Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[cigarrodog]

@mitch4ging - Thank you for the kind words. Hope that your day was a good one, Dennis, and that tomorrow’s even better. Your Lamb and challenge coins makes for a great image.

Jack Black - Thank you Jack. Of course your HH Barlow is divine, but that Bread looks amazing.

Ramrodmb - Mark, your Ironwood image is smashing!

@5K Qs - much thanks, GT. I gather the leaves that catch my eye, while Ari tends to his sniffing every square inch of ground. Your Black Jack is a beaut.

@Fodderwing - Great to see you appear, Dwight. You are well missed.

 

[Ramrodmb]

Happy Tuesday everyone. One day closer to the weekend!

 

[Jack Black]

I'll see if Laurel's Kitchen has a recipe that isn't too complicated for me. If I have to wing it, I'll do 1/3 whole rye, 1/3 whole wheat, and 1/3 unbleached wheat.

Sounds good Jer 30 years ago, I used to make soda bread, very tasty, and so easy to make, but I lost my recipe, and haven't found a good one since The last time I made bread, it was red onion and sea salt focaccia, and was actually pretty easy to make

And gasoline will never go over a dollar a gallon.
I don't remember what politician that was, back in the 70s, but he was mistaken.

Yeah, I don't think wages have gone up in the same way Cool pic Jer

The workers had to unhook my internet. So I'll be using my phone for a while. That means posting pictures will be more difficult. But I'll still be checking in.

Hope you'll be back online soon John

Well, here's my third catch-up post for this thread in the past two days, and this catches me up to sometime Sunday evening. Not bad!

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Thanks, Jack; it's great to be seen here.


Looks like some excellent finds, Jack!

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Thanks for the shots of your stunning White Rose, Jack!

Well done Gary, and thanks for the kind words my friend

Thanks, Jack. "Our" local bakery is open 7am-9pm (closed Sundays), and they offer discounts similar to what you recalled. From 8pm to closing, there are discounts that depend on how many items you order. I think the maximum is half-price for 6 or more items.




Black Jack, my 2018 Guardians ebony lambsfoot SFO, is my lambsfoot this week:
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- GT

Sounds like Heaven! When I was a kid, every other street had a bakery, even if it was just a small outfit with the baker in the back and his missus out front, there were a dozen good ones a stone's throw from where I grew up. I guess the supermarkets were their ruin (along with the butcher, fishmonger, and fruit 'n' veg shop)

Great pic of Black Jack GT, I was thinking of carrying ebony myself today, but decided to pocket my Waynorth Lambsfoot

Morning

You look well-prepared Ed

Great catalog references, Jack!!!
Thanks, and they are scanned quite nicely.

I thought you would find them of interest my friend. Interesting article on Cadman & Calquhoun in one of the journals

@mitch4ging - Dennis I wanted to express my best wishes for a quick recovery my friend. Very sorry to hear about your ICU ordeal but happy to see you are back home.

Great to see you here Dwight, your presence is missed

You are so correct, the additives in bread are incredible. I know it is not the artisan way, but due to space limitations i used a breadmaker, and they do a good job, and you know what is in your bread. I made a wholemeal/wholegrain spelt sourdough bread, which you could keep for 2 days, then made fantastic toast with homemade marmalade or jam. I have blown up 3 bread makers, where as most people use them once or twice, then they sit in the back of the cupboard. But do not be hesitant about using a breadmaker, and a hell of a lot cheaper.

I got a breadmaker about 10 or so years ago, it saved some time, and is easy to use. Then I had to move it as I was having a new type of boiler installed. I'm not sure I've used it since I think there are so many sitting in the back of cupboards, you can get hold of a slightly used one for next to nothing

Evening Guardians. Monday is done, and the weekend is now a day closer

Ace pic Mike, and an optimistic outlook

Jack, my father would be turning in his grave if he knew what we are paying for working mans pleasures now. We had the transfer to decimal currency in 1966, so i will give some relevant examples in dollars. A ten ounce glass of beer-9 cents, now 5 dollars. A packet of cigarettes 25 cents, now 45-55 dollars, depending where you buy them, the paper 2-3 cents, now 1 dollar 90 cents-3 dollars on a sunday. He would be horrified.

