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noelekal

·Jul 15, 2025·Home For Wayward Watches

Cedric the cicada!

I went out the door this afternoon and spied a cicada coming out of his (her?) shed on a short step. Cicadas and their din are a part of Texas summers and have been all of my life. Despite living with a grove of post oak trees full of cicadas in our backyard when I was a kid, capturing them, playing with them, tying a thread on one of them to allow it tethered flight, I never before saw one coming out of its shed.

When I was a kid we called them locusts and collected their "skins" to affix to our bedroom curtains, or simply line up on our bedroom dressers.

The sound of cicadas in the trees this time of year are a thread from my childhood. In the past year or two, American media sources have tried to gen up some sort of general alarm about the summer sound of cicadas. This is laughable as it has always been so in the South.

https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/dog-day-cicada/

 

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csburns

·Jul 15, 2025

noelekal

Cedric the cicada!

I went out the door this afternoon and spied a cicada coming out of his (her?) shed on a short step. Cicadas and their din are a part of Texas summers and have been all of my life. Despite living with a grove of post oak trees full of cicadas in our backyard when I was a kid, capturing them, playing with them, tying a thread on one of them to allow it tethered flight, I never before saw one coming out of its shed.

When I was a kid we called them locusts and collected their "skins" to affix to our bedroom curtains, or simply line up on our bedroom dressers.

The sound of cicadas in the trees this time of year are a thread from my childhood. In the past year or two, American media sources have tried to gen up some sort of general alarm about the summer sound of cicadas. This is laughable as it has always been so in the South.

https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/dog-day-cicada/

In my mind, it wouldn't be summer without the sound of the cicadas and other nighttime insect chorus members. I grew up in a suburb of NYC and the they were plenty noisy there too. One of the first things I notice when visiting elsewhere is the lack of these noisemakers.

 

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KeithS

·Jul 15, 2025

Whale watching and ship seeing

 

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LesXL

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Walrus

·Jul 15, 2025

You can judge the area your in just by the more crap they got locked up

 

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0002s

·Jul 15, 2025

 

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Lou P

·Jul 15, 2025·YaY!

 

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Walrus

·Jul 15, 2025

0002s

I would not have thought that combo would have worked on the alpanist but I like it

 

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Fish70

·Jul 15, 2025

After 3 missed deliveries, back to SGUS, sent back to me overnight air for Saturday delivery that UPS just decided not to do, two more missed deliveries, stalking the empty local UPS warehouse for 30 minutes while on hold with UPS customer service and the UPS manager in another town agreeing to get the driver to meet me at my local UPS store I have it back. This was after a 4 hour drive to another state for a dental procedure (new crown) I wish SGUS would use the USPS or at worst FedEx.

 

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8926ob

·Jul 15, 2025

Walrus

You can judge the area your in just by the more crap they got locked up

Gotta keep that Lemon Pledge under lock n key! Never know what the kids'll get up to with that!

 

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Speedy Guppy

·Jul 15, 2025

Speedmaster Pilot hard at work.

 

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Mam

·Jul 16, 2025

Hanhart day!

 

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gilb12

·Jul 16, 2025

Let's go with Centenaire!

Have a nice day! 😊

 

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Alpha

·Jul 16, 2025·Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector

Royal Navy Divers Watch today 👍

 

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peatnick

·Jul 16, 2025

Wind up Wednesday

 

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Barking mad

·Jul 16, 2025·Prolific Speedmaster Hoarder

Sundowners, although forced indoors by weather..

Coffee..

 

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Walrus

·Jul 16, 2025

Finally got a strap for my Cincinnati Cincinnatis. I was trying to match up the dial with a burgundy leather strap. Found a hand made in Wisconsin US company it seems good quality. I usually get my straps at @Duracuir1 fine leather goods but he charged me 125,000 usd for my last strap saying it wasn’t his fault it was a tariff thing. Poor guy with charges like that no one in the US will order a strap from him. I lll get one more as he said it’s down to 100k per strap, seems a bit more reasonable.

Anyway so a watch kinda made in the US, well assembled anyway that looks nice imo. I’ll adjust the bracelet later on it actually looks nice and seemed well made.

 

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Duracuir1

·Jul 16, 2025·Never Used A Kodak

I only managed to sell one at that price Walrus.

A couple days ago a former colleague came to my shop. He was wearing this… I tried it on for this (below) pic. He had the date wrong… so I waited until today to post.