ah she figured out the first one “empty” - it isn’t a verb or noun, “More like a philosophy that celebrates minimalism, empty, or space” the entire thing is “Empty Cold Storage”
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Wow, I would never have gotten that.
Traditional Chinese: 空
Simplified Chinese and kanji come out the same.
But the search gives very exact results:
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haha those photos are rather specific! Well, least that got solved :) helps to have a native speaker.
So, someone made a plastic bin that is designed to be cold but not to have anything in it.
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Maybe they were shipping cold to hot parts of the world. Some new-fangled approach to climate change.
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I spent way too long laughing at this! XD
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Cathy here again and I know why I don’t like computers at all - I spent a long-time last night writing up about trash my husband and I pick up off the beaches when we get to the coast and the buried treasure I found when digging in our yard. I even included the pictures, then I must have hit a key or something and the whole posting disappeared. Gone. Poof!
So, I’ll try again, yet I’m going to write it as a .doc and copy it over here. So, you’ll have to wait for it…
Ok, whenever my husband and I go to the coast, which isn’t often as we’re more mountain people, yet when the mountains are about 3-4 hrs. one way and the coast is the same distance the other way, we have the best of both worlds. I like looking for sea glass and it’s not as common along North Carolina Beaches as it was in Puerto Rico when we visited twice, and the trip was paid for by the company my husband worked for at that time. Puerto makes rum and broken rum bottles among beer bottles and transparent glass can be found while walking the shores, especially beyond where people are lounging. While some clear glass fragments weren’t frosted by the ocean and sand, I’d pick them up to prevent others from getting cut. Those were the hardest to find.
I started trying to figure out the companies that made the bottles and what they were used for by the makers marks on the bottom, yet I didn’t get too far as most bottle bottoms were partials. I enjoy figuring out stuff like that as it’s a mystery until I solve it. Then I label the pieces because I like collecting anything that’s vintage or antique. With the green glasses are four pennies, one dime and a button. Unfortunately, they are too corroded to find the mint dates yet I think a fine emery board will softly reveal them. The upper right included tile pieces and some dinnerware, while the lower right included the amber/brown colored glass. I’ll start trying to figure out the companies after I post this. 
Besides paper cups, water bottles and other trash found on the beach, I picked up sand fencing. You know the kind, thin slats of wood spaced about a board’s width apart and connected by two lines of twisted wire. Well, I picked up the loose and broken pieces found around the dunes also. The previous week a hurricane had come through and the dunes looked like they had been cut in half with a knife! The ferocity of the waves had quickly washed half of the dunes further down the coast. The resort was at the end of the narrow band of land which ended in a Nature Preserve, so all kinds of sea birds were plentiful. I wasn’t involved in iNat then, yet if we go back, I’ll pick up as many observations as I can because it’s hard for me to get images of birds unless they are hawks sitting on our fence. My favorite shore birds are those that run along the shore close to the incoming waves, yet always run away as though they don’t like to get their feet wet. They are so comical, and I could watch them for a long time. I’m not sure if they are plovers, sanderlings, or sandpipers, although they could be all of them at various times. Anyway, I brought the sand fencing home and made a sign for inside our home. Trash to treasure!
The next are “buried treasures” that I dug up when removing liriope and other invasives from all the bedding edges and along the pathways. Just one of the many invasives we removed from our yard when we first moved here. There was English Ivy that had grown high in the Sweet Gum trees, Vinca Minor in large patches on the ground and Japanese honeysuckle everywhere! In one place in the back yard, there was a medium size dogwood and wild cherry tree that looked like they had an umbrella over them. I grabbed hold of the tangle of vines and started walking backwards, releasing the branches, and allowing the sunlight to return to the smaller trees. I could almost hear them breathe a sigh of relief because I felt a weight off my shoulders also. Previous owners had said they did nothing to the yard at all and lived there for 6 years.
So, I found a pink guitar pic with Lyon printed on it; a black Hot Wheels race car missing 3 wheels and date of manufacturing illegible; rusty old gate hinge and chain from a swing (not pictured); Unknown green glass bottle which I will find out! No marks on the sides except very small raised dots, smaller then salt crystals, around the midsection possibly to help with grip; 3 white golf balls and a solid orange one, possibly removed/stolen from a putt-putt course; a somewhat heavy silver token possibly from a game with looks like a coat of arms on one side and the reverse is outlined with 8-rounded half circles and the inside is divided in quarters. One quarter has a lion rampant which is the Royal Standard of the King or Queen of Scots and is the personal banner of the monarchs; “Tick-Tock” the Crocodile from Peter Pan and after I cleaned him up, his head and legs wiggle when pushed; a purple and teal dinosaur-like small rubbery figurine with teal leaf-like wings(?) and underneath is imbedded “TONY nintendo CGTSJ 150 China” and he’s in front of the green bottle. I know my grandchildren will know exactly what it is and laugh at me because I don’t. That’s okay, they don’t know who Uncle Al, Captain Kangaroo or Skipper Ryle are, nor Larry Smith and his Puppets (with Snarfy our dog, Matty Hatty from Cincinnati “the witch” puppets) all local to Cincinnati in the 60’s and 70’s. Yes, I’m that old. 
