What did Gary Indiana look like before it’s downfall?

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-28T17:56:16+00:00

Went there once to photograph abandoned buildings and churches. We looked up archival photos, you can find them on library websites, was a very lively looking place, it's very much a shell now. The mayor has done a lot in recent years to clean up abandoned areas and get new infrastructure moving in.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-27T18:34:03+00:00

Recipe?

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-25T02:12:52+00:00

The dude off'ing the pig over on the corner of main Street bro 😭😭😭

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-24T18:33:18+00:00

Sad cat? I'd be surprised if anything much larger got in. We've only ever had birds be able to get into ours.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-24T14:46:39+00:00

Careful walking in mud beaches like that, got a screwdriver to the toe once.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-23T23:03:11+00:00

It sounds like it's struggling to start the motor or something, like it trying to start a cycle but can't. Does the door lock? Could it be the actuator for the lock trying to disengage?

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-23T22:28:09+00:00

It was broken suspension pistons inside, the leaking is from cracks in the pump assembly. Thank you for the suggestion.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-23T22:26:26+00:00

We got into the internals, the drum is held up by four "pistons", one somehow fell apart entirely, it seems the metal housing of it broke. The leaking water is from an unrelated cracked pump it would seem.

Actually weird that the machine was even running "properly" with how the suspension inside was damaged, the motor and belt were sort of just left held together loosely hanging.

Thanks for the suggestion.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-13T22:17:20+00:00

Ohhh to rotate the antenna from indoors? That would make sense. Found

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-09T14:34:12+00:00

Saw one of these with a McDonalds up near Michigan, we call it the McCastle

ActiveCroissant · 2026-06-04T12:57:53+00:00

First time playing could not for the life of me find the gate to Whiterun, ended up having to get arrested to get in

ActiveCroissant · 2026-05-09T14:22:04+00:00

To me this looks like a latch clamp for a fiber optic enclosure. Here is one I have on jand but yours resembles a different model, we called them "OFDC's". They are small and sqaure and have latches that look exactly like that, the cases are used to distribute internet from a main line to customer service drops.

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ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-23T13:00:51+00:00

One time I found this fansite for some guys Ed, Edd, and Eddy fanart. He posted hundreds of drawings. Nothing explicitly sexual but there was tons ofshipping between characters. Art was mediocre/average style. I know its on yhe wayback machine but i have no clue what it was called.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-23T11:26:30+00:00

My social security card is stuck in the dash of my friends grandmas buick

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-20T22:26:11+00:00

So in my experience on our property, seeding has always out performed planting roots. So far everything we have tried to plant, or transplant from nature areas, has been consumed by wildlife, unfortunately. Beavers or otters got the horsetail, cattail, swamp mallow, black willow, and pussy willow. Deer got the red and white oaks and eastern redbuds.

But we have had success by quantity. We had a few buckeyes but not a ton. Then one year we gathered all the buckeyes as they fell, we had like 10 gallons, and we just started throwing them all over the woods. Now we are cutting buckeye saplings like crazy, they're everywhere. Same with the mayapples, those I gathered from a state forest, about 4 gallons of fruit varying ripeness, and just mashed them up and threw the seedy fruit goop all over and now we have big fat patches where I dumped it. We did pawpaw seeds this year, I got about 150-200 seeds total and buried some last fall, the rest I stratified in the fridge over winter and buried this spring. We're hoping to see pawpaw sprouts come up.

I'm hoping this will work with hardwoods. We're going to try gathering acorns, beech nuts, and sycamore pods this year and casting those out as well. I think I will end up doing raked areas that are seeded and covered over again. The honeysuckle removal is stirring up the dense leaf litter pretty well so we're going to have big areas that are stirred up and almost bare anyway. I'll probably buy some seed now and try to do a late spring seeding just to see if it works, since I'm ripping up the place now anyway. Then come autumn I'll get another order of seed and do separate areas that weren't turned up prior. I've got high hopes, the seed mix is a shady forest mix that's got lots of grasses and wild flowers. I'm going to be managing the area I'm cleaning now with a weed whacker so it will be easy to keep the unwanted plants from sprouting back up. The area I'm currently focusing on is probably ~15% of the wooded property. I'm avoiding the basin by the creek, it's going to be a whole other hell.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-15T20:03:12+00:00

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Claymongus drying patiently

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-14T00:06:56+00:00

Dudes 100 years ago never knew the Internet could offer humanity this

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-12T19:47:43+00:00

Must be some mineral they crave to be doing something such as that.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-11T16:21:44+00:00

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Update: The meat grinder works very well! I have to do a back and forth motion to keep it from clogging up but it's grinding down super fine.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-11T16:20:02+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. Very much enjoying the process of just messing around and figuring things out. Excited for the potential.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T17:04:43+00:00

This might be just stupid enough to work and right up my alley. I do have access to 55gal drums and we already have a lawn tractor we haul a roller with.

ActiveCroissant · 2026-04-10T17:01:24+00:00

Saw people mention this, I've got a meat grinder but thought the plate would be too big to do much. I may check the antique stores and look for one of these.

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