u/sirwobblz

The seller was a friend of a friend and not usually in the carpet business full time but had to do with antiquities and rugs from time to time.

He showed me a few and didn't seem to bullshit. This particular one he said was from Iran and over 100 years old. Someone from r/carpet said it was "Kurd Hamadan" with the center designs being "botehs". I am in Kurdistan region and the seller was Kurdish too. They also said the base was wool foundation and that they switched to cotton around 1930 in the Hamadan region so the age claim made sense.

It's pretty thin. The centre is a fair bit more used and thin than the edges. Folds up small which is great for transport.

If anyone has more info on ID, please let me know. Would you hang this up or use it as a rug? USD 400 seems like an alright price right?

I got it for USD 400 from a friend of a friend here in Iraq. My local friend seemed pretty happy about the price. He showed me a few rugs but what he said about this one was: pretty unique design, 100+ years old (no idea but he did seem pretty honest when carpets weren't old), Iranian.

The middle is a little more worn out but the edges are still quite soft. Not sure if I want to hang it or use it on the floor.

If anyone has any more info on the style and possible origins please let me know.

Wie versprochen, habe ich mir einen Berlin Döner hier in Erbil gegönnt. Es ist ein anderes Berlin Döner Restaurant, da es den Bewertungen nach hier besser sein soll. Der Döner war OK aber nicht unglaublich. "Zu viel Sauce" stand in den Bewertungen und ich habe nach weniger Sauce gefragt aber das hat wohl nicht geklappt. Im Menü war der Döner als "Steak Döner" aufgelistet. Das Fleisch war etwas zäh. Kann man auf jeden Fall essen.

Offiziell sind wir hier noch im Irak aber die autonome Region Kurdistan verfügt über eine weitreichende Selbstverwaltung. Im letzten Post wurde es etwas politisch für einige aber ich denke das muss hier nicht hin. Es geht um Hewlêr, der kurdische Name für Erbil. Sprechen wir lieber über Döner als Politik 🙏momentan mit dem regionalen Spannungen ist es nicht die beste Zeit hierhin zu reisen. Ich bin hier für die Arbeit.

Wenn es wieder etwas ruhiger ist kann ich jedem empfehlen die Region Mal zu besuchen. Es ist sehr sicher - vergleichbar mit Dubai oder Amman aber natürlich kleiner. Es gibt wirklich viel zu sehen von Natur bis hin zu alten Moscheen, Kirchen, Jesidische (Nein, nicht "hessische", liebe Autokorrektur) Tempel und die Leute sind einfach unglaublich nett und gastfreundlich. Es ist sehr schwer fürs eigene Essen zu bezahlen wenn man mit Kollegen Essen geht :)

Wenn das gehen die Regeln geht, kann ich es löschen. Ich wollte nur teilen, dass es hier in Erbil, Irak viele Deutsche oder "Berlin" Döner gibt. Ich habe deutschen Döner hier noch nicht gegessen - es gibt noch viele lokale Gerichte, die ich erst probieren will.

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I used this mix of cleaning and de-greying stuff to clean the deck. I had to scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse etc for ages. It stayed soapy for ages and then I had to just leave it. Dried for a few sunny days and then I oiled it with bangkirai oil. It's the second time I oil it - last time was like two years ago. Added some plants I've been growing. Loving it now. I had it built a few years ago including breaking through the balcony for access but travelled too much for work to use it. So it's the first year I'm able to use the raised garden bed I had them add.

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First photo is freshly oiled, then some of the process of cleaning and how it was greyer before. Then just some of how it looks like now.

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I'm planning on getting an L shaped outdoor sofa with an outdoor carpet. There will be more fairy lights (the one with the big bulbs) which I can attach from the balcony to the trellis system that I added.

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Issues still to solve: some light patches that didn't get enough oil (I'll spot-treat), rats under the deck and lack of railing for the stairs.

The Reisetomate on the left - it has several stems from the bottom and I'd like to allow it to keep most of its limbs. It has like 6-7 string-supported arms instead of one main vine.

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I bought this string at a garden expo and expected it to be strong but it has weak points and tore a couple of times - bad sign for when the weight really sets in.

The issue was fixed while he was dead according to images from the following scenes - probably the police who added a proper shisha head.

Chili Puder war leider nicht sehr scharf. Kann die süßen scharfen Soßen nicht ausstehen. Beste Chili flakes gibt es beim Döner gegenüber der Hackescher Markt S Bahn station.

It's not really an issue. Just odd.

I'm still a beginner and really not good at keeping up with all the changes and options on this crazy game. I just like to play. But I feel like I can move a lot quicker and that the game is smoother since the update. Is that just in my head because I also switched to a lighter gun (that makes me lighter of course but I feel like it's more than that).

My neighbour tried to walk through it and a tick latched onto her as she found out later. The stuff spreads so quickly and is super difficult to get rid of. If it was a little I would try to do it myself but it's a bigger area. I wrote to my local council about it today.

the picture is just an AI render of what it will kind of look like in my raised garden bed. I'll attach poles on the outside with several zip ties and or string if I get it tight and sturdy enough. two horizontal bars for stability and then strings from the top (one horizontal one 30ish cm from the edge of the raised garden bed and one on the top for strings).

I have one Reisetomate that is white bushy already with several stems from the base. I read that string trellis is best for these vine tomatoes with one main stem so I'm wondering if I can just attach more strings for the different branches as there would be space.

I read the lines should be taut? I'm thinking of attaching them to the plastic buckets by drilling a little hole in the edge on the other side of the bucket to where the vertical bars will be so the lines would be slightly diagonal. In my mind I see the tomatoes plants sliding back down the string but I imagine they're sturdy enough to "stand" with the string providing simply horizontal stability?

some of these tomatoes spent too much time indoors under the light in pots that were too small so some began flowering (lesson learnt). in the pepper world, people will pinch of early buds to encourge a longer vegetative state - to grow more before fruiting but research on this says it doesn't work. I imagine if they start flowering there won't be much more growth vertically?

i have Raisetomate, Georgia Streak, Beefheart, German Gold and some other interesting ones for which I didn't get the name unfortunately - many that are supposed to reach up to 150-200cm (no small cherry tomato plants)- to say, maybe not exclusively vine cultivars but the ones I know are apparently indeterminate tomatos (?) that will grow more after flowering?

Of course you need to duck and run if you run out of ammo but I often manage to switch to a pistol and get a kill that way too.

Do you just cut it back carefully and repot with a moss stick thing?

First timer here! I was trying to make soap by reusing some oils from a failed batch (the lye I had got for it was liquid so I think it probably didn’t have enough lye for saponification?), so I redid the batch with a different thing of lye (solid this time) after draining out all the water. It solidified but had a thick layer of oil on top (like jell), and it looks weird. What happened?

Recipe: 20oz olive oil, 12oz coconut oil, 4.5oz lye, 12oz distilled water.