Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[black mamba]

Merry Christmas, Guardians!

 

[Jack Black]

Merry Christmas, Guardians!

Merry Christmas Jeff Great pic, I've been to Arran

 

[JohnDF]

Good Morning Guardians and Merry Christmas.

 

[Jack Black]

Good Morning Guardians and Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas John Your African Rosewood Lambsfoot looks better and better

 

[JohnDF]

Your African Rosewood Lambsfoot looks better and better

Thank you, Jack.

 

[JohnDF]

This is interesting...
My younger son gave my older son this coffee mug for Christmas. It's from his most favorite coffee shop.
Turns out that the company seems to have only one location here in the States and the coffee comes from Yorkshire.
The coffee shop is on the Sac State campus where my son goes to college. A little bit of Yorkshire here so close to home.
I thought Jack might find it interesting. I need to make it a point to go there and try the coffee... "Coffee with a Kick".

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Merry Christmas Guardians.

 

[5K Qs]

Merry Christmas, Guardians!

Today will be quite a low-key day for us, since our daughter, her boyfriend, and a dog came to visit us last Saturday afternoon and returned to Minnesota on Wednesday morning. We had our "family Christmas" and gift exchange last Sunday (which was also my 70th birthday, so a kind of 2-for-1 deal ).

So I'm going to comment on some posts starting from almost 2 weeks ago that I've been saving up until things became less busy.

Good morning Guardians, 8.00am here and it's still not light. I sure am looking forward to the longer days coming again! Terrible news about the loss of life in the USA, and there is clearly a huge amount of property damage. We moan about the weather here, but even in the worst storms, we just don't see that kind of devastation, and catastrophe. Mother Nature is not to be underestimated. My thoughts are with those affected. Have a peaceful Sunday Guardians
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We get some nasty weather here in the USA, Jack. Lives are lost and it's a terrible thing. I've been through three hurricanes and have always escaped without serious damage to home and health, thank God. The tornados that often accompany hurricanes are often the real danger.
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It's my biggest fear about my son living in the Mid West, tornados can be so devastating.

Certainly death and destruction caused by tornadoes is tragic. But we have to keep it in perspective, too. I found a website that had a table displaying the number of tornadoes and number of deaths they caused in the USA from 2001-2020: Tornado Table
The median number of tornado deaths for those 20 years is 46, and all but 2 years had 81 deaths or fewer (126 deaths in 2008 and 553 in 2011). Compare that to traffic fatalities per year in the US, where the median annual death toll for the same time span is 37000 deaths per year (to the nearest thousand). Or the 800 000 COVID deaths so far, which many Americans have decided can be ignored now, because we're tired of dealing with it.

Thanks for all the great pics Gary

Thanks for your kind assessment of my photos, Jack. I certainly had no idea that when I became reinterested in pocket knives, I'd have to develop at least rudimentary photography skills! I've certainly improved from my initial efforts, but I think I may have now plateaued at my maximal photographic potential.

I woke up this morning with the sunset shining in. (Not really, but I like that song.)

I found my mind in a brown paper bag within.

Cool photo! I also like that old Kenny Rogers and the First Edition song. Some friends and I tried to sneak into a First Edition concert during our first year of college. Our clever and well-formulated plan was thwarted, however, when the mechanical room in which we had hidden ourselves in a tiny room up above the catwalks over the machinery was continually flooded with campus security folks trying to deal with people whose only plan was to see it they could kick in, from outside the building, the basement windows of the mechanical room.

Thank you.

And good morning to all the Guardians

Not in my top two favorite Christmas movies, but it's not much below that!

No complaints this December thirteenth.

Except for the implied yard-work.

Do you have a little woods, or woodlot, or urban copse of trees behind your back yard, Jer? That's pretty cool! I'll bet if I had the opportunity, I'd find lots of places to pose knife photos there!

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Great shot of the pile side stag on your HHB, Jack!

Wow! Mammoth catch-up Gary!
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Thanks, Jack, and thanks for taking the time to respond to many of my "stream of consciousness" comments, most of which probably don't deserve a response.

Went by the PO to mail Xmas gifts to family in Connecticut and NOLA and a knife trade to TX. Had to stop by Noha’s Bagels for Tuesday morning Bite. Still no indoor dining but they don’t have Henderson’s there anyway.
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Wow! Is that an egg, cheese, and bacon bagel sandwich? It looks delectable!

A superb old lambsfoot example, José!

I bet it's good in the pocket, very tight package.

Thanks, John, it carries well, and I like the EO notch. But "good in the pocket" is lower priority than "good on the job", and this one does well in that area, too!

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The enigmatic Landshark! I wish we knew more about how that one came about
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Good morning Guardians, I hope everyone is doing OK. I started with some mild cold symptoms yesterday, but bearing in mind what's going on at the moment, I better go and get a test Have a good day Guardians
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When I first read your remark about the Landshark, Jack, I quoted your post because there was some other enigma connected to the knife besides it origin. But now, more than a week later, I can't dredge up what I was thinking.

