"Burrow" is just another name for a rabbit hole. I don't know about you but when it comes to YouTube, I frequently find myself distracted then before you know it, I am plunging down random burrows - hardly knowing where I am.
Cleverly, YouTube's algorithms seem to know what I might like to watch. This is how I discovered intrepid explorers of rural China.
Today I spotted a 1966 video from Germany in which skilled stone masons patiently turn a huge lump of rock into a serviceable millstone. The video lasts for twenty six minutes. I watched it all, in awe of the men's craftsmanship but I guess you could just jump along to get the general gist of what these fellows did. They clearly knew what they were doing and had obviously made many other millstones before this one. I love the ringing sound of their tools upon the stone.
Another video I enjoyed this morning focused on some puzzling and rather huge rocks in America's wild west. The young explorer does not tell us which state he is in. Apparently, he discovered the fascinating location by studying Google Earth on his computer. Comments reveal that the discovery occurred in the state of Utah. This video lasts for twenty seven minutes so again if you are in a hurry, you might want to skip some of the footage. In the end you are still left wondering - if this is a natural phenomenon or were humans of the past somehow involved in creating the site?
I must dash now. After all, there are many other burrows to go down. Anyone got some spare lettuce?
I feel we owe this one to "Lewis Carroll." Surprised you did not tease out the Yorkshire connection.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should mention that Marcie.. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) spent a lot of his formative years here in Yorkshire
DeleteYes, and legend has it that he was inspired by a carving in Ripon Cathedral (where his father was the Dean or something), showing a rabbit or hare disappearing down a hole while a bird of prey is trying to catch it.
DeleteGlad I don't have to make millstones. I would rather do that, though, than traipse over and under those stone formations. No way. I think they're natural formations but of course I know less than nothing about that sort of geology.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that you checked the videos out Mary.
DeleteAlso, in the comments the location is revealed to be in Utah.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that. Amendment now made.
DeleteRe. the second video, someone in the YouTube comments says it's near Ferron, Utah. If you enter these coordinates into Google Maps it takes you right there:
ReplyDelete38.928930, -111.113152.
Kind of interesting to see it from the air.
Thanks for the advice Steve.
DeleteI burrow myself into the love of my friends x
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet thing to say John!
DeleteThat block puzzle was giving me an anxiety attack just watching him try to negotiate it! If memory serves me correct, a labyrinth has an unbroken route to the centre with no dead ends, making the journey itself the focus, but a maze has dead ends and the object is to solve the puzzle and get out. It looks man-made by an earlier civilisation, but why? Some kind of religious thing? If it is natural, what kind of geological phenomenon could create such geometrical correct shapes? Hmm...you've got us all burrowing through our brain cells for some kind of explanation.
ReplyDeleteAll puzzling to me too Elizabeth. It gave me the willies when the young man strode over the gaps when walking on the top.
DeleteI watched both of those videos. The millstone amazed me, but no safety glasses, leather gloves, or face masks with all that stone dust. No Health and Safety People back in 1966. And the geology video, so scary that he was doing it all on his tod, I was worried about the dog most of the time.
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DeleteYeah - the millstone makers! No electric drills or other mechanical devices. The young explorer seemed quite safety conscious but he wasn't wearing a safety helmet.
I never thought about how millstones were made.
ReplyDeleteWell, now you know Keith. You could make one yourself.
DeleteSince I already spend all day staring at computer screens for work, I consciously limit the time I spend online in my spare time. Usually I have enough information and entertainment just by reading my regular round of blogs. When I look something up on youtube, it is nearly always a song that I can't get out of my head or want to listen to but don't have on CD.
ReplyDeleteHave you looked up The Birdie Song?
DeleteNo... and I don't think I know that one. It's often stuff I loved in the 1980s or further back.
DeleteI skipped both videos because I have dinner almost ready in the oven.
ReplyDeleteWere you roasting rabbit?
DeleteChicken plus a beef casserole to be portioned for the freezer.
DeleteThe young explorer was very brave. We know he came back safely because the video appeared on Youtube. I was also worried about his dog falling into the abyss but he took care of that to. So rabbit burrows hurrah for them.
ReplyDeleteI have already been down two rabbit holes this morning - one was an unknown ancient settlement in the mountains of Peru.
DeleteWhile I know all about internet rabbit holes and how susceptible I am to them, yesterday my neighbour sent me down a paperwork rabbit hole, looking at plans of our property, sizes, old owners' corporation fees, council rates. That was my morning buggered.
ReplyDeleteSince you were recently there, you may be interested in this clip, York to Scarborough, via Malton. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbo3zEb4yFA
Paperwork rabbit holes seem less appealing. Thanks for the link. I will look at that later.
DeleteMalandra Burrows appeared in Emmerdale and warren is another good rabbit themed word.
ReplyDeleteWell, having watched the videos from start to finish, I confess to a certain trepidation when it came to the climb down into the earth. Not something I would ever venture to try.
ReplyDeleteMy Wednesday post has links to some of my recent burrows.
ReplyDeleteIt's aliens marking their landing spots for their return.
ReplyDeleteNothing would induce me to enter that maze now. It looks very narrow and ankle breaking. When I was young and foolish, I probably would have been eager to explore. Great videos, though.
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