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Author | Topic: Doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Creavolution, I used to keep my boat at the Gas Works Park Marina before I moved her out onto the Sound. Your view of the Cascades must be spectacular.
”HM
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kuresu Member (Idle past 2513 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: |
neat hoot.
my grandad used to have a sail boat. Sold it off roughly 17 years ago. He was too old and his hips in too bad a condition (though after the replacement surgery they were a lot better) to keep it up. Granted, he kept his boat in an inlet on the island of Lidingo (part of Stockholm), and not in the pacific northwest. Let's see, I think I've got pictures of the place (but not the boat) from last summer at this website. Page Not Found - Webs that's where he kept the boat. House is just up the hill. It probably looks really similar to that right now in sweden. Can't say for certain--not there.
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ringo Member (Idle past 412 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
Nighttrain writes: Brrrr, winter arrived today. Dropped way down to 21C above. It's snowing here today (2 degress C). My backyard looks just like Percy's, except you can't see the bird feeder 'cause the grass is so high. I think there's a tribe of pygmies living in there. When it's wet, I can't do yardwork and when it's dry, I'm busy praying for rain. Help scientific research in your spare time. No cost. No obligation. Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
What class is Pearl? Looks like a 24 footer. The class that I liked best when I lived on the west coast was the folkboat.
http://www.barefootwoodenboats.com/folkboat.htm compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
RAZD, Folkboats are outstanding sail boats. The Wooden Boat Center up in Port Townsend has restored quite a few of them. Pearl is a Pearson-26 One Design. She's my all-time fav. I've had her for 9 years. Before that I had a Weatherly 32 and lived aboard for 11 years. My ex and I sailed her around Vancouver Island in 1994. I'd like to take Pearl back out to the Barkley Sound on VI's west coast before I get too old to do it.
”HM
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1405 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
The door on the left is my back door, my front door opens onto the street crossing the one I am on. It has essentially the same view of the park diagonally across the road. This looks from the park to the end of the street to better show one of the upper reaches of Narragansset Bay. Edited by RAZD, : No reason given. Edited by RAZD, : sppeling compare Fiocruz Genome and fight Muscular Dystrophy with Team EvC! (click) we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmericanOZen[Deist ... to learn ... to think ... to live ... to laugh ... to share.
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
OK Percy, you've enticed me. Here's my spring backyard, although spring was incredibly early this year, and it's almost like summer now.
Behind the benched walnut tree you can see the barn, beyond that is our vegetable garden and beyond that our orchard. The vegetable garden has been quite productive already, but the trees in the orchard are very young and are only beginning to bear fruit for the first time this season.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
kuresu, nice to see what your grandad saw, looking out his back door in Sweden.
”HM
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Modulous Member Posts: 7801 From: Manchester, UK Joined: |
By the way isn't that picture you posted a freeze frame from the opening of coronation St.? where's the cat? That's exactly what I said when I was looking for a half decent image. I live within walking distance (long walking distance) of the Granada studios. This whole area is the real life setting of corrie (which if I recall correctly is based in Salford, we live in Stretford nr Old Trafford).
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Nighttrain Member (Idle past 3993 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
When it's wet, I can't do yardwork and when it's dry, I'm busy praying for rain. Them`s the breaks. Btw, didn`t you use to live in 'Soviet' Canuckistan? Kept meaning to ask if you`d moved. :-p
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Nighttrain Member (Idle past 3993 days) Posts: 1512 From: brisbane,australia Joined: |
I liked the Cape Dory design. Fat and comfortable (like me, ). Aussie craft tend to be lean and mean.
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cavediver Member (Idle past 3643 days) Posts: 4129 From: UK Joined: |
although spring was incredibly early this year, and it's almost like summer now Good point... We've just emerged from nearly 20 days of crappy weather, but April hottest April in 350 years apparently!!! The hot days at the end of March were even more startling. From this observation, I conclude that global temperatures must be experiencing a rise of about 2-3 degrees a year! Remarkable...
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Parasomnium Member Posts: 2224 Joined: |
cavediver writes: hottest April in 350 years apparently There have been many broken records lately, it's remarkable indeed. But that's all beside the point: what do you think of my backyard?
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Percy Member Posts: 22391 From: New Hampshire Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
RAZD writes: This looks from the park to the end of the street to better show one of the upper reaches of Narragansset Bay. I lived in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, from age 7 to 12. We spent many, many summer days at the public beaches of the west side of Narragansett Bay. When the tide was out the water would be ankle deep for a couple hundred feet from shore, and the sun would heat the shallow expanse of water into the 90's (F, of course). Many of our friends' fathers were in the Navy, so they would be around for only a couple years or so, but I think the Navy base at Quonset is no longer a naval facility. We would tagged along with friends' families for base tours, and I once toured the aircraft carrier Essex. --Percy
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Brad McFall Member (Idle past 5032 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: |
It is not so much as yours, but it's all me. The tall plants I use to test effects of electromotive force on growth. Some daylilies are hybrids I created and the maple just out of the picture has a bizarre cell wall mutation I thought might be of interest in creating ethanol fuel or making concrete Kant's idea of a "tree".
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