A Dave Hoppen Charlotte Hornets with the old mascot from 1989-2002; tile pieces, none match any inside our home; and an Allen wrench about 2” long.
During another dig I found a bullet casing similar to this one:
Since I know nothing about guns or ammo, I have no idea what this is and it’s only a picture of one similar to the one I have. Since my older brother served in the Marines and died of cancer when he was 44 yrs. old and I was 42, I miss him so much! I used the casing and printed his name on it, his birthday, and the day he died. I should have had it engraved, yet a fine Micron pen worked fine at the time. I think the headstamp was WIN and 89. Not sure, because I often forget where I put it. It’s always in a special place until I can’t find it and then it’s lost. Yet it will eventually show up and I’ll put it in another “special place” and… sigh
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A full door with its full frame showed up floating in the middle of a wave I was surfing.
I could only react to jump off my board and over the door with the speed, not strange but surprising.
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@Ba_humbugi, that’s some interesting archaeology you have there. Was there another house on the property at some point? There was on ours; I was digging a garden bed, and found a spring and part of the mounting bracket from a bench swing. A couple of brick fragments, part of a trellis, and a 1940s penny later, I had established where the front porch had been, and started looking for foundation traces.
If your tile fragments have any kind of design on them, it might be possible to date them, and then have an idea of when a hypothetical older house was there.
The silver coin might be a replica historic coin (sort of like the “pirate treasure” replicas of the coins salvaged from the wreck of Nuestra Señora de Atocha). For cleaning any kind of copper oxide – like on the pennies and dime – I’ve had good luck using a mild vinegar solution with an old toothbrush or an orangewood cuticle stick to remove excess patina.
(I may be just a wee bit of a general history nerd…) 
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Hello GothHobbit! No previous home here that I know of and our home was built in 1982. So a lot of people owned our house and that’s the possible reason for the amount of “treasures” I found. It’s a 3 Br/3 Bath so obviously children lived here also. I like collecting “old stuff/antiques” and found objects to ID, not just “bugs.” I’m a collector of collections! (I thInk there’s a name for that.) I also like reproducing vintage items that I would not be able to purchase, especially if I want a collection of them, so I’m currently making “Putz houses” for Christmas time. I’ll let you look those up if you want to.)
I appreciate the suggestions for cleaning pennies and I’ve done that before with vinegar and salt I think, yet I didn’t like the results. Plus these pennies and a dime are salt water corroded and have sand embedded on them.
So I’m surprisingly going to keep this shorter than normal, as you know I tend to go off to other different, yet related, subjects. I may see the connection yet other may not. (I deleted 3 rather lengthy paragraphs already!) You can thank me later.
I’m sure this will still be long and thanks for the help! I’ll look up what a “collector of collections” is called besides “obsessive, weird, a hoarder (which I’m not, as I have mine organized and brought out during the appropriate seasons.) I won’t list the various hobbies I’m involved in, nor name the collections I have. So many people think I’m weird for having an entomology collection already! iNat forever! Cathy
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Hi langzi! Did you collect the door for possible use? JK! 
I can try to imagine the shock of seeing the door and frame floating and reacting quickly enough to avoid getting hurt! Without being a surfer myself, I’m not coordinated enough and my balance sucks, if I remember, aren’t you attached to the board by your ankle? If so, would that mean the cord would be across the door, after having jumped off your board and over the door? I’m just trying to imagine the event. I guess it depends how far out you were from the beach and if it happened as I’m thinking, you would definitely be injured! Hopefully any injuries weren’t serious! UFO = unusual floating objects! Be careful out there please!
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Haha I often pick up trash when I come back from the beach but that door was way too heavy. It just kept floating across the spot and then further. The time was after a typhoon which always brings heavy debris out from the rivers to the shore (usually we would look out for floating trunks)…
You are right there was a leash (2m long) on my ankle so I left the board just before the door, landed on the other side, and the board followed ending on top of the door. Zero damage fortunately.
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I was mostly worried about any injuries you may have obtained in your sudden improvised aerial program! The way I see it, you get a perfect 10 from me! I’m imagining as you leap off your board, you then perform one or 2 aerial summersaults to clear the door with a perfect landing, back in position, on your board! 
My close second imaginary ending was you landing on the door and surfing the rest of the wave on the door. Personally, I prefer the first one with aerials! Just stay safe and remain clear of 
’s! Of course I have no idea where you surf, yet I imagine any place comfortable for you is okay with the , so no surfing where 
’s and 
‘s are on the beach please! (If that didn’t sound like a mom preaching, I don’t know what does.) Although I am a wife and mother to 4 adult daughters and all happily married so I have 7 grandchildren! And I still worry about them all! Cathy
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