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

Bigfattyt said:
Just returned from an overnight camp out and cow roundup on a ranch in Eastern Washington.

I took three Boy Scouts and my family.
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Really great photos, Bigfattyt. Awesome to see those scouts getting their hands dirty, and learning while getting close to their food source! :thumbup:

Scouting is such a great program. I cherish many of the outdoor and life skills I learned in my time there.
 
Thought you folk might like to see a pic of this stunning old piece of US engineering I came across in Leeds market. Well over a hundred years old I'm told, and still in perfect working condition :)

 
Jack, that's a fascinating old chunk of iron, got me noodle workin' on what the drive shafts were used for!? It looks like it was a very versatile piece.
 
It looks like something you could tinker with for hours :)

On a completely different note, I have been struggling today. A throwaway comment by someone this morning has put the theme music from 'Where Eagles Dare' in my head and I've been humming it all day. It's driving me potty.
 
pmew said:
It looks like something you could tinker with for hours :)

On a completely different note, I have been struggling today. A throwaway comment by someone this morning has put the theme music from 'Where Eagles Dare' in my head and I've been humming it all day. It's driving me potty.
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One old solution is to fill your mind with a more complex music. The effort to maintain it scuttles the persistent ear-worm.

I scarcely know what music to recommend. I’m no fan of Iron Maiden, and can’t imagine getting stuck with Where Eagles Dare.
 
Wow, that's a very versatile unit! I wouldn't mind having one of those in the garage one bit!

-Dan
 
God bless better living through chemicals!

There I was yesterday, sitting in a Panera Bread having lunch with Karen, and I'm enjoying my tuna salad on country white. Not exactly a tough meal to chew. All of a sudden I feel something crack, and I get a twinge of pain in my lower left jaw. Broke my tooth. On a darn tuna sandwich!!!

So I go to my family dentist, and he extracts the broken part that was just hanging on below the gum line, and it's about 1/2 of the tooth split right across. He tells me he can't save it, or crown it, and it has to come out. He refers me to an oral surgeon, and this morning he fits me in and out it comes. Damm! The last time I needed serious dental work was when I was in the army and had my wisdom teeth out. Most of a lifetime ago. In my vanity, I used to brag that I'd made it senior citizen status with all my hair and teeth. Considering my lifestyle in my youth, I thought that was amazing. Okay, a few of them are chipped up from running into a knuckle here and there, but they are, or were, all present. Well, that's done for. Now I'm sitting here with a nice hazy buzz off the vicodin, and thanking the red gods of fate that they have nice drugs to make life a little easier in times like this.

The big bummer is, I can't smoke my pipe for at least three days if not 5, no alcohol, soft food like pasta and rice, and I look like a lop sided bearded chipmunk. But I can handle all that okay, but breaking a tooth on a tuna sandwich on white???

Jeez, if I'm getting that old and feeble, I hate to think what happenes if I take on a marshmallow!:eek:
 
jackknife said:
Jeez, if I'm getting that old and feeble, I hate to think what happenes if I take on a marshmallow!:eek:
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:D Hang in there, Carl! You'll heal up quickly. My wife just had all four of her wisdom teeth taken out about five weeks ago. She was a little sore for a couple days, but mended up speedily. Don't let us catch you trying to use your stockman to remove any stitches, though!

-Dan
 
Raymond1000 said:
Here’s The Stewart Handy Worker in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT8WrIoAL_8
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Thanks for that link Raymond! I had a sneaking suspicion that this was some kind of "multi tool" device. Pretty cool stuff.

Carl, bummer about the tooth...I've been told gettin' old aint' for the faint of heart ;) but it sure does beat the alternative :) Here's to hoping that you feel better soon and can get back to the pleasures that make life a little more cozy.
 
Meteor Shower tonight. Camelopardalids Meteor Shower. Look toward the northern sky in the northern hemisphere..
 
leghog said:
Meteor Shower tonight. Camelopardalids Meteor Shower. Look toward the northern sky in the northern hemisphere..
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I really want to see them, but it's been cloudy all day and I doubt it'll clear up enough overnight.
 
Raymond1000 said:
Here’s The Stewart Handy Worker in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT8WrIoAL_8
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Thanks a lot for the link Raymond :thumbup:

Hang on in there Carl. I recently broke two crowns eating a piece of liquorice and am still waiting to get them replaced, got a mouth like a bombed graveyard at the moment! :eek:

I know the feeling of having an unwanted ear-worm Paul. For one reason and another I had the Russian national anthem stuck in my head the other week! :eek: Also, I can remember catching myself from time to time whistling the 'wrong' tune in the 'wrong' part of Belfast a few years back! :D
 
pmew said:
At least I haven't started quoting Richard Burton or Clint Eastwood I suppose!
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I recommend a good brisk walk in the fields perhaps a bit of broadsword practice or perhaps listen the birds calling.
Then off to the pub for a quick pint or two and maybe a singsong with the locals ,say a rousing chorus of Danny Boy...or something.
Yikes Carl-no alcohol? that dentist is a charlatan and a reprobate- I had to get a root canal re-bored after it got infected and the xray showed a colony of black stuff living in my jaw.
So off to periodontist (dentist who fixes other dentists slip shod work).
Now most normal humans have 16mm deep root canals -sometimes as deep as 18mm he tells me as he sends the assistant (Igor) to rummage in the drawer of stuff that hardly ever gets used.
The measurements are important to remember as they are the lengths of the files that are used to rasp away the nerve endings.
Long story short the Sabre Toothed Meakodon is equipped with an impressive 27mm deep root canal. That's over an inch people!
 
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Carl, I hope you feel better. Nothing a big jar of Snyders or Hanover pretzels couldn't cure ;)...

I'm dreading getting my wisdom teeth out. They didn't provide any wisdom in the first place, just bad infections that the Listerine didn't get. The oral surgeon said he'd need to cut into the bone. My insurance before was horrible, better put this new insurance to good use sometime this year!
 
Yeah, I love those pretzels!! The big crystals of salt plays hell with my blood pressure reading though.

Don't worry about having the wisdom teeth out, it can be bad or good all depending on the oral surgeon. I had my left side ones taken out at Ft. Sam Houston by a young lieutenant, and I still have PTSD nightmares from that. But a year later up at Ft. Deveons in Massachusetts, I had the right side down by an older man, a full bird type Colonel, and I never felt a thing. The guy was smooth as silk, an old pro from Dover.

Good luck bud!!!
 
So Saturday night my wife. my youngest daughter, and I go to my oldest daughter's and son's in-law for supper. Got the news we've been waiting for. Gonna be a grandpa! I cried.

Then on Monday I was with my youngest daughter at a local hole-in-the-wall vending Mexican chow and my youngest says that was only the second time she's seen me cry - Saturday evening and at the funeral of my father in-law. She said she couldn't remember my mom' funeral at all and only vaguely recalls dad's. I told her I cried at her university graduation just two weeks past. Her response was "really?". Then it got quiet and she had a puzzled look on her face.
 
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