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2677. thoughtful - 2/17/2005 9:16:37 PM On my morning constitutional, I saw a raccoon. Looked a little young but not a real baby....more adolescent....looked way too tame. S/he was kinda curled up behind a tree stump looking at me....looking at me a little forlornly. I didn't see any obvious signs of disease or illness like foaming at the mouth or any signs of derangement. Rather it looked a little lost and in need of help. I hated doing it, but I just looked back for a little while and then walked on.
Driving to work I spotted a fat raccoon dead in the road maybe 1/2 mi from where I spotted the other one. Maybe Mom got hit and the little one is lonely and scared. Don't know, but it bothered me. I know it's best to leave nature to it's own, but it tugged at my heart strings. I'm hoping, if that's the case, that it is old enough to figure out life on it's own. Raccoons are pretty smart that way.
 2678. uzmakk - 2/27/2005 5:31:47 PM I bought
this radio last fall and highly recommend it to anyone who is in the market for such a thing. Portable, rechargable battery, great sound, sensitive tuner. Among my excuses for the purchase was that I didn't have a radio to take camping.
2679. PelleNilsson - 2/27/2005 9:12:29 PM A 3.5 lbs contraption for camping? One assumes you hire carrier-wallahs for your expeditions.
Snowing in the east:
Snowing in the west:
And clearing up:
 2680. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:15:54 PM I was wondering if anybody knows about silver place settings. This is a set of six with the serving utensils shown:
I can't tell whether it is plate or solid silver. The fork has a pair of symbols, an equilateral triangle on one of its points followed by what looks like a carrot laid on its side followed by a sideways 4, "800",a sickle moon and then a crown. The manufacturer is Baden Pforzheim, and it is pretty certainly pre-WWII. The question is whether to sell the stuff or just give it to the local thrift store. 2681. PelleNilsson - 2/27/2005 9:24:10 PM Only the fork? 2682. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:31:23 PM Sorry, I got the order of the symbols wrong.
Sideways 4, "800", sickle moon, crown, carrot, triangle is the correct order. 2683. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 9:31:42 PM The fork has the largest number of symbols. 2684. SnowOwl - 2/27/2005 9:42:51 PM There's some information about hallmarks here:
German hallmarks.
The fact that it is hallmarked with the silver purity included suggest that it is solid. The crown and crescent appear on all German silver post 1884 - that's the State mark. 2685. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 10:09:40 PM Thanks SnowOwl. That link was very helpful. 2686. jayackroyd - 2/27/2005 10:10:27 PM It seems that this stuff was actually manufactured by Bremer Silberwarenfabrik. The Baden Pforzheim was on one of the serving utensils, which may be a ringer. 2687. judithathome - 2/27/2005 10:19:24 PM Don't give it away, whatever you do. 2688. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:42:17 AM Our house, a few days ago.
2689. Ronski - 2/28/2005 12:43:07 AM And more snow on the way. The groundhog called it right. 2690. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 12:22:48 PM Back from the hot New Zealand summer, I spent two and a half hours this morning getting the kids to school and myself to work. Usually takes me an hour, but I got stuck in three different places, and had to dig myself out of the snow with an aluminium frying pan.
I was pleased to have survived the 40-hour return journey pretty well, but now I'm exhausted.
I enjoy contrasts. Up to a point. 2691. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:24 PM With a frying pan?
Oh I'm laughing now. 2692. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:40:55 PM Was it your emergency frying pan by any chance? 2693. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 2:53:13 PM Still in a dream world somewhere between Over There and Over Here, I set out as normal this morning. Not totally oblivious : we left ten minutes early, taking account of the snow.
But foolishly set off the Usual Way, which starts off with a Bit of a Steep Hill (about 100 metres in a kilometre). There is not all that much snow, but I have underestimated the wind factor, which has created deepish drifts in exposed places.
So we got stuck at the sharp bend half way up. Not having put any specialised digging utensils in the car, I resort to the camping gear, hence the frying pan, which now has a rather jagged rim from scraping the snow off the road. 2694. Macnas - 2/28/2005 2:55:25 PM So you're there, scraping snow off the road with a frying pan.
I wish someone had taken a picture. 2695. alistairconnor - 2/28/2005 3:06:01 PM Tell you what, the work keeps you warm.
I didn't notice the minus nine or whatever.
And almost as much fun as making sandcastles. 2696. Macnas - 2/28/2005 3:19:53 PM I'd have gone home.
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