Random Images of Where We Live

[worth1]

Leave the house early only to get stuck in traffic by the airport because of a wreck.

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[PNW_D]

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[worth1]

Something to brag about.
The box and wire was covered up with sheetrock.
By using a tone generator I found exactly where it was and cut the ceiling out exposing the box and wire.

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[bower]

Is that like a guitar tuner @worth1 ?

[worth1]

Is that like a guitar tuner @worth1 ?

No.
The tone generator on the right gets hooked up to the wire and you can find the wire with the one on the left.
I've found wire behind masonry walls before.
I used to use them to find a pair of telephone wires a mile or more so away.
Oh and you can hear people's conversations on a land telephone line.

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[worth1]

Another room the sheetrock foreman cut a hole in the ceiling and couldn't find it.
Said it wasn't there and they didn't cover anything up.
I come in and find it by memory and made darn sure they had sheetrock to repair.

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[Mark_Thompson]

Not where I live, but traveling for work this week. Hilo, Big Island of HI

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Eta view from sea level

[bower]

Nice but.. your place is the better @Mark_Thompson .

[Mark_Thompson]

@bower I agree, but I am quite the biased judge

[worth1]

That dark blue pickup in the front is a cop.
There's a grey one lurking around in the same area.
I've seen both with cars pulled over on the highway by the airport before.

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[karstopography]

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Got in some break the friend’s new boat time today.

[PNW_D]

Habitat Island -- False Creek

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[SpookyShoe]

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Got in some break the friend’s new boat time today.

Where is this, the Gulf? Galveston Bay?

[karstopography]

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Got in some break the friend’s new boat time today.

Where is this, the Gulf? Galveston Bay?

Between the Mouth of the Brazos river and where the San Bernard River mouth used to be out (sealed up by shifting sands now) about 1/4 mile to a mile out in the gulf. We launched on the San Bernard well up river and cruised on down to the intracoastal water way, went up that past numerous barges and through the Brazos river locks and then out the mouth of the Brazos. The Brazos was pretty muddy with fresh water runoff as it often is, but the water got progressively more clear away from the mouth, not that we got far enough from the mouth to get to the truly clear water. The dolphins were also in the muddy water, they have special skills catching dinner, clear or muddy water.

There were a lot of little groups of dolphins out there that day, we couldn’t tell what they were feeding on. The dolphins were certainly putting on a show, completely clearing the water a la Sea World style. My friend has a new boat and was running around trying to put some hours on the motor so that he could take it in for the 20 hour service.

Dolphin are often around and very close when I’m fishing in the kayak, in a boat or even wade fishing. I was wade fishing in about 30” of water in Matagorda Bay once and a group of three dolphin swam by close enough that I could have touched them. We’ve put on snorkels and masks and jumped in with them out in the gulf some, but we will see them swim by without getting so close as to be able to touch them.

[pondgardener]

At least four separate fires started yesterday with the high winds, including this one at the steel mill where my Dad and grandfather worked. Wind is even stronger today with gusts of 60mph and 80-90 mph farther north.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7OAhgkxR60

[karstopography]

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[Whwoz]

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From a recent day trip down to Dromana, on the eastern shore of Port Phillip Bay, the bathing boxes go back to a time of single sex bathing on beaches, before swim suits were around, used as a place to change and store equipment. Biggest are single car garage size and to buy one today would set you back $AU 420,000 or so.

[Whwoz]

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Sawtells Inlet at Tooradin, top end of Western Port, our toilet stop on the way to/from Dromana. Forgot to take a low tide photo on way there, tide here is about 3 m/10 feet rise/fall leaving lots of mud and only a channel at low tide.

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[karstopography]

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More Live Oak fun. This one fell sometime overnight in spite of there being little to no wind.

I’ve already cut it up and hauled it off along with a neighboring Hackberry tree that was damaged by the live oak on the way down.

I did leave the section with the Honeybee hive intact.

Burn marks and charring indicate a lightning strike I do believe.