Alex's new stick.

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The pillow was the weave the center then join the sides one. It was almost spoon shaped so I just turned it on itself.

 

[NickAVD]

Everything looks very cool!

 

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Got bored, made rope for the first time. Swamp grass.

Yeah, my braid sucks. I have trouble with the brain twisting plant fibers one way then weaving it the opposite way and remembering over under etc lol I can see what happened. I have effectively two lines of one color and one of the other. Kept mixing the identical ones up lol

 

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Lots of great potential sticks at the new nature park going in down at the river. But, we used them for stream bed restoration lol

Work is starting next week. This week was spent clearing a nearby area of blackberry. A large log will be put in to stop erosion. Then all that nice drift wood piled up gets put in place with all the old dried up and dead blackberries from last season get dumped on and fresh cut willow stakes are driven in.

 

[ChileanTaco]

Clearly a good thing
As somebody from the countryside (originally), I can relate very much to that. (Helped with similar things where I grew up, including removing garbage from such an area, and I'm happy to see there seems to be no garbage in the river and around.)

 

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Decent amount of trash still being generated and picked up At least a lot of people are bagging it and leaving the bag by the trash can so as not to overfill it. Baby steps lol The blackberries covering everything takes priority since the compostable material can be processed for use. The Slurpee lids and straws are a bit different lol. Much of the trash that accumulates there is from upriver and contained to the flood area beyond the new levee where the trail is.

Removing invasive blackberry mostly abd replacing it with willow, native berries, alder and birch which are choked out. Next summer the kiddo and maybe his friend want to do the youth corps and I can get paid to be a team lead (or preferably assistant, I'm tired of being the boss. I'm a better Dick Cheney lol)

 

[ChileanTaco]

Love it to see some work is done (and sad that it's necessary especially with the trash - and with trash here I mean often big things thrown into the water, like bikes, buckets, shoes...).
In Germany, we call it a "Ramadama" (a catchy phrase as it rhymes, and means "we clean it up" in a dialect).

 

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About 1/4 upriver from the park is a sunken car. It's a local celebrity lol

Them Duke boys dun missed the..... Turn?

Yes, people drive that bad on 18 lol most likely "yeeted" as the 10 year old would say, off the bridge by a truck driver. That's the end of downhill and the smooth transition into the valley. Guessing loaded double trailer of Douglas fir logs and a big yellow or orange Mack truck lol From what I understand, it's some kind of big old American sedan.

Well known and marked by salmon fishermen lol

 

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Piled all the stuff I have weaved for her. Getting a lot better

 

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Shoot, this next one turned out cute

Bazaar filter. Like it

 

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She looks really happy

 

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She looks really happy

 

[ChileanTaco]

I always love the way there tongue looks:
Almost human, just with a very tiny split giving a hint of "no, that's a reptile"

The total opposite to monitor lizards with their loooong, very much split tongue (whch I also find funny, and I once had the chance to interact with a water monitor lizard, somebody else's pet, from which I still have photos and who was very friendly and just gorgeous).

 

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Now that is the sweetest photo I've seen yet!!!

 

[BPSabelhaus]

I always love the way there tongue looks:
Almost human, just with a very tiny split giving a hint of "no, that's a reptile"

The total opposite to monitor lizards with their loooong, very much split tongue (whch I also find funny, and I once had the chance to interact with a water monitor lizard, somebody else's pet, from which I still have photos and who was very friendly and just gorgeous).

Not fully forked, so they don't lie. They just tell little fibs lol "I didn't eat that yummy spider"

Edit: Not joking, she posed for one of those pics lol. Sitting there smiling, I go to to take a pic. Stops smiling, makes a posture adjustment then is like "there, perfect" Go to take picture, "Wait, just a moment. There, now I'm perfect"

Smiles again lol