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Yes. My parents once mailed a bulky parcel (sheepskin rug) from Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides to Vancouver, BC. It made the trip in 5 days, they...

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I am willing to bet it is both. The "organized" part fence the stuff the homeless and addicted "acquire" for them; perhaps they...

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I find th efloat switches always work fine. It is the pumpshaft that seizes with lack of use. My first pump was easy to disassemble and lubricate,...

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My house has something similar, except I think the stream crosses the back yard. When I first moved here 30 years ago, the sump pump got a regular workout....

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That makes sense. The crossover not only reverses the drive, it puts more wrap around the pulley so it won't slip when loaded....

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Wow! He had a home machine shop, as well. At 1:40 odd.

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I agree. And make it a life sentence!...

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I have always liked Wordsworth, I had no idea he had travelled as far as the Hebrides; he is more famous for his poems written about the Lake District,...

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Well, I have heard that bluegrass (which is more or less what was added to the film footage) is the grandchild of Irish music. This according to Duck...

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Hang on, Jay: That is a spinning wheel to make yarn from wool. Not what I would expect to see in a workshop otherwise devoted to woodwork.
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Actually, voter turnout in the 2021 Canadian Federal election was 62% (https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/vote...n-about-averag...

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True enough. But they have had more effect on the rest of the world than they have had on the way that Russia is governed. The people who run the place...

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Given how much bears like garbage, or just about anything else we might find even barely edible,...

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Not quite... To be precise, Prince Rupert is a lot closer to Haida Gwaii (as we now call the QC Islands) than Alaska, and the last I heard, it is still...

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So, you get the kid (or the slave? What era was this model based on?) to turn the crank? It is too far away to be cranked by someone actually doing...

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What kind of "power tool" is hand-cranked and rope-driven, out of sight on the right of the photo?

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So, Trump has essentially been ordered out of business in New York, and his holdings are to be liquidated. At least, that is what I think that judgment...

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You have to feel sorry for her. Talk about being set up for failure!

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RE: The Lordstones: The stones may be a lot taller than they look now. Callanish, a stone circle on the island of Lewis, was excavated as a make-work...

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Recreating extinct creatures from their RNA/DNA is New! And COOL! But saving existing species from extinction requires us to stop logging, fishing, mining,...