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mullokintyre said:
Been looking for an anvil at farm clearing sales.
They go for ridiculous prices these days.
More valuable than silver.
Mick
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Anvil's used to go for $1 a pound in weight at clearing sales years ago.
These days a decent sized one would generally fetch mega bucks.
I gave up trying to source one and settled for a decent lump of solid steel weighting about 20kg.
 
farmerge said:
Anvil's used to go for $1 a pound in weight at clearing sales years ago.
These days a decent sized one would generally fetch mega bucks.
I gave up trying to source one and settled for a decent lump of solid steel weighting about 20kg.
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Well over $10 per pound these days, often well in need of refurbishment... Actually often FUBARed.

The tragedy is that so many went to scrap in the dark ages of blacksmithing, 1960s - 1990s.

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Here I am lamenting about the weather to "Her Who is Never Wrong".
With several hundred acres of hay cut and windrowed the season was looking really good.
Now we are suffering Hay Season Heartache.
Showers although patchy and not that heavy are making it a miserable time.
Not a bale has been produced as yet.
So far this week 2 wet days and another forecast for Friday.
She reckons I should move into the shed until the Hay Season is completed.
 
Time to strike a blow for the day. Have half a day paddock slashing to do while it is cool and reactively damp.
Just waiting on the school bus and mad mother's to be off the road I will be using.
 
zWe have a major problem with crows.
They continually peck at their reflections in our windows.
Ruined a couple of fly wire screens.
I have read on many learned sites that crows are extremely intelligent.
As far as I am concerned they are as dumb as dishwater.
Mick
 
mullokintyre said:
zWe have a major problem with crows.
They continually peck at their reflections in our windows.
Ruined a couple of fly wire screens.
I have read on many learned sites that crows are extremely intelligent.
As far as I am concerned they are as dumb as dishwater.
Mick
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Also tuneless cawing night and day at our place.
 
The common name for Açai fruut and plant comes from the Portuguese adaptation of the Tupian word ĩwasa'i, meaning "[fruit that] cries or expels water". The importance of the fruit as a staple food in the lower  Amazon gives rise to the local legend of how the plant got its name. The folklore says that chief Itaqui ordered all newborns put to death owing to a period of famine. When his own daughter gave birth and the child was sacrificed, she cried and died beneath a newly sprouted tree. The tree fed the tribe and was called açaí because that was the daughter's name (Iaçá) spelled backwards.

.. and if you believe that last bit, then you'll believe anything
 
I am constantly amused by the sheer improbability of Brasilan first names.

this is the family tree of the Gracie clan.

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The first Gracie was from Scotland; he settled in Belém.

..the family were the first to market açaí as an energy drink in the 1980s. I remember it but much preferred guaraná, especially from Antartica (pronounced antah-chika) company.

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The Guaraná plant is found in the Amazon, and it contains a high caffeine content (to repel insects). The extracted syrup, initially made into a soft drink, was astringent and markedly bitter, and it did not become popular. The soft drink was created by Pedro Baptista de Andrade, who sold the formula to Antarctica, which then developed a process to eliminate the astringency and bitterness, emphasizing the characteristic flavor and aroma of the fruit.

The Company launched Guaraná Champagne Antarctica in 1921
 
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