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Third day in a row riding. Stopped by the big pond to see how it was doing today.
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I keep telling you I have a spare bedroom y'all are more than welcome to make use of.
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We have a winner....Colonel David Hackworth...One of the finest tactical warriors the world has ever seen.
Griped too much about how Vietnam was not being fought correctly, thus he never made general.
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Got a taste for some salmon the last few years. Wegmans has an awesome fish selection.
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Surplus aircraft 1948
Anybody want to buy a surplus B-24 Bomber, a C47 or a couple of P38's?
Surplus aircraft auctioned by the US Government after WW2, (1948). From Chicago Tribune January 1948 edition.
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Shot this down on Ted Turner’s Armadeus Ranch.
It’s 360,000 acres down in South Central NM on the Rio Grande.
They have some of the finest livestock on the Planet!
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This is what replaced the magazines at my cardiologist's.
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This is what replaced the magazines at my cardiologist's.
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Good grief... I don't suppose "Suppressing your Blackout 300" is one of the subjects on offer?
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St. Augustine, TX Constable, 1939.
Taken by noted photographer Russell Lee.
Nice gun and holster.
Is that a Ring in bottom-front of grip?
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My black cat, Smudge, has a couple of alternate names, "Mr. Nibbles" being one of them. I went to bed around 11 and he came and curled up in my extended arm, as he often does. After a while he decided he needed a little "dental excercise" and began working his teeth down my arm  The rest of the night was uneventful.
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GF found this somewhere on the Interweb. Cat is clearly not an aficionado of wind music.
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Panama Canal 1986
The Queen Elizabeth II going into the Pedro Miguel Locks.
The Mira Flores locks
It was a hazy day on the Pacific side.
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I recently read somewhere that a piece of citrus dropped
in the hot oil will reduce or eliminate the flavor of the food fried.
Mini seedless orange 2-2.5 minutes at 350+F.
Although it kept it's shape the flesh was much reduced volume wise.
Tasted like citrus flavored char with a hint of oil.
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Barefoot bike riding. My big toes both sides have damage from barefoot biking. :-(
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Ruthie's first horse ride.
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Hey Rusty, I know you mentioned previously
Ruthie's somewhat diminutive stature but
that horse she's on looks like a Percheron.
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I read that following the end of WWII, the government tried selling off all the P-38s for $1200 each. The only takers were a few foreign countries. The rest were stacked like Dominoes until scrapped for recycling. The photo of them all lined up on their noses was depressing.
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Windshield Shot!
Model A looked too good to ignore!
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At Galveston Recently
Galveston, TX. Load of wind turbine blades. I believe the country of origin is Denmark. Soon to be trucked inland, erected, in the breeze for 20 years, and buried in a Texas landfill. What a racket.
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My sister's display of the pine cones from the Azalea hole #13 at Augusta National sent to mom by a forum member.
Dad, mom, me, my sister and brother.
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Galveston, TX. Load of wind turbine blades. I believe the country of origin is Denmark. Soon to be trucked inland, erected, in the breeze for 20 years, and buried in a Texas landfill. What a racket.
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I read an article last year (?) about recycling turbine blades in the US. Can't remember where and I didn't bookmark it, but there are definitely plans to recycle them.
If those blades in the pic are from Vestas in DK, they have come up with recycling solution.
And Carbon Rivers in Knoxville TN also has a recycling program.
And just this year:
DOE Announces Phase One Prize Winners to Boost Recycling for a Circular Wind Energy Economy
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And those Babies are Huge!
Here’s one in Mountainair, NM.
The Lady in the Blue Dodge is from Bee Branch, AR.
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I appreciate your reply. It's just a random photograph and really wasn't meant to spark debate but what the heck. I live in a county that is wall to wall with the things and they all got here after I did - full disclosure.
There is a "solution" for recycling that involves mulching the blades and using them as aggregate in concrete. It's the only one I've heard of (so far) that is being seriously considered for adoption as high density plastics, epoxy resins, fiberglass and carbon fiber are just doggone difficult to recycle. At any rate, mulching them for concrete is wayyyy more expensive than using conventional aggregate (rocks) and has yet to prove the resulting concrete is as strong or durable. The whole blades are being placed in landfills all over the country as the cheapest and best (so far) solution to getting them outa' sight. There is no currently available recycling technology of turbine blades that is remotely cheap enough to be practical. Just sayin'.
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No worries. I wasn't trying to be "contrary."  As you say, there are all sorts of potential solutions for our environmental problems but finding ones that tick all the requisite boxes, esp.as regards cost and practicality, brings up another whole set of problems in themselves. Our Feds have just sunk billions into supporting a massive Honda EV battery manufacturing plant. But I have yet to see any announcement as to who is building the sophisticated recycling facilities needed to support the mad push to replace ICE vehicles, which have been around long enough now that batteries are just beginning to need replcement.
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