March 9, 2026

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Yes!

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Absolutely.
And here, it hasn’t even started yet…

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Everyday is nap day, if yer doing it right.

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

 

This is…

 
Paul Dooley And Dennis Christopher In “Breaking Away.”
 

 

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Just think… maybe 1289AD, and they were already making this dedicate, beautiful pottery…

And maybe some delicious fish stew, to go in it?

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

i guess I shouldn’t comment on people who want to blow this culture off the face of the earth, huh?

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

“Should husbands be baby-sitters?” Really? Can you imagine debating this today?

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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
1 month ago

Yes! But it’s a different debate.

No longer “Should husbands “help” take care of their own kids….”

Now it’s “Why do husbands think they get to call it ‘babysitting‘?”

That said… my mother didn’t work outside the home once she married my Dad.

All household chores were hers alone. I never saw my father wash a dish, vacuum anything, or make a sandwich until my mother died. I visited a few months before that, when she was very ill, and he told me he (finally) offered to help, but it upset her.

Until we were out of the house, she never played bridge or did anything else with friends during the hours we weren’t in school, or when Dad was home.

I can’t think of a single time he was ever alone with us kids! Maybe it happened on some occasion I’ve forgotten… but I don’t think so. He did go to father-son meetings with my brother for a boy’s group called Indian Guides.

SusanSunshine
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1 month ago

Wow… sometimes you search a picture and find out nothing; sometimes, you get surprised.

This is a row of tenements on Elizabeth Street, in the Italian district, on the lower east side of Manhattan, photographed in March 1912 by Lewis Hine, the same fellow who took the pictures of child laborers.

The big doorway on the right is Kip’s Bay brewery, established in 1910, and now gone.

The three buildings comprising the tenement are still there, and so is the house you can see to the left of them, which spent some time as a restaurant.

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1 month ago

The photo below is taken from the other side so you can see the house. The storefronts now are fancy boutiques.

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JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

And the tenements are still…?

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  JP Steve
1 month ago

Apartments, I believe.

Nothing much was said about them on the sites I saw, just a passing mention that the buildings were renovated, and the exteriors repainted.

I probably could have found out more had I tried googling the address, but I was only searching for the location of the old photo, when I ran into the modern pictures… a bonus.

Not trying to do a whole research project on every photo I google…. I’d be here all night.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Get your hands on anything in the top two rows, and you’ve got at least a small windfall.

I’m no expert, but I think the 3rd row is pretty collectible too, and I kinda think so is the 1997 Scotty Cameron even though it’s from the 1990s. I don’t know about the last three.

I’ve never bought or sold them, but I did flea markets and “antique” shows, and had a couple of spaces in collectives, and I was amazed at what some golf clubs brought in, for dealers who knew what to buy.

I didn’t try, cos I don’t know, except that a regular old bag of clubs at the Goodwill usually isn’t worth the $20 they’re asking

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1 month ago

Worth is in the eye of the beholder. I knew a fella who picked up a bag of clubs at a garage sale. He cut the heads off and welded on a small nut to each. He then made a set of tools that would screw onto the nuts. One tool made the shaft into a bill spike. He would hand these out to the boys for cleaning up the trash around the camp.
The most interesting tool was a length of wire fastened around the nut and then fed up through the shaft and out the top. He used it to collect the dangerous snakes around the camp.

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Reply to  Greyhame
1 month ago

Okay, sure…. If you mean that $20 bag of shabby but not collectible clubs might be worth it to someone who has a use for them… Of course.

Anything is worth whatever you’ll pay for the use of it.

But if you’re talking about ignoring whether they’re old or collectible before you cut them up…..

Well…. worth may be in the eye of the beholder, but if the beholder finds out he just made a trash picker out of a $4,000 1890s putter, I don’t think he’d be happy… So I think it’s wise to have things evaluated before ruining them, even if you don’t consider your intended project “ruin.”

I’ve seen it so many times…

I bought a small picture frame for I think $4 at a garage sale, in the very late 20th century. The seller was very proud that she’d thrifted tons of costume jewelry over the years, and recently discovered making picture frames by breaking the backs off earrings, taking apart necklaces, etc, and hot gluing the rhinestone parts, the beautiful beads, and other bits to dollar store frames and selling them.