It was the same with decimilization (in 1971) here mate, and I am told with the change to the Euro in most of Europe, prices doubled overnight! I remember my dad saying his father would berate him for paying 9 pence a pint, or whatever it was when he was young, because beer had cost pennies for centuries

Sorry to hear that, ours is just starting, and if the early strawberries are anything to go by, we are in for a ripper of a season.

Hope so my friend

Jack Black - Thank you Jack. Of course your HH Barlow is divine, but that Bread looks amazing.

Thank you very much Harvey, I had a couple of lightly-toasted slices with strawberry jam for my breakfast

Morning Guardians, as @Crazy Canuck says, the weekend is getting closer! I thought I'd slip Charlie Lamb in my pocket today Have a great day folks

 

[Ramrodmb]

Thank you Mark, that is a wonderful photo my friend, those raspberries look delicious

Thanks for the compliment, Jack. The berries were excellent and a bumper crop!
My two Granddaughters can eat an amazing number of them given time to pick over the patch. They eat most of the first crop of the season (July) right from the bush while swimming and playing. During this time the bushes come under attack from Japanese beetles. The only way to deal with the beetles (other than toxic chemicals) is to physically remove them and transfer them to a waiting bowl of soapy water, one at a time. Both girls absolutely LOVE to go "beetle hunting" where the bowl is held under the leaves and the beetles shaken off into said bowl, where they are then counted (I'm usually recruited to help during this phase) for bragging rights. They routinely find up to a hundred or so each, each day, for about two weeks. Both are very good at getting almost every beetle (and ripe berry) that they come across. They love to bring 'Papa' the best ones, so I get my fill without ever leaving my chair! Win, win!
The second crop comes along about September and continues past the first light frosts. That's when the rest of the family and friends eat quite a lot of them. We can't even eat the store bought Raspberries anymore as they are mostly flavorless in comparison.

That picture deserves a BIG thumbs-up.

Thanks John, very nice of you to say.

Me too Jer, I don't think I've made bread for 3 or 4 years. I only buy good bread, but it is very expensive. A politician here in the 1960's used the notion of the scarcely believable notion of a 3 Shilling as an example of what might happen if inflation was not brought under control. I would a £3 loaf (24 times the price of a 3 Shilling loaf), a relative bargain, as I usually pay nearer to £4 these days Then again, folks wouldn't have believed a £5 pint could ever be possible here in the 1960's, when beer was cheaper than bread

Gratuitous pic of my Hartshead Barlow and a field of wheat

Wonderful pic Jack! Just beautiful.

WOW ! Very nice Mark !!!

Thanks for the kind words, Dan.

Sorry to hear that, ours is just starting, and if the early strawberries are anything to go by, we are in for a ripper of a season.

My fingers are crossed for you, Cudgee. Hope you have a great season! I find strawberries rather hard to protect. Seems everything wants to eat them. Sometimes you have to get creative.

@mitch4ging - Thank you for the kind words. Hope that your day was a good one, Dennis, and that tomorrow’s even better. Your Lamb and challenge coins makes for a great image.

Jack Black - Thank you Jack. Of course your HH Barlow is divine, but that Bread looks amazing.

Ramrodmb - Mark, your Ironwood image is smashing!

@5K Qs - much thanks, GT. I gather the leaves that catch my eye, while Ari tends to his sniffing every square inch of ground. Your Black Jack is a beaut.

@Fodderwing - Great to see you appear, Dwight. You are well missed.

Thanks very much, Harvey my friend!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the compliment, Jack. The berries were excellent and a bumper crop!
My two Granddaughters can eat an amazing number of them given time to pick over the patch. They eat most of the first crop of the season (July) right from the bush while swimming and playing. During this time the bushes come under attack from Japanese beetles. The only way to deal with the beetles (other than toxic chemicals) is to physically remove them and transfer them to a waiting bowl of soapy water, one at a time. Both girls absolutely LOVE to go "beetle hunting" where the bowl is held under the leaves and the beetles shaken off into said bowl, where they are then counted (I'm usually recruited to help during this phase) for bragging rights. They routinely find up to a hundred or so each, each day, for about two weeks. Both are very good at getting almost every beetle (and ripe berry) that they come across. They love to bring 'Papa' the best ones, so I get my fill without ever leaving my chair! Win, win!
The second crop comes along about September and continues past the first light frosts. That's when the rest of the family and friends eat quite a lot of them. We can't even eat the store bought Raspberries anymore as they are mostly flavorless in comparison.





