A scene from yesterday: dried stump from last year’s fire springs into flame.
Burning stump
Author: doug
Bye bye boo tree
The “Boo!” tree, 30 November 2017 and 20 October 2020
31 December 2021
Fire, again
This afternoon. Again. Last time was just over a year ago. This looks to be a lot worse.
[lost video from Daniel Machado – driving through stretch where fire jumped the highway, El Fortin]
Reupholstery
This afternoon project: reupholster office chair because fabric torn by a certain dog who likes to jump into it when I’m gone. Can you guess which dog that might be?
I can’t decide if I’m halfway through this project, or through with it.
Carpinchos
We visited a place in the hills below Minas, Uruguay, whose owner had taken on two brother capybaras (called carpinchos locally) from the local zoo. Apparently when they get to be too many in too small a place, they fight, and it’s ugly. The one who runs away in the first clip decided to go swimming rather than deal with the handful of humans watching at feeding time.
Hmmm.
Apparently the owner of the property next door is also an architect who designed the addition and remodel.
I would not be tempted to hire her based on the brutally industrial aesthetic, but this morning at 10 AM, I see another reason she might not be my first choice.
It’s a measuring thing. As in measuring the length of a car before designing a place to park it in the shade.
More graphic non-design
A Mercado Libre order arrived with this “business card” inside. I don’t know if it’s a Latin American aesthetic, but I started noticing illegible business cards and ads when we arrived in Mexico 15 years ago.
Here’s an example from a few years ago.
You just have to wonder.
A rare Uruguayan automotive gem
A classic, even by Uruguayan standards.
Nice mirror mounts. Now how exactly do the windshield wipers work?
Bathroom design tip
I posted the above on 18 October 2018.
Three years and nine days later we returned, and I noticed this.
Progress!
Big dog!
This dog’s owner maybe weighs a little more than the dog, but isn’t as strong. It took a while to get them calmed down and moving in opposite directions.