Heh, not really. If I were smart I would have measured my own bathroom when I had my toilet replaced in August…I would have got the elongated bowl. But I didn’t measure, so I just bought the round bowl because I knew that would fit. (The elongated would have worked and they’re more convenient. My bad.)
I was leisurely scrolling down the picture, enjoying her anticipation of a night out. Then I came to your comment and guffawed at the total change of feel.
Free climbers have to be at least a little bit crazy. That’s quite a climb. It looks like a few of them have nearly made it. Navigating that ledge doesn’t look like it will be easy.
Actually, this is a 2002 work by Columbian artist Doris Salcedo, who did the installation we saw a few weeks ago(?)… with 1500 chairs piled between two buildings….
This one is called Noviembre 6 y 7 (November 6 and 7), using 280 wooden chairs, attached to the Palace of Justice, Bogotá.
A freshly painted post box in south Cheshire, England, in the 1980’s.
This is where my nerd sense kicked in. The box is a King George V, which dates it between 1910-1936, and it’s mounted on a telephone pole. I can tell it’s a telephone pole, and not an LV (Power) pole due to the fact it doesn’t have a lot of spike marks in it. Telephone workers over here accessed the top of the poles traditionally via a ladder. There are iron steps towards the top of the pole that the worker climbs onto from the top of the ladder. Linesmen (Power workers) traditionally have always climbed poles using climbing irons, or ‘spikes’, as we called them. These would leave marks in the pole for all to see, and as this pole doesn’t have any, it’s a telephone pole!
It’s a lot lighter to carry a pair of ‘spikes’ than it is a 25′ wooden extending ladder…. (Most power poles aren’t conveniently alongside a road like telephone poles generally are).
Edward VII had the prettiest one… But the ones with Edward VIII would be more collectible.
Then again, you’d no doubt be in trouble if you tried to collect any of them.
I wonder whether many Charles III boxes have been made… and whether they’re cast iron like the older ones.
Meanwhile… you have to wonder… Okay, I have to wonder, cos nobody else ever wonders the stuff I wonder…
Wooden poles don’t generally last forever… They’re replaced when necessary, some in 20 years, some 50 or more… but I dunno if any last 90, especially with the rain in Britain.
How old is that pole, and does the spike vs ladder algorithm still apply if it was replaced, say, 10 years ago, or do they sometimes use trucks with lifts nowadays?
I do know of a couple of power lines built in the 1930’s that still have some of their original poles, and their original Cadmium-Copper wires. I drive past them normally once a month, so I know they haven’t been replaced yet.
All the poles are very heavily creosote impregnated, meant to last at least 40 years.
As it’s the 1980’s, the pole will be around 20-30 years old. telephone poles are generally of lighter duty than power poles. Nowadays most pole access (For power poles) follows the Hoist/Ladder/Climbers procedure, but telephone workers still use ladders mostly. Over here a truck with a bucket lift is generally called a ‘hoist’.
I’m not sure we say hoist for those… we call them different things, as there are different kinds… bucket trucks, boom lifts, etc… but I confess that I don’t really know all the names.
Most (I think) are articulated, some go straight at adjustable angles.
There are also scissor lifts … that’s the kind with criss-crossing legs, that unfold like those wall racks for mugs (beakers), and only go straight up.
But mostly, we call them by the slang term cherry pickers.
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Old dogs need love too!
Yes! Yes we do!
Taking a moment for sober reflection.
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“Any landing you walk away from…”
“I Quit !!!”
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Clever! gives the cats a pee-phole too!
Hope they saved the piece they cut out. Then they can put a hinge on it so they can cover that spot when the door is closed.
I woulda rehung the door so it opens the other direction…
You are clearly too smart to be hanging out online with the likes of me.
Heh, not really. If I were smart I would have measured my own bathroom when I had my toilet replaced in August…I would have got the elongated bowl. But I didn’t measure, so I just bought the round bowl because I knew that would fit. (The elongated would have worked and they’re more convenient. My bad.)
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I’m impressed!
Using a carpenter’s pencil was a good choice.
Seems like they usually do… More graphite to work with, though it’s little enough. A round lead is just too small.
I love pencil carvings.
I posted some pics here years ago when I discovered one particular carver… wonder whether I still have them.
Found two that I posted in 2022… there were more but I may not have saved them.
This one is by Chien Chu Lee…
And the other, which I think is an amazing piece of work, turned out to be by Cindy Chinn, who also did the train one Nighthawks posted…
Cindy could have been a surgeon
Neurosurgeon.
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CLEO! What did you leave on the floor this time?
I was leisurely scrolling down the picture, enjoying her anticipation of a night out. Then I came to your comment and guffawed at the total change of feel.
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Don’t lick it!
Where ya going, Mr. Fancypants?
Got a hot date with a poison dart…
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Yikes! Man overboard!
I wonder if they both made it out alive?
I was wondering, too…
But if someone were filming it and saw that they died, I’d hope he or she wouldn’t be so callous as to post it on the Internet without comment.
