M. Phelps

not done yet but i worked on it a bit.... got the axe head to fit through my handle
unfortunately i should have picked a slightly larger diameter piece of wood but oh well we will see if it holds up
i really only intend to cut down one small tree for proof of concept and then it will be mostly decorative
since these pics i have used a draw knife to slim the handle down.... its almost done
then i will need to lash it in place although it gets wedged in there pretty good just with how it fits into there

hi Bob, check out the snow we got here in toronto the other day...
its not all that uncommon ... still nothing compared to when mel lastman called in the military to help
my nephew loves the snow and we always make a toboggan track in the backyard and ice it up like a luge track
the pic of the toboggan run is from before the big snowfall we got... still need to get out there and clear it off and build up the banking in the turns
we also make a huge pile out front and tunnel into it (far from the road)

dont have pics at the moment but i snowshoe in to an island further north and shovel of a roof each year... sometimes more than once
the snow up there is amazing... makes up for how exhausting the trek is!
lots of lake effect snow up there

i had to look up the black horsefly i did not know what it was.... apparently they can fly at 90 mph... one of the fastest insects!

this gives me goosebumps especially when the sub bass is hitting

i have not gone through the old hard drive yet and not sure if these photos are a good fit....
this building is now completely restored and is now office space
it was the crematorium of the old hospital in peterborough ontario
it was in an abandoned state for a long time (other than pigeons)
it had leaks in the roof which over time let to stalactites hanging from the ceiling
it even had tunnels which led to the hospital and another building nearby which i explored

the house on the water is abandoned and i have pictures from walking through but they are on the other hard drive

i copied the preview images and it made the file size bigger than necessary so next time i will copy the images themselves as i did not make note of the file names this time

another thing with that is you could make the collector bigger than the grow space in a situation where the sun is obscured so as to have full light in a dimmed world in the case of a large volcanic eruption/impact/explosion

this could maybe be its own topic but related to what Mart Hale brought up...
i remember reading or watching a video on greenhouses in very cold climates and the one person said dont even bother with a greenhouse just grow with lights 20 feet underground
i was thinking it would be cool to have a space 20 feet underground and a parabolic reflector and have fiber optic cables at the focal point which bring the light down to the underground space
the reflector could be set up to track the sun like greenpowerscience had his solar cooker track the sun

abandoned mines information system in ontario

fishing urban ontario's map of reported sightings of cougars in ontario
lots of people in the comments section reporting sightings to him in his series on cougars in ontario

sorry that last one didnt work... it was a pdf
here is a link to a fun geological map... zoom in and click on areas to learn about them
https://macrostrat.org/map/#x=16&y=23&z=2