Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[5K Qs]

Cracker Jack is my lambsfoot for ringing out/in the old/new year. Here are 2 photos of the knife with the treat after which it's named.

- GT

 

[Rufus1949]

Cracker Jack is my lambsfoot for ringing out/in the old/new year. Here are 2 photos of the knife with the treat after which it's named.

- GT

Nice prize Gary!!

 

[5K Qs]

Nice prize Gary!!

Best I've ever got from Cracker Jack!

- GT

 

[Jack Black]

I'm liking with a lot of "Love"s this morning, and I'm still a coward, so Donovan's Mellow Yellow is playing in my head.

These guys may be in trouble:

I'm glad they're facing it in their neckties.

There is that Jer!

Thanks for the reminder. I'll put a cup of black-eyed peas in water now. (That will leave me enough for next year, too.)

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Good plan

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LOL! .Nice pic Bob

Look what floated up from my black-eyed peas!
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That could have hurt me.

More lambsfoot:
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That looks dangerous! Is it something your Space Lamb has picked up in space?!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve, and may 2026 bring good news and fortune to you all! I have a favorite slip and lamb with me to ring it in.

You too Pat Good choice

My resolution last year was "no more resolutions." So far I've been faithful. Lately I've been carrying a variety of stockman knives, primarily my 2025 KOTY Schrade Walden 881, but for New Years I've decided to carry my 2024 KOTY, the 1 of 1 Cranberry Relish GL-24. It still humbles me to have received such a marvelous gift. Thanks again and again, to Barrett and Eric. And to all the Guardians, "Have a blessed and wonderful 2026."

A stunning knife for sure Jeff You too buddy

I will be approximating the New Year's lucky first meal more closely this year.
According to Cook's Country's Morgan Bolling, my favorite chef other than Jacques Pepin, it isn't just the black-eyed peas, symbolizing coins, but also greens, symbolizing paper money, and cornbread, symbolizing gold. And pork, symbolizing progress, because they root forward for food, rather than scratching backward like chickens.
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I thought I was going to have to go out in the winter weather advisory because my cornmeal is white, but I found a box of yellow, so I have everything. The lottery ticket in my wallet is sure to be a winner!
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Guess I'll move some snow.

Good luck with the lottery Jer, and for 2026

Good morning Guardians. Just got back home from visiting my daughter on the West Coast. Great Christmas holiday, wonderful food and scenery. However, having said all that, glad to be back home in NC. Got my Blue Rope LF in the pocket to ring in the New Year.
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Glad you had a great Christmas Bill

Happy New Year’s Eve day, Guardians! Hard to believe it is the last day of 2024. Finding this group has been great fun for me this year. I’m grateful for all the new lambsfoot blades in my barn of course, but even more so for the new long-distance friendships with all of you. Hoping for the chance to meet up in person in 2026.

Since my collector’s eyes are bigger than my stomach, it’s difficult for me to pick a Lamb of the Year. Instead, here is a montage of some of my flock:View attachment 3063363
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Great to have you here Dave, you've certainly jumped in with both feet buddy!

Thanks to good education by you Jack Black SteveC and the many other generous Guardians

Thanks for the kind words

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Happy New Year Sceva

Happy last day of the year Guardians !


Wally today

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For tonight

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Nice choices Steve Two women on the bus were prattling on about needing to get some bottles of Dom Perignon like they were talking about ketchup! Certainly didn't sound like usual Dom Perignon demographic!

 

[Jack Black]

Cracker Jack is my lambsfoot for ringing out/in the old/new year. Here are 2 photos of the knife with the treat after which it's named.

- GT

Nice photos Gary

 

[Jack Black]

Hope everyone is having a good day. I called in the cafe for a coffee, and saw Hisham's eldest son, Ryan, which was nice. He'll be starting school in 2026. I had a hot chocolate in town, and then took Wolfie to get some keys cut. We went for a pint while the locksmith did them. When Wolfie went back home, I decided to eat out, and went for a pie I was going to have a glass of wine, but they only had one red, a Merlot Think I'll be watching a movie this evening Have a good one Guardians, and Happy New Year to all of you

 

[cudgee]

I'm working on some resolutions that I most likely will not keep.

Resolutions are made to be broken.

 

[cudgee]

I decided to eat out, and went for a pie

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[echoscout]

Morning Guardians! Someone is shipping cattle this morning. Several cattle trucks have rolled in to the elevator to weigh on the scales. Cool and clear around here. Happy trails

 

[SteveC]

Good morning Guardians, I hope everyone is doing well Getting to the end of another year, and about to embark on the very sci-fi sounding 2026 I always hope for a better year for the world, but am usually disappointed I'm afraid Still, we can live in hope I hope you all have a Happy New Year's Eve, and that the coming year is a good one for you, and your family If you haven't entered my giveaway, there's still time No big plans for today, but I'll see if Wolfie needs a hand with anything, and maybe I'll even get to give his kids their Christmas presents I'm having a Double Lambsfoot Day today, with Charlie's spectacular Flat-Cap Lamb, and my 'futuristic' Space Lamb Have a good day Guardians, and a great evening

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Happy double lamb day

Have a nice 31th

Great shot of that beauty !

