I like Big Snarks and I cannot lie

[mountainmist]

You tease.


On another note any help ID'ing this tree??........ Just because im curious LOL

DSC04352 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04354 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04358 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04363 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

Most of these have fallen recently

DSC04365 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

Eat it, it might help you find out what it is, that's what I always do! Kidding! That seed pod looks familiar, I can't help you though...Sorry....

In other news: I went out and played with my 5 yesterday, Damn! This think is awesome! It chops very well, almost as good as the 4! It's so wonderfully balanced too! I like it!

 

[Auraria]

So, even though Blade "officially" starts tomorrow, I went and hung out at The Pit with Ethan. And as always that crazy old coot was up to his old tricks... So as a special treat I give you the first pics from Blade...










I don't know if you guys can really handle this...








Ok, fine maybe you can...







Oh... Can't forget the NSFW

And no, not just ONE pound...


5

Holy crap I'm hungry now.

So when it switches to windings we know to cut you off?

If I get to windings, I might need to go to the emergency room






Anddddd afternoon all, will be reading the rest of the pages to catch up lol.

 

[crimsonfalcon07]

Man, lots of snark while I was on the plane.

Let's see. Jealous of those who are at Blade. Hope they have lots of fun and bring back lots of pics for me to drool over.

3V is amazing stuff. It's hard on the wallet for sure, but there are plenty of other steels that are good enough if you don't have a specific reason to use 3V. Me, I need it for swords, since Peters can't heat treat oil-hardening steels longer than 20+ inches. Then I can use the leftover "scraps" to make knives. But with Dan's heat treat protocols done by Peters, they sure end up being a mean blade. Thanks for the plug, WW. I'm out of town til July, so please keep that in mind if anyone wants to work with me.

I happen to also think that if you can't call other people out for being a--hats in the snark thread, where else can you? Public faults require public remonstrance.

WW, that sure does look like a northern catalpa to me also from the leaves. Not sure about that seed pod.

 

[Auraria]

I almost forgot, I need to tell you guys this dream I had last night about skinwalkers.
So me and my buddy are out camping and we're in the tent sleeping.
At Zero Snark 30 we starting hearing something and I wake him up.
We grab the Mosin and the Shotgun and flashlights and head out.
About 10 minutes later we're like 'well I don't see anything thing...'
Then we hear this little girl SCREAMING, like she's being fricking murdered.
So we start running through the woods towards the sound to try seeing if she needs help.
SSo we get closer and I stop dead and my tracks and I look at my buddy and say, 'Jared, wait.' He stops and looks at me.
'What in the hell would a little girl being out here in the woods this late'
We have this oh Shit look and then this happens.
In a loud voice we start hearing this little girls voice wrap around us saying over and over and over, ' WHO ARE YOU, PLAY WITH ME'.
I frantically start shining my light everywhere trying to see what the hell is going on.
there this thing stands and I turn my buddy physically towards it, it's standing maybe 6ft tall, 140 pounds, about 25-30 feet away from me.
It's knees were inverted and it was completely hairless and clotheless, and had this crooked toothed smile ear to ear with it's eyelids sown closed.
We raise our shotgun and rifle and start unloading and reloading and unloading on this thing.
It disappears with no freaking bloodtrail so we run like hell back to camp, pack as fast as humanly possible and start running towards my car 2 miles away.
About a mile into the run back we hear this voice surround us, again it's a little girl voice.
'Where are you going, WHY WON'T YOU PLAY WITH ME', we start firing in the direction of the voices and book it to my car.
Pack our gear in the car and I hop in the driver seat and me and Jared look at eachother scared shitless and in the woods I could see his damn ear to rear crooked toothy smile and we floored it home.





God what a terrifying dream.

