Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Rufus1949]

Nice-looking TWA Bob

Thanks Jack, he had the skills to create a fine knife.

 

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My thoughts go out to the storm and tornado victims .

That's terrible Jer, poor woman

And I forgot to list the closed head wound. I'm amazed they got her out in time to screw her back together. She must be very tough, or it would have been a shorter story.
So that's a bright spot, and it was a friend's house that fell on her, which is good for them but rough on the friend.

 

[SteveC]

Great pic of your Baxter Steve

Lovely pile side Steve

Thanks buddy !

Good morning Guardians, took 5 minutes or so for me to get online just now, not sure why I hope everyone is OK, and that you have had a good week. I ended up meeting up with a friend in town yesterday afternoon, and having something to eat. I was glad to get home before the rain really came down, which it did in spades Fine again today, but I have a few things to do at home, before going out for food early evening. Hope everyone has a great day

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Lovely horn buddy !

This gave me a turn. It's windy. The one that looks like an Outer Limits alien communication attempt was on the left, overhanging the garage door a bit.
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On a less whimsical note, tornadoes have gotten closer to me personally than they have before. The wife of a guy at the store had a house collapse on her, and they've finished her sixth and final ( ) surgery. She's got pins and plates all through her and her legs won't start bearing weight for three months. She also had a collapsed lung.
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The wind is absolutely howling here today. The weather is getting pretty extreme these days

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Very nice Bob !

 

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The wind is absolutely howling here today. The weather is getting pretty extreme these days

Sure is. People are saying, "It's Michigan", like this is typical, but I think it's worse.
Of course at my age I think everything is worse, so I can't take my perceptions too seriously.

 

[Rufus1949]

Very nice Bob.

Thanks Steve.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack, he had the skills to create a fine knife.

He sure did Bob

And I forgot to list the closed head wound. I'm amazed they got her out in time to screw her back together. She must be very tough, or it would have been a shorter story.
So that's a bright spot, and it was a friend's house that fell on her, which is good for them but rough on the friend.
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Definitely Jer

Thanks buddy !



Lovely horn buddy !




The wind is absolutely howling here today. The weather is getting pretty extreme these days




Very nice Bob !

Thanks Steve, hope things settle down soon with the weather

Sure is. People are saying, "It's Michigan", like this is typical, but I think it's worse.
Of course at my age I think everything is worse, so I can't take my perceptions too seriously.
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I think you're right!

 

[DaveHS]

My wife just surprised me with this antique chest for some of my knives !View attachment 3130490

Your wife obviously has great taste! Well done. What a cool old chest.

Beautiful old chest, Bob!

Good afternoon Guardians !

Baxter lamb today


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Great shot of Baxter.

Congrats Bob, that is a lovely old cabinet

 

[DaveHS]

Evening Guardians!

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Those ghost green Ecotribos are making me sorely regret my knife-buying moratorium. Perfect lambs for St. Patrick’s Day carry. Archive shot from the road for Friday:

It’s been a fun week!

 

[Rufus1949]

Your wife obviously has great taste! Well done. What a cool old chest.

Thanks Dave. It will be put to good use.

Those ghost green Ecotribos are making me sorely regret my knife-buying moratorium. Perfect lambs for St. Patrick’s Day carry. Archive shot from the road for Friday:
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Glad you had a good week on the slopes.

 

[btb01]

I'm definitely late to the party (nothing new there) in wishing Bob Rufus1949 a happy birthday, but I'll wish it nonetheless. Happy Birthday, Bob!

Bonus Pic:

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Extra Bonus Pic (In this case, "Extra Bonus" should be read as "No lambsfoot content."):

You might remember Jub-Jub. She's eight months and had her first beach day today. That's not a thing, going to the beach when you're eight months old, it's just the way it shook out. It was 86°F which, though pleasant in theory, with intense sun makes the sand hot enough to feel like the soles of your feet are crisping, like bacon, if you should be brave (or foolish) enough to remove your flip-flops.

I didn't take any sunscreen so was forced to cower under a keffiyeh I had in the truck. The sunburned tourists probably thought I was a vampire or a light-skinned sheik. The more interesting among them may have opted for a combination of the two. The hole in the theory is that if I were a sheik of any shade, or a vampire, or both; I'd have a private beach which, if I were any part vampire, I would go to only at night. Not a public beach on Key Biscayne in the middle of the day. That's tourists for you.

I am happy to see the lambsfoot community taking such vigorous recent interest in the health of our oceans. As a resident of a coastal city, I'm positively pickled in facts insinuating how even glancing at the ocean might cause irreparable harm. I did worse. Worse than waving a bright light around during turtle nesting season. Worse than cutting loose an industrial fishing net. Worse than kidnapping baby orcas for our profit and amusement. I threw Jub-Jub in it.

She seemed to think that the small fish in the surf were some species of water rat and proceeded to try to kill them all and managed to kill none. Pretty sure they were all traumatized though, if that's something that can happen to a fish. Seaweed was both frustrating and exhilarating and was bitten and flung about with great ferocity and enthusiasm. It's hard to learn to swim while trying to kill slippery water rats and chew seaweed at the same time. She eventually retreated to shore. There, she tried to kill pigeons, seagulls, lizards, squirrels, crabs, and a couple of good-natured dogs that easily outweighed her by a factor of ten. Unsuccessful in her murderous plots, but not for lack of trying, she bulldozed face first through fifty yards of sand, got a bunch stuck in her nose, and made annoyed snorts until I got her home and flushed her out in the shower.

I'm not sure the beach will ever be the same again but Jub-Jub's mom says it was a great time and we're taking her back next week. The ocean is going to need all the help it can get.

