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the windowsill in my kitchen... some "ordinary" stones, a big lizardite, a black-blue granite from Renée's place in the Pyrénées-Orientales, 3 tourmalines, plastic flowers and... little branch of one of my Yew bushes I accidentally broke off... ya can partly see my creek.
on my way down to the forge these beautiful flowers grow at the edge of the pavement, in the gap between the tar and the granite kerbs.
any of you know their name ?
hm.... about half of my 2560x1080 screen with new rainmeter skin Gadgets after the project of ModernGadgets had come to an end... SilverAzide's Gadgets is the original anyways...
#rainmeter #skin #windows11 #screenshot #screen #monitor #ya
hm... some days ago I forged a crowbar of 92cm/36.2in length.
the original material was a piece of 33cm/13in of that coil spring, probably of an earth mover, the length was still 52cm/20.5in although I had cut off some pieces before... toughest material, I tell ya... took me about 2.5h of sweating :D
I was pissed when my original crowbar of 180cm/70.9in, forged of a loco coil spring weighing 58kg/127.9lb, was stolen last year... I think I know the filcher but, as I was not totally sure I said nothing, instead, forged me this new one, even it is smaller... I need the leveraging effect of a crowbar to move heavier pieces of steel...
this morning went down to my smithy to forge some soundsticks for Andrea; the first pair from last week do not sound that good as I drilled the holes not in the right place. today I managed the steel ones, hammered them cold, and they sound fabulous, and then I tried a pair out of forging bronze, had to light fire as the original diameter of the forging-bronze bar is 30mm... they give an interesting sound.
#ya #forging #steel #bronze #sound #sticks #sound-sticks #klangstäbe #photography
it's already more than one year that Andrea helped me to create a new #lizardite #bracelet, using #beads in shape of spheres in between the 6-sided cylinders... #ya started a collection of most diverse bracelets 2 years ago... :D
Renée had brought this cactus as a tiny plant from Frankfurt to her new village, it grew enormous, had yellow flowers... died 4 years ago... once touched the thorns stuck with you for quite a while, hard to remove...
#cactus #Pyrénées-Orientales #plant #nature #beauty #photography #ya