An inquisitive old fart with a camera
Though not far from us, I hadn’t noticed that a new used-car lot had spring up—as if Uruguay needs another!
When we arrived in Uruguay, I was fond of mimicking something Henry Ford may or may not have said over 100 years ago: In Uruguay, the customer can have a car in any color he wants, as long as it’s silver.
I thought that had changed. Perhaps it has. Perhaps everyone has traded in their silver cars? I’ll be paying more attention….
…we’re just clouds. We’re not going to hurt you or anything.
I think it’s a juvenile falsa crucera de hocico respingado, minus the red bit on the tail. Here’s my visual snake identifier: dbosk.com/snakes.
Fun note about my snake page: it’s simple, but serves a purpose ignored by the 1990s-style Serpentario site it links to – allow you to identify a snake you see. ¡Que concepto! I recently sent the code to them, saying they were welcome to it, and they replied thank you, we’re planning an upgrade to our site soon.
I don’t still have their email from eight years ago, but they said exactly the same thing then.
Reminds me of this t-shirt I probably should have:
Wife asked me to mash some garbanzo beans to make hummus. A potato masher is tedious and relatively ineffective. The electric hand mixer does a good job, but with the slight inconvenience of making an unholy mess if you’re not real careful. And slow.
All of a sudden I got an idea. An old plastic saucer, couple of minutes with the table saw, and…
…blast away on top speed, no problem!
Were it not for the traction plates, this German camper would hardly earn a second glance.
Because after all, this one, also at Tienda Inglesa and too big to get up the ramp to where the other is parked, is much more the norm.
You can see my collection of camper posts here – in addition to Teutonic monsters, there are some rather amusing local ones I’ve spotted over the years.
After the rain, wind: the darker wet sand was compressed by a motorcycle tire, leaving a ditch that was then filled with blowing dry sand. Which formed miniature dunes.
Strange to think: I have walked in this area thousands of times, but have never seen (or noticed) this phenomenon before.
Some time ago, the little vertical plastic box atop this vent pipe blew off. The box went into the neighbors’ yard, and since there’s rarely anyone there, I didn’t bother to pursue.
The plastic grate landed in our yard, and I hung onto it. Until today. In a sudden urge to purge, I started cleaning out my work area, chucking this and many other useless things.
Then, carrying trash to the house, I see this on the ground.
Obviously not where it was meant to be.
An hour from now, I wouldn’t have had a replacement, but now that you mention it….
A perfect circle in the middle of the road. Why? How? No clue. I don’t think it’s a rudimentary crop circle, but you never know.
In other news today, the first large lizard we’ve seen in years – easily two feet long. Syd practically tripped over it. I pulled out my phone and started a video … except I didn’t. Something about trying to hit the on-screen tiny video button in full sunlight. So I pressed the button to start and stop recording, and ended up with two snapshots of nothing, since it was moving through undergrowth. Well, next time. Stay tuned! But don’t hold your breath.
Avocados are long gone. Buds emerging for the next crop.
So what do I find this morning but a freshly-fallen avocado, freshly devoured. Huh?
I didn’t get a picture of the bird, but when I first saw this, it was calmly eating, that far away, glancing up at me from time to time, as if wondering—as usual—who exactly I thought I was hanging around its feeding station.
We have seen many cutter ant trails and ant hills, but never a grand entrance like this that Syd spotted today!