Finally- the official news on Ashokan 2010!

just got home, damn LIE was backed up for 4 exits, I was ready to lay waste to the entire highway biblical style, what a horrible drive that was.
 
If you want Jerky, find me early on. The dogs managed to open my duffel bag and eat two of the four bags of jerky. I've never seen them drink so much! They ate one of the black pepper and the teriyaki. I just put on 7 lbs. of meat but not sure how much will be ready by 5AM when I have to leave for the airport. It did give me a chance to make some spicy teriyaki for Stacy(and it's my personal favorite, too.) All of it's turbinado cane teriyaki with about 40% of it cayenne. Hopefully I sliced it thin enough to be ready by morning.
 
zaph1 said:
If you want Jerky, find me early on. The dogs managed to open my duffel bag and eat two of the four bags of jerky. I've never seen them drink so much! They ate one of the black pepper and the teriyaki. I just put on 7 lbs. of meat but not sure how much will be ready by 5AM when I have to leave for the airport. It did give me a chance to make some spicy teriyaki for Stacy(and it's my personal favorite, too.) All of it's turbinado cane teriyaki with about 40% of it cayenne. Hopefully I sliced it thin enough to be ready by morning.
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Oh man...that's a bummer zaph. My dogs are jerky hounds too...I understand :) hope your flight is going well.

Looks like butch and I should be there by noon or thereabouts, though we have to pick up the compressor to run John's hammer on the way.

-d
 
Sitting here in the lodge at Ashokan. It is lovely....if you don't have to look at Sam's legs.

I'll try and post some photos tomorrow.
 
Breakfast time,soon.
Lots of fun at the forge last night. Here are a few shots:
 

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Have fun guys!! Next year is a must...all that talent 60 miles away from my front door and I cant make it :grumpy:
 
As usual its already great. A bilet of stainless damascus has already come off the Iron Kiss hammer

-Page
 
Yesterday was great. Lots of interesting demos, and lot of interesting people. Here are a few shots:
 

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Nice pictures Stacy! I missed the turtle demo though. Good time as usual, ashokan is the place to go!
 
Nice shots Stacy, Page and Justin, that's a ton of shots!!
I have a few I'll post up in a separate thread, it'd be great
to have your links in there too.
Always a great weekend getaway and lots of things to learn there!
G2
 
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SNAPPER DEMO
It was just after dinner, and a few of us were walking back to the bunk house from the lodge. As we crossed the little planked culvert and walked onto the gravel/rock roadway, I spotted an unusual looking rock. I stopped the guys and reached out in front of us and picked up this recently hatched baby snapper. It was probably trying to get to the pond. I took a photo, and then took it to the pond. If we hadn't spotted it at that moment, it surely would have been smashed by the main group in a few minutes.
I see these often in my back yard at home, because it is where the snappers come to lay their eggs. In the spring, I often see a 30 pouind gal crawling around by the shop at 6AM ( looking for some soft dirt). They like to crawl all the way across the yard and dig their nests in the flower beds. I let them dig where the wish as much as I can, and try to cover the new egg casheThe others in the group had never seen a newly hatched snapper. they are still cute at this age.
 
SNAPPER DEMO HIGHLIGHTS
It was just after supper and a few of us headed back to the bunk house from the lodge. As we crossed the planked culvert and stepped onto the gravel/rock road bed, I spotted an unusually shaped rock. I stopped the others, and picked up this recently hatched baby snapper. It was probably trying to get to the pond. I took a photo, and released it in the pond. The others had never seen a hatchling snapper.They are still cute at this age. If we hadn't passed by and spotted it, it surely would have been smashed by the crowd in a few minutes.

I see these from time to time in my back yard. The snapping turtles ancient breeding grounds has been the creek along the side of my yard for hundreds ( thousands?) of years. It was not the turtles choice to build houses and work shops in their nursery, and their instinct will make them come back to lay their eggs where they were born ( and their ancestors were born), regardless of what man has put up to impede them. In the spring, I often see several 20-30 pound females crawling up past the workshop and crossing the yard. They are looking for soft soil, which the find in my flower beds. I allow them to dig things up a bit and lay their eggs. If I spot a fresh nest, I try and cover it with some mulch to keep the raccoons from digging it up immediately and eating all the eggs. Sadly they get nearly all the eggs. But, as with nature, a few get missed, and once in a while I see a baby in the beds, or trying to navigate the yard toward the stream. I don't mow the grass for a couple weeks ( to avoid making snapper tartar) and take any I find down to a spot where the bank is easier to climb. I release them about 20 feet from the bank and let them find their own way from there. I don't know if it will help re-program their instinctive memory to come back to the new spot, but it can't hurt to try. One year I moved three clutches of eggs down to that area, in hopes that the newly hatched turtles would have a better chance, but the coons got them all.
Even when one of these hatches, gets across the yard, and back to the stream, the chances of it growing up and coming back in 10-20 years to lay a new generation is very small. (About the same as Sam's chances of growing up into a normal person).
 
I had a blast, hope everyone enjoyed the jerky. Special thanks to Sam Salvati for curing my forging blueballs that Deker caused! "Here, hit it with this. No, let's cut it first, use this BIG hammer. No, wait, this isn't gonna work." Get me all worked up for some first time forging and right before I swing Sam's big hammer, we stop. Aldo wasn't there, but Sam gave me a piece of 5160/1080 and I borrowed his glove and hammer(while he was looking for his bike). 45 minutes of forging cured the FBB nicely. Also, thanks for power hammering the tang, Sam.

Someone please post a picture of the bug zapper sword!
 
There are a couple shots with that scary monstrosity in use around the middle of my photo collection
- Page
 
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