Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

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Nice pics Barry A couple of very handsome examples there, I particularly like your Horn '18

 

[cudgee]

Just checking the old BP before a coffee sends it through the roof. .

 

[5K Qs]

Just a bit of Tabasco if anything.

Thanks for the info, Mitch.
I like Tabasco, but have never tried it on French fried potatoes; time for an experiment!

Nice lamb Gary, but sanitary sewer? Oxymoron?

Thanks, Bob.
I agree that the sewer terminology seems wrong. Grand Rapids, the city in which I live, started a project in 1991 to separate "storm sewers" and "sanitary sewers" to eliminate the problem of rainstorms sending large amounts of water through the storm sewers into the combined retention basins and causing overflows that sent untreated human waste from the sanitary sewers into the Grand River. If I was walking around in the sewer system, I think I'd consider the contents of the storm sewers to be more sanitary than the content of the sanitary sewers connected to residential and commercial sewer pipes! Anyway, the project was completed in 2015 (although I think we're paying for it for 20 more years) and the city has gone from annual untreated sewer overflows of over 12 billion gallons to no overflows now. If you want to read a dirty story online, here's a link:
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2016/03/grand_rapids_comes_out_of_the.html

I managed to drop this pic earlier That's straight and to the point, like your Lambsfoot Gary
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My Albers Lamb got to cut some nice ginger cake Old Brian brought with him The weather has been very pleasant again, so I called in at Charlie's on my way home, and then walked back slowly, stopping to chat to a few neighbours along the way I hope everyone else is having a good day

Thanks, Jack.
Brain-blowing burl on your Albers!!

I always enjoy your beer selections, GT.

Thanks, Patrick.
I haven't posted many photos yet, but I'm heavily into "taste and compare" mode with as many varieties (5 currently on hand) of Oktoberfest beers as I can afford.

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Looking good Gary

Two cool pics buddy

Three nice pics, and thanks for the advice on the Saugatuck Brewery Blueberry Maple Stout
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I appreciate your replies, Jack.

Nice dark beers, GT. I can’g imagine the blueberry maple stout might would be great. I had a maple bacon donut beer once (I think it was a Rogue Ales and Voodoo Donut collaboration), and I remember thinking it must be what Waffle House dishwater would taste like.

Good analogy, Barrett!
I'm surprised that they can get a "true" maple syrup taste into the beer, but just because it CAN be done doesn't mean it SHOULD be done.

Barrett, thanks again for making the GL-24s happen, and for running a fun giveaway.

My wife knows that I consider Lewis' Reepicheep to be one of the great characters in English literature, so she recently gave me this mug featuring one of his best quotes. Shouted at a voice in the darkness that's making his human friends nervous, Reepicheep the Mouse says: "If you are a foe we do not fear you, and if you are a friend your enemies shall be taught the fear of us."

That's a great line! But it might come on a little intensely for most of the circumstances where I'm meeting somebody for the first time, so I'm still waiting for a chance to use it.

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Reepicheep!
Tyson, I haven't read the Narnia books for about 25 years, back when our daughter was first reading them as a pre-teen, I think.
I should go through them again. Reepicheep is cool, but IIRC, Puddleglum was a favorite of mine, since I thought he lived my philosophy of "You gotta play the cards you're dealt", even if they're not the cards you were hoping for.

EXACTLY what I was thinking GT.

Great minds... Dwight!

Black Jack sure is nice

Thanks, David - totally agree!
I should make a point of trying to add more ebony to my knife holdings.

I’ve never seen one of these

I have sort of a low-budget approach to knives, so I probably have several knives that haven't been seen by a lot of people who don't frequent the cut-rate knife emporiums.

Ah - that... thing! I have no earthly idea!!

I never saw it in the house until my dad's GF moved in, so I've got a pretty strong suspicion it's hers. From a biological taxonomy perspective, it would certainly be found in the Plantae kingdom. It looks to me like like a clump of new growth, that shriveled into a ball-like shape when it dried. The "scales," for lack of a more accurate term, remind me of structures I've seen on plants in the conifer class.

Next time I see her, I'll try to get a better answer!

Thanks for some additional clues to the mystery, Will!

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Thank you, my friend. I'll be here all week...

Looking forward to it!
That ASCII knife picture made of hashmarks ## was also impressive!

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Thanks Gary....angel, hmmm.

Just honoring the friendship of the porch.

Be well.

Thanks mate, it’s a rock. Some of the areas I work are very rocky, not your typical cropping country.

Thanks for revealing the truth, Jack.
I was leaning toward "rock", but I was thrown off by the "fork holes" in the "crust".

Thanks Gary! Yes I do feel blessed to have both.

Crisis averted, I carried my GL-24 yesterday and this morning after turning the house upside down couldn’t find it anywhere. I’d asked the kids if they’d touched it “no dad”.

