Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[rockman0]

Thanks Taylor

Good lookers right there!!!

 

[K33ncutter]

Thanks, Ron! 80 certainly seemed like a suggestion out in that part of Texas!

Back in about 1975 I rode my Kawasaki 900 along with a friend with a Norton from Dallas to Carlsbad, NM in a day. There is almost nothing between Tarzan, TX and Carlsbad and even going 90 you don’t feel like you are making any headway.

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Mrs. Crazy Canuck asked me to bake her some snickerdoodles...

This one's for Harvey

 

[cigarrodog]

Wickedly, skull crushing capture, Harvey!

Thank you Dennis. Great “double dip” image of your pair of Lambs. That Chines Bitter Oarange tree. Talk about wicked. Your wife’s corn bread looks yummy.

Jack Black - Thank you Jack. I’ll bet that coffee tasted great. Fine image of your Hartshead and the beans. You know...you could just walk around and image what you see. Enjoyed glimpses of your environment. More, please.

Onebigbill - Thank you Bill. Exquisite color on your Hartshead.

JohnDF - Thank you John. Fine outdoor shot of your WCLF.

@5K Qs - Thank you GT. Excellent image of your pair of Lambs. Romantic, even.

@Half/Stop - Thank you Ron. Just love your AC.

Crazy Canuck - Boy Mike...You do know what I like. Great capture. The snickerdoodles look fabulous. Then there’s that beautiful Lamb Foot.

Good Late Evening Guardians.

 

[Jack Black]

It's Skoll... His Ironwood has lots of character.

Oh crikey, we don't want anything happening to Skoll, he's irreplaceable! Was the hole exposed when you sanded the corners, or did it just appear John? I hope it doesn't go any further

Thanks a lot Jack! Feeling some better already!

That's good to hear Ron

First Black Fly today on my hike. Beautiful day.

Fantastic photo Dave

Much obliged Jack.

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I was admiring the file-work on mine last night Dwight Thanks for showing it in your beautiful photo

I’ve always enjoyed long drives and road trips. When I was a growing up, my dad owned an RV dealership. Needless to say, we never flew anywhere for vacation. When I turned 16, he started sending me to pick up or deliver motorhomes to customers or other dealerships. I think the longest drive I made for him was picking one up at a factory in Canada (near Toronto) and driving it back to Arkansas.

Sounds like a lot of fun for a 16-year old Barrett I've always enjoyed road trips too, but there's a limit to how far you can drive in one direction here!

We called that a “bowl cut” growing up. I’ve probably got a picture of me as kid with one somewhere!

I crashed pretty hard that night! I might have even skipped going out for food, but I realized on the train that I didn’t have an adapter to charge my phone, and my battery percentage was down to single digits by the time I made it to Sheffield! I wasn’t thrilled about waking up in the middle of the night, but after an hour or so of trying to go back to sleep, I just gave up. I definitely fell asleep on the train from Sheffield to Bristol that next evening.

You did well my friend As I recall, you had a fair bit of luggage to carry too

Those buildings are certainly unique!

Yeah, because everyone else had the good sense not to build stuff like that! Or they tore it down first! In the case of those ugly council flats towering behind the train station, they're preserved as 'a unique example of mid-20th century European Brutalist architecture', they were the last ones left!

They ought to get some knives out of storage at the museum, and put them back on display! Nobody ever visited Sheffield because it is pretty!

The pile side of my Ironwood has looked like that since I got it. (In fact, I think I took that photo around the time it first arrived, but I don’t know that I ever shared it.)

I find this topic disturbingly fascinating. I wonder if it is anything to do with being flown across the Atlantic?

Nice photos, Jack!

Thanks Barrett

Here’s the mark side of my Ironwood Guardians Lambsfoot.

I love that photo Barrett

Cheers Taylor Cool pic, and you've reminded me I need to catch up with the beverages thread

More crazy hungry beavers !

Incredible Dan! Great pics my friend

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their Lambsfoot knives, I sure enjoyed the 74 degree sunny weather while admiring this pair today.

Wow Rob! What a pair of incredible knives, beautiful

 

[Jack Black]

Back in about 1975 I rode my Kawasaki 900 along with a friend with a Norton from Dallas to Carlsbad, NM in a day. There is almost nothing between Tarzan, TX and Carlsbad and even going 90 you don’t feel like you are making any headway.