Glad your test came out negative! I could imagine spending much of my dollar a day knife budget on COVID test kits as the Omicron variation races round the world!

Good Morning Guardians

John, you have an impressive array of snow people you've been posting recently!

Why Thank you kind Sir, I really am very attached to this Knife, isnt it great when you own such a Knife knowing that it will never leave your hands, until that big day ...... and then I hope I have chosen a fitting person who will love that Knife as much as I did!

Well-said, Duncan! I hope I have enough awareness to know when I should start divesting myself of knives so that my "executors" don't have to mess with it.

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That's a strange-looking pic isn't it?! Pretty hefty winter coat

Mike I think it would have been a year or two after that Gary, about '71 I think. He was in a band called The Scaffold then

There are quite of few similar towers or monuments on the northern hills Gary

I was in Cologne one night, about 15 years years ago, and was having a conversation, in English, with a German woman, a few years older than myself. They only time she struggled with her English, bizarrely, the word she was looking for was one of the few German words I knew, remembering it from German-made children's films, which were shown here when I was a child. When I said the word 'Spieglein', we both followed in unison, "Spieglein, spieglein, en der vand!"

LOL!

Thankfully, no Lambsfoot has been harmed my friend!

The soup was great Gary

The area where I live has an interesting history, and once had a large Jewish population, with several synagogues, that being the posh one. As the largely immigrant families became more affluent, they steadily moved further and further up the road, and the synagogues moved too. There's a film about the Jewish history of the area, produced by a friend of mine here
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Thanks again for taking the time to comment on my "random walks through my neural pathways"!



- GT

 

[Onebigbill]

Merry Christmas Guardians. Hope you all have a Cool Yule and a Frantic First!

 

[Pt-Luso]

 

[Jack Black]

This is interesting...
My younger son gave my older son this coffee mug for Christmas. It's from his most favorite coffee shop.
Turns out that the company seems to have only one location here in the States and the coffee comes from Yorkshire.
The coffee shop is on the Sac State campus where my son goes to college. A little bit of Yorkshire here so close to home.
I thought Jack might find it interesting. I need to make it a point to go there and try the coffee... "Coffee with a Kick".

That's interesting John, thanks for posting it, small world eh? Grumpy Mule coffee is very widely available here, but I've never seen those cool-looking mugs before

Merry Christmas Guardians.

Have a good one Mike

Merry Christmas, Guardians!

Today will be quite a low-key day for us, since our daughter, her boyfriend, and a dog came to visit us last Saturday afternoon and returned to Minnesota on Wednesday morning. We had our "family Christmas" and gift exchange last Sunday (which was also my 70th birthday, so a kind of 2-for-1 deal ).

Merry Christmas Gary, and a belated Many Happy Returns my friend Much the same here, for logistical reasons, we had the big 'do' yesterday. Having a nice day today though

Certainly death and destruction caused by tornadoes is tragic. But we have to keep it in perspective, too. I found a website that had a table displaying the number of tornadoes and number of deaths they caused in the USA from 2001-2020: Tornado Table
The median number of tornado deaths for those 20 years is 46, and all but 2 years had 81 deaths or fewer (126 deaths in 2008 and 553 in 2011). Compare that to traffic fatalities per year in the US, where the median annual death toll for the same time span is 37000 deaths per year (to the nearest thousand). Or the 800 000 COVID deaths so far, which many Americans have decided can be ignored now, because we're tired of dealing with it.

That certainly gets those figures into perspective

Thanks for your kind assessment of my photos, Jack. I certainly had no idea that when I became reinterested in pocket knives, I'd have to develop at least rudimentary photography skills! I've certainly improved from my initial efforts, but I think I may have now plateaued at my maximal photographic potential.

I'm kind of minded of an old rock-climbing joke about the most important piece of an equipment a climber needs is a car

Cool photo! I also like that old Kenny Rogers and the First Edition song. Some friends and I tried to sneak into a First Edition concert during our first year of college. Our clever and well-formulated plan was thwarted, however, when the mechanical room in which we had hidden ourselves in a tiny room up above the catwalks over the machinery was continually flooded with campus security folks trying to deal with people whose only plan was to see it they could kick in, from outside the building, the basement windows of the mechanical room.

I remember crashing so many City Hall gigs as a teenager, we often didn't know who the band were! One time, me and my mate burst into the main hall, in our leather jackets, to find David Essex playing to thousands of seated young girls. We couldn't have stood out more, but the Security didn't bother throwing us out, guessing we'd leave of our own volition, which we certainly did!

Great shot of the pile side stag on your HHB, Jack!

Thank you

Thanks, Jack, and thanks for taking the time to respond to many of my "stream of consciousness" comments, most of which probably don't deserve a response.