Searched out side where Flynn and I kicked the footy yesterday, my car, everywhere.

As a last effort I offered the boys a reward if they could find it along with an amnesty for any wrongdoing. 30 seconds later they come back with it in hand “we hid it from you last night”

Han and I had a ham and egg sandwich for brekky. While the GL-24 was lost I picked up the Daniels.

Off to the zoo today with the kids.

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Boys will be boys!
Glad they 'fessed up!

Thanks mate.
It's darkened up with use, was standard. I'm liking how it's ageing.

Brian enjoying the spring sunshine

Thanks for the reply; really nice color on the stag!

He wasn’t happy when he found out he wasn’t invited!
Basil wasn’t trained well around kangaroos and I can’t be bothered trying to rectify it. Locally there’s probably 200-300 Roos for each deer so not a fun time taking him out.

Dogs have much bigger mood swings than I do!

You and i are cut from the same cloth. Exactly what i used to do as a kid. Every Christmas was always hoping there would be a set of farm animals or soldiers under the tree. Times were a lot simpler then.

I’m 33 and I think I was the last of the lucky generations - no social media, phones or video games.
Until I was old enough to take a gun dad used to let my brother and I walk a few km through the paddocks with a hunting dog and a knife to find a fox or a rabbit (or for us anything that moved). That was my favourite!

We had cowboys and Indians along with all the toy animals growing up on the farm. Also went outside with my brother and played war or cowboys and Indians or whatnot with our toy guns,bows and imagination.

We weren’t allowed inside unless it was pouring rain or 40C either!

Trying to keep my kids the same as much as possible.

I’m digressing I know, here’s a lamb!
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Yeah, I don't remember complaining about being bored nearly as much as my daughter and her cousins and friends did.
My brothers and I really enjoyed (at least for a few weeks) setting up ranks of army guys and their equipment. Then we'd get out Mom's old suitcase that had a spring-loaded latch on either side of the handle. We'd find the right location, set farm set pigs on the latch, hit the release button for the latch, an launch pig-bombs that just decimated the approaching army!

Black Jack is a smart one!

He's very sharp, indeed!

Good Lam Jack pics Gary

Thanks, Jack; over the course of several years, I've managed to get some keeper photos of most of my knives.

Excellent pic
Along with the sample Barlow they made me at the same time, it probably had the worst edge I've ever seen Gary One of the reasons I called it a day with that firm
Thank you
Not so much mate, I tend to forget to buy the breadcakes

Thanks again, Jack.
Sorry to hear that the Sunday sausage sammich tradition has fallen out of fashion.

- GT

 

[cudgee]

Yeah, I don't remember complaining about being bored nearly as much as my daughter and her cousins and friends did.
My brothers and I really enjoyed (at least for a few weeks) setting up ranks of army guys and their equipment. Then we'd get out Mom's old suitcase that had a spring-loaded latch on either side of the handle. We'd find the right location, set farm set pigs on the latch, hit the release button for the latch, an launch pig-bombs that just decimated the approaching army!

Kids being kids and doing what kids do, being creative.

Sorry to hear that the Sunday sausage sammich tradition has fallen out of fashion.

Never.

 

[Rufus1949]

Thanks for the info, Mitch.
I like Tabasco, but have never tried it on French fried potatoes; time for an experiment!


Thanks, Bob.
I agree that the sewer terminology seems wrong. Grand Rapids, the city in which I live, started a project in 1991 to separate "storm sewers" and "sanitary sewers" to eliminate the problem of rainstorms sending large amounts of water through the storm sewers into the combined retention basins and causing overflows that sent untreated human waste from the sanitary sewers into the Grand River. If I was walking around in the sewer system, I think I'd consider the contents of the storm sewers to be more sanitary than the content of the sanitary sewers connected to residential and commercial sewer pipes! Anyway, the project was completed in 2015 (although I think we're paying for it for 20 more years) and the city has gone from annual untreated sewer overflows of over 12 billion gallons to no overflows now. If you want to read a dirty story online, here's a link:
https://www.mlive.com/politics/2016/03/grand_rapids_comes_out_of_the.html

- GT

An expense for sure Gary, but glad your area is contributing to the future of clean water for future generations.
The numbers are staggering in that news story, and that is a small slice of the American landscape.

 

[AusLoX]

WOW!! Thank you Barrett, and an especial thank you to the small impartial hands! What a tremendous gesture on your part.

Congratulations on the GAW! Great looking lamb

 

[peanutsxx]

Angry Brown Snake coming out of Winter hibernation and very hungry and angry.

Here I subscribe to the "only good snake is a dead snake" philosophy.

And now, a lamb that needs no introduction...

Purty purty!

black mamba !!!

Congratulations, Jeff! I’ll shoot you a PM here in a bit.