Thanks John, very nice of you to say.





Wonderful pic Jack! Just beautiful.





Thanks for the kind words, Dan.





My fingers are crossed for you, Cudgee. Hope you have a great season! I find strawberries rather hard to protect. Seems everything wants to eat them. Sometimes you have to get creative.




Thanks very much, Harvey my friend!

Great post Mark, just about all the kids I've known have enjoyed 'foraging' of one sort or another (though most grow out of it seems, here at least) I'm glad you got a good crop, I think (and I may be ignorant about this), we only get one crop a year here. I find the odd wild one or two on my travels, but cultivating them seems to have gone out of fashion, except for the big outfits. They are expensive in the supermarkets, and as you say, tasteless in comparison to the 'real thing'. Nice to hear your granddaughters are looking after you my friend

Thank you for the compliment

 

[Pt-Luso]

Good Tuesday to all Guardians.

 

[screened porch]

Happy Tuesday everyone. One day closer to the weekend!

That's quite a handle on the bottom one.

Sounds good Jer 30 years ago, I used to make soda bread, very tasty, and so easy to make, but I lost my recipe, and haven't found a good one since The last time I made bread, it was red onion and sea salt focaccia, and was actually pretty easy to make

Dad used to make exotic breads. Funny thing was, he would get a recipe from somebody, change everything, and then be disappointed that it didn't taste like the recipe he hadn't followed.

Yeah, I don't think wages have gone up in the same way Cool pic Jer

Thanks.
Lambsfoot content:

I figure as a diabetic I should try rye, with its lower glycemic index. Also, I believe Dr Graham Jarvis, of Vermont Folk Medicine fame, put me among genetic rye eaters.

 

[JohnDF]

Hope you'll be back online soon John

Looks like I'll be able to plug it in during the evenings... for now.

Good Morning Guardians

 

[r8shell]

Thanks for the compliment, Jack. The berries were excellent and a bumper crop!
My two Granddaughters can eat an amazing number of them given time to pick over the patch. They eat most of the first crop of the season (July) right from the bush while swimming and playing. During this time the bushes come under attack from Japanese beetles. The only way to deal with the beetles (other than toxic chemicals) is to physically remove them and transfer them to a waiting bowl of soapy water, one at a time. Both girls absolutely LOVE to go "beetle hunting" where the bowl is held under the leaves and the beetles shaken off into said bowl, where they are then counted (I'm usually recruited to help during this phase) for bragging rights. They routinely find up to a hundred or so each, each day, for about two weeks. Both are very good at getting almost every beetle (and ripe berry) that they come across. They love to bring 'Papa' the best ones, so I get my fill without ever leaving my chair! Win, win!
The second crop comes along about September and continues past the first light frosts. That's when the rest of the family and friends eat quite a lot of them. We can't even eat the store bought Raspberries anymore as they are mostly flavorless in comparison.

I'm jealous of anyone who can grow raspberries. When I was little, I'd eat them off the bushes at my grandmother's house in Pennsylvania. All store bought raspberries I've had since are ruined for me.

Dad used to make exotic breads. Funny thing was, he would get a recipe from somebody, change everything, and then be disappointed that it didn't taste like the recipe he hadn't followed.

There's an old Yiddish joke about a poor couple who try to make blintzes. It's a long joke involving substituting one ingredient after another, and ends with "I don't know what rich people see in blintzes."

 

[CelloDan]

Evening Guardians. Monday is done, and the weekend is now a day closer

Happy Tuesday everyone. One day closer to the weekend!

Great pics guys !
Happy Tuesday

 

[CelloDan]

Good morning Guardians
Taking the day off today to wind down and catch up with things after a busy evening yesterday.
Our 13 y/o daughter was one of the junior string players invited to play with a professional chamber orchestra in Ottawa. They played the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
Here is my ebony lambsfoot posing besides the ebony fingerboard in my daughter's violin.

 

[JohnDF]

Our 13 y/o daughter was one of the junior string players invited to play with a professional chamber orchestra in Ottawa.

