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Wait ! How many tigers are in Texas ? We don't do the 'exotic animal market' much here . Maybe someone has a ferret or a parrot . We cant even make pets with our natives ( although I don't see the point personally , I have 'feral pets ' eg. late yesterday afternoon I was working on a little garden project at the end of the day and looked up ... oh, there are two pademelons watching me .... and there is one in the drive way, and two over there behind me - if you carry on and ignore them they ignore you, look too long and they hop off . ) I saw a 'reverse zoo' recently - a huge outdoor area with various habitats . You are driven in in a safari car into a shelter that opens out into a huge cage , that people get in and then the lions are all around looking at you , coming up to the cage and standing up and leaning on it while the attendant fed them morsels of meat ( by using long handled tongs ) . One person became transfixed - just centimeters away staring deep into mama lions huge eyes . I remember once my elder brother came home 'charged up ' - electric .... looked like he had 'seen a ghost ' or a UFO or something . He had been out fishing on the ocean in his tiny little boat ( he was often admonished for going out on the open sea is such a small boat ) . He was fishing and 'the bottom came up ' - that's what he said it looked like ... all of a sudden the water got shallower and shallower and stopped just under his boat , moved to the side and he realized it was a whale , it rolled over and bought its eye out of the water and eyeballed him . He said its eye was as big as a dinner plate and about as far away as one of his oars length . He said he sat there dumbfounded looking right into its eye and he couldn't move .

Wrapping, padding ........... canoes Its waterproof ... the only issue is when it gets taken out and exposed to water ..... it sprouts mushrooms - but that could be good on a long trip https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fungus-answer-climate-change-student-who-grew-mushroom-canoe-says-n1185401

Aussie version from 'paperbark tree' here is Luke , my teacher's nephew , showing some paperbark skills .... to harvest it you don't even need to make a stone knife , the right shaped river rock will do it ;

AI Overview Learn more The statement "love is like a cork tree" can be interpreted metaphorically, suggesting that love, like a cork tree, can be resilient, adaptable, and sustainable, with the ability to regenerate and grow, much like the cork oak's ability to regrow its bark. Here's a more detailed breakdown: Resilience and Strength: Like a cork tree that can withstand harsh conditions and be harvested repeatedly, love can be a source of strength and resilience in relationships, enduring challenges and setbacks. Growth and Renewal: The cork tree's ability to regrow its bark after harvest symbolizes the potential for love to grow, evolve, and renew itself over time. Sustainability and Longevity: Cork oaks can live for centuries and be harvested multiple times, much like love that can be a long-lasting and sustainable force in a relationship. Adaptability: Cork trees are native to the Mediterranean region and are known for their ability to adapt to different climates and environments, just like love can adapt to different situations and relationships. Symbolism: The cork tree is a symbol of nature's resilience and adaptability, and its connection to love can be seen as a reminder of the power and beauty of human connection. Practical Application: The idea of "love is like a cork tree" can be used to encourage people to view their relationships as a source of strength, growth, and renewal, and to appreciate the sustainable nature of love. Cork Oak: Quercus suber is the scientific name for the cork oak, a medium-sized, evergreen oak tree native to the Mediterranean region. Cork Harvesting: Cork oaks can be harvested for their bark every 9 to 12 years without causing damage to the tree, and a single cork oak can be harvested over 16 times in its lifetime. Other Uses: Cork is used for a variety of purposes, including wine bottle stoppers, cork flooring, and as the cores of cricket balls. Generative AI is experimental. I prefer the Casuarina ; its long soft needles combed by the wind , they breath with a gentle whooshing sound and are used as a natural paint brush to 'lash' the skin with white clay (for ceremony ) , dried they make good tinder in a copse they gather together and cover the ground with depth of soft needles like a mattress and allow the dappled light through, an excellent place to set up camp . Beautiful in form , I planted one directly outside my my front windows . Can a man love a tree ? I think so .

A curious phenomena ; some are like that in 'real life' ...... the 'lovable rascal ' ... something about them is 'likable ' ... even though you will never get your money back after a loan .

It comes with its own cooling system, don't worry if it drips water , but remember to keep the water topped up .

