It does indeed roll, but not in the direction the rope is pulling. The roller is at right angles to the direction of tension on the rope, so it’s acting as an anchor. Not a bad idea actually, as it’s a heavy cast iron lump (Probably a two-man one) and they can easily move it along the path when they move the ladders.
If you look closely at the left hand ladder, the outer stile isn’t actually on the ground. The ladder is leaning against the hedge.
This looks like a UK country estate, so no OSHA, or HSE (Health & Safety Executive) when this photo was taken. In those days when you left the house in the morning to go to work, the odds weren’t always good that you’d make it back home in the same shape in the evening.
Thanks. I was actually thinking not about the roller moving sideways, but more about it not being able to stop the ladder moving or falling sideways in the direction it does roll.
But if it’s heavy cast iron, maybe its harder to make it start moving than I thought.
I don’t climb ladders anyway, cos I like my shape to stay kinda human like.
It’s not the best human shape I’ve ever seen, or even in the best shape I’ve ever been… but it’s mine, and I’m rather attached to it.
According to my search, this has been posted in various places, labeled as a supposed photo of a not-too-common cloud formation called Undulas Asperatus.
However, while there is a cloud formation of that name, the consensus seems to be that the spelling of the one in this particular image starts with “A-I-“
Looking for a real version….
Since I don’t trust every photo on the web (or 78.6% of them these days) I skipped some of the more spectacular ones and chose the one from Wikipedia.
Yeah yeah, anybody can post anything there, too. But there are a lot of eyes on Wikipedia, so at least it tends to be corrected faster than somebody’s blog who knows where…
Wikipedia says they’re now called Asperitas and are the first new cloud formation to be added to the official international encyclopedia of clouds since 1951.
A wonderful bird is the pelican. His bill can hold more than his belican. He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week, But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
I was surprised, but it’s on a couple of web sites.
I was a few thousand miles off.. it is from outside the city, but only just across the bay.
This is the evening edition of the Oakland Tribune for the same day, April 18th, 1906, which went to press while the fires were still raging. The shaking was long over, but fire destroyed far more.
A site called WorthPoint evaluates things that are for sale… It shows a copy, but I’m not a member so I couldn’t see the price, not that I really care.
I believe that I could make out San Francisco April 18 under the heading Big Fire In Mission.
Desktop, large screen. Handy sometimes, but not portable. Was good for CAD design work.
Actually, now that you mention it, if I expand the image, I can see that too, even on my 8″ tablet, as long as it’s inches from my nose
It says the same in the story just to the right… And the one to the far right, “Theaters Ruined”, starts out “All of San Francisco’s best playhouses…”
I guess I didn’t look in that corner.
There’s a story headlined “Without a Newspaper”…. but I read that the three San Francisco papers put out a short joint edition that evening… maybe after this came out.
Looks like a gorgeous variety I used to grow, called Pink Peace.
Unfortunately, it has tasty roots, according to the local gopher population.
I had one bush, tall and beautiful, but one day it was lying on its side, and when I picked it up, the central stem looked like it had been in a pencil sharpener. Chewed off in a point.
It had to have been done quickly… It hadnt had time to even wilt.
A friend knew I missed it, so she bought me another for my birthday. We planted it with a poultry wire cage around the roots.
Apparently that’s just a slap on the cheek with a gardening glove to a gopher.
So BatBasset and Sparrow are going to jump right into the fray… not afraid to confront the beast in its lair…. or the Evil White Cat in his not-as-secret-as-he-thinks hideout.
Along with the equally evil engineer of egregious… um… egregious… evil-doing? (no, I said evil already) (somebody supply a supplementary e-word… I’m sleepy) Doctor Ratbreth! I mean…miniaturizing Marmaduke??!!
But don’t worry… the world and all its arches are in good hands, with the archenemy of evil, BatBasset… and of course his eager young protegee, Sparrow.
