photo of the day | February 2024

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Is it supposed to make it warm and then put it into your bed to preheat it?

I have heard of such things, but this is much too small for that.

 

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San Francisco.

 

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Here is an obscure artifact:

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This object is a soup stone, which looks like it has not been used.

In days gone by, we would make Garbage Soup, which was an amalgamation of the stuff that did not get eaten throughout the week – left-overs, mostly, with some other good stuff added. The soup stone hung in the pot while it simmered away, sharing a bit of the last pot while acquiring the flavor of this pot. The idea was that, if we came to such a pass that there was naught to be had for making soup, we could just boil up the stone to extract its accumulated goodness. Luckily, it never did come to that.

It also sort of harkens back to the classic yarn, Stone Soup, though that is a very different story.

 

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Port Chicago, California. I made this photo through the window of the Amtrak train I was riding on at the time.

Way back in 1944 during WWII, bombs and ammunition were being loaded from the Port Chicago Naval Magazine onto two ships docked in Suisun Bay, California. A massive explosion occurred during the loading, destroying both ships and killing 320 sailors.

 

[Katbel]

Our last family acquisition : 7~ months old rescued puppy. As you can read he can solve anything you need.. from shoes to anything he can chew

 

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James Blood Ulmer

 

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not sure where the green light but its kind of a cool effect.

 

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