In country where snow that deep is common, it's often easier to trample down the snow. If they'd tried to keep that path shoveled, by February the piles on each side of it would be head high. With each snow fall, the shoveled path drifts full to the top, and you have to lift each shovel-full over the piles.
#6 could have been my grandmother on the farm in northern Minnesota - except that it must be 80 years since she looked like that, and they were in Iowa then.
OTOH, you probably could have filmed something like this in an Amish community today. Perhaps she heated water on a wood stove and washed those clothes with a wringer washer powered by a salvaged lawnmower engine. That's how I remember Grandma Annie doing it, except they weren't quite Amish and had electricity to run the washer - and it was only in summer, because Grandpa Freddie worked as superintendent for an apartment building in Minneapolis when the owners flew south for the winter. Anyhow, I know it can be a whole lot of work just reaching the point where you can take the laundry out to the clothesline.
Actually, cats do it exactly the same way. Scooping it up with the underside of the tongue. Pretty much all mid-size to large mammalian predators do it that way. Not sure about ungulates and other non-predators.
All that 'dogs are better than cats'/ 'cats are better than dogs' stuff is BS and besides the point. I really love both species but only have cats because I'm not physically up to taking care of worthwhile-sized dogs properly. The walks would be a problem.
#3 is impressive. I wonder how that bike works.
ReplyDelete5 - good thing he had his mask on
ReplyDelete8 - that dog is protecting something from the doors? cat? lobster? democrat?
air conditioning.
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Delete#6, I'm assuming she's also barefoot?
ReplyDelete#6. When you get back in, fix me a sammich.
ReplyDeleteCool maneuver but in a bow fight I think he would still have 47 arrows stickin outta his ass.
ReplyDeleteApparently #6 has never heard of a snow shovel?
ReplyDeleteTim in AK
In country where snow that deep is common, it's often easier to trample down the snow. If they'd tried to keep that path shoveled, by February the piles on each side of it would be head high. With each snow fall, the shoveled path drifts full to the top, and you have to lift each shovel-full over the piles.
Delete#6 could have been my grandmother on the farm in northern Minnesota - except that it must be 80 years since she looked like that, and they were in Iowa then.
ReplyDeleteOTOH, you probably could have filmed something like this in an Amish community today. Perhaps she heated water on a wood stove and washed those clothes with a wringer washer powered by a salvaged lawnmower engine. That's how I remember Grandma Annie doing it, except they weren't quite Amish and had electricity to run the washer - and it was only in summer, because Grandpa Freddie worked as superintendent for an apartment building in Minneapolis when the owners flew south for the winter. Anyhow, I know it can be a whole lot of work just reaching the point where you can take the laundry out to the clothesline.
Whatever. I bet she's taken.
DeleteLucky man.
#3 - That's a cool bike. 50 years ago, I woulda been the envy of my block!
ReplyDelete#7 - A lot of folks don't know that's how dogs take up water. Cats can't do that. Another reason dogs are superior.
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DeleteActually, cats do it exactly the same way. Scooping it up with the underside of the tongue. Pretty much all mid-size to large mammalian predators do it that way. Not sure about ungulates and other non-predators.
All that 'dogs are better than cats'/ 'cats are better than dogs' stuff is BS and besides the point. I really love both species but only have cats because I'm not physically up to taking care of worthwhile-sized dogs properly. The walks would be a problem.
I'll bet the guy in #5 goes bear hunting with a willow switch.
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