It is/was only in this area of the complex. Either they swept or there was more traffic and got turned into dust and washed away. Here is a picture of the gravel i took on 03/10/2021 at 04:39:10 PM, maybe one-two months after they put it in that snow day (after snow was mostly melted).
In the meantime, much of it has turned into rock dust, some went down the drain, some got blown by the lot blowers with the power didgeridoos on Wednesdays.
But it was what i saw yesterday what decided to go out and try to sweep it.
(Look at the dust coming out of that van). It was working nice with the dustpan only because it had a rubber tip. I went inside to search for a stick to attach to it and went back outside and it was broken. Typical ninja. Then i had to bend down even more to push the dust mixed with gravel. Sweeping and pushing, for one hour and a half. Though i had a mask, i assume i've been breathing a lot, because i saw dust in the headlights of the passing cars. But it didn't affect me as much as it did some invisible dust that came inside this morning.
First, Brian Asawa. The guy who from time to time shows next entrance. He has a car, a van (seen in the video above) and a rice business. He came at once not much after i started, opened the back doors of the van and the trunk of the car and started to move sacks of rice from car to van. I once saw him with the van going to the hospital. He probably supplies the hospital with rice? Had to stop because of the dust, he wouldn't leave.
Then i went inside and posted on fb. Then i went back and continued sweeping.
I was thinking to myself. God or nature made a very very big mistake when they created ninja.
A tall athletic Spanish guy came silently walking and didn't see him. Planes flying very low. Sirens at midnight when the streets are empty. Lots of air horns on the freeway.
But in the end. I was almost done, i made two last piles (out of about 10-15 in total) in front of the recycle bins, had about two more to sweep when they came. A couple, she, a very sexy bodied Latina, he, most likely Japanese and started so sort empty cans in the trunk of their car. I think it was light blue but don't know the brand. Then he came to throw something in the bins. This picture is from today showing the unfinished pile next to the bottle.
I was waiting like that for about 10 minutes between the garbage bin and recycle and and they wouldn't go. The bin was smelling, but like garbage, not like sulfur stuff in the air. Then he bent inside the car for about 5 minutes and came out with a baby which they took inside. Then they came back and i decided to pick those two piles no matter what and leave. Then she came and threw an empty 2 gallons bottle on a recycle bin that was full and the bottle fell on my last pile that i didn't sweep so well. In this picture in the midle is shown an amount of gravel that has settled in a lower area of the road. This is how it's all been on the whole 150 ft area that i swept.
Anyways, i couldn't finish.
Then i came back inside, took a shower and went to take pictures of the amount i threw in the bin. A tall Latino guy with a hat like a security guy speaking on the phone on the speaker phone like on a walkie talkie. Then i got mad and went and grabbed the car to see where he was going.
He went in a huge dark newer truck with LPN DEU with no marks and left. A gray german shepherd was following the truck. Then they stopped at the office trying to catch the dog. Apparently they lost the dog. Or simulating chasing me.
The amount of gravel i swept and threw in the garbage which i estimate to at least 150 pounds.
It was only today during daytime that the amount of gravel in the bin was obvious, but i'm really relutctant to go and take one more picture. This one's from last night. And BTW google messed up this blogger platform i'm just giving up on trying to fix the resolution on slideshow.
I bet it is called Rainbow Serpent just because of the color of the rock contrasting with the collor of the image. Could it be it represents Mt. Attila.
Hands on time: Half hour or more, depending on skills.
We call it simply cabbage. Angela and i. It has the same ingredients and largely taste of a dish that cannot miss during any holiday in Romania. The local version of cabbage rolls minus the wonderful flavour of pickled cabbage. Much easier to cook though.
Not complicated, not sophisticated, this recipe is good for those who never cook and want to try. Driven by the principle: Anything cooked at home in a reasonably decent manner, is better than anything fast food. Cabbage even better because it is low calories though loaded with vitamin C, minerals and fiber. It is a recipe developed by the two of us derived from family recipes in Romania, many Romanians would be surprised how it evolved. It can be used as side for meat.
Need one healthy fresh ripe cabbage (not exactly like this one, bought two days ago), a few carrots, half onion, parsley (optional), half bell pepper (optional), (either) tomatoes, tomato juice or paste or V8 (You probably figured by now. There are a number of ingredients that repeat in most of my recipes, for practical reasons, can only have so many ingredients in the fridge). Even canned pasta or pizza sauce leftovers will do it (though it will surely ruin the taste because of the number of ingredients they use).
One large cup of rice.
Spices.
(Please ignore what you see in some pictures on the counter on left upper corner. It is crystalized borax and sugar, for ants. For humans borax has the toxicity of table salt. In fact, it is used to preserve caviar. If i remove it, ants will come.)
Wash, peel the bad parts and cut thin aiming pasta like appearance.
