what is it? I'll give the answer in the morning.

Unripe acorns?

Was it that obvious? Apparently it was. I guess I'll give the answer now instead of in the morning.

What about this ?

honeycomb?

Shrimps legs (or whatever they're called

not a honeycomb .... CF is closer (I think ... shrimps got legs???)

Some sort of insect eggs?

Nope ... not insect related....

scales of some sort?
ie: fish, snake......

I thought the last one was Captain Kirk's sexmate for the day. hee hee...

warmer ... but not scales ...

Eggs?
Really looks like a corn cob. :D

Eggs is close enough ! ... egg case washed up on the beach which I photographed while over in Sanibel this last weekend. Looked on the web and see conflicting comments on what critter it is from however ... some say conch and some say whelk.

I thought those were horseshoe crab eggs. :mg:

Nope, definitely not Horseshoe crab.
Whelk and Crown Conch are similar, but......

In reality it looks more like the ducting in my central heating boiler (with which I have become unhappily familiar these last two days - at least the bloody thing is working again now!)

What's this?

honey bunches of oats?

Sounds delicious, but nope. You can't eat it.

some type of fabric?

yes

Fiberglass fabric, to be more exact.

It's a single layer of fiberglass covering a kayak hull before additional coats of epoxy are put on to smooth the lumps out.

Ooooooo! Glatt, that your boat?
:love:

Are you sure it's not a whale penis? :mg:

Yep. Made it from plans I got for my birthday a few years ago.

Here's a picture of the finished product, with my daughter thrown in for scale. It's a fun little boat, but I don't paddle it anywhere near as much as I had hoped to. Once or twice a summer.

That's a damn slick kayak! I really admire people that make their own.

Paddle it? you mean get it wet? :mg: I'd hang that sucker from the living room ceiling and genuflect every time I walked by.

OK, not really..... but it sure is a work of art.

Made by aliens...?

Snowball stash......in Florida? :eek:

Not quite! ...but you will find these all over Florida! :)

Carpet?

sand

the sand in balls that those little crabs make

http://members.tripod.com/whimsicalw...sand-balls.jpg

Very nice. I only wish I knew the technical term for those things... (larger picture posted, soon)

I don't know what they are called either, but they should call them crab tailings like in mining.

Crab tailings - the larger photo.

OK. So what is this? It may be pretty easy. My wife guessed it in about 5 seconds.

A scrubbing bubble?

I mean, windshield washer nozzle?

Eeew, it's all covered in tree cu-, err, pollen. Tree pollen.

Yep. Washer fluid nozzle.

Fucking tree pollen is horrible this time of year. It's almost like green snow.

You mean oobleck?

i was gonna say a robotic nose. does the same thing though

Its a little robotic toad, created in 1971 by a much younger and bored Bill Gates (and predictably, it contains system errors which render it practically useless for everyday use) It has just popped up out of a lilypond which someone has doused with amphetamine cut with Staminade (hey, I didnt know it came in green!) which accounts for the look in its eyes...do I win, huh, huh?

Welcome to the Cellar, moondoggy. :D
You've been drinking from that same pond, haven't you?

twod-yee?