show your restorations

[old3bob]

 

from this:

 

 to this:

 

note: the little pill bottles in the picture are great for keeping little screws and bolts in.

 

Edited Wednesday at 07:14 PM by old3bob

[Cobie]

To do

 

from this

 

to this

[Nungali]

 

Can someone do   'me'  ?  

 

Something like this will do . 

 

[Sanity Check]

 

 

10 foot x 10 foot corn growing patch. In may 2025 this was filled with 50+ stalks of corn.

 

Last month, it was full of weeds tall enough for the rocks surrounding it to not be easily visible.

 

Restoring to plant more corn.

 

Pulled most of the weeds in the middle & covered with piles of leaves to prevent more weeds from growing.

 

To the right are sweet potato vines I'll allow to continue growing to see if the corn and sweet potato can co exist.

Edited Wednesday at 06:05 AM by Sanity Check

[old3bob]

 

Besides being built like a tank those Kirby vacs really suck which is a good thing...

(also talk them way down from their asking price or one may need to take out a loan to pay for it!)

Edited August 24 by old3bob

[Taomeow]

Yesterday I made these two lamps 

 

 

 

They were very old mismatched ones, both different colors and both colors ugly.  I spray painted the base of each the same dark bronze color and used two Ikea stainless steel kitchen utensils holders to make lampshades, by flipping them upside down and installing hardware.  One of my hobbies, finding a new (often unexpected) purpose for an old and tired object.  I like simple projects that I can finish on a whim in a short time.       

[old3bob]

 

very nice job!

[old3bob]

On 8/24/2025 at 2:17 AM, Sanity Check said:

 

you might give us an idea about that?

[Nungali]

he felt guilty ... and he probably should not have killed  Glen and buried him in the back yard .... but now all shall be restored ... just gotta ......  

 

[old3bob]

3 hours ago, Nungali said:

he felt guilty ... and he probably should not have killed  Glen and buried him in the back yard .... but now all shall be restored ... just gotta ......  

 

 

"It's alive"!

[old3bob]

bigger row boats are better? maybe not... (oops this goes in the other morphed string.)

 

 

Edited Wednesday at 03:44 PM by old3bob

[liminal_luke]

By "restorations" I suspect old3bob has physical objects in mind.  I´m neither handy nor crafty and don´t have much to share in that department, but I wonder -- do posts count?  I´m really into post restoration (otherwise known as editing).  There have been times when I´ve edited a post twenty times before I finally let it be.  It´s kind of a ridiculous hobby.

[steve]

42 minutes ago, liminal_luke said:

By "restorations" I suspect old3bob has physical objects in mind.  I´m neither handy nor crafty and don´t have much to share in that department, but I wonder -- do posts count?  I´m really into post restoration (otherwise known as editing).  There have been times when I´ve edited a post twenty times before I finally let it be.  It´s kind of a ridiculous hobby.

 

When it comes to posting, I frequently choose to restore the space. I write long posts, revise them a few times, then think better of it and simply delete. Nothing beats the openness and unlimited potential of the empty space of my unposted posts.

😄

[liminal_luke]

6 minutes ago, steve said:

 

 Nothing beats the openness and unlimited potential of the empty space of my unposted posts.

😄

 

That may be but I bet I´m not the only Bum who´d love to read an anthologized compilation of the posts you wrote that didn´t make the cut.  I bet it would be fascinating!

Edited Wednesday at 06:13 PM by liminal_luke

[Taomeow]

23 hours ago, old3bob said:

 

you might give us an idea about that?

 

Since SC the author of that tantalizing mystery is responding with 

 

40 minutes ago, steve said:

 

  the openness and unlimited potential of the empty space,

 

I'm tempted to take a wild guess: it's

The Once and Future Swimming Pool

Edited Wednesday at 06:47 PM by Taomeow

[old3bob]

17 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

 

Since SC the author of that tantalizing mystery is responding with 

 

 

I'm tempted to take a wild guess: it's

The Once and Future Swimming Pool

 

maybe a discarded compost pile waiting to be reused...?

 

[old3bob]

1 hour ago, liminal_luke said:

By "restorations" I suspect old3bob has physical objects in mind.  I´m neither handy nor crafty and don´t have much to share in that department, but I wonder -- do posts count?  I´m really into post restoration (otherwise known as editing).  There have been times when I´ve edited a post twenty times before I finally let it be.  It´s kind of a ridiculous hobby.

 

whatever gets posted here from A-Z is more or less ok and could also be fair game,   including restoring one's health which is big topic in the exercise/planet fitness world...

Edited Wednesday at 07:09 PM by old3bob

[old3bob]

On 8/24/2025 at 1:29 AM, Nungali said:

 

Can someone do   'me'  ?  

 

Something like this will do . 

 

 

did he also get his toe nails done,  apparently some guys are doing that now 

(will i follow suit, probably not)

Edited Wednesday at 07:17 PM by old3bob

[liminal_luke]

1 hour ago, old3bob said:

 

whatever gets posted here from A-Z is more or less ok and could also be fair game,   including restoring one's health which is big topic in the exercise/planet fitness world...

