/2309421004
We had tins of Black Label beer bottle caps to play with as kids. (think Charles Chip cans). We would build forts, have wars, stack towers. Everything “normal” kids would do with wooden blocks, we did with beer bottle caps.
I’m not going to ask…..
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Got it! I liked that one!
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That might give you a hot foot after just a few rivets.
While that is a way that they used to send rivets to where they were needed (Minus the boot), that’s not the way you install them though….
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Well, i got a couple in bed with me. Does that count? 😀
Edit, got it.
So he’s a horndog?
Actually, I don’t think that’s true…
LOL
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Their radio shows “Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel” have been remade, and they’re very good.
I’ll buy a ticket for South Pawcific right now!
Bit late for the ‘Superb Owl’ day, but have a Great Horned Owl.
I had this guy visit a couple of weeks ago.
Two things from today’s London “Dailly Mail.”
Thing one…
… and thing two….