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[lordmarcovan]

This guy was seen near our local Waffle House today.  Big ‘un!

(Not my photo- wife saw it on Facebook.  I don’t get the juicy neighborhood news like she does, since I closed my FB account.)

Dinner tonight was Shrimp Scampi.  The green bits are asparagus.

Edited April 24 by lordmarcovan

[lordmarcovan]

Dinner last night was at our favorite little hole-in-the-wall Mexican joint.  Very authentic.  More than half the clientele (and almost all the staff) are Latino.

I had the Molcajete: chicken, beef, pork, shrimp, bell peppers, onions, and some kind of Parmesan-adjacent cheese, served in a smoking, 8,000°F stone bowl.  I learned that “molcajete” is not just the name of the dish, but of the stone bowl itself.  Molcajetes were the bowl part of the ancient mortars & pestles of Mayan and Aztec origin.

Ladymarcovan had the Fried Ice Cream.  I got the two cherries.

Edited April 22 by lordmarcovan

[CPK]

Whoa! That alligator - how common is it to see one crossing the street like that??

Shrimp looks good, too. 😉 

Here's a view from my daily life - working at adjusting parameters for one of our fiber lasers. Boring? 😉

Perhaps slightly more interesting - a family trip to a local lake from a week or two ago. This is our youngest, 2 years old and about to turn 3 next month.

 

Saw a black snake there too.

 

Our oldest, 5, staring at the sun in the eerie half-light just before totality:

 

Edited April 22 by CPK

[lordmarcovan]

@CPK - urban alligator sightings here are not exactly common- but they’re not entirely unknown, either.

Love the lake pic!

Edited April 22 by lordmarcovan

[DonnaML]

My Callie, probably not thinking about ancient coins:

[Phil Anthos]

Belly rubs!

[Ancient Coin Hunter]

View of the Cascade foothills through our newly remodeled center window in the living room.

 

View of the second story deck where I ponder new coin additions. Note: Just scrubbed the deck to remove pollen with Dr. Bronner's Castile Soap, won't impact the watershed which flows into the lake below.

Edited April 22 by Ancient Coin Hunter

[Heliodromus]

2 hours ago, Ancient Coin Hunter said:

View of the Cascade foothills through our newly remodeled center window in the living room.

What a fantastic location!

 

[Phil Anthos]

I love the Cascades. My wife and I used to hunt waterfalls, so we spent a lot of time exploring the mountains from Mt Shasta to Mt Baker. 

Being retired now my life revolves almost entirely around my boy Repo. He's an 11 year old flat coated retriever who rescued me when he was 10 months. At that time he had already been adopted and returned twice, hence the name.  🙂

[seth77]

That's one big alley cat @lordmarcovan

[Limes]

Had some fun re-arranging my private coin museum. Decided to put several imperatorial and Imperial denarii together on the transparant stand. Looks pretty good in my opinion.

The 12 C's and some friends placed together:

I have some cats sleeping somewhere as well. But the internet is already filled with cats. No crocodiles walking around though. 

Edited April 23 by Limes

[rasiel]

On 4/21/2024 at 5:36 PM, CPK said:

Here's a view from my daily life - working at adjusting parameters for one of our fiber lasers. Boring? 😉

 

Funny how these things go! At one point a couple years back I was wrestling with whether or not I should get one of these for engraving metal. CO2 lasers you can get off Amazon pretty cheaply but are finicky and don't do a great job (or maybe not at all when it comes to metal) but the cheapest fiber lasers ran nearly 5k. In the end I decided not to and just outsourced the job and glad I didn't but the nerd in me still wishes I had one to fart around with 😅

Rasiel

[CPK]

33 minutes ago, rasiel said:

Funny how these things go! At one point a couple years back I was wrestling with whether or not I should get one of these for engraving metal. CO2 lasers you can get off Amazon pretty cheaply but are finicky and don't do a great job (or maybe not at all when it comes to metal) but the cheapest fiber lasers ran nearly 5k. In the end I decided not to and just outsourced the job and glad I didn't but the nerd in me still wishes I had one to fart around with 😅

Rasiel

That's interesting! We used to have a CO2 laser, but now all we have are fiber lasers. Fiber is just so much faster than CO2 and way more efficient. Of course, they're more expensive up front, too.

As a matter of fact, I'm doing an etching job right now on our smallest laser, a 6KW which probably cost somewhere around $600K. 😉 These are stainless steel parts:

[DonnaML]

6 hours ago, Limes said:

Had some fun re-arranging my private coin museum. Decided to put several imperatorial and Imperial denarii together on the transparant stand. Looks pretty good in my opinion.

The 12 C's and some friends placed together:

I have some cats sleeping somewhere as well. But the internet is already filled with cats. No crocodiles walking around though. 

Great display! What does one call those multi-level plastic display stands in the center? I'm tempted!

[panzerman]

I have been doing the same thing all my life/ cutting grass/ weeding flowerbeds/ trimming hedges/ nukeing lawns for weeds/ crabgrass/ cinchbugs/ grubs/ blowing leaves......basically dawn to dusk/ 7 days a wk. 8 months/ have Winter off.

Pretty well always thinking about coins an food/ my only addiction.

My Rottie

Strawberry torte I made/ can polish off whole thing in one sitting!

My backyard

[CPK]

Lovely landscaping @panzerman - and that torte looks delicious!