That must have been a great trip The 900 is a modern classic, I had a couple of older pals who had them, but I was still riding my Kawi KH250 at the time. What was your pal's Norton, Commando? How's the whisky, I am a big fan of Ardbeg 10, but been finding it harder to get hold of recently? Nice pic

Mrs. Crazy Canuck asked me to bake her some snickerdoodles...

This one's for Harvey

Those look very tasty Mike, I've been looking up recipes! Great pics

Jack Black - Thank you Jack. I’ll bet that coffee tasted great. Fine image of your Hartshead and the beans. You know...you could just walk around and image what you see. Enjoyed glimpses of your environment. More, please.

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Good Late Evening Guardians.
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I am looking forward to another cup shortly Harvey Thank you Harvey, that's just some stuff growing out of the wall I was intending to take more pics yesterday, but a lot of folks were sitting in their gardens, and I didn't want to cause offense. I'm sure I have a few other recent ones though, so when I've stretched my back a bit, and had a coffee, I'll see what I can find Maybe go for another stroll later too, as it looks like a nice day here. Looks like you enjoyed your evening cigar buddy

Morning Guardians, it's still a bit uncomfortable for me to sit for longer than 10 minutes, so I'm going to take a break here. Hope everyone is keeping well, and having a nice weekend. Have a good Sunday Guardians

Sliced Seven Seed Sourdough about to go in the toaster Toting my AC today

 

[Jack Black]

No sausage sandwiches today sadly I thought I'd treat myself to a few biscuits with my morning coffee

Here's a few pics that I've taken round the area where I live over the past few weeks, since the lock-down started, and there's a few at the end from the winter

 

[Campbellclanman]

Jack, Those are fantastic Photos my friend!!! Just great!

 

[Pt-Luso]

Congrats on acquiring that old lambsfoot, José; glorious golden stag!!

Thank you very much, Gary.

 

[donn]

David, best wishes for getting your back back in action ASAP.

It's amazing that such a seemingly small change could have such a large effect on your back's health, David!
Your stag HHB looks great with its banana bread "photo prop"!

Intriguing photo, David! For a stag HHB, life IS a bed of roses!

- GT

Thanks GT, yip I'm pretty much fixed now but your right; it really is silly how a bit of cold can do that. I mean it's not like it's not used to cold living in this country.
More banana bread on the way today according to my brother.
And that was cherry blossom. We'd had a blustery night which had blown a lot of the blossom off.

It is remembered very fondly by the people of Sheffield, but then they fondly remember lots of eyesores, such as these cooling towers...

Didn't half of Yorkshire turn up to see those dropped?

Well I certainly can not compete with @Half/Stop Ron's 2 amazing jewels today but I do have these very close at hand today .


Harry

Good Evening Guardians.

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their Lambsfoot knives, I sure enjoyed the 74 degree sunny weather while admiring this pair today.

All beautiful old classic chaps. Never get tired of seeing them, thanks for posting them.

Looks like an interesting project

Interesting! I do hope a follow up photo will be forthcoming!

Thanks chaps but that's it. It's my anti-cellphone tracking case. A tin pencil case padded with sleeping mat off cuts.

Y’all are always posting all those beautiful loaves of bread. One thing we haven’t been able to find is yeast, so no bread baking for us yet. What we have been making on a regular basis is good old time southern cornbread! Pam makes delicious cornbread. She never measures anything but it’s always perfect. Here’s the pone we cooked tonight. Straight out of the 425deg oven and flipped out of the cast iron skillet onto the plate. It didn’t show but there was steam coming out of the slices!

Looks delicious Ron. So is cornbread always unleavened?

View attachment 1328414 Morning guardians my grandchildren wanted me to make them quarantine snacks so I enlisted the help of these 3 fellas. These wright lambsfoot have been recovered by @jsdistin and fit & finish are now stellar. Chose cinnamon giraffe bone African Blackwood and Appaloosa bone

I hope you don't mind me asking but how many grandchildren do you have?

I’m using a bandana as a mask when I go out for groceries now. I’ve opted for the old-school triangle fold, tied around the back of the neck, using two bandanas for the extra layers. I find it more comfortable than other kinds of cloth face masks, and I enjoy that it looks like I’m planning on holding up a stagecoach (just as soon as I finish stocking up on eggs and milk at Costco).

