Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

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Sorry for the smoke, Barrett!! Seems unfair you should get all that "burnt Forest" from Canada, while we stay crisp and clear on Canada's West Coast!!
(due to ocean breezes I imagine!!)

No worries, Charlie. While it is a nuisance, I’d take the smoke over the fires themselves any day. Glad they don’t make it over your way!

Question without notice. The slip with your Lambsfoot, who makes them.? They look shmick, love the glossy look.

Those are made by a guy named Justin Lynch. I don’t think he’s on BladeForums. I know him through another online knife group. Last year I had him make me some slips to give to a bunch of the guys who meet up at the Badger Knife Show in Janesville, Wisconsin every year. He does great work.

Barret my friend, there is of course always room for that Flat White, in fact, I am just about to go down the road to obtain my fix after this post

That House is absolutely gorgeous- I would spend HOURS looking at every small detail, your so lucky to be able to stay in part of it and to see it up close- just awesome!

Thanks, Duncan. It was a great place to get to stay, and it was definitely full of all sorts of the cool details that you find in old houses like that.

Glad you were able to get your flat white! I was thinking about that again when I had pancakes and a cappuccino just before we left Duluth this morning!

Better late than never, as it's said.

I couldn't let that craving go to waste, so my daughter and I made dinner a bit ago and with a newly stocked larder, it was a good opportunity to show my daughter something.... Different.

I sliced some Yukon Golds up into discs, fried them until they were golden brown, tossed with Henderson's, salt, pepper, garlic and a pinch of paprika. Served it on toasted white bread and had brown sauce on the side for dipping. It was fantastic and went great with a locally made lager. My daughter was a bit uninspired, unfortunately. Oh well, I can't win all the time.

We will be following this up shortly with some blackberry cobbler we made as well from some fresh-picked berries.

Looks great, Dylan!

And at that moment, it started to rain, and I lost interest in the fancy folks, and instead, headed to the pub, where there were no chip butties, but very nice pies!

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Jack, as always, I thoroughly enjoyed all the photos of your Yorkshire Day outing! Thanks for sharing!

I couldn’t quote ‘em all, of course, so I settled on the pics of that delicious looking pie and mash. I ate entirely too much food this weekend, but I could still tuck into that right now.

 

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We just got back from our weekend in Duluth a couple hours ago. I had intended on posting a few pics here and there over the course of the weekend, but never found the time to sit down and focus on it, so here’s a little bit of everything from the weekend.

Saturday morning we headed to a local spot (Duluth Grill) for breakfast. I had biscuits and gravy with fried chicken and jalapeño cheesy grits, which pretty much held me over until dinner.

After that, we headed over to Bent Paddle Brewing Co. where Julie and the friends we were spending the weekend with were running a 5K. As someone who does not run 5Ks (or any Ks for that matter), I grabbed a beer and enjoyed the quiet atmosphere of the brewery before all the runners returned.

After the 5K and another round of beers for everyone, we headed back to the Airbnb so they could all shower, change, etc. Next we headed over to Fitger’s, an interesting little hotel/shopping center/restaurant and brewhouse in downtown Duluth. Logically, we had to stop in the brewhouse for another beer.

We left Fitger’s and walked along the shoreline of Lake Superior toward Canal Park. The two lighthouses you can see in this picture stand on either side of the entrance to the Duluth Ship Canal. The concrete structure in the foreground — referred to as Uncle Harvey’s Mausoleum or “the cribs” — is the 100+ year old foundation of a failed concept for a sand and gravel unloading dock. This picture was actually taken on our walk back a little later in the evening; when we walked by the first time, there were kids out there climbing and jumping off of it.

Here’s a closer shot of the North Pier Lighthouse.

And a wide shot of the shoreline we walked along. The tall bridge near the center of the photo is the Aerial Lift Bridge, which spans the canal and is raised several times a day to let ships pass.

The rest of the evening, unfortunately, lacks photographic evidence. At the far end of our walk, we stopped in at another brewery, Canal Park Brewing, and enjoyed a couple drinks sitting outside with a view of the lake. Then we walked back to where we had parked, picked up some pizza from a local place and had dinner back at the Airbnb.

Sunday morning, our friends headed out early for the main reason we were in Duluth: a triathlon they were taking part in. Thankfully Julie and I didn’t have to get up quite as early as they did, but we did get up and moving in time to make the start of the triathlon and cheer them on. Here’s the start of the swimming portion of the race, which took place at Island Lake, north of Duluth.

After the race, we headed back to the Airbnb and relaxed for a bit. We then took a drive along Scenic Highway 61 that runs along the North Shore of Lake Superior. We made a stop at Russ Kendall’s Smokehouse (in the interestingly named Knife River, MN) to get some snacks for later, then continued on to Gooseberry Falls State Park. There were quite a few people there, as you’ll see in some of the pictures, but we had a nice time hiking around the falls and seeing the sights.

The falls in the first and second picture are the middle and lower falls, and the fourth pic is a view of both together. The hike itself is pretty leisurely, as long as you don’t mind stairs.

After walking down one side of the falls, crossing the river at the bottom, then climbing back up the other side, we came to the upper falls.

I wonder if the folks at Leed’s Market have considered putting up a similar sign near Tool Man’s stall?

After we were done at the falls, we headed down to Castle Danger Brewery in Two Harbors, where we had a few of their excellent beers and enjoyed the smoked whitefish (along with cheese and crackers) that we had picked up at Russ Kendall’s earlier in the day.

Unfortunately, much like the previous evening, the rest of the night went undocumented. I guess at a certain point I just stop taking photos. We made our way back down to Duluth, enjoyed a late Mexican dinner, then spent the rest of the evening chatting on the balcony at the Airbnb (and finishing a bottle of bourbon we had started Friday night). This morning we packed up, had a nice breakfast at another local place (where I once again failed to any pictures), then made our way back home.

 

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Those are made by a guy named Justin Lynch. I don’t think he’s on BladeForums. I know him through another online knife group. Last year I had him make me some slips to give to a bunch of the guys who meet up at the Badger Knife Show in Janesville, Wisconsin every year. He does great work.

Thanks, he most certainly does good work, and a fine gesture by you at the knife show.

 

[paulhilborn]

Hi everyone, hope you all are well, Barrett, fantastic pictures, my brother just lived south of Duluth so I've visited there often, there's a great antique shop near the water and when I was there last it had many vintage pocket knives. Beautiful country for sure!!!

My Lamb for today's carry...

 

[cudgee]

there's a great antique shop near the water and when I was there last it had many vintage pocket knives.

That is a find in itself.

My Lamb for today's carry...

Another great find. Exceptional bone.

 

[waynorth]

Thank you Charlie! Its a Venture H M Slater Lamb

Thanks, David!! A superior oldy!!