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I made an ash tray for myself. 
Forgive the non-meme.
I made this bowl for my mom in shop class in '67.
With her passing it now resides on my dresser.
I made this bowl for my mom in shop class in '67.
With her passing it now resides on my dresser.
LVSteve
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Quoted for truth in Vegas.
Or just about anywhere else. Last Thursday my gf & I had to carefully plan a route to our favourite breakfast spot due to so many roads have a road crew digging them up at some point.
The big item in Bellingham these days seems to be roundabouts. There must have been a "plan 2, get 3 free" deal going as they're sprouting up everywhere.
This lunacy is sprouting up all over.
The Kids With Crayons, formally known as road engineers, have graduated from college and are getting jobs in the design centers catering to the urban development crowd.
They don't live in the areas and definitely don't drive these roads.
What makes it doubly bad is the new beautification folks (former flower children?) think that the centers of these need plenty of foliage, piled high.
Doesn't matter you can't see what is coming at you so long as it is beautiful.
This explains much about my dad and his brothers.
Yeah, the roundabouts are going in everywhere here in Spokane too.
In a lot of cases they really improve traffic flow, and even safety, through an intersection - as long as people know how to use them.
Then you get the idiot who is afraid to enter the roundabout if there are ANY cars ANYWHERE in the circle.
Or the other idiot that doesn't know when to yield and just barges in cutting other people off.
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Too true here. I've noticed an alarming amount of scrapes and black tire marks on the curbing of the roundabout centers.
I'm sure I missed some earlier very interesting conversations where I could have learned some new profanities.
In and around Bellingham, most of the roundabouts actually make sense, and they have "sensible foliage." Several years ago, they put one of the first ones in a couple of blocks from my gf's house, which had been a nightmare intersection as I-5 is right there on the north as well as a major N-S road and it took ages to cross or turn due to the constant flow of traffic. I remember we were so relieved that we saluted the road crew one day as they were finishing it.
There are in fact TWO roundabouts there, one on each side of I-5. The one in the pic is on the south side.
But now they're putting one in in a residential neighbourhood nearby - and completely bolloxing up the traffic - and we can't for the life of us figure out what possible benefit it will provide as the intersection seems quite well served by the traffic lights there. Guess we'll see in a month or two.
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That is one thing I have to give them credit for. They aren't putting curbs around the inner circle of the roundabouts they're building here. Instead they are putting a concrete gutter - so if you accidentally track too far to the inside your tires just ride up on the gutter and it will gently steer you back into the lane.
Good thing too - otherwise the tractor-trailer rigs couldn't get through them without running the wheels of the trailers up and over the curb - which would probably mean some torn up curbs pretty quickly.
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