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September 14, 2024 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr September 14, 2024 by SPP™ SlowPokePete, on Flickr SPP

Easier to roll up and put in your pocket for later.

Thanks, cactus flowers are pretty cool, very short bloom but spectacular, imo the San Pedro is one of the best.

Ok Brian, you inspired me to photo one of Mrs. RW's dahlias.

I’m a fan of 10k-step days in cities that are new to me. And Detroit style pizza. I don’t know why rectangular pizza is fun, but it is.

I'm flying back to Vegas from Pittsburgh in the morning. SWA and by throwing down $70, my B17 became an A8. It's around 5 hours and I'm tall. My...

I wrapped up my week in Pittsburgh. I fly home in the morning. On Tuesday, I walked down to the Strip District and had a sandwich and IC Lite at...

Wow Brian, just Wow!

Discovered Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense had been purchased long ago and added to our Apple Music by my wife. Marriage. ...

Twin Otters were affectionately known as "Twotters" or "turbo turtles" when I was flying. Amazing aircraft, but a massive pain to follow into LGA...

A Twin Otter! Dad is a fan of Otters, having jumped out of them back in his smoke jumper days. We have several single Otters in the float plane...

12 day flight across the world in a 60-year old plane…from our friends at the BBC. ...

Karen had a "Pizza Sorrento" for lunch today. Thin crust, mozzarella walnuts and lemon zest. I'm making that after we travel back home. I sampled...

I saw a Moto Morini X-Cape the other day. Didn't knew the brand existed and when I saw the bike, I expected the brand to be chinese owned as are the...

My Mother-in-Law Dot, turns 99 on 16 September and we're having a party in her honor on Sunday. To place things in perspective, she’s been through...

Before the region’s historical records were relocated to the Heinz History Center in the late 90’s, they were housed at the Western Pennsylvania...

Look up Aketown PA and Jacob Ake.

I'm geeking out on history all week in Pittsburgh. I am completing a master's thesis that focuses on western PA 1750-1774 and I'm doing my research...

No, but I’ve observed people taking calls on speakerphone in restaurants. If I owned a restaurant there would be a sign upon entry stating that this...

Well we do frequent a number of restaurants around here. The table manners range from appalling to nonexistant. Never seen anyone eat with their...

Can you elaborate on this (I’m a bit dull in the head these days). I did spend 5 years in your neighborhood in the 1980’s training at St Luke’s, now...

School (Columbia) has started in my neighborhood again. I had no idea that using a knife and fork is now considered a lost art.

Mike...here's the answer to your crane question. The Link-Belt RTC-8075 Rough Terrain crane has a 75 ton maximum lift capacity and 127 foot,...

San Pedro flowers just as they start to open, I was a day off in my estimation of opening date in my post above, pic is from early evening yesterday

Your wife is absolutely right. But luckily we all end up old and these never wear out. Just explain to her how, factoring in for inflation over...

My wife says these are 'old man' boots.

I think the word you are looking for is drug dealers. Miami Vice is still my all time favorite show.

QUOTE=mnoble485;1121881]RW, Makes my retired superintendent heart go pitter patter! So many questions. Must be 3:30 quitting time? How come I could...

I'm guessing they go through Colombia or something, but I used to the wrong word - probably not dealers. Middlemen is right. Import/export magicians....

You probably have a middleman in there somewhere hiding Vene. It would trigger US OFAC rules, and no US dealer will be able transact with a Bank in...

I've been looking at this one not infrequently. Somehow I started talking Land Cruisers at the Volvo dealership with the shop guy, and he said...

I'm a day early, but I'm in Pittsburgh and had a sandwich and an IC Lite at Primanti's last night. I ate too much and feeling way sluggish this...

We don't really see any Grenadiers in Chelsea Truck circles. It is suppose to be a decent farm vehicle though. All things considered, I...

RW, Makes my retired superintendent heart go pitter patter! So many questions. Must be 3:30 quitting time? How come I could never do that?...

I cheated and posted one photo a day, but taken on essentially the same day starting after graduation in May. Amazing what an ant colony of...

It's a day ending in 'y'. Grumps aren't limited to Thursdays!

On second thought, even though it was the vertical stabilizer that was shorn off, I'd say that the A350 clipped the wings on the CRJ-900 in two...

Yikes, a Delta A350 clips off the tail of a Delta Connection CRJ-900 at ATL

How does it compare to Big Sir Jim's Grenadier, a "knock-off" that borrowed liberally from the design cues of the original Defender?

defspace, since you mentioned that you weren't interested in booze, I hesitated to bring up stoofvlees / carbonade flamande previously, but for the...

Latest excuse not to be riding. On our hotel balcony after the gate agent overrode DHS's request for unspecified information and let me on the...

Don't make me split this off into a separate thread that will go on infinitum. Besides it is Tuesday now.

Go back to the Dickey Amendment from 1996 which does not allow CDC funds to be used to study gun violence because it might lead to gun control. I may...

This supports what I said earlier about politicizing shootings. The major outlets and the democratic party seized upon a portion of his statement...