Did your Traditional knife get a workout today? -Part II

I've been slacking in this thread

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Pete
 
The SBJ opened a package of Leberspätzle today for lunch. It makes a great soup and is very delicious...

 
Hmmm leberspatzle doesn't look quite so appetizing as I was led to believe :/

My Aitor is back in the pocket today....and helping me with some sheath making...

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scruffuk said:
Hmmm leberspatzle doesn't look quite so appetizing as I was led to believe :/

My Aitor is back in the pocket today....and helping me with some sheath making...
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Leberspätzle are no beauties, that´s right. But they are such a tasty addition to a soup... Not the same taste than Leberknödel at all. Leberknödel are relatively spicy while Leberspätzle are a little smoother in taste. :)
 
My Aitor Castor Pequena was a useful way of showing the size of the red-eared terrapin I came across by the side of the Leeds-Liverpool canal!



I nearly came unstuck with an eye-level hawthorn branch while walking along the banks of the River Aire, so thought I'd spare someone else the chance of injury by using my Mauser to remove the end of the branch.

 
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She said he looks all sneaky and to watch out, he is trying to eat all your grass!! lol :D

Thanks Jack, she loves animals and just found a turtle in our yard the other day. I put up a bird feeder that has attracted lots of critters for the kids to watch. We have a family of Cardinals that just had babies, some blue jays and recently a pesky gofer. We even have a family of squirrels that live in the trees that come down and hang from the feeder and chase the birds. At any rate the kids love it and im thinking of making a stone bird bath to add attractions to keep the animals around.
 
It's great introducing your kids to nature isn't it? :)

These terrapins are of course not indigineous to Britain, but many have been dumped in the waterways when they were tiny. In some places they have become a nuisance as they're a very efficient predator apparently. I've never actually seen one before, but we just stumbled (almost literally) across this one today, and having only seen the tiny ones before, I was amazed by the size of it.
 
Jack Black said:
It's great introducing your kids to nature isn't it? :)
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Yes it is. Been trying to get them out on their first camping trip lately. They are very excited and want to see what the big knives are used for :). I have promised the older two I would help them whittle their first sticks to hold marshmallows on for the fire. Its all they can talk about.
 
Wonderful pictures Jack! That one is much larger than the one that ambled into our yard a couple days ago. Our pooch was intrigued, she had never met a turtle before!

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Awesome turtle, dog,food and knife pics!... When I lived in NC I saw many, many turtles.

Peter
 
rockgolfer said:
Yes it is. Been trying to get them out on their first camping trip lately. They are very excited and want to see what the big knives are used for :). I have promised the older two I would help them whittle their first sticks to hold marshmallows on for the fire. Its all they can talk about.
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Great stuff. Sure you'll all have a great time :)

Doug Add said:
Wonderful pictures Jack! That one is much larger than the one that ambled into our yard a couple days ago. Our pooch was intrigued, she had never met a turtle before!

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Thanks Doug, that's a great pic. We don't really see wild terrapins or turtles here, or tortoises anymore (they were common pets when I was a kid, but their importation has been banned for a very long time now). The supposed story with these terrapins is that 20 or so years ago, when Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were big, a lot of kids wanted the tiny ones, but then they got bored of them and they ended up in the local duck-pond, canal, or even flushed down the toilet. Now as with the tales about the alligators in the sewers of New York, I'd always taken the stories with a pinch of salt, but it was hard to argue with the evidence I saw today. Must be hardier creatures than many people suppose to survive numerous British winters. I think that one today would have cost a couple of hundred pounds (£) in a pet shop, so I don't think it had been released that size.
 
That Terrapin is staggering! How can they hibernate in Yorkshire....:eek::D.But, it must show that the water is clean as I understand amphibians are very sensitive to pollutants, what do they eat?

More environment stuff. GEC Eureka Jack helped with opening bags for more tree planting material.

Regards, Will
 
willgoy said:
That Terrapin is staggering! How can they hibernate in Yorkshire....:eek::D.But, it must show that the water is clean as I understand amphibians are very sensitive to pollutants, what do they eat?

More environment stuff. GEC Eureka Jack helped with opening bags for more tree planting material.

Regards, Will
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It's incredible how the British rivers and canals have cleaned up over the past 30 years. The canal and river I was walking today was full of bleak, dace, and minnows, small fish, but absolutely teeming with them. About a mile away from the terrapin we spotted this carp, I'd estimate 10lb-15lb.



Some info on the Red-eared Terrapins here - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~terrapinrescue/THE BACKGROUND TO RED EARED TERRAPINS IN BRITAIN.htm

Jack
 
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