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

[Just Tom.]

I don’t know if the Okapi brand has been bought out again, but they have given their pocket knife products and website a complete facelift. I’m ambivalent about the hole in the blade, but I’m glad they went back to carbon steel for the ring-lock model. I sort of like the look of the other models - it seems to me they managed to “modernize” a traditional pattern without making it hideous. N690 is supposedly good steel, and they kept it in the $20 price range (in South Africa, anyway).

I would love to see a ring-lock with the green plastic handle, but I could make my own easily enough I suppose.

I emailed the company to see if they ship internationally. Hopefully they do.

 

[screened porch]

I just saw my third live coyote, this one in my back yard at nine o'clock on a bright morning.
pics later.

 

[mrknife]

just kidding, dont eat coyote

 

[screened porch]

 

[Cory Hess]

Picking my boy up from work, and there was a family of 6 foxes poking out from their den. I have wider shots of the whole family, but these two hung out long enough for me to get closer.

 

[screened porch]

Picking my boy up from work, and there was a family of 6 foxes poking out from their den. I have wider shots of the whole family, but these two hung out long enough for me to get closer.

I've seen a couple of foxes in my neighborhood, but not since I've started seeing coyote scat.

 

[Ironbut]

I haven't seen nor heard a coyote around here in a couple years, but we have plenty of fox.

 

[Cory Hess]

I've seen a couple of foxes in my neighborhood, but not since I've started seeing coyote scat.

I have a theory for the abundance of foxes we've been seeing around here lately. They keep putting in new neighborhoods, and I think that the coyotes are getting squeezed out, which in turn puts the squeeze on the foxes, which leaves them little choice but to head into the neighborhoods. 40 years ago a fox in a neighborhood was a rare sight. Now we see them a couple times a month.

 

[Ironbut]

I have a theory for the abundance of foxes we've been seeing around here lately. They keep putting in new neighborhoods, and I think that the coyotes are getting squeezed out, which in turn puts the squeeze on the foxes, which leaves them little choice but to head into the neighborhoods. 40 years ago a fox in a neighborhood was a rare sight. Now we see them a couple times a month.

Yeah, fox, like coons seem to adapt to the suburbs pretty well. We're out in the sticks though, and we just started seeing coyotes here maybe 25 years ago. The fox have always been plentiful.