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zzyzzogeton said:
Dang it. I already hated thieves but now I hate them even more.:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

I'm still cleaning up my warehouse property so I can sell it. Awhile back, someone (1 or more people) broke in and what they didn't steal, they trashed.

While cleaning some more today, it dawned on me that one of the things that was stolen was the LVTP7 tread section I was given back in 1979 by the Marine unit deployed on my ship when they made me an honorary Marine for saving a sinking LVT and the Marines in it. They had painted it gold and in red letters painted their unit number, the date they gave it to me, with my name and rank over "Honorary Marine".
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I'm sure they stole it because it was 30 - 40 pounds of solid steel they could sell for 5¢ or 6¢ per pound but to me, sentimentally, it was priceless.
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You should call the local scrapyards and ask them to keep an eye out for it.
 
bigghoss said:
You should call the local scrapyards and ask them to keep an eye out for it.
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I can't say when it disappeared. Everything was trashed and dumped out of their boxes and the theft/vandalism happened several months ago. And the way metal thieves work, they had their haul sold within a day or so and I just realized it was missing yesterday.

When metal thieves broke into my house and stole everything metal, including my kitchen sink (yeah, no shit - they even busted the 100+ year old 200 pound cast iron kitchen sink out of the kitchen cabinet), the stuff was most likely sold the same day, and most probably at the scrap yard 2 miles away. Since the scrap is unloaded by a big claw and dumped straight into railroad cars and no one examines scrap steel very close. State law requires ID for aluminum and copper sales but not steel.
 
So anyway after my issues with my little pickup I decided to do something else in my blazer. Thing gets maybe 16mpg at best so I stayed closer to home. Wen to Bent's Old Fort and Boggsville. Both were trading posts along the Sante Fe Trail, the fort operating in the 1830's and 40's to trade with Native Americans and Mexicans (since it was right on what was then the US/Mexico border) and Boggsville being a small town built in 1866 and dying out in 1877 after being bypassed by the railroads. Boggsville was also the last home to Kit Carson And he was buried there for a time his and his wife's bodies were relocated to Taos, New Mexico.

This is a recreation of the fort but it's supposed to be very accurate to the original.
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The carpentry shop
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and the blacksmith's shop
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Kit and Josefa Carson's original gravesite.
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So, in other pro-biotic news, I shredded up 10 pounds of cabbage on Labor Day and, six weeks later, the sauerkraut is finally fermented. I pulled a quart and a half out and covered it back up to ferment a bit longer and for safe storage. Kraut will last longer in the fermenting crock than it will in the refrigerator...or so the instructions on the Harsch-style crock say.

First shredded the cabbage in batches.



Then pulped it in batches with canning salt and some caraway seeds.



Packed it all into the crock...checked after one week...then waited 5 more weeks.



When you finish packing the cabbage, you cover it with a few whole cabbage leaves and the weight stones to keep it submerged while it ferments. This is what it looked like today for the big unveiling after 6 weeks of fermentation.



Packed one quart mason jar for the fridge and the rest is in a tub ready for making Reuben sammitches tomorrow night.

 
dresnor said:
Sweet Mike! Maybe you should hunt after all.

Jeremy
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I have certainly been thinking about it, tho I'd need other stuff....and a place to hunt. In my Wildlife Management Area, you can get twofer tags pretty cheap because they are trying to keep the deer population down. I guess Rockingham County/Southern NH has the highest incidence of Lyme Disease in the whole country.
I'd also need someone to go with me that has done it before....I'm pretty sure I'd have no idea what to do if I actually managed to kill one in the first place. I mean, I know I'd need a knife.....but I grew up fishing, not hunting.
 
camping this weekend was fun, weather was ideal.
several of the guys there wanted a closer look at my BK16 -- and a few are planning on buying one now because they won't be afraid of losing/damaging it, unlike their higher priced out of production customs.......
 
daizee said:
I really like the orange scales on my bk-15. Now I want to paint my bk-16's bright yellow. Good idea? Bad?
It would require buying paint...
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Plastidip is pretty durable and can be taken off pretty easily if you don't like it. You can buy it in lots of colors in a spray paint can, so its easy to apply too.
 
Hey, folks! Looks like some good stuff this weekend.... Bacon, fire, forges, knife blanks, deadeye archery, camping & a bit of history.


This is what's new here. :D

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Pretty good weekend here as well. Visited my grandpa today, he used to calf rope and team rope in rodeos around oklahoma. So he taught me how to rope today, was a lot of fun
 
Very cute pup, Jerry. My girls are wanting a dog something fierce. My younger (10 years old) daughter said one of the reasons she likes going to the Gathering (we were at the Northeast last weekend for the third time) is that she gets to hang with everyone's dogs. She was chillin' with Jeremy & Amanda's dog, Becker.....and she totally put the hex on one of trailbum's dogs, Scout. Every time she stopped petting him he was pawing at her to come back and keep going. How old is he/she?
 
Fire last night. Brought to you by Ken Onion - Kershaw Outcast and CRKT Halfachance. Plus some feather sticking from my Matt Bailey, and a Spartan Difensa to strike the 710 ferro rod.....yeah, I like to mix it up.

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Then our guests arrived, marshmallows were toasted and beer was quaffed. One of our guests tested out the safety cover on the pool.....just as I was turning to tell him to stay off the green thing. I don't know if it will support an elephant like in the ad, but he was lucky that all that got wet were his sneakers and jeans. Also lucky that the fire pit has a little space underneath to stick your wet feet. with temps dropping into the high 30's, the fire was pretty essential.
 
Lows in the 30s? Winter is coming! We might even be close to fire weather here.

And why are we avoiding bladite? I must have missed something.
 
DunkEm said:
Lows in the 30s? Winter is coming! We might even be close to fire weather here.

And why are we avoiding bladite? I must have missed something.
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mid 20s...

probably because i ate rotten shark? you have to eat it that way, or it's poisonous.
 
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