That's awesome!

 

[Jack Black]

Dad used to make exotic breads. Funny thing was, he would get a recipe from somebody, change everything, and then be disappointed that it didn't taste like the recipe he hadn't followed.

Thanks.
Lambsfoot content:

I figure as a diabetic I should try rye, with its lower glycemic index. Also, I believe Dr Graham Jarvis, of Vermont Folk Medicine fame, put me among genetic rye eaters.

My mother was the same, and not just with bread, she'd just use whatever she had in, however unlikely I didn't know that about rye, I sometimes have it. I had a rye sourdough last week, but found it a bit heavy

Looks like I'll be able to plug it in during the evenings... for now.

Good Morning Guardians

That's something at least John Skoll is looking good, it's interesting how you sanded his butt, I would have never thought to do that. It looks OK though

I'm jealous of anyone who can grow raspberries. When I was little, I'd eat them off the bushes at my grandmother's house in Pennsylvania. All store bought raspberries I've had since are ruined for me.

There's an old Yiddish joke about a poor couple who try to make blintzes. It's a long joke involving substituting one ingredient after another, and ends with "I don't know what rich people see in blintzes."

When I found them out hiking, it's almost always where they were grown in old gardens, sometimes the houses have been gone a couple of hundred years, but there are still a few raspberries. While smaller, the taste of wild strawberries are infinitely better than the store-bought ones. When I was a kid we used to gather bilberries, which are a bit like blueberries, but smaller. It takes a lot to make a pie, but they are easy to pick, and so delicious compared to the blueberries we get here, which can be really tasteless

That sounds like a good joke Rachel I have a friend who tells me Yiddish jokes, and they are often very old, but always funny

 

[Jack Black]

Good morning Guradians
Taking the day off today to wind down and catch up with things after a busy evening yesterday.
Our 13 y/o daughter was one of the junior string players invited to play with a professional chamber orchestra in Ottawa. They played the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
Here is my ebony lambsfoot posing besides the ebony fingerboard in my daughter's violin.

Very impressive Dan, congratulations Those are great pics

 

[JohnDF]

it's interesting how you sanded his butt, I would have never thought to do that.

Thanks, Jack.
One of the things that makes my Rosewood Lamb such a favorite is its thin profile and smooth edges. It is invisible in the pocket and feels so darn good in the hand. While the Ironwood Lamb is far more attractive, it's thicker in the pocket and rougher in the hand. So, I thought why not round the edges a little. I was hesitant at first but I like the knife even more now.

Old picture of the Rosewood Lamb for comparison...

 

[Prester John]

Good morning Guradians
Taking the day off today to wind down and catch up with things after a busy evening yesterday.
Our 13 y/o daughter was one of the junior string players invited to play with a professional chamber orchestra in Ottawa. They played the Holberg Suite by Grieg.
Here is my ebony lambsfoot posing besides the ebony fingerboard in my daughter's violin.

Congratulations to your daughter, Dan! The violin and piano (which my son plays) are my favourite instruments.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks, Jack.
One of the things that makes my Rosewood Lamb such a favorite is its thin profile and smooth edges. It is invisible in the pocket and feels so darn good in the hand. While the Ironwood Lamb is far more attractive, it's thicker in the pocket and rougher in the hand. So, I thought why not round the edges a little. I was hesitant at first but I like the knife even more now.

Old picture of the Rosewood Lamb for comparison...

Yes, very interesting John, I really hadn't noticed, but I will have to compare mine. I guess with genuinely handmade knives, there are bound to be variations. It looks good, but I think I better leave Lucy's butt alone!

 

[black mamba]

RALF and I are enjoying some organic oolong tea this morning, from my little Yixing pig bellied pot.

 

[Modoc ED]

Good morning. Yes JohnDF , it really is still morning.

It wasn't sunny out when I took this picture of this Jack Black SFO Hartshead Barlow but it's still good enough to show the detail of the Sambar stag on both the mark side and pile side.

 

[Jack Black]

It wasn't sunny out when I took this picture of this Jack Black SFO Hartshead Barlow but it's still good enough to show the detail of the Sambar stag on both the mark side and pile side.

Beautiful photo Ed