I probably still have it someplace. I never told her I would have paid much more for the jewelry, intact.

It includes a ruined pair of marked Eisenburg rhinestone earrings I could have sold for $100, and a beautiful Hattie Carnegie brooch, also valuable… Both now probably worth in the hundreds, if they weren’t broken and glued. I never could get it apart, without further breaking the bits, and they’re worthless anyway.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

This seems highly unlikely.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Seems to be real.

I watched a video of the two of them romping, and sharing food.
I was going to post it, but it’s full of absolutely cringey voiceover nonsense. I may try to find another.

They’re in Turkey, and locally well known… tourists come to watch them, and the locals warn them to leave them alone and not scare them.

The cat is a Van cat, native to Turkey, but now being established elsewhere, and called the Turkish Van. They’re large and strong, very affectionate and loyal to their owners, and famous for loving water, and swimming.

This cat apparently has taken the fox for her family. People throw them fish, and they eat it together. Some say the cat also catches them.

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Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Well I’ll be a monkey’s uncle.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

So, did he survive?

Liverlips McCracken
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Like snow tubing without the snow.

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Welcome to IKEA!

JP Steve
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

My turn next!!!

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I have to look for some more pictures… I can’t get a handle on the size of the top one, or the relationship between the two….

But my eyes are very sleepy, so it’ll have to be tomorrow.

Meanwhile… If anybody wants to explain….

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

It looks like the top one is a Lidar image, and the three in the centre are the three in the bottom picture.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Thanks. Good call, cos the top pic is on the results page you get when you Google lidar images, and that link is to the Wikipedia page on Lidar.

The only lidar pics I’d seen before were rings of bright colors like a psychedelic topological map.

Still… I see the shapes… but in that bottom pic they look like low vegetation, slightly taller than the short grass around them…

Certainly not “mounds”… and all surrounded by much taller trees, which are invisible in the lidar image above.

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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Those 2 starred in the most depressing yet compelling movie ever made : Babel

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Voxx
1 month ago

Yeah…
Same actors, different movie.

I’d never heard of it so i googled it.
But I don’t know why, cos from your review, I don’t need to see it.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Well…

this is
Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt

in..

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I’m pretty sure they’re not, but it looks like they’re running past the cartoonist’s signature.

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1 month ago

 
Your surmise is correct.
 

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Alexikakos
1 month ago

I’m not sure which you mean is correct.. But as in the gif, it doesn’t appear to actually say anything, so I’m thinking you mean I’m correct that they’re not.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Ca 1917.

You probably knew that. 🙂

JP Steve
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Coulda been 2026…

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

What friend? You can’t make any following all of those advises.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Well, hi back atcha, cutie!

Happy spring.

mr_sherman
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I could make a comment about all the eggplant …

Tigressy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Did.
Now for some cooking and preserving…

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

I have to think that

this must be the cherry….
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Even though …
Cherries can be yellow, too, and there is a repeated yellow fruit that could be a cherry. But the red one is smaller and one of a kind.

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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
1 month ago

Rainier Cherries are red and white/yellow.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  happyhappyhappy
1 month ago

So are Royal Annes, and there are some pure yellow.
Our next door neighbor in Cleveland when I was a kid had a tree of sweet, pale yellow cherries.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
1 month ago

Go it!

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1 month ago

Griffith Avenue – Dublin, Éire.

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More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Another view of my 009 layout ‘Beckland End’.

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Wow. A lot going on, for a tiny town.

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Reply to  More_Cats_Than_Sense
1 month ago

Are you using a piston for a water tower? Clever if it’s true

More_Cats_Than_Sense
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1 month ago

Yellow-shafted Northern Flicker.

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happyhappyhappy
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1 month ago

I love flickers!

Alexikakos
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1 month ago

 
From today’s London “Daily Mail” (she was accepted),
 

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1 month ago

I remember that!

She told her story to Look or Life, or one of those… and it being the 60s there were some people who thought she must be a spy.

DancingBuffalo
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1 month ago

And they’re off! The 54th Iditarod Race – dogs and humans against the rugged terrain and unpredictable weather of arctic Alaska – started yesterday. Best of luck to all!

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