"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[Rookie82]

Hope you are feeling better Rookie82 did they nuke the little buggers with ultrasonics?

Thanks Meako. Mine was small enough they didn't zap it. They just sent me home and told me to cross my fingers and bite down on my belt.

 

[screened porch]

I went shooting with the pastor today. We both had our problems.
I got my elevation a little closer, but the toilet-paper bale was not much use as a bench-rest. I've ordered a scissors jack that goes from 3.5" to 15.1", which will be the backbone of my system.

 

[Peregrin]

Took this quick lousy smartphone picture a few hours ago out our back window. A Turkey hen with her chicks in tow.

 

[Jack Black]

Felt I had to post this somewhere Hope everyone is having a great weekend

 

[Student762]

Comic art is marvellous stuff.
This somewhat reminds me of the time Dwight whittles a wooden knife in The Office too.

 

[redsparrow]

Felt I had to post this somewhere Hope everyone is having a great weekend

I knew all those Popsicle stick knives I make as a kid had a purpose.
Hope your weekend is great too Jack!

 

[Jack Black]

I knew all those Popsicle stick knives I make as a kid had a purpose.
Hope your weekend is great too Jack!

Stake-knives? Thank you very much my friend, off out for a hike tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to it

 

[redsparrow]

Stake-knives? Thank you very much my friend, off out for a hike tomorrow, so I'm looking forward to it

stake knives
We'll be looking forward to your hiker's pictorial report.
I hope to go for a little highland/woods mosey myself if I can get out early enough.
It's been uncomfortably warm here for sometime.
Enjoy and stay safe wherever you may wander, kind sir.

 

[Jack Black]

stake knives
We'll be looking forward to your hiker's pictorial report.
I hope to go for a little highland/woods mosey myself if I can get out early enough.
It's been uncomfortably warm here for sometime.
Enjoy and stay safe wherever you may wander, kind sir.

Many thanks, hope you have a lovely walk

 

[5K Qs]

All this talk about whittling wood knives has brought me to the point of true confession:




- GT

 

[knarfeng]

It's amazing how soon they get the results back on these tests. And how soon my doctor comments on the results. So anyway, I'm getting away with the dipsomania still. Kidneys are normal, bless them, and A1c is a little lower, just 0.1 above highest normal.

Nice gaucho knife.
Does that mean you are back from the hospital?

 

[knarfeng]

Took this quick lousy smartphone picture a few hours ago out our back window. A Turkey hen with her chicks in tow.

We kept finding feathers around our front yard and had thought the cat had been catching birds...again. But Friday there was a ruckus in the oak tree outside the second floor bedroom I use for an office these days. A bunch of what I think were small finches making a commotion, so I looked out the window. I saw a hawk sitting in among the branches tearing at something with his beak. It's meal looked to be about the size of a pigeon. Apparently he likes to eat his catches in our tree. A nice hideaway for him. Didn't get any pictures, but I think it explains the repeated episodes of feathers all over the ground.

 

[screened porch]

Nice gaucho knife.
Does that mean you are back from the hospital?

Thanks. That might be my favorite gaucho knife. And thanks, yes, I got to the hospital too late in the morning and had a bit of a wait, but it was just bleeding and micturation for my e-doctor's appointment tomorrow.

It's meal looked to be about the size of a pigeon. Apparently he likes to eat his catches in our tree. A nice hideaway for him. Didn't get any pictures, but I think it explains the repeated episodes of feathers all over the ground.

And an excellent use for pigeons.

 

[Just Tom.]

I caught a glimpse of movement out of the corner of my eye yesterday morning when I went out onto the back porch, and looked just in time to see a red fox jumping over my compost heap like a deer or something - about a 4’ high by 8’ long effortless leap. Obviously I did not get a picture, but here are some random pictures of my yard (also from yesterday), and you can use your imaginations. It happened by the shed you can see there.

This morning I ventured up a ladder to cut a branch off a wild cherry that had some sort of tent worms on it:

Here is the tree loaded with cherries. It was a self-starter which I transplanted to a corner of my yard, and is quite a hub of bird activity these days:

88 degrees in the shade at 10 am. Supposedly going up to 97 today with high humidity - a pretty typical Washington “dog day”:

The mockingbirds in my neighborhood seem to have been mostly displaced by catbirds. Their antics are similarly amusing, but I miss the crazy-sounding racket the mockingbirds used to make. They seemed to like to do it from a high perch in the mornings and afternoons when the sun was at a fairly low angle.

Sorry if I’m boring you all. Good thing I can’t hear you groaning or see you rolling your eyes from across the internet.

 

[Peregrin]

I caught a glimpse of movement out of the corner of my eye yesterday morning when I went out onto the back porch, and looked just in time to see a red fox jumping over my compost heap like a deer or something - about a 4’ high by 8’ long effortless leap. Obviously I did not get a picture, but here are some random pictures of my yard (also from yesterday), and you can use your imaginations. It happened by the shed you can see there.

This morning I ventured up a ladder to cut a branch off a wild cherry that had some sort of tent worms on it:

Here is the tree loaded with cherries. It was a self-starter which I transplanted to a corner of my yard, and is quite a hub of bird activity these days:

88 degrees in the shade at 10 am. Supposedly going up to 97 today with high humidity - a pretty typical Washington “dog day”:

The mockingbirds in my neighborhood seem to have been mostly displaced by catbirds. Their antics are similarly amusing, but I miss the crazy-sounding racket the mockingbirds used to make. They seemed to like to do it from a high perch in the mornings and afternoons when the sun was at a fairly low angle.

Sorry if I’m boring you all. Good thing I can’t hear you groaning or see you rolling your eyes from across the internet.

Great post!
We get foxes occasionally, though I haven't seen one leap like that. I got this shot in our side yard some time ago.

 

[Just Tom.]

Great post!
We get foxes occasionally, though I haven't seen one leap like that. I got this shot in our side yard some time ago.

Amazing! They are fairly common here, but pretty furtive critters. I mostly see them pre-dawn, and then only 2-3 times a year, probably. I don’t think I have ever seen one just sitting still like that.

 

[JohnDF]

Your foxes are better looking than our foxes.
We have the California Grey Fox where I live.
Dang things look like an over-grown squirrel.

 

[Peregrin]

Amazing! They are fairly common here, but pretty furtive critters. I mostly see them pre-dawn, and then only 2-3 times a year, probably. I don’t think I have ever seen one just sitting still like that.

That's the only time I've had the chance to get a pic like that. He was pretty far away and I used a long lens to catch him.

 

[Modoc ED]

Great post!
We get foxes occasionally, though I haven't seen one leap like that. I got this shot in our side yard some time ago.

We don't have fox here but we get all sorts of animals on the property. Here is a small buck passing through some time ago.

 

[screened porch]

Maybe I won't need that scissors jack at the range. My brother spotted this classy old tripod at an estate sale yesterday.

I probably would have paid the whole $15, but it was half-price day.