Thanks again to every for participating, and for all your enthusiasm around the whole 2024 Guardians knife project. I really appreciate it!

Congrats black mamba and thanks again btb01 !!

Thanks gents for the happy birthday wishes!

Thanks Jeremy. The more expensive bourbons and scotch come and go but there's always Knob Creek 9 here.

Thanks Barrett. 7 hrs and 21 min on the pork butt.


Thank you Mitch!

I agree about the Buffalo Trace. It is very hard to come by here but the new Chris Stapleton bourbon called "Traveller" by Buffalo Trace is very close and it's readily available here.

I have no doubt it is very difficult. I've just about decided to start building them myself. Old trucks, not planes for me.

It was a great party mate!

Happy late birthday to your daughter! I myself prefer pulled pork as BBQ (or tacos) while my wife is a true Texas girl and prefers brisket. We both enjoy the other so its okay; we don't hold it against each other LOL!

Thanks kindly Steve.

That's my kind of fast food Jack.

This is grand sleeping weather, now that Fall is here. 9° Celsius last night.

Send some of that down here! Still can't seem to get below 72F/22C overnight here... That said enjoy the elevated sleepin' weather!

Good morning Guardians !

@glennbad RamaLamb to start the week



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Magnifies the sun!

 

[SteveC]

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Nice pair of Guardian 's

 

[SteveC]

Bonus picture of the day !

 

[black mamba]

Thanks to all for the well wishes and congrats on winning the jigged bone GL-24. It just so happened that when they first came available I wasn't in a financial position to get one, so this MORE than makes up for my loss. I will take a LOT of photos and post them here. It will certainly be a pillar of my collection. Diego says "Hi!"

 

[screened porch]

I've seen 18-mo calendars before, but not with full pages and pics for all 18 mos.

 

[mitch13]

LOL! Indeed They are the sort of idiots who come out with things like, "Experts? What do experts know!" Previous members of the Swimming Club were Pol Pot, Josef Stalin, Ernst Rohm, and Atilla The Hun! The last being kicked out because he couldn't pronounce the word 'scone' correctly!

Thanks pal

Sounds like a bargain Barrett

LOL! Sounds like a great afternoon

I have been in town most of the day, and when I first arrived, I walked close to St John's church, which is the city's oldest. There is a small garden behind the church, and as I was walking past the gatehouse, I spotted something unusual! Hoping it was not standing in the rain, I thought I'd have a look where the rest of the piano was. I got talking to a woman police officer, and she told me that there is some sort of piano-themed event taking place in the centre, with pianos in various places. However, I'm unsure if it's about music or alternative uses. Thousands of upright pianos were smashed up here in the late 1960's and early 70's, and there are still an awful lot, which are in poor condition, and badly out of tune. The ugly apartments behind the gatehouse, were built within the past year. Unfortunately, dozens of similar buildings are ruining the skylines of cities throughout the country

Cool pics of the city centre
Sadly those apartments going up everywhere.
The state government here is pushing to put large apartments complex near train stations.
Regardless of people's concerns about infrastructure the government wants to push a head.
But we all know that's not surprising
You have a great day.

 

[black mamba]

Jer, the shuttle looks good "on the path."

 

[cudgee]

Cool pics of the city centre
Sadly those apartments going up everywhere.
The state government here is pushing to put large apartments complex near train stations.
Regardless of people's concerns about infrastructure the government wants to push a head.
But we all know that's not surprising
You have a great day.

I was having a good day until you mentioned " Govmints " .

 

[mitch13]

I was having a good day until you mentioned " Govmints " .

so this months local election, would have been your day of the year!
sometimes you've just got to tear that band aid off.

 

[ashwinearl]

Macassar Ebony and 14C28N stainless steel. Threaded bolsters, spun pins, scratch engraved, riding on bronze washers. This was one that previously had been in spalted tamarind that I remade from liners to remedy some centering issues.
(I am the maker, with paid membership and knife is no longer in my possession)

 

[SteveC]

Thanks to all for the well wishes and congrats on winning the jigged bone GL-24. It just so happened that when they first came available I wasn't in a financial position to get one, so this MORE than makes up for my loss. I will take a LOT of photos and post them here. It will certainly be a pillar of my collection. Diego says "Hi!"

Nice pic of Diego !

I've seen 18-mo calendars before, but not with full pages and pics for all 18 mos.

Nice pic of SSL !

Macassar Ebony and 14C28N stainless steel. Threaded bolsters, spun pins, scratch engraved, riding on bronze washers. This was one that previously had been in spalted tamarind that I remade from liners to remedy some centering issues.
(I am the maker, with paid membership and knife is no longer in my possession)

Very nice !

 

[gunstockjack]

I love the horn covers, this another special from Jack in 2018

 

[cudgee]

Macassar Ebony

Love the covers. Shmick.