 

[DunkEm]

I almost forgot, I need to tell you guys this dream I had last night about skinwalkers.
So me and my buddy are out camping and we're in the tent sleeping.
At Zero Snark 30 we starting hearing something and I wake him up.
We grab the Mosin and the Shotgun and flashlights and head out.
About 10 minutes later we're like 'well I don't see anything thing...'
Then we hear this little girl SCREAMING, like she's being fricking murdered.
So we start running through the woods towards the sound to try seeing if she needs help.
SSo we get closer and I stop dead and my tracks and I look at my buddy and say, 'Jared, wait.' He stops and looks at me.
'What in the hell would a little girl being out here in the woods this late'
We have this oh Shit look and then this happens.
In a loud voice we start hearing this little girls voice wrap around us saying over and over and over, ' WHO ARE YOU, PLAY WITH ME'.
I frantically start shining my light everywhere trying to see what the hell is going on.
there this thing stands and I turn my buddy physically towards it, it's standing maybe 6ft tall, 140 pounds, about 25-30 feet away from me.
It's knees were inverted and it was completely hairless and clotheless, and had this crooked toothed smile ear to ear with it's eyelids sown closed.
We raise our shotgun and rifle and start unloading and reloading and unloading on this thing.
It disappears with no freaking bloodtrail so we run like hell back to camp, pack as fast as humanly possible and start running towards my car 2 miles away.
About a mile into the run back we hear this voice surround us, again it's a little girl voice.
'Where are you going, WHY WON'T YOU PLAY WITH ME', we start firing in the direction of the voices and book it to my car.
Pack our gear in the car and I hop in the driver seat and me and Jared look at eachother scared shitless and in the woods I could see his damn ear to rear crooked toothy smile and we floored it home.





God what a terrifying dream.

Now THAT might be the alcohol talking.

 

[Auraria]

Now THAT might be the alcohol talking.

Maybe but holy crap that sucked.

 

[DunkEm]

I rarely remember dreams. And the times I do, I mostly wish I didn't.

 

[Auraria]

I rarely remember dreams. And the times I do, I mostly wish I didn't.

Either for good or for worse I remember almost all my dreams.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

You tease.


On another note any help ID'ing this tree??........ Just because im curious LOL

DSC04352 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04354 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04358 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

DSC04363 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

Most of these have fallen recently

DSC04365 by SharpMindz, on Flickr

While the leaves definitely resemble catalpa leaves, based on the flowers and seed pods, it is NOT a catalpa, northern or southern.

The leaves and seed pods of a southern catalpa


Southern Flowers


Of a Northern Catalpa


Northern Flowers

 

[dynamicmoves]

I almost forgot, I need to tell you guys this dream I had last night about skinwalkers.
So me and my buddy are out camping and we're in the tent sleeping.
At Zero Snark 30 we starting hearing something and I wake him up.
We grab the Mosin and the Shotgun and flashlights and head out.
About 10 minutes later we're like 'well I don't see anything thing...'
Then we hear this little girl SCREAMING, like she's being fricking murdered.
So we start running through the woods towards the sound to try seeing if she needs help.
SSo we get closer and I stop dead and my tracks and I look at my buddy and say, 'Jared, wait.' He stops and looks at me.
'What in the hell would a little girl being out here in the woods this late'
We have this oh Shit look and then this happens.
In a loud voice we start hearing this little girls voice wrap around us saying over and over and over, ' WHO ARE YOU, PLAY WITH ME'.
I frantically start shining my light everywhere trying to see what the hell is going on.
there this thing stands and I turn my buddy physically towards it, it's standing maybe 6ft tall, 140 pounds, about 25-30 feet away from me.
It's knees were inverted and it was completely hairless and clotheless, and had this crooked toothed smile ear to ear with it's eyelids sown closed.
We raise our shotgun and rifle and start unloading and reloading and unloading on this thing.
It disappears with no freaking bloodtrail so we run like hell back to camp, pack as fast as humanly possible and start running towards my car 2 miles away.
About a mile into the run back we hear this voice surround us, again it's a little girl voice.
'Where are you going, WHY WON'T YOU PLAY WITH ME', we start firing in the direction of the voices and book it to my car.
Pack our gear in the car and I hop in the driver seat and me and Jared look at eachother scared shitless and in the woods I could see his damn ear to rear crooked toothy smile and we floored it home.





God what a terrifying dream.

Sounds like a great story to tell at a campfire.

 

[LeeBower]

thank goodness it's friday... what a week.

I woke up this morning to a glass of cold water running down my back.. I don't know if I knocked it off the side table or if one of our cats did, but I came out of bed and was 100% awake in about .000000002 seconds.

 

[worldwood]

I'll do what I can, but I just have a real basic camera, so it mostly depend on how close I can get.

Thanks bud

Man, lots of snark while I was on the plane.

Let's see. Jealous of those who are at Blade. Hope they have lots of fun and bring back lots of pics for me to drool over.