Buy more ocean knives. Ha.

Sounds like a great adventure!

Glad you like it, Jack. I tried the fancy pen thing but turns out I’m a Bic pen man

I've tried all sorts of fancy pens and always go back to my old standbys (although mine are liquid ink roller balls; regular ballpoint pens don't jive with my handwriting).

He's an excellent fellow and I'm not at all surprised. Glad you like the pen. I have some needle-tip G2 refills on the way. In my heart, I'm a Pilot Precise V.5 man despite their leaking and fading and all the rest. I've gotta have a needle tip though.

The Pilot Precise V5 is my go-to red pen, I absolutely love it, but for whatever reason the other colors I've tried I just don't like as much. I like a needle tip but don't necessarily have to have it, so my other go-to pens are the Uniball Vision and Vision Elite, particularly the blue-black (BLX) Vision Elite Micro (0.5mm). (Ironically I don't like Uniball's red pens very much, because the red color isn't as vibrant as the Pilot.)

The market was practically deserted this morning! It's a bit breezy, and there's rain forecast later, but generations of traders never missed a day on the market. Only the old stalwarts were there, Golden Gordon, Robert The Badge, Boring Ray, Tool Man, Fireman Sam, The Codfather, The Odd Couple, Charlie Chan, Miserable Ian, and Debs The Gangster's Mol

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With Nobber Al missing, Ex-Para Steve hung out on the tool stall for a bit, Big J passed by, as did Harry Hotballs, and Gravel stayed for half an hour or so. I had an hour or so myself, and then decided to go for a cup of Arabic tea at a Kurdish stall in the market, call in at the cheese shop, and then head home. I might even do a bit of housework Hope everyone is having a good day

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Shame to see it was so empty, Jack.

My wife just surprised me with this antique chest for some of my knives !View attachment 3130490

That's a beauty, Bob! Very nice! I spent years searching for the right storage for my knives. The leading contender for a long time was an old flat filing cabinet (the kind used for maps, blueprints, etc.). I think the large (very large, in some cases) shallow drawers would have been perfect, but I never found one locally for a reasonable price, and it's not exactly something you can have shipped (at least not affordably). I eventually settled on a large tool cart/workbench that lives in our basement now. Not as nice looking as that chest you have there, but it does the job. (It also now has the handsome Gerstner you sent me sitting on top of it.)

Indeed Mitch. My wife loves to go searching for antiques....she did marry me after all.

My wife and I used to love going to antique shops, but now with two kids, we've kind of run out of room to put anything. (We're definitely due for another round of you-haven't-played-with-this-in-years-and-didn't-even-remember-you-had-it-it's-going-to-Goodwill!)

I hope everyone's looking forward to a good weekend. I don't think it's going to be much fun here in Minnesota. As Steve said, the wind this morning has been wild, and starting tomorrow night and into Sunday we're due for some snow. How much snow? Well, it depends on which weather app you look at. The Weather Channel says 3-5", while the iPhone weather app says 18-22". So that's helpful.

I'll just keep reminding myself, "It's only a couple months until summer. It's only a couple months until summer."

 

[SteveC]

Thanks Steve, hope things settle down soon with the weather

We now have a winter storm warning Saturday through Monday with a possible 6"-18" of snow

Great shot of Baxter.

Thanks Dave !

 

[SteveC]

Happy Friday Guardians !


Horned Vulcan today

 

[Rufus1949]

I'm definitely late to the party (nothing new there) in wishing Bob Rufus1949 a happy birthday, but I'll wish it nonetheless. Happy Birthday, Bob!

That's a beauty, Bob! Very nice! I spent years searching for the right storage for my knives. The leading contender for a long time was an old flat filing cabinet (the kind used for maps, blueprints, etc.). I think the large (very large, in some cases) shallow drawers would have been perfect, but I never found one locally for a reasonable price, and it's not exactly something you can have shipped (at least not affordably). I eventually settled on a large tool cart/workbench that lives in our basement now. Not as nice looking as that chest you have there, but it does the job. (It also now has the handsome Gerstner you sent me sitting on top of it.)



My wife and I used to love going to antique shops, but now with two kids, we've kind of run out of room to put anything. (We're definitely due for another round of you-haven't-played-with-this-in-years-and-didn't-even-remember-you-had-it-it's-going-to-Goodwill!)

I hope everyone's looking forward to a good weekend. I don't think it's going to be much fun here in Minnesota. As Steve said, the wind this morning has been wild, and starting tomorrow night and into Sunday we're due for some snow. How much snow? Well, it depends on which weather app you look at. The Weather Channel says 3-5", while the iPhone weather app says 18-22". So that's helpful.

I'll just keep reminding myself, "It's only a couple months until summer. It's only a couple months until summer."

I can't wait to hear the Crack of the bat Barrett. I hope you get to the park soon.


When we moved we gave away or donated most of our " stuff ", so we have plenty of space to fill.
This chest was truly a find. The drawers are deep and wide. Each could hold about 40 knives.

I thank your flock for the good wishes.

May the sun shine upon you soon.

 

[Rufus1949]

Happy Friday Guardians !


Horned Vulcan today


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I did not get the memo about beautifully feathered horn. Nice.

 

[mac0731]

Today's carry

 

[SteveC]

I did not get the memo about beautifully feathered horn. Nice.

Thanks buddy !

Today's carry
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Cool shield !

 

[echoscout]

Morning Guardians!

 

[SteveC]

Morning Guardians!

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Nice old Flat Cap

 

[SteveC]

Bonus pic

 

[Campbellclanman]

My wife just surprised me with this antique chest for some of my knives !View attachment 3130490

Great old Chest Bob, that’s a great Lady you have by your side.