If the oil economy goes pop then stagecoaches will be the only thing we will be riding around in.

I don’t have a dog in the fight when it comes to crumpets vs. pikelets, David. I just know that I like ‘em!

Everyone likes 'em.

Texas certainly is big. When we were living in Arizona, I drove from Phoenix to visit my uncle near College Station, TX. The Texas part of the drive (El Paso to College Station) was nearly 700 miles. The nice thing about driving out in west Texas is that you can make good time; there is a speed limit (80 mph), but you can see for miles ahead, and there’s hardly anyone else out there, so it’d be hard for a cop car to sneak up on you.

Yeah Barrett years ago I drove around California, New Mexico, Utah and Nevada. Good grief your country is huge. Us Brits really don't have a handle on distance. If I told someone here I was driving to say Cornwall from where I live (about 250 miles) all conversation would stop, there'd be a sharp intake of breath and then remarks like "bloody 'ell you should of set out last week if you want to get there for tomorrow"...
But I don't agree with the cop car thing. They seemed to pop up out of nowhere!

I’ve never had the pleasure of watching any daytime television over there, but I did get to enjoy some of your late night programming. When I visited Sheffield, I got into town late in the afternoon (after an overnight flight from the US, an hour on the Tube, several hours in St. Pancras, and a train from London to Sheffield, all on basically no sleep for what felt like days); I checked into my hotel, walked over to The Moor (Jack’s favorite part of Sheffield, I know ) to buy a phone charger and grab a bite to eat (Nando’s, @Half/Stop ), then back to the hotel, where I fell asleep before 8pm. Jet lag woke me up around 1:30am, and I couldn’t get back to sleep, so I turned on the TV. At least I now know that y’all have basically the same infomercials for kitchen gadgets and other crap no one needs that we do.

LOL! Aye. I have insomnia and sometimes end up watching those things for fun. By now I should be a six-pack ab'ed floor steam cleaning tasty sandwich grilling folding garden hose tackling super cook.
All for 12 monthly payments of 99.99 with a free 1 year warranty...

And there it is with what looks to be a tasty libation!
I don't know much about St. George, but when I visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC almost 50 years ago, I was taken with the chivalry portrayed in Raphael's St. George and the Dragon and ended up buying a print of it. About 5 years ago, I visited my daughter living in Madrid, and she took me to services at St. George's Anglican Church there, where she and an American friend regularly worshipped.

Yeah GT, I didn't know until recently that apparently St' George is patron saint to several countries and that he was from what is now modern day Turkey in the 4th or 6th century?

When I was trying to decide if Union Jack would be an acceptable name for my rosewood lambsfoot from York, I learned about the 3 different styles of cross incorporated in the UK flag. I thought it was very interesting and cool!

Union Jack with a friend before social distancing was instituted:
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- GT

Now those fine two lambsfoots should be at least 2 metres apart.

It doesn't stop there with the flags thing though. There's another movement in England to have St' Georges Cross replaced with this:

It's the white Wyvern on a red background and was reputedly the banner of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, which would sort of make it the original flag of Anglo-Saxon England.

More crazy hungry beavers !

Crikey Dan, they don't mess about do they.

Mrs. Crazy Canuck asked me to bake her some snickerdoodles...

This one's for Harvey

Mike they look great. But just what is a 'snickerdoodle'?

Yeah, because everyone else had the good sense not to build stuff like that! Or they tore it down first! In the case of those ugly council flats towering behind the train station, they're preserved as 'a unique example of mid-20th century European Brutalist architecture', they were the last ones left!

Jack I'm sure some of them are still an empty shell as didn't they run out of money during the renovation a few years back? When I last passed through Sheffield (Derby beer fest), I looked up and was sure I could see daylight through some of them.


Good afternoon all. I hope your all well and you've all got a nice Sunday planned.
This was yesterday evening after a hard day of doing nothing.

 

[Onebigbill]

Back in about 1975 I rode my Kawasaki 900 along with a friend with a Norton from Dallas to Carlsbad, NM in a day. There is almost nothing between Tarzan, TX and Carlsbad and even going 90 you don’t feel like you are making any headway.

A nice knife and an excellent scotch. Most of my favorites come from Islay.

