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

meako said:
All I can say at this juncture is that I was tasked with doing the label and that has been accomplished...surpassing all expectations of course and achieving the Seal of Approvals approval..
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Looking forward to reading it one day very soon hopefully where it can take it's place next to my 21' forum knife tube 😉😃 With that said, I haven't read the label on the 2019 forum knife, the year I joined Bladeforums. Maybe one day I can acquire one and read that label too and put a little patina on the blade 😁
 
Hey folks, I have sort of a problem. One traditional knife from US that I've ordered got returned back to America because of my local postal office mistake (more like idiotic incompetency) and now I can't get it back because USPS doesn't ship to my country for now.

So, uhm... is there anyone from Europe or UK who might want to help me with this by receiving the knife and sending it my way? It's been more than half a year that I wait for an opportunity. Of course I'll cover all expenses via PP.
 
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We have an apple tree in the back yard. We hang CD's on the tree every fall to keep birds from eating the apples. (Works better than scarecrows. The CDs spin in the breeze, causing the light shining off the mirror sided CDs to dance around the yard. The moving lights startle the birds and keep them away.)

My wife and I have both noticed this year that dragonflies are apparently fascinated by the CD's. They circle the tree and approach it from different angles. Then they fly off. Then they come back and circle the tree again, apparently fascinated by the bright lights. This is the first year we've noticed this. Sorry. No pics of the dragon flies. They are QUICK. But we both find it amusing and fun to watch. I thought you folks might enjoy hearing about it.
 
knarfeng said:
We have an apple tree in the back yard. We hang CD's on the tree every fall to keep birds from eating the apples. (Works better than scarecrows. The CDs spin in the breeze, causing the light shining off the mirror sided CDs to dance around the yard. The moving lights startle the birds and keep them away.)

My wife and I have both noticed this year that dragonflies are apparently fascinated by the CD's. They circle the tree and approach it from different angles. Then they fly off. Then they come back and circle the tree again, apparently fascinated by the bright lights. This is the first year we've noticed this. Sorry. No pics of the dragon flies. They are QUICK. But we both find it amusing and fun to watch. I thought you folks might enjoy hearing about it.
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That's interesting Frank, I might try the CDs to try and deter the pigeons lofting in my neighbour's attic from dumping down the side of my house! 🤨:thumbsup:

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That is most interesting. Dragonflies are fascinating and as you say very difficult to study. We used to float rivers for a week or two at a time and they would land on an arm apparently for the salt. Only time I was able to study them up close.
 
knarfeng said:
We have an apple tree in the back yard. We hang CD's on the tree every fall to keep birds from eating the apples. (Works better than scarecrows. The CDs spin in the breeze, causing the light shining off the mirror sided CDs to dance around the yard. The moving lights startle the birds and keep them away.)

My wife and I have both noticed this year that dragonflies are apparently fascinated by the CD's. They circle the tree and approach it from different angles. Then they fly off. Then they come back and circle the tree again, apparently fascinated by the bright lights. This is the first year we've noticed this. Sorry. No pics of the dragon flies. They are QUICK. But we both find it amusing and fun to watch. I thought you folks might enjoy hearing about it.
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We had a neighbour who did it also to keep pigeons away. With moderate luck... and quite harmful to our eyes.
Then families of crows and magpies settled in the trees. The magpies got very interested and destroyed or stealed some CDs and the neighbour gave up. 😊
 
Jolipapa said:
We had a neighbour who did it also to keep pigeons away. With moderate luck... and quite harmful to our eyes.
Then families of crows and magpies settled in the trees. The magpies got very interested and destroyed or stealed some CDs and the neighbour gave up. 😊
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A few years ago, a man with some low-level mental health problems started feeding pigeons on the corner of the street. He would empty whole sacksful of bread or grain out each day, and more and more pigeons were attracted. The birds caused a nuisance for the people living close by, and eventually, after several years, the feeding stopped. Unfortunately, by this time, there were a lot of pigeons, and they had spread further down the street, with some of them nesting in the empty loft of my neighbour's house. He and his landlord (the city council) have been extremely complacent about it, but they are making one heck of a mess. I hang pieces of tin-foil on strings to stop them settling on the window-ledges of my house, and shoot clay-balls at them from time to time, but I think they will be hard to get rid of. I noticed one of my neighbours had bought a couple of plastic hawks, and asked him if they made any difference. He said that the pigeons were wary of them for a week or two, and after that they would sit on their heads :rolleyes:
 
Jack Black said:
A few years ago, a man with some low-level mental health problems started feeding pigeons on the corner of the street. He would empty whole sacksful of bread or grain out each day, and more and more pigeons were attracted. The birds caused a nuisance for the people living close by, and eventually, after several years, the feeding stopped. Unfortunately, by this time, there were a lot of pigeons, and they had spread further down the street, with some of them nesting in the empty loft of my neighbour's house. He and his landlord (the city council) have been extremely complacent about it, but they are making one heck of a mess. I hang pieces of tin-foil on strings to stop them settling on the window-ledges of my house, and shoot clay-balls at them from time to time, but I think they will be hard to get rid of. I noticed one of my neighbours had bought a couple of plastic hawks, and asked him if they made any difference. He said that the pigeons were wary of them for a week or two, and after that they would sit on their heads :rolleyes:
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About 20/25years ago there was a campaign to reduce the number of pigeonsand they fed them with contraceptives. This was efficient, but all the birds ate the seeds and sparrows and chickadee numbers reduced also.
Amazingly during the covid lock down the crows and magpies discovered they ruled the streets and since are less shy to stand on houses where they eat pigeon's eggs. (I once had a nest on my balcony)
 
Jolipapa said:
About 20/25years ago there was a campaign to reduce the number of pigeonsand they fed them with contraceptives.
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So they'd choke to death on the rubber?! :eek: 🤣 ;):thumbsup:
Jolipapa said:
This was efficient, but all the birds ate the seeds and sparrows and chickadee numbers reduced also.
Amazingly during the covid lock down the crows and magpies discovered they ruled the streets and since are less shy to stand on houses where they eat pigeon's eggs. (I once had a nest on my balcony)
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When I've looked at various ways of trying to get rid of the pigeons, unfortunately many of them also affect other birds. We have crows and magpies, but there are so many pigeons. While the pigeons have a place to roost, I think they're going to be hard to get rid of :(
 
Jack Black said:
A few years ago, a man with some low-level mental health problems started feeding pigeons on the corner of the street. He would empty whole sacksful of bread or grain out each day, and more and more pigeons were attracted. The birds caused a nuisance for the people living close by, and eventually, after several years, the feeding stopped. Unfortunately, by this time, there were a lot of pigeons, and they had spread further down the street, with some of them nesting in the empty loft of my neighbour's house. He and his landlord (the city council) have been extremely complacent about it, but they are making one heck of a mess. I hang pieces of tin-foil on strings to stop them settling on the window-ledges of my house, and shoot clay-balls at them from time to time, but I think they will be hard to get rid of. I noticed one of my neighbours had bought a couple of plastic hawks, and asked him if they made any difference. He said that the pigeons were wary of them for a week or two, and after that they would sit on their heads :rolleyes:
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Need some real hawks.
https://amhawk.co.uk/pigeon-control/
 
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