Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

Hope everyone has had a good day I worked hard, but got everything done, and I think I'll be able to go to the market tomorrow. Then gigging with Matt in the evening

Going to take my Charlie Lamb to the market

 

[waynorth]

Hope everyone has had a good day I worked hard, but got everything done, and I think I'll be able to go to the market tomorrow. Then gigging with Matt in the evening

Going to take my Charlie Lamb to the market

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Hope it brings you luck!!

 

[echoscout]

Hello Guardians! Hope y'all are having a good day

 

[SteveC]

Handsome devil!

Thank you Jack

Hope everyone has had a good day I worked hard, but got everything done, and I think I'll be able to go to the market tomorrow. Then gigging with Matt in the evening

Going to take my Charlie Lamb to the market

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Here's to fair weather for market day

 

[echoscout]

Hope everyone has had a good day I worked hard, but got everything done, and I think I'll be able to go to the market tomorrow. Then gigging with Matt in the evening

Going to take my Charlie Lamb to the market

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Hope you have a good market day buddy

 

[black mamba]

Thanks, Jack, we just now got home from the eye doctor's and dinner. The news was not great, but pretty much expected. She already had retina surgery on her left eye, and now she needs it for the right one as well. We got it scheduled for December, so she should be good for the Christmas holiday. The recovery isn't bad.

Bonus pic of Diego

 

[Jack Black]

Hope it brings you luck!!

Thanks a lot Charlie

Hello Guardians! Hope y'all are having a good day

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Great pic David

Thank you Jack




Here's to fair weather for market day

Thanks Steve, no rain forecast

Hope you have a good market day buddy

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Thanks a lot David, that's another striking pic my friend

 

[5K Qs]

Both Matt and his missus were originally born in the obscure Northern English county of Lancashire, which is a thin strip of undeveloped land between Yorkshire and the Irish Sea. Strangely, they are not embarrassed about this, which always surprises me.

Jack, from your less than flattering description of Lancashire, am I correct to conclude that the War of the Roses goes on to this very day??

Morning Guardians!

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Happy Saturday Guardians !
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Stellar stag lambs for Saturday, David and Steve!

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I spent a good bit of the day yesterday working on leaf cleanup. Finished up this morning. HHB with me again.

Must feel good to have the leaves taken care of, Barrett; congrats!
Our oak trees always seem quite reluctant to drop their brown, leathery leaves. We usually have a fair amount of leaf clean-up in the spring, too. I think we've put out our big yard waste cart full of leaves for the city to take away 3 times so far, and I filled it again this afternoon.
Your rosewood HHB is always worth noting!

Good morning Guardians, I'm coming to you live from Japan today! I hope everyone is well, and that you're all having a great weekend The weather here, doesn't look much better today, and with Charlie's cafe closed for refurbishment, I don't think I'll be venturing out until later. I'm taking Matt out for a birthday curry, and a few pints In the meantime, I have some housework to do Have a great day Guardians, enjoy your Sunday

Carrying L'Ariete

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Jack, you're an international man of mystery!
Imprssive photo of your "weapons of mass destruction".

Many years ago I had a recliner made by a US company called Lane. It had a lifetime warranty. It was an excellent chair and after many years of use the fabric showed little wear and still looked good. Then the frame broke so I called Lane to find out how to get it replaced under the lifetime warranty. IIRC, Lane was located in one of the Carolinas. I talked to a very nice lady with a delightful southern accent who proceed to explain that since the frame broke, the chair was the end of its life and therefore the lifetime warranty had expired

Good story, Mike! Given the context of the discussion, when I saw your mention of "lifetime warranty", I had a pretty strong hunch about the "punchline" of your story. I've heard similar claims about lifetime warranties for a variety of products.

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Little horn


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You could call that one little BIG horn, Steve, since it's so nice!

Thanks, and,
Gutters is common here, too. Since Mom's parents were both English immigrants, they probably said gutters.
So maybe eavestroughes is upper Mohawk regional, or maybe it's North Welsh. Or maybe it's one of my great grandfather's idiosyncrasies latched onto by my dad.