[lordmarcovan]

9 hours ago, Limes said:

Had some fun re-arranging my private coin museum. Decided to put several imperatorial and Imperial denarii together on the transparant stand. Looks pretty good in my opinion.

The 12 C's and some friends placed together:

I have some cats sleeping somewhere as well. But the internet is already filled with cats. No crocodiles walking around though. 

Your sleeping cats are dreaming of ways to get up on the furniture and scatter all those coins!

 Bean says he’s up to the task, if they aren’t…

 

[JeandAcre]

Looking at all of this has been a Gas.  (Yes, you could access the Stones, if you wanted --from here, it's kind of an involuntary earworm.)  Makes me wish I'd ever evolved to using a camera.  Sorry this is the best that'll happen from here.

...But @Ancient Coin Hunter and @Phil Anthos talking about the Cascades had to evoke the one and only, unforgettable time my family took the North Cascades Highway, when I was a kid.  (Right, I still live vaguely in that part of the world.)  The scenery was on a spectrum from the merely surreal to the benignly insane.  If you were a kid, and had the option of just sitting there, looking out the window, it was really a non-pharmeceutical high.

Here's someone else's pictures, from https://www.thatawaydad.com/north-cascades-national-park-second-day/ 

 

Right, the best parts were over a two-lane road, carved out of the side of the mountain, with the kind of drop you can imagine from the first picture.  At one point, there was a good-sized gap in the guardrail, as if somebody had gone over the edge.  ...My juvenile endorphins were running at full bore; it was just fun.

[Limes]

@panzerman That pie looks very tasty 🙂

@DonnaML The one I bought is this one https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Holders-Countertop-Pedestal-Collectibles/dp/B01575VTE8?th=1 

I put in 'multi level transparant display stand plastic' in google, and then searched for a specimen with the right measurements. They also use names like 'make up stand' or 'cupcake stands'. You can try those words too. (I swear, I wasnt looking for a display stand for my cupcakes...!) 

@lordmarcovan Your cat looks very relaxed. I like how they always end up in funny spaces. Well, decided to show a photo of one of our cats, chilling, while the youngest is playing with her dolls. I hope the cat isnt pondering about the possibilities to mess up my coin display! 

[lordmarcovan]

2 hours ago, Limes said:

@panzerman That pie looks very tasty 🙂

@DonnaML The one I bought is this one https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Holders-Countertop-Pedestal-Collectibles/dp/B01575VTE8?th=1 

I put in 'multi level transparant display stand plastic' in google, and then searched for a specimen with the right measurements. They also use names like 'make up stand' or 'cupcake stands'. You can try those words too. (I swear, I wasnt looking for a display stand for my cupcakes...!) 

@lordmarcovan Your cat looks very relaxed. I like how they always end up in funny spaces. Well, decided to show a photo of one of our cats, chilling, while the youngest is playing with her dolls. I hope the cat isnt pondering about the possibilities to mess up my coin display! 

I have an orange cat who looks very much like yours!

Of course we have 14 cats, so the odds of my having one similar to yours were fairly reasonable, anyway... 😆

[panzerman]

I am kinda an expert on tortes. My favs are raspberry/ gooseberry/ sour cherry versions.🥰 The Rottie loves strawberries too! She is more into fruits/ vegetables. I do my place last job of the week/ Sunday evenings.

[KenDorney]

Did a couple car shows this weekend.  We have this big event called Cool April Night, loads of cars and shows.  My 66 Type I is the one with the logo in the pic.  I was excited to do the cruise until I realized I have a coin show this weekend.  Ah well.  Maybe next year.

[Phil Anthos]

In 1998 some friends of mine started a community garden at another friend's house not to far from me. I saw this as an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do, stand some really big stones on their end. My wife and I had recently watched a show on PBS about the stones at Stonehenge and the great obelisk at Alexandria, with two groups putting their theories to practice and I thought "we could do that". So I spoke with a friend who was a rigger for a local power company, and another who was a geological engineer. We decided we could do it, but we wanted to erect the stones with no modern equipment. 

A year later we erected the uprights (14 tons of columnar basalt), and 15 months after that we placed the lintel, (3.5 tons of granite). All this was done with ropes and simple pulleys, and a LOT of volunteers pulling on the ropes!

Over the next decade we added smaller stones around to make a circle 

It was one hell of an experience which none of us will ever forget.

~ Peter 

[jdmKY]

Last week my wife and I were in the Netherlands and saw the tulips. Added bonus - dinner with Martinus who brought several of his Antony fleet coins for me to see.

 

[lordmarcovan]

16 hours ago, Phil Anthos said:

In 1998 some friends of mine started a community garden at another friend's house not to far from me. I saw this as an opportunity to do something I'd always wanted to do, stand some really big stones on their end. My wife and I had recently watched a show on PBS about the stones at Stonehenge and the great obelisk at Alexandria, with two groups putting their theories to practice and I thought "we could do that". So I spoke with a friend who was a rigger for a local power company, and another who was a geological engineer. We decided we could do it, but we wanted to erect the stones with no modern equipment. 

A year later we erected the uprights (14 tons of columnar basalt), and 15 months after that we placed the lintel, (3.5 tons of granite). All this was done with ropes and simple pulleys, and a LOT of volunteers pulling on the ropes!

Over the next decade we added smaller stones around to make a circle 

It was one hell of an experience which none of us will ever forget.

~ Peter 

Very cool!  I always wanted to do this.  If I did it here, it would really stand out, as we do not have local rocks (our coastal soil is all sand or clay).