Caveat: Tree #1590 “A drive to Thorne Bay”

This tree was hanging out with some other trees on the outskirts of Thorne Bay, off on the other side of our island.

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It’s about an hour and half drive from Rockpit to Thorne Bay. I went there because our new neighbors (who bought the lot where the house burned down in 2019) arrived by boat from down south, and they needed a taxi service over to Thorne Bay to pick up their truck with trailers, which was delivered via barge. All the barges to the island land over there – it’s more convenient on the east side of the island, directly adjacent to the Alaskan “inside passage”.

When I got home, I found a zucchini flower in my greenhouse, despite the persistent rain and obstinately gray skies.

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Caveat: 호랑이 굴에 들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

I found this aphorism in my book of Korean aphorisms.

호랑이 굴에 들어가야 호랑이 새끼를 잡는다

ho.rang.i gul.e deul.eo.ga.ya ho.rang.i sae.kki.reul jap.neun.da

tiger den-INTO enter-OBLIGATION tiger cub-OBJ catch-PRES

[One] must enter the tiger’s den [in order to] catch a tiger cub.

“No pain, no gain.”

If you really want to catch a tiger cub, there’s nothing that will do short of entering the tiger’s den. “Nothing ventured, nothing gained” is one possible English equivalent.

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