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

5K Qs said:
I've found out that, for me, old blood is cold blood. So I prefer much warmer temperatures now than I used to.
I'll take 90˚F over anything below 40˚F (or even below 50), hands down!

- GT
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I'm getting there but not the 90f,80f is plenty hot.the wife doesn't like the winters anymore,as a young girl her granny and grampa would take her on the trapline and they slept in a makeshift tent made with canvass wrapped around poles,years later her granny would tease her for wanting tons of pelts and blankets piled on her every night and thinking the young are so soft lol.
 
Winter weather is bearing down on us here in west Tennessee. Snow is supposed to start any old time now, but it is not snowing yet as I type this. I'm hoping the weather reports are more hype than reality.

As long as we don't lose power, life will be good. If we do, well, we'll survive. One of the weather forecasters on the TV news mentioned the "Ice Storm of '94." Though he did not look old enough to remember that. I sure do. We were without power for 2 weeks. We got by. Though the things you can put up with in your 30s are a bit different in your 60s.

We are well stocked with cat food and cats, and I've got about half a bottle of whiskey for medicinal purposes. Hopefully that will last us until the rescue parties come and find us buried beneath the glaciers.
 
jc57 said:
Winter weather is bearing down on us here in west Tennessee. Snow is supposed to start any old time now, but it is not snowing yet as I type this. I'm hoping the weather reports are more hype than reality.

As long as we don't lose power, life will be good. If we do, well, we'll survive. One of the weather forecasters on the TV news mentioned the "Ice Storm of '94." Though he did not look old enough to remember that. I sure do. We were without power for 2 weeks. We got by. Though the things you can put up with in your 30s are a bit different in your 60s.

We are well stocked with cat food and cats, and I've got about half a bottle of whiskey for medicinal purposes. Hopefully that will last us until the rescue parties come and find us buried beneath the glaciers.
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Hope the ice misses you. I remember one ice storm. hunkered down in the house with no power, listening to tree branches cracking loudly and crashing to the ground all day long.
 
waynorth said:
I wonder if many fires ensued???? 😲
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I remember my dad saying it really wasn't a good idea to make a corn-cob fire under the car.
Oldy said:
astonishing how very early in the job one caught fire
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A certain College Maintenacne crew once burned up a truck by leaving it running on top of too many dry leaves for too long.
 
waynorth said:
Those dipsticks must do the job then!!!❄️❄️
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Growing up in upstate NY we used dipstick heaters and they worked. The only thing it didn’t do was fix the low battery power when it was -20F. Very slow cranking when you started it.

Oldy said:
I don't know how people can deal with high heat and humidity that is draining,some of those temperatures in texas make me queasy reading about it.
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5K Qs said:
I've found out that, for me, old blood is cold blood. So I prefer much warmer temperatures now than I used to.
I'll take 90˚F over anything below 40˚F (or even below 50), hands down!

- GT
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I have been in a warmer climate for many years now. When I was young I had no issues with subzero temperatures but now I don’t like anything below 40F. Where I live it is frequently 105F or higher, sometimes 110, and with thousands of square miles of intensely irrigated land around me the humidity is higher than most of the west. Not quite as high as the east coast but definitely a lot higher than the Rocky Mountains states. I’m used to it now. Two of my sons live in a part of Texas where the temperature is just as high as here and the humidity is often higher than the east coast.
 
Speaking of food, here's a lamb-splitter (I believe) with a twelve-inch blade. I've had it for ages, but was recently reminded of it while watching Grimm.
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It's a little thin and bent near the point, which I'm not going to worry about. The handle is dried out and a bit split, but I'd hate to lose those iron rivets, and I'd hate to try to fit a new handle around them (and into the ferule). Maybe I'll try some of that epoxy rotten wood salvager. Or hockey tape.
 
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Oldy said:
I don't know how people can deal with high heat and humidity that is draining,some of those temperatures in texas make me queasy reading about it.
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You get used to it, up to a point. I remember a heat wave some years back when it got up to around 115. Pretty miserable, but the next day when it cooled down to 95, it actually felt pleasant. Getting older, and living here so long, my blood has thinned.
jc57 said:
We are well stocked with cat food and cats,
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Same here. There is ice on the roads so Austin, Texas is closed today. I fell asleep under a pile of cats and blankets last night, listening to the thunder-sleet.

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lambertiana said:
Growing up in upstate NY we used dipstick heaters and they worked. The only thing it didn’t do was fix the low battery power when it was -20F. Very slow cranking when you started it.





I have been in a warmer climate for many years now. When I was young I had no issues with subzero temperatures but now I don’t like anything below 40F. Where I live it is frequently 105F or higher, sometimes 110, and with thousands of square miles of intensely irrigated land around me the humidity is higher than most of the west. Not quite as high as the east coast but definitely a lot higher than the Rocky Mountains states. I’m used to it now. Two of my sons live in a part of Texas where the temperature is just as high as here and the humidity is often higher than the east coast.
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Growing up in Nebraska used an electric oil pan heater and would pull out the battery of my VW Bug on really cold days. Otherwise the engine wouldn’t crank and the stick shift wouldn’t move as the oil was like sludge.
 
Well, we got snow and sleet, but not enough freezing rain to cause tree damage or power outages. It's pretty cold (for the southern US) with daytime temps in the teens and lows at night in the single digits (F) for a couple more days- that's between -7 and -14 C for the rest of the world. So other than a hit on the utility bill coming, and avoiding driving a few days, we made it OK.

We're staying indoors except to venture out to put out food for the birds and squirrels. The cats quite enjoy watching them all out in the back yard from the cozy shelter of the (fully enclosed and heated) sun room.

mbkr said:
I remember one ice storm. hunkered down in the house with no power, listening to tree branches cracking loudly and crashing to the ground all day long.
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Yeah, that bad one in 1994 was like that. Loud booms as the power transformers blew, and the cracking and crashing of tree limbs and entire trees. We even lost about half our water pressure as the water pumping station lost power because some of the big power lines were affected.
 
Me and my buddy were heading from the le pas mb to wier river on the transmission cut line just being cut which we were working on,we we're hit by blizzard conditions half way to ponton so we thought get to ponton and wait it out,then we heard of a convoy of vehicles were driving through to thompson which is about a 3 hour drive with only the town of wabowden along the way,so off we went following in the tracks of the vehicles in front of us.well after about an hour of slow going in the cordoba bush beater we realized no vehicles coming from the other direction and the snow was getting deep with not much visibility in the night and heavy snow,20 minutes later we can see tail lites and when we got to them we found 7 or 8 vehicles stopped and unable to go further and heard the road wasn't getting cleared untill next afternoon, so me and my buddy had our work and bush gear so we went into the bush and made a bonfire out of whole trees so everyone turned off their vehicles and brought their food and beer and we had a heck of a party. The road wasn't cleared until 1 pm because of how long the blizzard lasted.
 
Just realized I don't think most Americans know where the pas,ponton,thompson, and wier river.but wier river has some great rainbow trout holes.
 
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