Separately start some rice. Know how to cook rice? One big cup (300 ml) of rice, two same size cups of water. Boil the water, add the rice and set it to lowest setting, preferably with a clear lid to see if it's boiling. Simmering that is. For ten minutes. Never mix. By that time water will be absorbed by rice. Then stop the burner and let it sit for five more minutes. At the end can add some olive oil, parsley. Do not salt if you want to use it with soy sauce. Put the cabbage in a big pot with half inch of water at the bottom. Grate some carrots, dice a tomato or two, add some tomato juice (optional), chopped parsley (optional), half onion, half bell pepper (optional), spices, salt. Put the lid on, set it to medium low, listen for the boiling sound. Because of the small amount of water at the bottom it will be mostly steamed, not boiled. Half hour to 40 minutes total steaming time for first ingredient, cabbage. Mix any time you want. I do it after i'm done adding all ingredients, this way i do not work twice. At this time, can add some olive oil.
There is something about combining the taste of rice and cabbage. It happens in the original Romanian recipe, i saw it at the Best Teriyaki restaurant in Beaverton where i ate of course best teriyaki ever. Many times, many years; there was a decent amount of lightly steamed cabbage with a bit of pepper on top next to the rice that made it special. Always wondered how they cooked that perfect rice (and finally figured it and i'm passing it to you). And of course the perfectly cooked meat. (This recipe is strictly vegetarian though).
I've been intrigued by this word the first time i've encountered it search results regarding Australian indigenous people. Especially by a painting that i can't find anymore. Here's another one, equally interesting.I am familiar with the word from my extensive readings (at some time, one book a day) from the "Aventura" collection during the spring of 1980. Used mostly regarding "detective" work (nowadays i believe during communism detectives existed only in these writings) in adventure books for youth which probably imitated similar writings in the west. "this witness' declarations does not corroborate with the other" etc..
Last night i searched a bit on Romanian and French etymologies of the same word and both indicate Latin origin. And in Latin, according again to Google Translate, also with an important online French etymological dictionary, it means support, confirmation, which confirmed my first guess when i read those books and didn't have any dictionaries on hand. ("Empr. au lat. class. corroborare « donner force à, confirmer »").
Google's first quote from a linguistics site gives a very, how should i say, nonconventional? definition for the current word and etymology.
"The Latinate morphology may have had some influence on the English form of this word, but the word corroboree is borrowed (with small phonological changes) from an Aborigine word – a word from a group who lived near Port Jackson, NSW, and whose language does not exist anymore."
Why is this extremely important to me. Because it confirms for the first time the hypothesis of injection of non-European populations early in southern Europe, which could be the seed for this mysterious force, the Romans, who raised out of nothing or out of the well settled Indo European population in that time and place to one of the most aggressive and historically important empires in the history of our civilization. Whose demise in turn might have been brought by a population equally aggressive, from the same origin. The Huns of Attila. Again, another wave meeting the older self? Different "nations" of Australia, from the same genetically isolated population for more than 70 thousand years, one from North and one from South, fighting over the rich resources (gold, land, climate) of Europe?
In Ancient Australia (largely ignored by eurocentric historians) corroborees could have meant among other things, forging alliances.
And then my mind flew all day today towards more possible confirmation of this hypothesis.
One thing i remembered, is the name of emperor Caligula. Could been formed by two roots, one Cali, same as today's Kylie, and Gula, which is a frequent modern Hungarian name for people and places. Which is also the name of a Mesopotamian god, of healing i believe.
Corroborees where also a mean of connecting to the "dreaming", the central concept of the Australian indigenous culture and civilization.
Never mind, i found the original painting i was looking for. Done by a modern painter of Australian origin, it suggests some sort of deeper level of communications between the members of a group, through the dreaming of course.
Very intriguing are also the names of indigenous Australians.
Identifying a migration and other cultural and genetic marks of the Australian indigenous by tracing the skull deformation practice around the world.
Don't know how Google pulled this map out of this article, but i'm glad it did. It shows though carbon dating earliest known human skull deformation occurred in Australia. It also shows a migration may have occurred, at the end of the last Ice Age. It confirms my theory that tries to show that ice age are actually north-south alternating, with a complete cycle every approx. 26000 years. Don't know about the genetically isolated for 72k theory, but what i think it happened is a number of several nations spent last northern ice age in Australia easier then those in the other continents and kept more elements of the previous "flourishing age", an age similar to ours right now. That gave them some advantages over the others when the climate started to heat up in Eurasia.
Just remembered something. A picture i took in a museum in Oregon City. I wish i knew the dating of those artefacts.
Huns who nearly conquered Rome in 451were known to practice this. However, to this day they are people among Hungarians who have a naturally deformed skull.
Can't finish this until i mention the Pama-Nyungan paradox. Around 5000 years ago, the current family of languages used by Australians, much younger than the population itself, spread across Australia, before its original speaking population disappeared. Where? The last migration out of Australia and into Europe of a group that was originally from Eurasia and spent the last "winter" in there, and then emigrated in waves back in the rest of the world? (Naga Sadhu of India could be just another example).
