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Published: 2010-01-24 06:07:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 175; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 4
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this is an artificial bonsai tree made from a dried & polyurythane coated rose stump set in a plaster filled pottery bowl & set with Box leavesRelated content
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do I even want to know how long it took you to carve all those leaves?
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Ya I figured that one out on the next one you posted!
that shot was kind of hard to tell at first
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yeah I bought a few 100 dollars worth of artificial foliage before I moved here 10 years ago & still have a fair bit left. Because of the abundance of trees here eg rainforest etc. they don't sell as well as down south as it's fairly bare of trees there
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so I guess you'd have to set up something down there if you can?
that could be hard I know
really where I need to be is Toronto or Vancouver, but its stupid money to live in either place and not really into the idea of all that concrete
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mate I'd probably have to disown you if you moved to a CITY. From what you say then that's either in the far east or west of canada I personally couldn't live in either
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don't blame you there
Toronto is Canada's largest city an not quite east coast, but close enough ..It's the money machine and banking mecca of this frozen ice ball of a country
Vancouver is the west coast equivalent
Toronto is about an hour drive from here.. and that's closer then I want it to be.. but what can you do
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that's easy mate sell up & move here.
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it's enticing believe me!
I've been kicking that idea around for some time
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have you checked out those websites on real estate?? That's just round the corner from me
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not yet,
I was just looking into immigration laws
It looks like I'd have to have a sponsor of some sort
before they would let me move there, I'm to old to get
under the standard visa and I don't have any of the skilled
trades they are looking for.
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bummer hope you find a way
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lol looking at these prices!
some awesome looking homes.. but way out of my price range
I couldn't even buy the crapper never mind the rest of the house
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lots of people here buy a bush block up in Ravenshoe there's lots of small blocks & herberton too. I see one here in Herberton for $75,000 971 sq metres, & another at $ 85,000 & then live in a shed up there it's a little drier than here & higher at 3000ft
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ya I was looking at a few around 85 to 90 in Ravenshoe
one was mid to high rain however! I want land! not a canoe
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OH WHY No canoe!! you could fish every day out your bedroom window ya can'
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ya that's what I'd be afraid of! the house turning into a canoe in the middle of the nite and waking up a drift in a river
be quite the shock stepping out your back door in the morning!
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well it happens but you'd be surprised how fast it runs off where I am is basically hilly on top of a mountain range if that makes sence & just a few kms away absolutely flat hence the name tablelands
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really diverse topology going on there
I guess it would boil down to where the land was situated then
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definately let me know if you find something you like & I'll let you know what it's REALLY like OK
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lol will do!
I never trust what the reality folks say
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not adviseable. when I moved here from down far south I came in the wet season to be sure that anything I bought wouldn't wash away or be on a flood plain or no access because of water or whatever. dry season's just cooler & less rain
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ya great looking lot nice trees! not to cold not to hot! .. just one problem! the road to get there, has a tendency to take a vacation in the middle of a river come rainy season!
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oh come on it's not that bad really as I said the water runs off pretty quick & as long as you don't buy a block out in the boondocks you'll be fine just count how many bridges you cross between the block & town & hope their HIGH bridges lol
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........ rolling on the floor laughing!
there's just something inherently twisted about that!
but you know I'm just nuts enough to see that as perfectly normal
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darn right & so you should a friend of mine has a video shop & the usual wet season answer for why didn't you get your overnight video back is the rivers are up & the water's over the bridge
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I could see that! quite easy!
we don't get the water, and I live on a lake.. go figure!
we use to get the snow! and it was the same, can't get through as the snow buried the roads
but we've not had conditions like that since I was a teenager
we get snow now but nothing like we use to.
The climate here is actually quite boring.. nothing major ever happens here! no mudslide, typhoon, cyclones, forest fires(no forests anymore) elephant stampedes, Roo invasions! alltough I hear you guys have a huge rabbit problem in some spots there?
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ON A LAKE????? what on a boat or an island. so what ya worried about the only difference is it's wet & warm not wet & frozen
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lol
ya the town I live in is right on the shoreline of a lake
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be more specific I was thinking ON ya know ON a lake.lol that must be fun if you're into ice fishing or ice skating or ice hockey BUT thats in winter in summer you could go fishing or water skiing or I DUNNO!!
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Ya sorry it's just a local term .. live on the lake, just means your on the shoreline and not inland
oh ya those are all sports that are available here!
but!
the fish are get smaller and smaller every year, (over fishing/pollution) and you would want to eat them!
full of heavy metals, and toxins
The beach you many not be able to go swimming on as they are leaden with E-Coli Bactria (sewage in the water)
and generally have warnings posted "swim at your own risk" or closed down to swimming by mid summer all together.
The Ice fishing depends on if the lake actually freezes over well enough or not! and these days it's
not very often, skating we have ice rinks all over the place, and some keep ice through the summer months
we had snow just before Christmas and got a few more inches of it after, so we had about a foot of it, but it's all gone
now.. rain! as a kid we got three feet on average here! far more up north! but not these days
I'm as far south in canada as you can get.
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you my friend MUST think seriously about getting out of there maybe Oz is too far or expensive or just too hard. surely there's somewhere better than that . I hope you find somewhere there's very little polution here a little bit from spraying the sugarcane & avocados & bananas BUT NOTHING like That. keep looking OK LATER
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ya this region was heavy industrial steel, and manufacturing.. pretty polluted now
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yuk time to move on I'd be outa there pretty quick
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well it's been home all my life
family and friends, etc etc,
So in away it's hard to
and I have an aging mother who I should
stay close to for the the time.
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fair enough My Dad's in the same boat he's 92 & lives down south I visit him every 6 months & call him every week
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My mother is the only one of my family left
both my father and younger bother have both passed away
I don't have any other siblings, so it's just me
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not hitched--married--- engaged ---girlfriend---or just plain SMART
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just plain smart I guess!
as much as I like them, I can't handle them for
any length of time, they drive me up a tree
so I just keep to my self
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smart man yeah me too was married for 11 years but she didn't want a sick husband so bye bye
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sorry to hear that!
well I've spent 80 % of my adult life alone
so it's what I know and how it is!
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yeah other than that time before & after no one but I've got some good friends most of them as nutty as me & some nuttier
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my interests keep me busy, I have an endless fascination for the world around me so .. boredom and loneliness are not something I encounter often! As a child there was a limited amount of other kids to play with, so you learned to amuse yourself.. and living where I did that was never a problem! So to some degree I suppose that part of me is a product of my upbringing
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yeah I fit in that slot BUT you can always find a nut case somewhere I used to get together with a couple of nuts at primary school & draw monsters after school & I guess it just went from there PLUS CB radio gave me friends for life
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I knew a few people that got into to the CB radios
but that's pretty much gone here now. maybe a few die-hards around still
but that's something you just don't see anymore
only long haul truck drivers still use them now
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same here except UHF is still around cause this place can be very flat & UHF works well out in the outback on the stations But CB for me was back in the 70's & 80's
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I think most here are using the satellite phones when it comes to being in remote areas.
kind of stupid! if the sun spots ever get really bad or we have some other anomalies happen
those things will be as useful as a screen door on a submarine, at least UHF all you need is a good strong
antenna and clear weather
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that's right & a couple of repeaters & you can transmit over 80 miles
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ya.. but they want the ability to be out in the middle of the desert and talk to some on the other side of the planet
which is fine! till it screws up!
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