I'm sure I'm not alone in appreciating all your posts Gary Thanks for your sterling multi-quote efforts

When I first read your remark about the Landshark, Jack, I quoted your post because there was some other enigma connected to the knife besides it origin. But now, more than a week later, I can't dredge up what I was thinking.

Me neither! My short-term memory barely stretches to 10 minutes, let alone a week!

Glad your test came out negative! I could imagine spending much of my dollar a day knife budget on COVID test kits as the Omicron variation races round the world!

Thank you Thankfully, the testing kits are free here Despite having some fairly serious health problems herself, my girlfriend's daughter has been giving out vaccinations since they started, but was telling us yesterday how many people miss the appointments they've made. Last week, she and her colleagues went into work at 7.30am, and worked until midnight, but 80 people didn't turn up to the small clinic where she works

Thanks again for taking the time to comment on my "random walks through my neural pathways"!

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- GT

LOL! By coincidence, there was a funny story, about The Scaffold, in the press here, which I saw today Great pic of your 2018 SFO Gary

 

[Jack Black]

Merry Christmas Guardians. Hope you all have a Cool Yule and a Frantic First!
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Merry Christmas Bill!

 

[sf fanatic]

This time of year it’s great to have a friend who can bake! She brought us some Christmas cookies yesterday evening and of course I had to sample some with my morning coffee. For your viewing pleasure before and after pics. Merry Christmas to all!
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[JTB_5]

Merry Christmas, Guardians!

 

[screened porch]

Cool photo! I also like that old Kenny Rogers and the First Edition song. Some friends and I tried to sneak into a First Edition concert during our first year of college. Our clever and well-formulated plan was thwarted, however, when the mechanical room in which we had hidden ourselves in a tiny room up above the catwalks over the machinery was continually flooded with campus security folks trying to deal with people whose only plan was to see it they could kick in, from outside the building, the basement windows of the mechanical room.

Thanks!
Rotten luck.

Do you have a little woods, or woodlot, or urban copse of trees behind your back yard, Jer? That's pretty cool! I'll bet if I had the opportunity, I'd find lots of places to pose knife photos there!

The treeline is the back of my back yard. Then there's an empty field that belongs to the neighbors one house down the perpendicular street to the right. It goes across three or four lots on my street. And another treeline on the other side. Probably an awkward result of the taking by eminent domain of just enough land for the elementary school beyond and to the left, on the next street. Previous owners grew peonies there. I understood from the new owners that we could take all we wanted, but Mom understood that we were free to look at them. Maybe I'll remember to seek clarification when they next bloom.
The field is big enough that I've seen Rob and Fiona x-country skiing around it, and Rob was out there recently with a bobcat making a bicycle track, I don't know why. Possibly because it's a more ambitious project than I can imagine.

 

[flatblackcapo]

ow! I think you're the first Kevin, how did that happen?

I most likely did not wipe it down well enough before throwing it back into my pocket. Merry Christmas my friend

Looking at the photo mate, should be able to be rectified with some 99.98% isopropyl and some 0000 steel wool, that should remove the rust then clean it up with some flitz or similar. Have a Merry Christmas.

Thanks for the Christmas wishes and the rust removal tip. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Better than, “Blisters on my fingers !”

Not the finger blisters.... anything but the finger blisters! .
Merry Christmas.

The rust was easily removed. I used this Bergeon scratch brush to get into the stamping without disturbing the surrounding area very much.

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[Jack Black]

This time of year it’s great to have a friend who can bake! She brought us some Christmas cookies yesterday evening and of course I had to sample some with my morning coffee. For your viewing pleasure before and after pics. Merry Christmas to all!
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Those look delicious Mmmmm

Merry Christmas, Guardians!
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Nice seasonal pic Joshua

I most likely did not wipe it down well enough before throwing it back into my pocket. Merry Christmas my friend

Thanks for the Christmas wishes and the rust removal tip. Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Not the finger blisters.... anything but the finger blisters! .
Merry Christmas.

The rust was easily removed. I used this Bergeon scratch brush to get into the stamping without disturbing the surrounding area very much.

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Yes, easily done I guess, but easily fixed All adds character

That scratch brush looks like a useful piece of kit

Cheers Guardians

 

[JohnDF]

Santa knows I like Jelly Babies.

 

[tmd_87]

Merry Christmas Guardians! Hope you have a wonderful day.

 

[Jack Black]

Santa knows I like Jelly Babies.

LOL! Great pic John

Merry Christmas Guardians! Hope you have a wonderful day.

You too Taylor, it's nice to see your Damascus Lamb

It's 9.30pm here, and I am still getting offers of hospitality from my neighbours, but for me, Christmas is almost done, and I think I'll be having an early night

You know what they say, hare today, gone tomorrow Happy Christmas Guardians