The ruins of Whitby Abbey on a cloudy day from the graveyard at St. Mary’s Church, a historic site located on a clifftop overlooking the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Founded around 657 AD by King Oswy of Northumbria, it was a significant Anglo-Saxon monastery and later a Benedictine abbey until its suppression in 1539.
Whitby Abbey is famously associated with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, as it served as inspiration for parts of the story.
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“I’m Rover, who you?”
“My hoomans call me “Get-Off-The-Couch!-Bad-Dog!”
Funny name for an owl 😀
So is “Rover” 😉
😀
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OSHA is not impressed…
I think it doesn’t have much teeth these days
Nothing good does any more…
What is that roller thingy supposed to do?
It’s attached to the ladder, but it doesn’t seem designed to hold it safely in place, cos it, you know, rolls.
It does indeed roll, but not in the direction the rope is pulling. The roller is at right angles to the direction of tension on the rope, so it’s acting as an anchor. Not a bad idea actually, as it’s a heavy cast iron lump (Probably a two-man one) and they can easily move it along the path when they move the ladders.
If you look closely at the left hand ladder, the outer stile isn’t actually on the ground. The ladder is leaning against the hedge.
This looks like a UK country estate, so no OSHA, or HSE (Health & Safety Executive) when this photo was taken. In those days when you left the house in the morning to go to work, the odds weren’t always good that you’d make it back home in the same shape in the evening.
Thanks. I was actually thinking not about the roller moving sideways, but more about it not being able to stop the ladder moving or falling sideways in the direction it does roll.
But if it’s heavy cast iron, maybe its harder to make it start moving than I thought.
I don’t climb ladders anyway, cos I like my shape to stay kinda human like.
It’s not the best human shape I’ve ever seen, or even in the best shape I’ve ever been… but it’s mine, and I’m rather attached to it.
That roller probably weighs upwards of 250lbs, certainly looks like a two-man roller.
….
Yeah right.
According to my search, this has been posted in various places, labeled as a supposed photo of a not-too-common cloud formation called Undulas Asperatus.
However, while there is a cloud formation of that name, the consensus seems to be that the spelling of the one in this particular image starts with “A-I-“
Looking for a real version….
Since I don’t trust every photo on the web (or 78.6% of them these days) I skipped some of the more spectacular ones and chose the one from Wikipedia.
Yeah yeah, anybody can post anything there, too. But there are a lot of eyes on Wikipedia, so at least it tends to be corrected faster than somebody’s blog who knows where…
Wikipedia says they’re now called Asperitas and are the first new cloud formation to be added to the official international encyclopedia of clouds since 1951.
Yes, the edges look too well defined to be natural, considering that clouds are vapour particles floating in the air.
I suppose someone unnecessarily ran it through some sort of enhancer maybe even a cartoon effect
,
Hey!
:'(
That should have a trigger warning, not just a spoiler.
I did immediately think ‘Bambi’ before I read your spoiler box 😉
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And that’s why you have to keep manhole covers closed…
And trapdoor spider covers too.
The bad news… They bite, and painfully.
The good news… it’s not usually fatal.
“…do you mind?! A little privacy please!”
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Not good for the crops.
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This beautiful shorebird, appropriately enough, is called a stilt.
Probably a pied or black-winged stilt, cos most of the others seem to have black heads… but I’m no ornithologist, and there are many kinds.
Tall, thin and graceful.. the Rockettes of the bird world.
I just had to look it up…. to find out the bird is named after the poles you walk on, not the other way round. Good… cos who wants to walk on birds.
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Now those clouds look a little friendlier…
red sky at night,
sailor’s delight
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A wonderful bird is the pelican.
His bill can hold more than his belican.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
Ogden Nash
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April 18, 1906?
That’s what I’m thinking.
It sounds as though it’s a report from a distance, like a Chicago or New York paper.
Wish it were more clear so we could read it.
I found it!
I was surprised, but it’s on a couple of web sites.
