The Cellar » What is going on here?

xoxoxoBruce · 12/11/2020 2:38 am

We know where it is but what is the fence for?
It goes the width of the front, up the side and around back but doesn't come back to complete the 4th side.
On the right side there's a smaller fence which extends to the woods.
There appears to be two industrial lights on the front lawn normally used on like the Washington monument or St Louis Arch.
If the screen was to protect from flying objects like golf balls it would also be down in front of windows and doors.
What on earth is it for?

glatt · 12/11/2020 8:26 am

Faraday cage to keep the mind reading microwaves out when they sleep in the bedrooms upstairs.

griff · 12/11/2020 9:28 am

Giraffe infestation?

Flint · 12/11/2020 1:32 pm

Looks like there's a ton of bird* shit on the roof? Is that a clue?

or, bat?

griff · 12/12/2020 8:47 am

Still bothered by this... golf course protection for the slate roof makes sense, but the weave looks too loose.

Diaphone Jim · 12/12/2020 12:14 pm

It seems that protecting the roof is the goal, but why the overkill?

xoxoxoBruce · 12/12/2020 6:11 pm

Flint wrote:
Looks like there's a ton of bird* shit on the roof? Is that a clue?

or, bat?

I think it's bird shit there are a couple pigeons on the roof.
I can't believe they would cage the second floor for golf balls and not protect the first floor glass.

Luce · 12/14/2020 11:30 am

The 2nd floor is where they keep Uncle Guillame when he has one of his moments and starts biting people.

xoxoxoBruce · 12/24/2020 12:41 am

Mark than one unsolved, aka quirky French.

This is another unsolved mystery...

Diaphone Jim · 12/24/2020 12:45 pm

I think it goes with the top right pic in the last "Less than" post.

xoxoxoBruce · 12/25/2020 2:38 am

I was wandering down some rabbit hole or other which led me to some pictures on flickr. When that happens I usually check out a few pictures before and after looking for context. Suddenly there's this picture...

I've lightened it a little, it was even darker, but it looks like a kid went over the waterfall and another is going to. The water looks really dark and cold.
I start looking to find out where this waterfall is and find this picture but all the others are NYC...

Then the light bulb goes on. So I says to myself, self says I, you're a dumb muthafucker, those kids are playing in the surf. [smacks forehead]
I was so convinced of my first impression I had to spend a half hour figuring out I was way off base.

xoxoxoBruce · 1/04/2021 9:23 pm

There's a house for sale in Vermont that is perfect for entertaining your in-laws...

It even has a witch window upstairs.
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/43-Courthouse-Dr_Guildhall_VT_05905_M47173-79565

glatt · 1/05/2021 9:02 am

Wow. That's unique. It would be a lot of work, but if you tore all those cells out, you would have a huge open room that would be great for a workshop. Throw down some radiant floor heating under a plywood floor and it could be pretty nice. The place even has a barn!

The floor layout is hard to see. I would want an exterior door leading into the jail/workshop and it looks like twisty passages might lead to it instead.

And a stone foundation scares me, although admittedly, it has been there for hundreds of years.

monster · 1/05/2021 11:01 pm

to the first post.... perhaps all the inhabitants have shock collars, but the buried invisible fence only works to a certain height, however you can lay it across the top of foliage too.

xoxoxoBruce · 1/06/2021 5:34 am

The jail is a 28' x 40' wing on the back of the house. Looks like in picture #40 at the link, they've added a dormer the full length of the wing. Maybe that's why they are asking double what it sold for in 2018.

glatt · 1/06/2021 9:32 am

Mechanicals look that new too. You're paying for the new heating system.

It's a little too rural for my tastes. You need propane delivery.

xoxoxoBruce · 2/11/2021 11:41 pm

I'm lost, I just don't get it, paying toll makes it free?

Edit: OK, I found it, wiki explains how the tolls paid off the cost of the bridge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak-Sar-Ben_Bridge#Replacement_and_Removal
Oh, and Ak-Sar-Ben is Nebraska backwards.

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xoxoxoBruce · 5/16/2021 12:11 pm

Curiouser and curiouser...

Happy Monkey · 5/16/2021 1:20 pm

If you're out of gas, you have to use your Tesla to go to the station.

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xoxoxoBruce · 5/17/2021 11:23 am

OK, but that's a lot of gas to get the one that's out to the station.

5/17/2021 11:45 am

Was MA left out of the east coast gas shortage/scare?

I assume that's what the pics are trying to get across, although the Ford P'up pic above the Tesla is an old pic from a few years ago. I remember seeing it before.

I witnessed Tennesseans coming across the line to KY to get gas a few days ago. The station I went to has fifteen pumps. They were almost all from TN.

Took me twenty minutes to get gas.

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5/17/2021 11:47 am

Also, the local WallyWorld has no gas cans.

xoxoxoBruce · 7/19/2021 12:26 am

Is it the magnetic fields or too many zaps? why are electrical workers daft?

xoxoxoBruce · 8/01/2021 11:07 pm

It seem in days of old, way before knights were bold, people all around the world would tie stone together with metal dog bone keys.

xoxoxoBruce · 8/03/2021 11:51 pm

Hospitals have a sense of humor and get easy money.
Probably specialists in wounds, infections, blood, trauma, plastic surgery, 5 nurses, and a janitor with a mop.