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[Art Deco]

We see quite a few around Seattle too. Vehicles have to be 25 yrs old to import if they don't meet US safety regs. I go by a JDM dealer nearly every day. Their inventory is usually about 1/3 mini pickups/vans, 1/3 Mitsu Delica's usu set up for the van life folks, and 1/3 random although they always have 1 or 2 retired little fire trucks on the lot.

I honestly haven't seen anything like those over here in Pennsylvania. The closest think I've seen were the little utility carts like universities and golf courses use for ground crews, and they aren't street legal.

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[Jeremy McCreary]

Spam or the other luncheon meat.

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Nothin’ beats a big ole bottle of whiskey to wet your whistle.

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The whiskey's to help you forget you're eating spam.

 

[fooferdoggie]

coffee cup on the roof.

 

[Prairie Dog]

After returning from a ride, I spotted this giant Asian hornet near the side door of the family home. As a measure of scale, the leaf was about 2" in length.

 

[Prairie Dog]

During another ride, I needed to use the facilities at a nearby department store. This uber hands-free sink was made for germaphobes. Lather, rinse, dry, repeat.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

My dad told me that people in Europe ate horsemeat during WW II. Things would have to be pretty rough around here for me to eat Secretariat (-:

There used to be a shop (neigh, a stall ) in the Pike Place Market in Seattle back in the 70s that sold horsemeat. I bought it once or twice. Perfectly fine meat. Why one sentient being should be somehow more immoral to eat than another is quite subjective. Cows OK, but horses not?

 

[ChezCheese:)]

After returning from a ride, I spotted this giant Asian hornet near the side door of the family home. As a measure of scale, the leaf was about 2" in length.

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Did you capture it? I hope you did! And reported it to whatever Fish and Wildlife or Ag Dept that needs to monitor invasive there in Canada...

 

[Prairie Dog]

Did you capture it? I hope you did! And reported it to whatever Fish and Wildlife or Ag Dept that needs to monitor invasive there in Canada...

I should have clarified that I spotted the wasp at my wife's family home while in Japan.

 

[Nvreloader]

I see now that they have a way to track those Killer Hornets, they loosely tie a string of dental floss around the main body joint and then tie a long piece of tissue paper to the string, and have a drone standing by, after the hornet fills up on meat, and then heads back to the nest, the drone tracks the hornet down to the nest etc.
Attempting to find the video of it now.

 

[ChezCheese:)]

I should have clarified that I spotted the wasp at my wife's family home while in Japan.

Minor detail you left out!

 

[Prairie Dog]

Minor detail you left out!

Many active members here have followed my trip posts to Japan and so it simply was an assumption on my part. My bad.

 

[Art Deco]

Many active members here have followed my trip posts to Japan and so it simply was an assumption on my part. My bad.

Actually it was a valid assumption for those of us following your adventure ... but no assumption is safe on the internet.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

Yesterday was apparently "round thing made of round things" day.

First, I came across a mysterious round plateau made of round beach cobbles.

Probably the work of aliens branching out from crop circles. Stopping down to cut the glare off the water shows just how flat they managed to get the top.

Then I rode up to a favorite overlook — the very fancy Alila Marea resort on the bluff immediately above the last spot shown.

And there I found a freshly planted patch of dandelions. More round things made of round things!

Very cool geometry executed in lucite and stainless steel.

Similar light sculptures found online. The resort will apparently be using theirs as Christmas decorations. Can't wait to see them at night!

 

[fooferdoggie]

dont know what it is with goats in portland. I see people walking them like dogs.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[fooferdoggie]

Stumbled onto this golf course that everyone is free to use. you just need the code to unlock the clubs and balls.

 

[Prairie Dog]

More monkeying around the neighborhood. It appeared that this entire troupe was returning to their home base from an out-of-territory foray in search of food as the pickings were pretty slim around my wife’s family home in Japan. We heard the neighborhood dogs barking which was a recognized alert to these forest denizens that use the powerlines as their chosen method of conveyance. And we thought racoons were a nuisance….which they are of course.

 

[DaveMatthews]

More monkeying around the neighborhood. It appeared that this entire troupe was returning to their home base from an out-of-territory foray in search of food as the pickings were pretty slim around my wife’s family home in Japan. We heard the neighborhood dogs barking which was a recognized alert to these forest denizens that use the powerlines as their chosen method of conveyance. And we thought racoons were a nuisance….which they are of course.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

More monkeying around the neighborhood. It appeared that this entire troupe was returning to their home base from an out-of-territory foray in search of food as the pickings were pretty slim around my wife’s family home in Japan. We heard the neighborhood dogs barking which was a recognized alert to these forest denizens that use the powerlines as their chosen method of conveyance. And we thought racoons were a nuisance….which they are of course.

Question is, who will rise up first, the robots or the monkeys?

Are there dog-monkey encounters other than the barking?

 

[Prairie Dog]

Mick is a dead ringer.

Are there dog-monkey encounters other than the barking?

I suspect that’s why they use the powerlines to move around so that they can avoid such encounters. We watched this group several blocks away as they made their way above moving toward the side of the mountain across the street from the home. A husband of a friend of my wife’s who lives further out in the countryside, showed me a sling shot which he uses to deal with the macaques around his own house. Apparently, many are killed every year by local municipalities but it’s illegal to hunt them.