I was a few thousand miles off.. it is from outside the city, but only just across the bay.
This is the evening edition of the Oakland Tribune for the same day, April 18th, 1906, which went to press while the fires were still raging. The shaking was long over, but fire destroyed far more.
A site called WorthPoint evaluates things that are for sale… It shows a copy, but I’m not a member so I couldn’t see the price, not that I really care.
I believe that I could make out San Francisco April 18 under the heading Big Fire In Mission.
Desktop, large screen. Handy sometimes, but not portable. Was good for CAD design work.
Thanks.
Actually, now that you mention it, if I expand the image, I can see that too, even on my 8″ tablet, as long as it’s inches from my nose
It says the same in the story just to the right… And the one to the far right, “Theaters Ruined”, starts out “All of San Francisco’s best playhouses…”
I guess I didn’t look in that corner.
There’s a story headlined “Without a Newspaper”…. but I read that the three San Francisco papers put out a short joint edition that evening… maybe after this came out.
yes
,..
Looks like a gorgeous variety I used to grow, called Pink Peace.
Unfortunately, it has tasty roots, according to the local gopher population.
I had one bush, tall and beautiful, but one day it was lying on its side, and when I picked it up, the central stem looked like it had been in a pencil sharpener. Chewed off in a point.
It had to have been done quickly… It hadnt had time to even wilt.
A friend knew I missed it, so she bought me another for my birthday. We planted it with a poultry wire cage around the roots.
Apparently that’s just a slap on the cheek with a gardening glove to a gopher.
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Meanie!
I spent a good chunk of yesterday evening looking for William Shatner’s “death” scene in Over the Hedge…Best I could find.
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Got it.
I did too. But it took awhile – I was too busy chasing butterflies.
Goats get more zoomies than cats!
Looks like some of them are trying to make milkshakes.
From the beginning, all I could think of was : “Run away! Run away!”
How do you know they aren’t ALL chicks?
oh.
It’s actually hidden kinda good this time.
OK. Now I’m sleepy.
What a sexist puzzle. 🙍♀️🤦♀️
So BatBasset and Sparrow are going to jump right into the fray… not afraid to confront the beast in its lair…. or the Evil White Cat in his not-as-secret-as-he-thinks hideout.
Along with the equally evil engineer of egregious… um… egregious… evil-doing? (no, I said evil already) (somebody supply a supplementary e-word… I’m sleepy) Doctor Ratbreth! I mean…miniaturizing Marmaduke??!!
But don’t worry… the world and all its arches are in good hands, with the archenemy of evil, BatBasset… and of course his eager young protegee, Sparrow.
Ergonomic? Wait…that doesn’t work…hmm…
…gregarious?
The ruins of Whitby Abbey on a cloudy day from the graveyard at St. Mary’s Church, a historic site located on a clifftop overlooking the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire.
Founded around 657 AD by King Oswy of Northumbria, it was a significant Anglo-Saxon monastery and later a Benedictine abbey until its suppression in 1539.
Whitby Abbey is famously associated with Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, as it served as inspiration for parts of the story.
Somebody must have bribed someone to get the concession for all the gravestones.
San Onofre State Beach – Southern California, circa 1950.
He forgot to guard his rear flank.
Picture probably taken with a Kodak Brownie camera.
Typical surfer.
Guys around here get into and out of their wetsuits with the bare minimal concealment.
Actually that’s what it was like at Renaissance Faire too, for those of us who camped there, after hours.
As it’s Sunday.
<3 Babies!
For no reason at all, except I found it when searching the image with the Wizard of Oz Munchkins yesterday…
A teeny bit late, but this is Harry Styles and his band at his Halloween concert a few years ago…
The Wiz has been in town and I saw it yesterday. Good show if you get the chance.
And now I gotta sleep… G’night and good morning, to you of the next shift…
as I read this, it’s 9 pm—no wonder my lids are heavy
so as I used to sign off with Candi…
ZZZZZZZ