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Another sweet Cosimo

My resolution last year was "no more resolutions." So far I've been faithful. Lately I've been carrying a variety of stockman knives, primarily my 2025 KOTY Schrade Walden 881, but for New Years I've decided to carry my 2024 KOTY, the 1 of 1 Cranberry Relish GL-24. It still humbles me to have received such a marvelous gift. Thanks again and again, to Barrett and Eric. And to all the Guardians, "Have a blessed and wonderful 2026."

Berry is a fine choice of NYE !

Happy New Year’s Eve day, Guardians! Hard to believe it is the last day of 2024. Finding this group has been great fun for me this year. I’m grateful for all the new lambsfoot blades in my barn of course, but even more so for the new long-distance friendships with all of you. Hoping for the chance to meet up in person in 2026.

Since my collector’s eyes are bigger than my stomach, it’s difficult for me to pick a Lamb of the Year. Instead, here is a montage of some of my flock:View attachment 3063363
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You have a fine flock my friend !

Wally have a very nice coat for tonite. Enjoy Steve.

Thanks buddy, you too !

Morning Guardians! Someone is shipping cattle this morning. Several cattle trucks have rolled in to the elevator to weigh on the scales. Cool and clear around here. Happy trails

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Very nice buddy !

 

[SteveC]

There is that Jer!

Good plan

LOL! .Nice pic Bob

That looks dangerous! Is it something your Space Lamb has picked up in space?!

You too Pat Good choice



Nice choices Steve Two women on the bus were prattling on about needing to get some bottles of Dom Perignon like they were talking about ketchup! Certainly didn't sound like usual Dom Perignon demographic!

Thanks buddy

Hope everyone is having a good day. I called in the cafe for a coffee, and saw Hisham's eldest son, Ryan, which was nice. He'll be starting school in 2026. I had a hot chocolate in town, and then took Wolfie to get some keys cut. We went for a pint while the locksmith did them. When Wolfie went back home, I decided to eat out, and went for a pie I was going to have a glass of wine, but they only had one red, a Merlot Think I'll be watching a movie this evening Have a good one Guardians, and Happy New Year to all of you

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Happy New Year Jack

 

[cudgee]

Morning Guardians! Someone is shipping cattle this morning. Several cattle trucks have rolled in to the elevator to weigh on the scales. Cool and clear around here. Happy trails

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Like that wood. . Happy New Year my friend.

 

[echoscout]

I'm liking with a lot of "Love"s this morning, and I'm still a coward, so Donovan's Mellow Yellow is playing in my head.

These guys may be in trouble:

I'm glad they're facing it in their neckties.


Thanks for the reminder. I'll put a cup of black-eyed peas in water now. (That will leave me enough for next year, too.)

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Rose Beast

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Magnificent

I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve, and may 2026 bring good news and fortune to you all! I have a favorite slip and lamb with me to ring it in.

My resolution last year was "no more resolutions." So far I've been faithful. Lately I've been carrying a variety of stockman knives, primarily my 2025 KOTY Schrade Walden 881, but for New Years I've decided to carry my 2024 KOTY, the 1 of 1 Cranberry Relish GL-24. It still humbles me to have received such a marvelous gift. Thanks again and again, to Barrett and Eric. And to all the Guardians, "Have a blessed and wonderful 2026."

Awesome

Good morning Guardians. Just got back home from visiting my daughter on the West Coast. Great Christmas holiday, wonderful food and scenery. However, having said all that, glad to be back home in NC. Got my Blue Rope LF in the pocket to ring in the New Year.
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Sweet

Happy New Year’s Eve day, Guardians! Hard to believe it is the last day of 2024. Finding this group has been great fun for me this year. I’m grateful for all the new lambsfoot blades in my barn of course, but even more so for the new long-distance friendships with all of you. Hoping for the chance to meet up in person in 2026.

Since my collector’s eyes are bigger than my stomach, it’s difficult for me to pick a Lamb of the Year. Instead, here is a montage of some of my flock:View attachment 3063363
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Nice flock of Lambs

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Nice

Happy last day of the year Guardians !


Wally today

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For tonight

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Looking good

Cracker Jack is my lambsfoot for ringing out/in the old/new year. Here are 2 photos of the knife with the treat after which it's named.

- GT

Sweet

Happy double lamb day




Great shot of that beauty !



Another sweet Cosimo




Berry is a fine choice of NYE !




You have a fine flock my friend !




Thanks buddy, you too !




Very nice buddy !

Thanks buddy

Like that wood. . Happy New Year my friend.

Thanks buddy Hope you have a good New Year

 

[Bigburly912]

Chonk getting a little work done.

