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

Still dark at 7:30! I hate that; time to hook up a full-spectrum light to a timer.
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(Winchester)
But in eight weeks the days start getting longer, so Spring is right around the corner!
 
Jer, are you thinking that your musings about the coming of spring put this thread into a coma?? I'm not sure changing the subject to coelacanths is "just what the doctor ordered."

I, for one, admire your optimism in the face of 12 hours (and increasingly more for 8 weeks) of darkness each day. We have a couple of dogs, and two of my responsibilities are to take them out for the first time in the morning (around 7am) and to take them out each evening after their evening meal (around 7pm). I HATE having to use a flashlight to search the backyard for their droppings, so I hate this time of year (from now until April actually, although life gets a little easier when I can search for dark droppings against a white background of snow cover). It helps me to feel better when someone claims, albeit with somewhat weak justification, that Spring is just around the corner!

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Jer, are you thinking that your musings about the coming of spring put this thread into a coma?? I'm not sure changing the subject to coelacanths is "just what the doctor ordered."

I, for one, admire your optimism in the face of 12 hours (and increasingly more for 8 weeks) of darkness each day. We have a couple of dogs, and two of my responsibilities are to take them out for the first time in the morning (around 7am) and to take them out each evening after their evening meal (around 7pm). I HATE having to use a flashlight to search the backyard for their droppings, so I hate this time of year (from now until April actually, although life gets a little easier when I can search for dark droppings against a white background of snow cover). It helps me to feel better when someone claims, albeit with somewhat weak justification, that Spring is just around the corner!

- GT
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But October is the best month!
You know, Gary, I've never heard canine excrement referred to as "droppings" before. Made me laugh!
 
This is a depressing time of year for me, as the daylight gradually, then rapidly shortens...when living in NH I used to refer to the shrinking daylength as, going into the dark tunnel...as the time progresses I refer to it as the time of the long shadows.
 
5K Qs said:
Jer, are you thinking that your musings about the coming of spring put this thread into a coma?? I'm not sure changing the subject to coelacanths is "just what the doctor ordered."
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It worked!
Prester John said:
But October is the best month!
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I like Fall, except that it presages Winter.
Prester John said:
You know, Gary, I've never heard canine excrement referred to as "droppings" before. Made me laugh!
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You don't use the monosyllable!?
I meant to quote sitflyer sitflyer , too. I don't like having to crawl around in the dark either. Maybe I'll work on my night vision while I'm trying to hypnotize my hair back.
Fall was a season of renewal for my mom: new beginnings at school and church (new pencil box at school).
 
Prester John said:
But October is the best month!
You know, Gary, I've never heard canine excrement referred to as "droppings" before. Made me laugh!
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Prester John said:
Oh, yes: "poop." Wife and daughter usually scoop the poop; I get to feed the dogs.
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Glad I could provide some inadvertent amusement, Vince! :D
I personally prefer the palindromic "poop" (and like to shout, when I take out the dogs in the morning, "Poop, pup, poop!"), but publicly posted a more prudent pick. :poop:

- GT
 
You want to try living, if that's the word, clinging on more like- here on latitude 64° N and this is only half way up the country...In Lapland the kaamos can be more or less total:eek: no appreciable light end of Nov to mid Jan.... By December, here it's basically sun up if lucky at 10 ish and down before 3 and often on gloomy days it's sunless with no real daylight at all:poop:

Taxing in the extreme..
 
As a resident of So Cal, I'm an October enthusiast. Being a couple of weeks into October means that we should get some rain soon and that the year's fire season is about over. I expect the folks who have to worry about hurricanes feel the same way about the end of hurricane season, but they have to wait till the end of November.
 
Will Power said:
You want to try living, if that's the word, clinging on more like- here on latitude 64° N and this is only half way up the country...In Lapland the kaamos can be more or less total:eek: no appreciable light end of Nov to mid Jan.... By December, here it's basically sun up if lucky at 10 ish and down before 3 and often on gloomy days it's sunless with no real daylight at all:poop:

Taxing in the extreme..
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That may be an understatement Will. It's a good thing you have Sinebrychoff Koff Porter. ;)
 
redsparrow redsparrow :D That's sort of ironic as I never drink the beer made here, it's awful stuff:eek::D

Fortunately, we also import beer from Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Slovakia, England places where fine beer is brewed:cool: We naturally import beer from other lands too, but, er no ;)
 
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redsparrow redsparrow :D That's sort of ironic as I never drink the beer made here, it's awful stuff:eek::D

Fortunately, we also import beer from Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium, Slovakia, England places where fine beer is brewed:cool: We naturally import beer from other lands too, but, er no ;)
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Thanks for telling me, I'll stay away from Finnish beer, I just chose a beer that was available with high alcohol content. :)
 
Prester John said:
Great way to end my two-week vacation--celebrating the birth of my third grandchild:
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She was born Friday, October 2.
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Sitting on the deck with my son, sipping Buchanen's Select 15-year-old whisky and puffing on an Oliva cigar.
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Vince,

My best wishes of happiness to your grandchild.

Dan.
 
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