To me, gutters are in streets, forming the abode of rats, snipes, and urchins, as well as the channel for rain to run off.
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FWIW, Jer, I grew up about 30 miles north of Kalamazoo and we ALWAYS called them eavestroughs. But that was on a dairy farm where gutters were the concrete channels in the barn floor behind where the milk cows stood in their stanchions; the cows deposited their solid and liquid waste into those gutters. (When I was very young, those gutters had to be scooped out daily with fork/shovel, dumped in a wheelbarrow, then wheeled outside to a wooden ramp that led up to the side of a manure spreader that we'd use to spread the waste as fertilizer on the fields. Later, we got a mechanical gutter cleaner consisting of chains with paddles that got dragged through the entire gutter system by an electric motor and emptied into the manure spreader - that was HUGE progress in my young eyes!)

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Hope y’all had a good weekend. Last night Julie and I went out for dinner, then to a Minnesota Timberwolves game.

I had to go knife-less for the basketball game, but I’ve got my Cosimo Lunar Lamb with me today.

Was that the Prince-themed game against the Denver Nuggets? My daughter, and especially my son-in-law are huge Timberwolves fans. My daughter was getting her hair cut or processed in some way a year ago, and the coach of the Wolves came in for a haircut. She got a selfie with him and sent it to her husband; I'm not sure if he has recovered from his envy yet!

That Lunar Lamb really shoots the moon (like in the card game Hearts, a rare and exciting occurrence)!

Shiney
Jb lamb

Speaking of card games, I like my cards in decks and my knives in Bex; nice one, Mitch!

I just finished battling the flu, ready to put on my dancing shoes again.
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Thanks Steve and Jeff. I've been hanging around my rugrat granddaughter too much.

That white checkered bone has gotta be good for what ails you, Bob!
I used to visit several schools each week to observe student teachers, and I figured that short exposure to possibly a bunch of different viruses in the various schools was probably better than a flu shot.

And happy Monday!
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Luminescent Lamb, Dave!

- GT

 

[5K Qs]

Good morning Guardians !


Ram Lamb to start the week


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Outstanding straight parallel "grain" in that horn, Steve!

Handsome pics Gary

Thanks, Jack.

Good morning Guardians, I hope everyone is OK. I'm having another busy week, and it's only Tuesday Think I need some Waboom! Have a great day Guardians

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I hope your workload diminishes sometime soon, Jack, or you'll become just a shell of your former self!

Lots of internal error in Chicago this morning!

I was plagued by CloudFlare errors on several of my normal websites Tuesday morning!

Morning Guardians!

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That handle just glows, David!

Bonus pic



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I really like pics like this, with a knife on a tree branch in the sunshine against a blue sky!
(I think Travman used to often take photos like this "back in the day".)

Nice one Gary.
Those treads don't look like they would do well on snow and ice

Thanks, Steve.
The treads are certainly not very deep. But for several years I've been wearing Tingley rubber overshoes during the winter over my regular summer walking shoes. The Tingleys have almost no tread at all, just parallel rows of thin oval nubs. But they gave me great traction! All I can figure is that since the sole of the overshoes was loose against the sole of my shoe, the Tingleys get traction by spreading out (maybe like tree frog feet or something) rather than digging in like claws. But I don't think the treads on my new boots are soft enough to do much spreading as I walk.

Thanks Steve

Afternoon all
Kristy had the day off, wednesday. So we went and picked up my new specs.

Then we had Italian out for lunch.

Specs, knife, and food all look spectacular, Mitch!

Thanks for the pics GT

My pleasure, and obligation, Jack.

Good morning Guardians, it's been a little quiet round here recently. Busy time of the year I guess I woke up to a sprinkling of snow here in Leeds, but it makes little difference to me, as I'll be working all day At least I'm not out in the cold Have a good day everyone

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Your Albers is a lock for the title of Best Burl on the Page!

Your rosewood HHB is superb, José!

Have a great day Guardians.

Splendid lamb and slip, Patrick!

- GT

 

[mitch13]

Outstanding straight parallel "grain" in that horn, Steve!


Thanks, Jack.


I hope your workload diminishes sometime soon, Jack, or you'll become just a shell of your former self!


I was plagued by CloudFlare errors on several of my normal websites Tuesday morning!


That handle just glows, David!


