Photo a Day 365 X 12/2022….

[JayInOz]

This beast is fifteen feet tall and works perfectly. On a small farm where I went to collect an antique horse drawn rake. JayInOz

[JayInOz]

[Hugh MacD]

What is there about old rusty equipment that's so photogenic?
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[JayInOz]

That one is a thing of beauty. If I had to use scrap to build a machine for shelling peanuts I reckon that's what it would look like

There's nowhere really appropriate to put this so I'll stick it here- I just bought a little twelve foot fibreglass boat for a hundred dollars, with trailer. Sitting for years in the open, faded, covered with lichen, but sound and cute. I've been trying to find out what breed it is and was looking at websites- this about Glastron from Wikipedia-

Glastron's "Glastonbury" boats were featured in the James Bond films Live and Let Die and Moonraker. For Live and Let Die, a boat chase was filmed in Louisiana around the Irish Bayou area.^[1] Twenty-six boats were built by Glastron for the film, of which seventeen were destroyed during rehearsals.^[2] The speedboat jump scene over the bayou, filmed with the assistance of a specially-constructed ramp, unintentionally set a Guinness World Record at the time with 110 feet (34 m) cleared. The waves created by the impact caused the following boat to flip over.^[3] Jaws 3 also features several boats with the brand name on the sides. JayInOz

[Yeadon]

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Let’s call it a year already

[J P]

Well, it is cold outside, now down into the minus Kelvins. I kid you not.

-23F here this morning. Not as cold as much of the state though and thankfully little wind.


Don't lick the lamp post.

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[John B]

Strange thing here this morning, this pair of pheasants have been living up the driveway, they came down to the house for a visit.
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I'm literally standing there making a " you do know I'm right here?" statement....

[Joe (SoCal)]

Red Sky at Night Sailors Delight

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[Robbie 2]

Strange thing here this morning, this pair of pheasants have been living up the driveway, they came down to the house for a visit.
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I'm literally standing there making a " you do know I'm right here?" statement....

Probably recognise a non-gun owner when they see it. Hens are protected, anyway.
Could be coming to say "Thank you for clearing their bit of paradise"...what with all the tree clearing you have done.

[L.W. Baxter]

it's a snotsical. had a little one myself today.

[Steve McMahon]

Could be a cat's head, or a donkey's nose.

At first glance I thought it was the face of a harbour seal.

[Joe (SoCal)]

San Clemente Dock Christmas Tree

[chas]

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Imagine being part of the crew that crafted this!
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Nice place to contemplate life on a raw winter’s day.

PS. Anybody spot the loose board?

[Garret]

We've got 50-70MPH gusts & 50F temps - down to single digits tonight. Anyway, the rain stopped about 15 minutes ago:

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[Jimmy W]

Frozen flooded rice field

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[Yeadon]

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Last night

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Just now

[L.W. Baxter]

new fence around 3.3 sides of 8 acres, complete as of yesterday. ~60 posts tamped in holes, ~3000 yards of wire stretched.

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the birches are the ne corner of our farmstead.

[L.W. Baxter]

^^oooo, time to go for a slidey walk!

[JayInOz]

The table top is made up of mostly old hand tools and surrounded by an iron wagon tyre bent to shape. It weighs several hundred pounds. I slid it off my ute straight onto a wheel barrow and then it was easy to move across the yard. The hardwood stump was more of a problem. I cut it to length, brought it into the yard in the loader bucket and then gut busted it the last twenty yards with a crowbar. It's full of black wood dirt and a few thousand very annoyed wood ants. It also weighs several hundred pounds. The seat had a five foot long slab of rough granite bolted to it. I'll replace that tomorrow with a slab of hardwood and get it concreted into position. JayInOz

[Yeadon]

Ice days impact all of us.

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Agfa Ambi Silette / Fomapan 400

[elf]

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House Finch in winter sunshine

[JayInOz]

None of the kids were home for Christmas so Tereza and I packed a basket and spent a couple of pleasant hours at the river this afternoon. This fish was about six or seven pounds- the biggest of the five I caught. Soon to be buried under trees in the garden. This one's going under the South American Ombu. I put a nine pounder there last summer so the digging should be easy. I need more whiskers don't ya think? JayInOz

[Hugh MacD]

Great fertilizer! Too bad the NCCP crashed...but this'll help the garden

[Yeadon]

Bangers only these days, huh Tom?

[Yeadon]

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[Yeadon]

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[Jimmy W]

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[JayInOz]

A lunchtime visit from my two youngest daughters. My Christmas is complete JayInOz

[L.W. Baxter]

lovely scene, jay.

not a barn find:

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went over with my grapple bucket to help neighbor hans uncover some of his treasures from the thicket. found about a dozen trucks in there.

[Yeadon]

People will pay $$$ for a first gen Tacoma, basket case or not.

[L.W. Baxter]

yes, by far the most interesting of his wrecks. i am tempted to make him an offer he can't refuse. but then, his wreck would become my wreck.

there just ain't enough hours in the day. says mister fergus.

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[L.W. Baxter]

It is also fun to make the drone whirring sound yourself.

do you also do the voices of the irate bystanders

[Jimmy W]

Thirty something years ago, I owned a Toyota similar to that for a very short time. I bought it very cheap because my neighbors were moving and it wouldn't shift. I repaired the gearshift, replaced the smashed back window with one from a junkyard and traded the truck for a Hobie cat and trailer.

[Yeadon]

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[Garret]

The local skating rink?

Looks slippery