I was also wondering what they were doing out there…
Were they trying to attach a tow rope, get some ice… or climbing it for fun…. some fun, but to each his own, I suppose…
Is there a chance they were actually trying to do what they did, and roll it over?
the gif is labeled: ‘stupid tourists’ which implies these guys were dropped off there intentionally
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Well, we maybe found one thing that it’s good for.
The ad seems to be implying that basset hounds wear Hush Puppies. I’m pretty sure that’s not true.
find the mouse
I guess they’re all squirrels, not cats, huh?
Once again, Mr. Dudolf creates matching, all-purpose animals, so that he can hide an almost-matching animal in their midst.
I think these are red squirrels, going by the tails and a few acorns… oh yeah, and they’re European red squirrels cos they have ear tufts.
They’re cute, whatever they are.
He could easily hide a cat in there, by shortening the ears and swapping the tails…
But this time it’s a mouse
Got ’em.
Like the guy that finished his apple.
thanks, Susan
If this is a courthouse, I say give ‘im the chair!
Free climbers have to be at least a little bit crazy. That’s quite a climb. It looks like a few of them have nearly made it. Navigating that ledge doesn’t look like it will be easy.
Um…. I’d say they were just armchair climbers… but they have no arms.
At least there are plenty of places to rest on the way up…
Actually, this is a 2002 work by Columbian artist Doris Salcedo, who did the installation we saw a few weeks ago(?)… with 1500 chairs piled between two buildings….
This one is called Noviembre 6 y 7 (November 6 and 7), using 280 wooden chairs, attached to the Palace of Justice, Bogotá.
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Looks like the dog is having at least as much fun.
I wonder why the duals on the tractor are a different size.
Good question.
Can it take pictures too?
Plan, wake up in time for, and commit arson, and then calculate the burn time…. All on the same device!
Another of my favorite strips!
But this time I’m not going to cut it out.
Those Cleo-shaped holes made it hard to read the New York Times or my email, on my last monitor.
The annual New Year’s Day swim, which takes place at dawn, on Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
Yeah, yeah, no snow, no ice… but it’s on the Pacific Ocean side of the City, and the water is icy cold.
And no, in case you’re wondering… I haven’t and won’t.
I may be crazy, but I’m not that kind of crazy.
They do that over here in the North Sea.
I took the plunge here one year.
I’m glad i did, but never again.
A freshly painted post box in south Cheshire, England, in the 1980’s.
This is where my nerd sense kicked in. The box is a King George V, which dates it between 1910-1936, and it’s mounted on a telephone pole. I can tell it’s a telephone pole, and not an LV (Power) pole due to the fact it doesn’t have a lot of spike marks in it. Telephone workers over here accessed the top of the poles traditionally via a ladder. There are iron steps towards the top of the pole that the worker climbs onto from the top of the ladder. Linesmen (Power workers) traditionally have always climbed poles using climbing irons, or ‘spikes’, as we called them. These would leave marks in the pole for all to see, and as this pole doesn’t have any, it’s a telephone pole!
It’s a lot lighter to carry a pair of ‘spikes’ than it is a 25′ wooden extending ladder…. (Most power poles aren’t conveniently alongside a road like telephone poles generally are).
How to identify the Royal Cypher on a post box.
Edward VII had the prettiest one… But the ones with Edward VIII would be more collectible.
Then again, you’d no doubt be in trouble if you tried to collect any of them.
I wonder whether many Charles III boxes have been made… and whether they’re cast iron like the older ones.
Meanwhile… you have to wonder… Okay, I have to wonder, cos nobody else ever wonders the stuff I wonder…
Wooden poles don’t generally last forever… They’re replaced when necessary, some in 20 years, some 50 or more… but I dunno if any last 90, especially with the rain in Britain.
How old is that pole, and does the spike vs ladder algorithm still apply if it was replaced, say, 10 years ago, or do they sometimes use trucks with lifts nowadays?
I do know of a couple of power lines built in the 1930’s that still have some of their original poles, and their original Cadmium-Copper wires. I drive past them normally once a month, so I know they haven’t been replaced yet.
All the poles are very heavily creosote impregnated, meant to last at least 40 years.
As it’s the 1980’s, the pole will be around 20-30 years old. telephone poles are generally of lighter duty than power poles. Nowadays most pole access (For power poles) follows the Hoist/Ladder/Climbers procedure, but telephone workers still use ladders mostly. Over here a truck with a bucket lift is generally called a ‘hoist’.
I’m not sure we say hoist for those… we call them different things, as there are different kinds… bucket trucks, boom lifts, etc… but I confess that I don’t really know all the names.
Most (I think) are articulated, some go straight at adjustable angles.
There are also scissor lifts … that’s the kind with criss-crossing legs, that unfold like those wall racks for mugs (beakers), and only go straight up.
But mostly, we call them by the slang term cherry pickers.
Another pic for my trivia scrapbook. Thanks
Bunnies for Bunday!
A white-crowned sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys) in the morning light.
Photo taken at Tingley Beach in Albuquerque, 9th December 2025.
If you turn those mustaches upside down they make dandy eyebrows.