Gives information and keeps me from getting wet. 10/10 excellent structure
There are so many of these in Slovenia
Why did my dumb ass think this was a cute lil baby guillotine at first
You’re spending too much time on Lemmy.
I once cycled to a pub in the rain to meet friends. The pub had no where to lock a bike, apart from one of these roofed sign things. It was tricky but I managed to lock it to it. It was great, kept the rain off my bike.
An information board, such as a noticeboard or interpretive sign.
You can find them with the there linked overpass-turbo tool.
I’ve only ever seen them at hiking trails, so yes. I’d rather be hiking than doing anything else
Had them in some small towns I lived in growing up that were used for a public board. Yard sales, missing stuff, other events or official notices.
Like you live in an open world RPG and the generated quests have a place to show up
Oh I’ve never seen that, maybe it’s regional
These are small towns. Like between 200-1000ish people. East Coast of Canada for me.
Hiking is just sitting at home but with extra steps
with extra steps
Lmao a lot of em too
Depends on the hike. Sometimes I hike to where my phone is charging because I feel it’s charged long enough and I don’t want to spoil it. It should be as tired as I am. 20 percent? You’re more charged than I am get your ass over here.
I am on an elementary school’s parent advisory committee and we had one built for school notices and fundraisers etc.
It took for ever to get built though, and cost an arm and a leg.
This thing means - “Beyond this point remains some collection of natural items that rednecks have yet to destroy, or that venture capitalism has failed to monetize, yet.”
Ah yes. The redneck. A worldwide phenomena.
National parks are kind of hard to monetize for VCs if private capital isn’t allowed to own them
It won’t be long till that is the case
(They’re not talking about National Parks… yet.)
As a trail maintenance volunteer, I am biased, but yeah, I like them too.
I love bulletin boards! They’re always a good spot to find local events
Kozolec supremacy.
What is that? A sort of trellis for vines to grow on? Drying rack?
To put grass there to dry. Very common in Slovenia.
Is the grass for livestock bedding or roof thatching? Wouldn’t think it would be enough for hay/feeding.
It is/was for feeding mostly. Even today there are a lot of these out there some very long, even though they aren’t used extensively anymore. Most were torn down, but in Slovenia you can’t go far without seeing one. Like some countryside ornamens.
Huh. Neat! Seems like a labor intensive way to produce hay, guess modern baleing technology has made them obsolete. (By modern, I think square hay balers happened in 18XX sometime and were horse or mule drawn.) Probably was real expensive until sometime last century.
Got a picture of a millstone I recently found but Lemmy isn’t letting me upload it right now. I love old tech.
Yes pretty neat! All this old “tech” makes me imagine a world when time was moving slower.
I dream of silent days when I’d work with friends to put hay on these things and not questioning my own existence because I made a living designing pointless digital products, now have to beg companies to hire me to design pointless apps for them under the threat of the huge mortgage I had to get to renovate my parents house, because my salary could never be enough to buy something.
Just sun, drying hey, bees, silence…
Yes and no, I think.
Totally get the draw of simpler and slower paced life with fewer distractions, clear responsibilities, greater self reliance, comprehensible social and technological world…
Small pox, tuberculosis, black lung, crazy uncle locked in the woodshed, whipping and beating of children and women, pervasive religion, famines, limited food choices in winter, illiteracy, and wool underwear: not so much.
I guess everything is a trade off; but, humans certainly didn’t evolve to live in a society this complex.
I think we’d be much happier living in small interconnected communes of less than 100. Most agrarian, with some dedicated to manufacturing or medicine or whatever. Stable and smaller population size. Don’t know if we could produce microchips, chemical synthesis, satellites, and high tech modern staples. Maybe we could. Sounds like heaven.
Cow towel rack.
Sounds like something from a Far Side comic.
The ones put up by my region’s park system usually have 4 sides and are even better.
Each side is typically like:
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Trail map
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Park/trail rules and contact info
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Local flora and fauna info
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Local ecology info and history
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Announcement
There will be a meeting
Additionally, Council Member <smudged> has <redacted>
Here is a map of the area not to scale
I literally just bought this as a gift to my dad 😅
You are here! I love it when they have a little local bird guid on there too.
Little lending libraries have that vibe and are also awesome.
Take a bee, leave a bee?
This is actually a so-called “insect hotel”! 😁
I was mainly just beeing silly, but I had thought of making one of these, and it seems that there is a lot that actually goes into having a good one. Proper size holes and the correct materials and all that. I suppose local insects require a number of specific things. I think I may go pollinator garden instead, but even finding the right types of plants seems daunting.
My original joke of the take a bee, leave a bee seems to have some basis in reality though! I found this blog post as the result of a reddit post and some insects do come and take some of the nesting insects! In addition to some hibernating or laying eggs, parasitic insects also love them, as one would enjoy a nice new supermarket in town! Seems similar to hawks staking out unsheltered bird feeders.
Ah yeah I wasn’t sure, did make me smile though :)
Thanks for sharing the extra posts, very interesting!
It’s always interesting to learn about the talents of underrated animals like insects! The world around us is so amazing when we give it a closer look.
100%
For your pollinator garden, see if there’s a nursery that specializes in native plants of your region. They’ll be able to help you figure out what you need and where to plant them.
Good reminder! Many of my garden centers have shut down, but there are 2 on my drive from work I havent checked out.
For anyone in US/Canada, someone here gave me this Xerces guide to regional pollinator plants that has sooooo much info. I definitely want some milkweed. We had a resurgence of monarch butterflies last year and it was really nice to see.
Make sure you buy the right kind of milkweed for your latitude! The monarchs need different things during different stages. And don’t get the “tropical” or “Mexican” milkweed if you live above the Mexican border.
I did see there were quite a number of species! That’s what makes all this so daunting! I just want to throw out some scoops of seed and attract bees and butterflies…why must it be so complex?! 🤯
I only think of one thing: nostalgic park memories.
Reminds me of visiting the Adirondacks as a kid for some reason…
They’re common around designated nature trails in my country too. You’re just remembering simpler, happier times probably.
Nostalgia is both beautiful and incredibly sad at the same time.