'Junk DNA' is like most junk ... can;t figure out what it is for , or think of a way of recycling it ? ... its junk ! 'Junk' ( 'Non-coding' ) DNA is like the systems in your car ; all the components we can observe functioning and understand are like 'regular DNA' but how they function, when they 'run' or not and which other parts of the system they interact with , that's the 'junk' DNA . If you have climate control , all the mechanics of it are regular DNA , but its operation is junk DNA , if you don't have climate control , the same , but you are the junk . ... here is another thing ; there are all these traits that seem , in my observation (although some argue strongly against it ) it seems some of us come here with certain traits and , at least, proclivities . In some cases it seems certain they are not developed from environment and are not considered inherited genetically , yet .... there is a mass of DNA inside us that we don't understand ..... yet that cant be responsible for inheritance of things we don't think are genetically inherited ? .

You see them as a version of an old Ford ? ? ? .... oh wait , I get it ;

If I was going to suppose 'beings and their kin interacted with humans to guide and mold identity and actions' I would not suppose those beings where 'God and the devil ' .... even if they were ' real ' . The devil ? ......

You mean if they are not acting that way convincingly ? Ya know .... movies ....TV ...... people are 'actors' and 'pretending ' .

The dish washing liquid has run out . I'll get some next time I go shopping .

Bundjalung - night ; Ngandir ... north variation ; Ngularin . Wiradjuri - night : Ngurung .

Ah ... in a thread about the depth of evil ..... what an apt adjective .

Thats all very sad . Poor animals . That toxic algae bloom stuff is effed up ; I saw a doco on Maya last night , after tests they found , after a long drought , it had got into the huge rain collecting ponds the Maya incorporated into their architecture that was used for agriculture and drinking ... a significance contributor to the end of Mayan civilization . I too had an encounter with sea lions ; in NZ . I saw a bunch of them out on the rocks, thinking I could walk out there I decided to go and take my camera ( pre mobile phone era) . I wound the strap around my wrist a few times and was holding the camera up high . It wasn't far nor deep but there was a strong current to and fro between the shore rocks and island from the swell, the surface under my feet underwater was volcanic , very rough uneven and numerous holes and very sharp and HUGE arms of thick spiky kelp were swirling around and wrapping around my legs and at times waist . But I got there . The sea-loins were on the other side of the rock so I crept up low and slow and rose from behind the rock , camera ready to get a surprise close up . Thing was, one of them must have heard or smelt me ? It was doing exactly the same thing as I was , slowly coming up from behind the rock to take a peek from the other side . We came over the rock the same time , sea lion's face right in front of the camera - it got a shock as I did and let out a growl (or whatever it was .... boy did its breath stink ! ) But I was quick enough to grab one of the most excellent shots , close up, right in its face . Then I had to get back . I nearly lost the camera , or at least nearly submerged it . Back through the 'tide' , the sharp rocks and holes, the leg lashing kelp and made it back to the rocks and over to the sand , pretty exhausted but thinking it was worthwhile , until .... yeah .... I still had the lens cap on

Nuts

Nyx ?

That's a curious and old fashioned way of looking at it . It was actually written in retrospect - probably by Josiah and his cronie scribes ; Now you people have to do this ... and you better do it as last time God said to do it and you didn't and look at all the shit that happened to you ! and not only that, we found this scroll full of laws no one has been following , we better reform all the religions around here and get to... I mean get back to my ... I mean God's plan and orders for us ... otherwise , you are going to see a shit storm like nothing you ever saw before , even worse than the Assyrian and Babylonian invasion and deportations ( and while I am at it I will make up a story about our glorious past .. when people DID follow God's law to establish a true religion ) . Maybe ... or it could be defined as people searching for and finding more efficient ways of killing each other .

Would you like to purchase a saree guard for your Royal Enfield ?

Hmmmm ..... close examination ; " If there are this many on the beach, maybe they have all blown in ?" <scans the ocean > "I don't think there are too many over that way ." .....

To me they fill the memories of a childhood day at the beach ! Zinc cream , hot chips and ......... ' blue bottles ! '

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I have seen some strange things diving , but never one of these . I have never heard of them before . The pyrasol . Is it one creature or a collective ? It looks like a giant undersea worm / hollow tube . What's the big deal ? Well, some are big enough for a person to swim through !