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

I had to look up Kaimuki. I'm impressed.
In the almost equally prestigious Kalamazoo, we are predicted to peak at 95 today, and the heat index gets us up to only 99. The Canadian smoke will hit us this evening.
I got some MERV 13s last year when I started smelling smoke inside the house. I was going to switch back to 11s when the smoke cleared, but since the 13s are better against pollen and viruses too, I never did.

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The JB steel stik adds 0.5 oz. I'll get that down a bit when I tape the bolsters and file down the handles, but I'm glad I discovered their wood-density wood patch.
For the other seed king, I'll try to preserve the paper labels under a pour of clear epoxy.
 
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I don’t remember having “extreme heat alerts” when the temps were in the low 90’s in July when I was a kid.

Or a young construction worker.

It was supposed to be hot in July.

Nowadays everything’s a disaster or “extreme”…
 
We are in the same boat here in NW Pennsylvania today. I went out side this morning to water the garden, and my eyes were burning/watering within 5 minutes. Feels like when you are sitting around a campfire and the wind blows the smoke right into your face. Considering the fires are so far away, I can't imagine what those living closeby in Canada are dealing with.
 
waynorth said:
From your Canadian neighbor;"I'm so sorry!!!":oops:
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No worries, Charlie. As they say, "stuff happens". Substitute a 4-letter word for stuff.....
Rookie82 said:
We are in the same boat here in NW Pennsylvania today. I went out side this morning to water the garden, and my eyes were burning/watering within 5 minutes. Feels like when you are sitting around a campfire and the wind blows the smoke right into your face. Considering the fires are so far away, I can't imagine what those living closeby in Canada are dealing with.
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Hopefully it clears out in a day or so. They're saying it'll be better tomorrow morning, which might give me enough time to mow my lawn before the next onslaught.
 
On Thursdays I pick up my daughter then have an hour to kill with her until her swim lessons. We go to a playground or just for a walk. Today we spent that hour in a place I hardly ever set foot in: Whole Foods. Needed their clean air.
 
Mens Abdita said:
On Thursdays I pick up my daughter then have an hour to kill with her until her swim lessons. We go to a playground or just for a walk. Today we spent that hour in a place I hardly ever set foot in: Whole Foods. Needed their clean air.
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Sometimes I rail at their prices, but it's hard to fault the quality!!!
 
sf fanatic said:
Every day is my favorite day!
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Yeah when I lived in SF (near Mission and Ocean) I wondered where summer was. All summer long every day was windy, overcast, and in the 60s.

Here in Visalia it has been 103-104 with dew point above 60, so it isn’t the stereotypical dry heat of the west. Not as bad as where I grew up on the east coast but not far behind. Today it cooled down to 101.
 
lambertiana said:
Yeah when I lived in SF (near Mission and Ocean) I wondered where summer was. All summer long every day was windy, overcast, and in the 60s.

Here in Visalia it has been 103-104 with dew point above 60, so it isn’t the stereotypical dry heat of the west. Not as bad as where I grew up on the east coast but not far behind. Today it cooled down to 101.
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Nature’s AC! You can’t beat it! No screens and almost no flies 😀.
 
The weather report says, "Sunny, smoke" for today. Sunrise was three hours ago, and the sun is just now beginning to burning through, with a pink glow. They say that we're supposed to get some rain tomorrow, and that front moving through will get rid of this stinking smoke.
 
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples in North America used controlled burns to clear underbrush, improve habitats for wildlife, and reduce risk of forest fires.

But, instead of managing our forests, we'd much rather deal with catastrophic wildfires, loss of life, and billions of dollars in property damage, every single year.
 
knarfeng said:
"Don't eat yellow snow"
Don't eat snow if it is not white.

As a part time caregiver to a one year old I can affirm, "Poo-poo occurs."
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I'm suddenly remindef of the psychology seminat in High Anxiety....
Are we talking peepee envy or cocky doody?...
Ironbut said:
For thousands of years, indigenous peoples in North America used controlled burns to clear underbrush, improve habitats for wildlife, and reduce risk of forest fires.

But, instead of managing our forests, we'd much rather deal with catastrophic wildfires, loss of life, and billions of dollars in property damage, every single year.
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We have the same discussion in Oz ...Aboriginal burning methods...lots of people think this is how the forests ( eucalyptus trees are highly volatile on average containing 6 tonnes of eucalyptus oil in the leaves) should be 'managed' ...Yes there is a place for this knowledge....However...I doubt they burned 1000s of acres of old growth forest...more likely small areas of grassy scrubby bush ...for the purpose of hunting. Nor was there radio communication over 100s of miles. Nor the population . ...most of all .nor was there any houses,roads infrastructure to get in the way and be destroyed by fast moving cataclysmic sized fire.
What we do have for these impending disasters is ...a variety of government authorities 5 I can think of even before it crosses state lines... which seem to engage in everything but going in and extinguishing. Management spreads out quicker than any bush fire I've ever seen...and thats a lot without trying to blow my own siren...
 
Too many Chiefs...not enough firefighters...after the 2020 fire which was 3 fires that was somehow "managed" into one giant one....I spoke to a bloke I know from my local RFS volunteers...who told me they sent us to Braidwood..( up over the mountains and many miles away)...he was the youngest man on the truck....at age 71.
I think we were lucky round here.
All the stout hearted community spirit in the world barely sttood up against that fire.....Meanwhile the managers couldnt seem to work out that if the big water tanker chopper deployed it might have helped....the whole debacle ended up with one crashing into a lake. ....from memory the chopper and pilot RIP....were rented from the USA...unbelievable in a country that has more bushfire than anywhere el😮‍💨
 
meako said:
We have the same discussion in Oz ...Aboriginal burning methods...lots of people think this is how the forests ( eucalyptus trees are highly volatile on average containing 6 tonnes of eucalyptus oil in the leaves) should be 'managed' ...Yes there is a place for this knowledge....However...I doubt they burned 1000s of acres of old growth forest...more likely small areas of grassy scrubby bush ...for the purpose of hunting. Nor was there radio communication over 100s of miles. Nor the population . ...most of all .nor was there any houses,roads infrastructure to get in the way and be destroyed by fast moving cataclysmic sized fire.
What we do have for these impending disasters is ...a variety of government authorities 5 I can think of even before it crosses state lines... which seem to engage in everything but going in and extinguishing. Management spreads out quicker than any bush fire I've ever seen...and thats a lot without trying to blow my own siren...
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You are absolutely correct meako meako , and right after I ran off at the keyboard & posted that, I realised how out of touch it sounded, and that conducting controlled burns on billions of acres of wilderness forests just isn't possible. Which is where the fires in Canada, MN, and UT are burning now.

We can't control where lightening strikes, and we will always have some people who are careless with campfires, etc, or arsons. But we can do a much better job of managing our forests, and brush near populated areas. Like the fires that destroyed numerous suburbs in the LA area last year.
 
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