I really like pics like this, with a knife on a tree branch in the sunshine against a blue sky!
(I think Travman used to often take photos like this "back in the day".)


Thanks, Steve.
The treads are certainly not very deep. But for several years I've been wearing Tingley rubber overshoes during the winter over my regular summer walking shoes. The Tingleys have almost no tread at all, just parallel rows of thin oval nubs. But they gave me great traction! All I can figure is that since the sole of the overshoes was loose against the sole of my shoe, the Tingleys get traction by spreading out (maybe like tree frog feet or something) rather than digging in like claws. But I don't think the treads on my new boots are soft enough to do much spreading as I walk.


Specs, knife, and food all look spectacular, Mitch!


My pleasure, and obligation, Jack.


Your Albers is a lock for the title of Best Burl on the Page!


Your rosewood HHB is superb, José!


Splendid lamb and slip, Patrick!

- GT

Thanks Gary!

 

[screened porch]

that was HUGE progress in my young eyes!)

And in my old eyes!

I was plagued by CloudFlare errors on several of my normal websites Tuesday morning!

They seem to have fixed it.

Speaking of boots,

Yaxtrax. I love 'em.

 

[SteveC]

Thank you kindly 5K Qs Gary !

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, from your less than flattering description of Lancashire, am I correct to conclude that the War of the Roses goes on to this very day??

Definitely!

Jack, you're an international man of mystery!
Imprssive photo of your "weapons of mass destruction".

Thanks Gary Great post

I hope your workload diminishes sometime soon, Jack, or you'll become just a shell of your former self!

Thanks buddy I turned down some work yesterday, and all being well, I'll be doing the same for the rest of the week

I was plagued by CloudFlare errors on several of my normal websites Tuesday morning!

That went on a while didn't it?! I was trying to add hyperlinks to a press release, and it made things very difficult

And in my old eyes!

They seem to have fixed it.

Speaking of boots,
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Yaxtrax. I love 'em.

I have something similar Jer, but have not actually worn them. Of course I do own multiple sets of climbing crampons too, but they're a bit bitey for pavements!

 

[Jack Black]

Good morning Guardians, another cold one here, we are definitely into the winter now. Still, I would rather have the cold than the rain, though we often get both unfortunately. I'll be wrapping up for the market. Hope everyone has a great day

 

[screened porch]

I have something similar Jer, but have not actually worn them. Of course I do own multiple sets of climbing crampons too, but they're a bit bitey for pavements!

I bought these last year when I couldn't find my tungsten spikes (which recently turned up on the dining room table). The spikes make a sucking sound on asphalt, which made me fear that the police would track me home and bill be for damage to the roads.

Almost through with these pictures.

 

[Rufus1949]

And in my old eyes!

They seem to have fixed it.

Speaking of boots,
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Yaxtrax. I love 'em.

This was my go to style, many years ago, when heading into the Adirondack mountains during the winter.

 

[screened porch]

This was my go to style, many years ago, when heading into the Adirondack mountains during the winter.
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I wonder if my cousin the trapper has those.
I think the police might track me home if I wore those on the street.

 

[Jack Black]

I bought these last year when I couldn't find my tungsten spikes (which recently turned up on the dining room table). The spikes make a sucking sound on asphalt, which made me fear that the police would track me home and bill be for damage to the roads.
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Almost through with these pictures.

I've not done well with the pavement spikes, I bought one set which turned out to be too small, another pair where they were 2 completely different sizes, and the 3rd pair haven't been used Rose Beast - True Happiness!

This was my go to style, many years ago, when heading into the Adirondack mountains during the winter.
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Very adventurous Bob I once sent a good pair of ice-climbing crampons to another member here. If you're ever thinking of heading to the mountains again, please let me know

I wonder if my cousin the trapper has those.
I think the police might track me home if I wore those on the street.
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What are they after you for this time round Jer?!

 

[Rufus1949]

Very adventurous Bob I once sent a good pair of ice-climbing crampons to another member here. If you're ever thinking of heading to the mountains again, please let me know

Very generous Jack, but sadly, those times have past. Snapped achilles, knee work and new hip won't allow it...but it was fun.

 

[Rufus1949]