 

Yikes -- am I ready to show photographic evidence of my health restoration?  Not yet and probably never but it´s (slowly) coming along.

Edited Wednesday at 08:18 PM by liminal_luke

[Taomeow]

1 hour ago, old3bob said:

 

maybe a discarded compost pile waiting to be reused...?

 

 

So where I thought of something clean, you thought of something dirty. 

Someone has a dirty mind commendable sustainability on their mind.   

[old3bob]

1 hour ago, Taomeow said:

 

So where I thought of something clean, you thought of something dirty. 

Someone has a dirty mind commendable sustainability on their mind.   

 

those are good little buggers in a compost pile once they have done their work...

[Cobie]

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Edited Wednesday at 11:10 PM by Cobie

[Sanity Check]

7 hours ago, Taomeow said:

 

I'm tempted to take a wild guess: it's

The Once and Future Swimming Pool

 

 

 

Its a science experiment.

 

Dug a big hole.

 

Wondered if said hole was filled with leaves and weeds and covered with a thin layer of dirt. If it would be possible to grow corn that way.

 

More than 30 x 50 gallon barrels of weeds and leaves later the hole was relatively filled.

 

Added a layer of dirt maybe 5 inches deep on the top to plant corn in.

 

It worked.

 

But over time composting weeds and leaves lost significant mass leading to it being a hole once again.

 

Long term plans.

 

Eventually I might remove all the dirt and debris. Layer plastic sheeting. Make a fish pond. Still need to work out filtration details. Water needs to be clean for a fish pond with edible fish.

 

Cats like lying on the rocks. They lie on things as if they were centerfold models posing on ferraris.

 

They can watch fish (and have bonus meals).

 

I have many projects like this, its on the backburner for now.

 

[Taomeow]

26 minutes ago, Sanity Check said:

 

 

Its a science experiment.

 

Dug a big hole.

 

Wondered if said hole was filled with leaves and weeds and covered with a thin layer of dirt. If it would be possible to grow corn that way.

 

More than 30 x 50 gallon barrels of weeds and leaves later the hole was relatively filled.

 

Added a layer of dirt maybe 5 inches deep on the top to plant corn in.

 

It worked.

 

But over time composting weeds and leaves lost significant mass leading to it being a hole once again.

 

Long term plans.

 

Eventually I might remove all the dirt and debris. Layer plastic sheeting. Make a fish pond. Still need to work out filtration details. Water needs to be clean for a fish pond with edible fish.

 

Cats like lying on the rocks. They lie on things as if they were centerfold models posing on ferraris.

 

They can watch fish (and have bonus meals).

 

I have many projects like this, its on the backburner for now.

 

 

Thanks.  That's very impressive.  Sounds like a lot of work but you must be having fun with it or you wouldn't do it, right?

 

The fish pond with plastic sheeting to home edible fish...  I'm no fish expert by any stretch of imagination but what immediately occurred to me was that microplastics might have a ball leeching into that water.  Microplastics are the scourge of modern life (we have an average of a spoonful accumulated in the brain! doing our brain functions no favors...  and a lot in all other organs, harmful all of them -- hormone disruptors, carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens...  They are hard to avoid in everyday modern life -- but I think the ones that have the best chance to degrade under sunlight and heat and leech into water are perhaps the most dangerous ones.  So I would look into some more traditional options if I were a fish in that pond building something like this.  I know they exist, but of course I've no idea about the $$ and labor involved.  Just a thought though.)     

[Sanity Check]

4 minutes ago, Taomeow said:

 

Thanks.  That's very impressive.  Sounds like a lot of work but you must be having fun with it or you wouldn't do it, right?

 

The fish pond with plastic sheeting to home edible fish...  I'm no fish expert by any stretch of imagination but what immediately occurred to me was that microplastics might have a ball leeching into that water.  Microplastics are the scourge of modern life (we have an average of a spoonful accumulated in the brain! doing our brain functions no favors...  and a lot in all other organs, harmful all of them -- hormone disruptors, carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens...  They are hard to avoid in everyday modern life -- but I think the ones that have the best chance to degrade under sunlight and heat and leech into water are perhaps the most dangerous ones.  So I would look into some more traditional options if I were a fish in that pond building something like this.  I know they exist, but of course I've no idea about the $$ and labor involved.  Just a thought though.)     

 

 

Good point.

 

Some plastics degrade under UV light or thermal heat.

 

Others like polycarbonate are resistant.

 

I'll have to check what type of plastic sheeting I planned to use to see how UV resistant it is.

 

Planned to cover the plastic liner with sand and pebbles. I think fish prefer a certain type of pebble to lay their eggs in. Last I checked tilapia eat mosquito larvae and algae(if I remember correctly). There are fish farm released tilapia swimming in a river nearby which I thought I might collect.

 

From experience I know tilapia also eat bread and kitchen scraps.

 

Its just the filter that is an issue. I would like to build some type of scaffolding to mount a solar panel to power it. In a way that I feel good about. Which isn't so easy atm.