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Yes, very different than Spain and Portugal. which at least share a similar language. The Welsh have always been fiercely independent.
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Yes, very different than Spain and Portugal. which at least share a similar language. The Welsh have always been fiercely independent.
I didn't know they allowed kayakers in the road...You evidently missed this one:
Yes, very different than Spain and Portugal. which at least share a similar language. The Welsh have always been fiercely independent.
Me either. "Kayaks" and "Wales" are not words you would normally associate with each other. I wonder if, somewhere, there is a sign about "surfboarders" ?I didn't know they allowed kayakers in the road...
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One of the set of Marine Christmas ornaments on my granddaughter"s tree. Her fiance is a veteran, and they are a gift from his mom.
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A very determined hummingbird
My gf in Bellingham WA has rufous hummingbirds overwintering in her garden, but it has never been as cold as this winter. Yesterday it went down to about 5ºF. (I'm 50 miles inland, just across the border and it was 0ºF this morning, much colder than I remember ever recording here.)
She has 4 hummers fighting over the heated feeders. She found that although the sugar water was remaining liquid, it ws solidifying in the little feeding tubes and had to go out and clear them as the hummers couldn't break through. She thinks they may be sheltering under her deck- not somewhere they woul usually go but it must be slightly warmer there than up in the trees.
She took this pic of one male all puffed up to defend "his" feeder
It's about 13º there now and supposed to "warm up" into the 20's starting tomorrow. Not a moment too soon for these tiny, tenacious birds.
My gf in Bellingham WA has rufous hummingbirds overwintering in her garden, but it has never been as cold as this winter. Yesterday it went down to about 5ºF. (I'm 50 miles inland, just across the border and it was 0ºF this morning, much colder than I remember ever recording here.)
She has 4 hummers fighting over the heated feeders. She found that although the sugar water was remaining liquid, it ws solidifying in the little feeding tubes and had to go out and clear them as the hummers couldn't break through. She thinks they may be sheltering under her deck- not somewhere they woul usually go but it must be slightly warmer there than up in the trees.
She took this pic of one male all puffed up to defend "his" feeder
It's about 13º there now and supposed to "warm up" into the 20's starting tomorrow. Not a moment too soon for these tiny, tenacious birds.
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) "Papa" in this case is Izzie, one of my gf's two mega-moggies, who has just discovered the nice warm radiator under the bathroom cabinet.
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Long orange steel rails running above the bridge deck's edge got my attention, and then I saw something attached on NYCs Throgs Neck Bridge today that I don't ever recall seeing before. Two temporary Bridge Cranes riding those orange rails, spanning all six travel lanes, facilitating replacement of the original 60 year old bridge deck.
A bridge crane can seen in the distant background
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A bridge crane can seen in the distant background
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You don't see this everyday.
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is one way that Ironworkers can work on high structures, with safety.
Up in Everett Washington, we built the "Queen Marry" so we could float 90 feet up off the cement floor, to bolt up the huge iron members of the new over sized hanger, that was built for the new 757 that would not fit in the old hanger and paint building, that worked for the smaller planes.
The biggest job in our books, was building the Golden Gate bridge,
but the new "High rise" going up in NY city areas are quite the thing, also.
is one way that Ironworkers can work on high structures, with safety.
Up in Everett Washington, we built the "Queen Marry" so we could float 90 feet up off the cement floor, to bolt up the huge iron members of the new over sized hanger, that was built for the new 757 that would not fit in the old hanger and paint building, that worked for the smaller planes.
The biggest job in our books, was building the Golden Gate bridge,
but the new "High rise" going up in NY city areas are quite the thing, also.
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From my driveway a few nights ago.
Saw this gem on the road not far from my house. A '66 T-bird.
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Seemed ingenious for the job at hand, but felt weird driving under two bridge cranes spanning the travel lanes of a suspension bridge high above Long Island Sound.
Saw this gem on the road not far from my house. A '66 T-bird.
That was the first year for the 428 which was an option in those birds.
That would have been my choice over the 390.
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