 

[Onebigbill]

No sausage sandwiches today sadly I thought I'd treat myself to a few biscuits with my morning coffee

Here's a few pics that I've taken round the area where I live over the past few weeks, since the lock-down started, and there's a few at the end from the winter

Love your photos Jack, just wonderful.

 

[screened porch]

It doesn't stop there with the flags thing though. There's another movement in England to have St' Georges Cross replaced with this:

It's the white Wyvern on a red background and was reputedly the banner of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, which would sort of make it the original flag of Anglo-Saxon England.

I've seen the white on red wyvern in connection with making King Edmund(?) the patron saint of England. The guy who got Saint-Andrewed by vikings.

 

[rockman0]

Thanks Jack

Wow Rob! What a pair of incredible knives, beautiful

Thanks David glad you enjoy seeing them

All beautiful old classic chaps. Never get tired of seeing them, thanks for posting

 

[JohnDF]

Oh crikey, we don't want anything happening to Skoll, he's irreplaceable! Was the hole exposed when you sanded the corners, or did it just appear John? I hope it doesn't go any further

It's been there since day one.
I never said anything before because it really doesn't bother me.

No sausage sandwiches today sadly

I am very sorry, Jack.
I'll have to have one for you.
Fabulous group of pictures you posted.

 

[K33ncutter]

That must have been a great trip The 900 is a modern classic, I had a couple of older pals who had them, but I was still riding my Kawi KH250 at the time. What was your pal's Norton, Commando? How's the whisky, I am a big fan of Ardbeg 10, but been finding it harder to get hold of recently? Nice pic

It was an interesting trip. 490 miles in one day I had a 250 enduro (dirt bike) that was a blast to ride. I think my friends Norton was an 850 but I had several friends that ride several models of Nortons, some were 750’s. I love most all of that peaty Scotch!

Looks delicious Ron. So is cornbread always unleavened?

Cornbread is definitely leavened. Eggs, baking soda and or baking powder. Everyone’s recipe is slightly different.

A nice knife and an excellent scotch. Most of my favorites come from Islay.

Thanks! I do love that peaty Scotch from Islay. My son got to take a tour of several of the distilleries there while he he was in the Navy. He was stationed for a while in Naples, Italy. He thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[r8shell]

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their Lambsfoot knives, I sure enjoyed the 74 degree sunny weather while admiring this pair today.

Wow, that's some amazing stag. I love the blade stamps, too.

Back in about 1975 I rode my Kawasaki 900 along with a friend with a Norton from Dallas to Carlsbad, NM in a day. There is almost nothing between Tarzan, TX and Carlsbad and even going 90 you don’t feel like you are making any headway.

We took a road trip from Austin TX to Roswell NM about a dozen years ago. I think it took about 8 hours through some beautiful desert. I wonder if it's still that empty out there.

Morning Guardians, it's still a bit uncomfortable for me to sit for longer than 10 minutes, so I'm going to take a break here. Hope everyone is keeping well, and having a nice weekend. Have a good Sunday Guardians

Oh, I hope your back feels better soon, Jack.

Jack I'm sure some of them are still an empty shell as didn't they run out of money during the renovation a few years back? When I last passed through Sheffield (Derby beer fest), I looked up and was sure I could see daylight through some of them.

The last time I visited New York City, I was considering visiting the Tenement Museum. But looking around my brother's hole of an apartment I said, "Why bother?"

So, I was doing a little internet shopping a few weeks ago, and saw that I could order some of this magical elixir I've heard so much about. It arrived yesterday, and I'm deciding what to try it on. I don't have any chips (fries) or bread for a butty, but I could bake a potato...

 

[JohnDF]

Sunday Sausage Sammich...

 

[Prester John]

No sausage sandwiches today sadly I thought I'd treat myself to a few biscuits with my morning coffee

Here's a few pics that I've taken round the area where I live over the past few weeks, since the lock-down started, and there's a few at the end from the winter

Great pics, Jack.

A nice knife and an excellent scotch. Most of my favorites come from Islay.

Aren't those peaty Islay malts the best?

 

[K33ncutter]

We took a road trip from Austin TX to Roswell NM about a dozen years ago. I think it took about 8 hours through some beautiful desert. I wonder if it's still that empty out there.

About all I remember seeing out there was some tumbleweed.