Overheard at work: “Love you! ….In a corporate way, obviously”
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There are trees on Vancouver Island (just off the coast of BC, where the city of Victoria is) that are so big the roads curve around them.
Driving north from Victoria has the eerie sensation that you are shrinking. The trees get bigger… and bigger… and bigger…
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Giant tree fatigue is a thing, I found out. Redwoods are really weird trees, in all sorts of ways. One of the ways they’re weird is that they don’t have deep roots, even though they’re insanely tall (the tree in that picture is 100 m tall, give or take a few). They have very spread out root systems, that grow into each other. So you don’t find a single giant tree, they’re in groves, with a bunch of giant trees in an area. So you see one tree, and think “wow, that’s big”, turn around, and there’s another. And another.
The other weird thing is they reproduce vegetatively (as well as from tiny seeds from tiny pine cones), and can regrow from their own roots, and because the roots were supporting a big tree, they can grow very fast. One of the really big trees we saw is two trees that have grown into each other, forming a single trunk that goes up 50 or 60 feet before splitting. A single trunk 26’ across and 90’ around, mind you, and about 1500 years old. I asked the park guide who was there if it was a single tree, or two trees that had grown into each other. He said “yes.” (with exactly the same gleeful look a geek gives you when they answer a question with a useless yes ), and then explained what they thought had happened was two trees had grown into each other (which is pretty common), but because they both had the same bark abnormality, they were probably two sprouts out of the root system of an older tree, so were clones of each other and the original tree, which makes answering questions about it hard.
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What forest were you in? NoCal?
We were just in Muir Woods (40 minutes N of San Francisco) in January. Two beautiful days.
I did not get giant tree fatigue. I got giant tree therapy.
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In light of your username, I am not prepared to accept you as an unbiased source on any plant life.
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‘You can’t glare at me like that — we’re not married.’
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" Container is in shipping containers on its way over the ocean! This is an essential step in the process of delivery."
Yes… Yes I’d agree that shipping the games is an essential step in delivering them. Thank you for the update.
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“They will continue to reside in the containers until they have absorbed enough of the Containerly Essence…”
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Wife, calling from Costco: “Anything else we need?”
Me: “Patio furniture… three kayaks… if they have two seats…”
Wife: “OK, bye.”
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It’s always hard to choose between the 2-pack of grand pianos or the 6-pack of the upright model
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Thankfully, my local Costco is a signal deadzone
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Yesterday, my wife had to get half-and-half. She commented that she could get a better price at Cosco (which is very close to the grocery store we were going to), but couldn’t use all that she’d have to buy. She only uses it for her coffee and I don’t use it at all.
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I miss the days when you could get a variety pack with the mystery pipe organ.
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“I’ve lived here 13 years and nothing like this has ever happened.”
A man shortly after driving his car through the closed door of an underground car park.
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Sometimes, you have to make your own excitement.
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“The Sir Lancelot of courier tracking services.”
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I’m not sure whether to read that as endorsement or as a preemptive apology that service staff will commit adultery with your wife.
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It was more along these lines:
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