Sweet stuff bro! I just spoke with my good buddy DanCo in TX about finding a plank of bodark (osage orange to the rest of us) for me, first thing he says is they all just dropped their horse apples and are stinkin up the neighborhood! He did tell me that there is a dead one just up the road he's gonna cut up. It is hard and dense, not brittle at all, but doesn't wear tools exessively. Yeah right, tell that to my block plane... I do like how it darkens with age, too.
Good luck on the shop and final inspect. Also, the local JC where my wife works is selling off two mills...
-Xander
Yeah as a kid I collected a bunch of the fruit and brought it home thinking it was some exotic fruit or something... stinky for sure!
The last time I was home I noticed we had a wild passionfruit growing in the ditch, I never knew what it was until I lived in the Caribbean but it was everywhere. It had no real pulp but the flowers are way cool.
When I moved from St. Thomas to here I sold my house plants for over $500... $5 coconut palms, etc I had so many plants it was nuts. I always carried a machete and used it to take cuttings and dig up wild plants where I lived. I had about every tropical thing you could imagine, even wild orchids... vanilla bean vines and such. It was a lot of fun and practically free.
Man, just checked the news and we've got a pinapple express coming! First front hits here about 8am tomorrow lasting until about 5pm, then a day of dry and followed by a big front. Expected 3-4 inches of rain, 35-45mph winds, and severe level flood warnings. This storm might make it all the way out to you Daniel.
-X
Pineapple Express! I hope not, lol I might be getting a ditch dug tomorrow!
I can't wait to get this over with.
Inspections this week and they are trying to start a neighborhood association here! We live in an odd area that has no maintained roads and the only legal way to maintain them is to start a neighborhood association because the county has a no-expansion policy in effect since the 1970's. I am all for the road being improved but I don't want neighborhood regulations, my nearest neighbor is a half mile away down the road. The last time they had one was before I lived here and it got crazy, they were voting if having house cats outside should be illegal. lol cats!
I guess I better put the fenders on my bike
bigtime! lol I once took the fenders off of a 3 wheeler that I had growing up and realized how nice they were in the mud! lol
I was thinking the same thing. But I hitch hiked a ride to work today since I start early.
Morning y'all! Its wet here, and the trees are dropping leaves right now which makes the roads pretty darn slick!
-Xander
It is so old school here that when I went to college in Durango at Ft.Lewis we had a protected booth that was used for hitch hiking! How many colleges have that... people here are really cool about that sort of thing.
Good on saving gas and such, I used to bike a lot when I lived in town. We try not to go in town very much as it is a big trip just to Bayfield. I have to rebuild my front end almost yearly too, our road is just nuts! It is worse than the 4x4 trails we go on, lol we always laugh on the way back how rough our road is.
