Tuesday, July 29, 2014

San Francisco

Not a big wheelbarrow city, from what I've seen in two days. I've seen construction work and trucks with tools, but few wheelbarrows.

I saw one near some curb work. I saw these three (hard to see where they are, and the tour bus we were on was moving quickly).

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Barrow, no legs

Elsewhere on this Robin Hood series there was a barrow with two short legs. They carried armor in it.

This is a different one, or perhaps the same one (prop) used in one show, and legs added to one end of it later.


This is from Episode 59, The Bandit of Britanny.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

My dad's birthday

My dad has been gone for over half my life, but he gave me rides in wheelbarrows when I was little, and let us play with his wheelbarrow as much as we wanted to. Somewhere there is a photo of me and my sister sitting under an apple tree, digging in the dirt, with a cousin or two. There's a wheelbarrow.

Somewhere there is a photo of my dad and my Uncle Junior (who is still living) and I think there might be a wheelbarrow in that, too.

This isn't a wheelbarrow, but it's my dad, before I was born. He was strong and always owned a big wheelbarrow. Probably the same one all the years I knew him.


My dad was born July 17, 1926. He died in his fifties. I have outlived him two ways. His name was Kirby Lynn Adams.

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Spotted at a distance

In Alameda, New Mexico, spotted this:


Through the wonder of a zoom lens, I didn't need to trespass to get a better look.


Fire wood. In May, and it wasn't near the house nor a wood pile, it seemed. Maybe they were cleaning up the field, and tehre were pieces of wood scattered or lost in winter. Maybe they moved it away from the house in case it lured spiders. Maybe they have a hot tub, or a wood-fired kiln or outdoors oven. Some houses have an horno. We had one when I was little, but my mom didn't know how to use it. Some families put a wood stove out in summer. Nada used to move hers in or out seasonally, in the 1970's when she lived north of El Duende. Maybe it was for a bonfire or campfire. Holly has had some outdoors fires this summer at her house.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Black, with bikes

Routine, matches the bikes, spotted in the back of a four-car garage at someone else's house. Minnesota.