Burrows
"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...