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GreatwhiteNorth said:

Anybody else pick up on the Bullshit flag @curious2garden threw down?

I'm glad she's not mad at me.

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neosapien said:

She actually told me snakes and sharks live in that hole.

That is the collapsed root cellar I mentioned in a previous post. I salvaged what red sandstone I could from it then started using it as a compost pile. Then it just became a bottomless pit for tree branches.

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neosapien said:

I pegged her for Philippines. She speak Tagalog? Do you? My wife is Chinese so I'm pretty good at telling my Asians and Pacific Islanders apart. At least the women.

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

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That Wisteria can be a pain - runners everywhere.
Mom had one on a trellis that came crashing down in a bad storm so I built a new one w/ pressure treated.

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raratt said:

I AM going to pull weeds in the front yard today, I'll keep repeating this to myself and it might happen.

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neosapien said:

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Here's a pic of the root cellar from the front before it collapsed circa 2008. The Wisteria was just fledgling to the left. There was 0 in the back. Now it's a goddamn forest. The maple that my wife is holding, I have to constantly save from being choked the fuck out.

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GreatwhiteNorth said:

Here's the invisible Kangal.

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That Wisteria can be a pain - runners everywhere.
Mom had one on a trellis that came crashing down in a bad storm so I built a new one w/ pressure treated.

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Singlemalt said:

Damn that's too bad it collapsed, looks like it was quite useful

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neosapien said:

It was quite cool. The whole inside was lined with decent sized pieces of red sandstone and was arched. Unfortunately there was a concrete slab poured on top for a greenhouse and I think it couldn't bear the weight. Or just time. The greenhouse and center pieces fell off long before I took ownership. I slowly (or stupidly) went inside and extracted what pieces I could.

This is pretty much what it looked like in its prime…

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Singlemalt said:

Any idea of original build date?

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neosapien said:

No idea. No one knows nothing about this place. It was in despair and disarray when I got it. This place was built before they kept records lol. Assessment says 1913, but I'm pretty sure that's the year that it says if no definitive date is known. I was told by a local historian on a Facebook group that he thinks it's a homestead that shows up on an 1885 map. A lot of old shit. Got a real 80ft deep artesian well too.

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neosapien said:

I pegged her for Philippines. She speak Tagalog? Do you? My wife is Chinese so I'm pretty good at telling my Asians and Pacific Islanders apart. At least the women.

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Singlemalt said:

Yeah I was thinking that it was built significantly before WW1; before building codes, and before folks had money lol. They had the handy materials and no time limit so it was cheap to make.

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Bobby schmeckle said:

I tell my wife I have "asian-dar". I can tell the race of any asian woman just by looking. She's full filipino.

SO, she asks me all the time, "look at my high school friend. what is she, huh?"

I'm never right.

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curious2garden said:

Yes but that's because they are real people unlike the Kangal, the cardiologist, James polyglot wife.

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Bareback said:

I got a little crazy and went out and bought a new 4 wheeler...... trx420 . I have a ‘07 just like it but I may have killed it last week and I couldn’t control myself with all this spare time and a shit load of yard work to do.

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