 

[black mamba]

Gary, Steve and David, Berry thanks you and I thank you!

 

[Jack Black]

Happy double lamb day

Thanks pal

Happy New Year Jack

Thanks Steve!

Chonk getting a little work done.

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Nice work!

Gary, Steve and David, Berry thanks you and I thank you!

Such a great-looking Lamb

It's crazy with fireworks here! There's 30 minutes to go yet!

 

[echoscout]

It's crazy with fireworks here! There's 30 minutes to go yet!

Hope you can enjoy the fireworks buddy

 

[Jack Black]

Hope you can enjoy the fireworks buddy

Thanks pal, at least I'm.not in bed grumbling about them this year! Not yet anyway!

 

[mitch13]

My first post for 2026!

 

[5K Qs]

I'm trying to have a break from.them Gary! Permenantly!
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That sounds like it could be a New Year's Resolution, Jack!

Gary, I did derive some satisfaction rotating through my lambs. It also forces me to use all of them.

It must be a hidden Irish gene in me, I love my taters.

Our poet laureate shines again.

That's a major reason I constructed a weekly rotation schedule, Bob.
Thanks for the kind words about my strange behavior.

Thanks Gary, it's an ash tree which is now endangered by the Emrald ash borer.

Thanks for the info, Steve, even though it's sad news. From 2002 until a few years ago (2018?), it was illegal to transport firewood from Michigan's Lower Peninsula, which was heavily infested with Emerald ash borers, to the Upper Peninsula, which had very few ash borers when the law was passed. But eventually, every U.P. county had ash borer outbreaks, so the state gave up on the firewood transport ban.
I hope the treatments protect your trees.

Morning all,
We had Christmas breakfast outside yesterday.

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That's something this Michgander has never said, Mitch!
Looks like good food!

Well, this was a good Christmas - I hope so for all of the Guardians as well. Over the last month we had a cancer scare for Dawn, and just got confirmation a few days ago that it is NOT cancer, which is a huge relief. (Most likely candidate now is an autoimmune issue, but in this case that is orders of magnitude better than cancer.) We didn't expect to know until after Christmas, so it was a fantastic gift to know sooner.

Here's the HHB posing with the turkey right before I stuck it in the oven. I threw a few extra pieces of bacon over the top of my beautifully woven bacon wrap, which makes it far less photogenic, but still tasted great.

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Congrats on the great news about Dawn's health, Tyson!
Your turkey reminds me of a bacon-covered bike helmet!
We didn't have our "Christmas dinner" until this past Sunday night, when we prepared a turkey breast, and assorted vegetables, in a pressure cooker, as we've done several times in the past. But this time, after the 5 minutes per pound cooking time expired and eventually the little "pressure pin" in the lid dropped to indicate the contents had cooled enough to open the cooker, we could NOT get the lid to twist counterclockwise and lift off. My wife and I were both frantically searching online for possible solutions to this dilemma. Turns out the lid had somehow "vacuum sealed" itself to the rim of the pot and could be opened essentially like opening a jar of canned peaches - the edge of the lid had to be twisted away from the rim at a single point (we ended up using a screwdriver) to "pop" the seal. The "search and rescue" ended up taking almost 90 minutes, so the meal cooked far longer than we'd planned, but it all still tasted great, although everything except the turkey and the potatoes was quite mushy. No pics due to PTSD.

I see the compass in the stock, but does it have a thing that tells time?

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It does, indeed. Here’s the uncropped version of the pic I posted earlier.

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I'd always thought that Ralphie talked about "a thing that tells time" on his dream air rifle because he was so excited that he forgot the word for "clock". I had no idea there was actually a sun dial on the stock!

Undoubtedly! Great pics from the past Gary

Thanks, Jack.

Happy Boxing day Guardians !


Lollygagging for me today


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JB lamb

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Just poking my head in to wish the Guardians a happy holiday season and new year!
Carry on.

When y'all post Bex to see
I'm in ecstasy!

... I had a new culinary experience for lunch on Christmas day, and i loved it. Roast Goose, it was just so good. .

Nice knife, Leon, and thanks for your testimonial about how good Christmas goose was.
I wonder why the phrase, "Your goose is cooked" has negative connotations?

Thanks for sharing these, Gary! Is that Rudolph reindeer in the first shot a functional piece of seasona art or simply a holiday objet? Nice lambs, too!

Thanks, Dave.
I might be too ignorant/inexperienced regarding decor and 3D visual arts to understand your question, but that reindeer only comes out at Christmas time, and I think the first time it was ever "functional" was when I decided to use it for a knife stand.

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This K’roo was my first lambsfoot. At the time I figured I’d get just one. And waboom before I know it I have a bunch and look forward to Thursday’s Market Report to hear what Tool Man and boys are up to. I have yet to finish the Teddy Boy book.

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Impressive first lambsfoot, Kurt!
I can see why they say, "You never forget your first."

- GT