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Sorry but this one needed a caption. This is at the family skate before the 2022 NHL Stadium Series game in Nashville between the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Nashville Predators. On right is the Lightning's Edouard Luc Belmarre #41with his kids.
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I had to Google what a Ladas was.
I was told that photo was taken somewhere around Toronto after the Russians invaded Afghanistan.
I used have a Lada in England, their Polish I think. Very basic cheap crap cars, their not allowed in UK now because it doesn't matter how hard you try they can't pass the British emmisions test.
I remember when I got mine from an auction for next to nothing and told my eldest that i got a new car, he was 15 and took one look at it before telling me that he was never going to be seen by his friends in THAT!!
Here's what I had. 1982 Lada Riva LOL.
I was wrong, their Russian not Polish, but the Polish did similar cars called the Polski Fiat
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A man walks into a Lada Dealership "I'd like a hubcap for my lada".
Ok say's the Dealer "Sounds like a fair swap".
Why do Lada's have heated rear windows?
To keep your hands warm while your pushing it.
The definition of an optimist, putting a car alarm in a Lada.
Yup, Ladas were licensed built copies of an Italian a Fiat. Even came with a hand crank in case the battery died iirc.
Looks like I did remember correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGUoljkrDE
Bob
That reminds me of a guy that used to come in to buy keys for his Yugos. He was a collector and he had a bunch of jokes. The only one I remember is
Did you hear about the gang members with a Yugo?
They were involved in a push by shooting.
Rare sighting of Floyd the fugitive Flamingo in Texas!!
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Racine is sponsoring the "International Peeps" show. We went once. Some displays were quite amazing.
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Gonna make some compound butter, with them. Its like Franks, red hot. Ya can put it on anything.
I'll get some more, but just the leaves. These were just a few that were big enough to harvest. Still a week or so to go, for the better one's, and I'm gonna need a good supply of butter, for the year.:angel:
Yes sir, that they be.
I am of Appalachian dissent. It runs in our blood, and we replenish it with ramps each spring.
It also helps people keep just outta kicking distance, too. :rofl2:
You could always tell when a person had consumed ramps
I have never heard of this but I'm not much of a plant-eater either. They look like weeds to me. Maybe something you put in a salad?
You can do that as well.
They only grow in the eastern part of the country, from the Carolinas, to Canada.
They only appear in the early spring, then their gone till next spring.
They have a onion/garlic taste, and makes a great seasoning for about anything.
We hold festivals every spring, in West Virginia.
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Plestiodon laticeps, (broad head skink)
That is the leftovers from last year. It stores very well and gives yo that taste of spring year round.
It is one of the first plants in spring and lives a majority of its life before the canopy grows over it.
It is that being an early plant and its indication that winter is over that gives it much of it's allure.
I've heard they are mighty tasty. And a side benefit is they make you stink so bad that no one can hardly stand to be around you. I don't know if that is true. It's only what I have been told.
It is true
Gotta eat lots, or straight up raw.
Got thrown outta the fishin camp, for that. Had to sleep in the back of the truck, in the cold WV hills.
Its no different than eating a bunch of garlic.
Really April!
Gawd damn, enough already.
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Just love the low light abilities of this phone.
Makes even this crap look pretty serene.
Well, pick your poison I guess. Its been high 80s here already. A little cool the last couple of days; only high 70s but 90s by the weekend- beginning of next week.
The 10 cm/4 in of snow we had the other day did not have much impact on the remaining snow on the ground. So far this winter 9.5 meters/ 31.2 feet of snow has fallen here. This is what is still left after the dump the other day.
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Bob
A little cool in the high 70's eh, it must e terrible to live in a chilly place like that.
Here's a pic of my first home in Canada when I arrived from England.
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We used to build Quinzhee snow shelters on winter schemes with the Naval Reserve. They will keep you warm but not as much room as an igloo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinzhee
Bob
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Sylvilagus floridanus, Eastern cottontail...on my walk...
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Didelphis virginiana, Virginia opossum...
in my driveway...
in the same evening.
Shortly after coming to Canada I visited the States and found this creature laying by the side of road. I thought it might be injured so i went to it, the strangest looking thing. I had never seen one before and didn't have a clue what it was, I actually thought that I might have discoved a new species.
I reached out and touched it but it woudn't move so I thought it was dead.
While I stood wondering what to do with it, it got up and kind of ambled away. Strangest thing, it turned out to called a Possum!
Now you know where the term "playing possum" came from. There are Virginia possums in the lower mainland of BC.
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+possum
Bob