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DrHuk&Duck said:
I’m curious what an online casino does with an old slice of cheese toast.
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Ironic, isn't it? Paying $28K for something like that but I'll bet if you hit a jackpot on one of their slots, they'll try to claim equipment malfunction to avoid paying out.
 
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The Israeli Dead Sea - no floatation device required
 
aleshanee said:
remember the ending of the movie thunderball?.. when james bond and his bond girl of the moment - got snatched up into the air by a B-17 equipped with a skyhook device?....... ...well .....here it is...... the original B-17 from the movie with it;s apparatus still attached..... ... this ww2 bomber actually had a very colorful history both during ww2 and also afterwards with the CIA.....


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How did that thing fly?
 
aleshanee said:
remember the ending of the movie thunderball?.. when james bond and his bond girl of the moment - got snatched up into the air by a B-17 equipped with a skyhook device?....... ...well .....here it is...... the original B-17 from the movie with it;s apparatus still attached..... ... this ww2 bomber actually had a very colorful history both during ww2 and also afterwards with the CIA.....


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What a beauty!
 
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La Marquise is a steam-powered car built in 1884 by De Dion, Bouton, and Trépardoux. It's considered the world's oldest running car.
 
aleshanee said:
that is awesome...... spreads out like a banyan tree... .. just think of the tree house you could build in that.... reminds me of something robin hood would have lived in..... ... our old hunting camp we had in the kaau crater was built into a banyan tree that wasn;t even as big as this oak.... ...we kept all the canvas tarps and other supplies for it in sealed buckets hidden in the roots of the tree..... .
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Was your hunting camp for wild boar or something else?
 
aleshanee said:
it was for wild boar... it was in the much heavier forested area on the mauka... (or mountain) ..side of the crater.. it consisted of a bamboo framework attached to the banyan tree roots and branches...with a bamboo floor laid over it and hole left over a large boulder beneath the frame that we used to build a cooking fire on......

whenever we went up there we pulled the tarps ropes and other gear out of the buckets and set them up as a canopy and etc.... but when we weren;t up there and all that other stuff was put away the framework and floor tended to blend in with the foliage when seen from the trail and crater floor below....

when the camp was taken down someone could be a few yards away from the frame and never see it... .. ..a stream that ran close to it came down through the jungle from the base of the cliffs where there was a small pool and a waterfall..... we could drink the water that was falling from above but once it hit the basin we didn;t trust it for drinking... ..but it was good for everything else... ....

it was a really awesome camp... they had already built it a few years before i joined the family.... .. but it;s all gone now..... ..the bamboo has rotted away and we removed the buckets and supplies once people started finding the camp.... back in the day nobody ever went up there to that crater... few people even knew about it.... google earth did not yet exist and had not yet put an image of it from space on the internet.... but thanks to a remote hiking trails book some idiot wrote - (that included the crater in it).. it became over run with both local adventurists and also tourists....
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Sounds like your family had a little piece of paradise with that hunting camp. In Florida, duck blinds are now illegal on public lands unless it is a temporary structure that is torn down immediately when someone is done hunting. There are a few old hunting blind structures that are left on public property and are grandfathered in, but they’ve just about become a thing of the past. Most guys in Florida with nice structural blinds are millionaires who own hundreds or thousands of acres and like to redneck it up on the weekend.
 
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First ironclad gunboat built in America. The Saint Louis. Local Identifier: 165-C-630. National Archives Identifier: 533123.
 
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A 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle #311 SGC Mint+ 9.5 from the famous 1985 ‘Rosen Find’ collection has officially sold at Heritage Auctions for USD$12.6 million. The card broke the USD$7.25 million record, previously held by a T206 Honus Wagner card that sold in August 2022.
 
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At Lake Itasca in Minnesota, the Mississippi River begins its flow toward Louisiana. The Mississippi’s headwaters are surrounded by the picturesque woods of the Itasca State Park.
 
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Jefferson Davis Presidential Library & Museum (Biloxi, Mississippi)
 
Doing yardwork around the Caines Manor and I see foot prints in the sand. Too big for raccoons... Whaddya think?
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Badgers?
 
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