3V is amazing stuff. It's hard on the wallet for sure, but there are plenty of other steels that are good enough if you don't have a specific reason to use 3V. Me, I need it for swords, since Peters can't heat treat oil-hardening steels longer than 20+ inches. Then I can use the leftover "scraps" to make knives. But with Dan's heat treat protocols done by Peters, they sure end up being a mean blade. Thanks for the plug, WW. I'm out of town til July, so please keep that in mind if anyone wants to work with me.

I happen to also think that if you can't call other people out for being a--hats in the snark thread, where else can you? Public faults require public remonstrance.

WW, that sure does look like a northern catalpa to me also from the leaves. Not sure about that seed pod.

Actually, that could be catalpa.

While the leaves definitely resemble catalpa leaves, based on the flowers and seed pods, it is NOT a catalpa, northern or southern.

Thanks guys, not a catalpa, after a LOT of searching i believe it is a "Princess Tree" the flowers have already fallen, and the seed pods are opened up now. I do remember seeing the flowers several weeks back and it matches the identification as well.

I appreciate the help trying to identify it though, it was a tough one for me.

Taken off the web, pictures of Princess Trees

 

[granitestateofmind]

Here is the problem: I just asked SWMBO "what time do we need to pick her up?" and I got a dissertation that contained no actual number or range. "10 is my favorite color in the whoOole alphabet." ......and....I let it go.

 

[Auraria]

Just took down a few 2inch wide trees in the front yard, got a few nicks in the blade so time to fix the Bk9 up .
That 20 degree angle cut through those trees in 3 swings or less, it was crazy. Probably the reason I got nicks was because I was also cutting roots in the dirt and the blade was smacking the dirt.
Oh BK9 I love you.

 

[worldwood]

Here is the problem: I just asked SWMBO "what time do we need to pick her up?" and I got a dissertation that contained no actual number or range. "10 is my favorite color in the whoOole alphabet." ......and....I let it go.

Im not drunk enough --- YET---- to understand this post

Give me a few hours though.... I think ill finally finish off the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black..... Its nasty stuff, but i still have more than half the bottle and dont feel like spending money on a bottle of Crown right now.


On another note, i just got in 3 of the 4 items i ordered for the prize box

 

[granitestateofmind]

Im not drunk enough --- YET---- to understand this post

Give me a few hours though.... I think ill finally finish off the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black..... Its nasty stuff, but i still have more than half the bottle and dont feel like spending money on a bottle of Crown right now.


On another note, i just got in 3 of the 4 items i ordered for the prize box

ooh, ooh, ooh! mail order crotch shots! You are an upstanding Citizen of Snark, Mr. worldwood.

 

[worldwood]

You are an upstanding Citizen of Snark, Mr. worldwood.

Well i try

 

[Auraria]

ooh, ooh, ooh! mail order crotch shots! You are an upstanding Citizen of Snark, Mr. worldwood.

Mail order crotch shots?!
Dear Lord how lewd.
I love it.

 

[dresnor]

You should make a knife!

That is what I was thinking! ha!

I wholeheartedly agree with this.

Me too.

I will ditto your ditto.

Copy cat.

BELT GRINDER! Do not do it by hand! You can but my god it is a pain in both the posterior and superior!

Solid advice, I have a 1x30 belt sander but I need some finer belts.

Grind away everything that doesn't look like a knife.

Solid advice. Kinda makes it sound easy. It won't be though.

Jeremy

 

[iwouldhurtafly]

Im not drunk enough --- YET---- to understand this post

Give me a few hours though.... I think ill finally finish off the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black..... Its nasty stuff, but i still have more than half the bottle and dont feel like spending money on a bottle of Crown right now.


On another note, i just got in 3 of the 4 items i ordered for the prize box

Never had a bottle of Johnnie Walker Black... Kinda partial to the red label stuff... BUT a pretty decent bourbon even though walker is a "scotch" that has black in the name is Jim Beam Black. I have drank a ton of that stuff and its not so expensive that it breaks the bank. Its kinda funny I am not really a fan of straight up jim beam... but they make other awesome stuff like their Jim Beam Rye, Jim Beam Black, and Jim Beam/Red Stag Sweet Honey Tea. A fifth of any of those can be found for 15-20 smackeroonies. MMMMmmmmmm Whiskey....

In other news that tree question has bugged me all morning... LOL. Glad yah figured it out.