:) October Forest, Tom Bombadil's Frontiersman

oregon · Oct 9, 2013

Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! A bit of Tom Bombadil's song for your amusement this grand October 2013. Tom's wondered off and left his terrific Buck 124 for me to stumble upon, which I did, and here are the photos for you fine fellows:

Thank you for looking.

Note: The giant Old Growth Douglas Fir is home to honey bees, pictured, and is quite tall as you might be able to tell with the photo thru the maple tree leaves. It sports the cooked marshmallow mushroom holding the knife and I've often seen a raccoon face smiling back at my grinning noggin thru the larger hole just above the bee's front door.

RickJ · Oct 9, 2013

Thanks for posting that great 124LE eye candy, I just love the 124.

David Martin · Oct 10, 2013

Good set of photos Oregon. You did this 124 proud. Glad those bees were not Africanized. Possibly just bore wasp. DM

Stumps · Oct 10, 2013

Nice 124 and nice pictures!! That's one of my favorite Buck knives!!

Seeing the woods makes me wish I was backpacking somewhere right now. Nothing planned in the near future though. :-(

imafritz · Oct 10, 2013

It should have a bejewled sheath with spells from the men of Westernesse on it.

hill1096 · Oct 10, 2013

Does he know you have been abusing his knife cutting 'roons ?

oregon · Oct 10, 2013

RickJ said:
Thanks for posting that great 124LE eye candy, I just love the 124.

My pleasure. You are welcome. The 124 is one of Buck's best blades IMHO.

David Martin said:
Good set of photos Oregon. You did this 124 proud. Glad those bees were not Africanized. Possibly just bore wasp. DM

Those bees have gotten used to me over the last 28 years here. That is my back yard. I was hoping that you would like the photos Desert Dave. Below it is a ravine with a small creek that starts on the property from a spring that has run for at least 130 years. Free water.

Stumps said:
Nice 124 and nice pictures!! That's one of my favorite Buck knives!! Thank you kindly for the kind words.

Seeing the woods makes me wish I was backpacking somewhere right now. Nothing planned in the near future though. :-(

Nobody can't not like this knife. Nobody. The TV said that due to global warming Florida is gone as the ocean rises. You can walk real good but how is your backstroke?

imafritz said:
It should have a bejewled sheath with spells from the men of Westernesse on it.

A believer! I bet you have a set of yellow boots. I betcha. Tom Bombadil is one of my favorite literary characters of all time. All the good and none of the bad. I can imagine such a world. The one I live in is a little different, however.

hill1096 said:
Does he know you have been abusing his knife cutting 'roons ?

No. And, you caught me. I, like the rest of us, will have to pay for my sins at some point. There will be reckoning. But until then let the good times roll.

imafritz · Oct 10, 2013

Coincidentally, I happen to be rereading LOTR and just said good bye to Old Tom and am in the parlor at Bree.

Goldberry is washing my blue coat and yellow boots in the Wytheywindle

oregon · Oct 10, 2013

LOL. Very funny. Can't be too clean and sweet smelling.

I actually had yellow-toed (with steel inserts to protect my toes) boots for a few years many years ago. In fact everyone in the family (two boys and one wife) had a pair. We all wore them out a few times for fun and people loved it, laughing at us that is, and it was fun and useful here in the land of endless rain, mud, green, slog, bog and home-brewed beer.

David Martin · Oct 10, 2013

You know I have a real hard time believing water of the nature and longevity you mention. Ha, we don't have many lakes here as well. DM

oregon · Oct 11, 2013

The spring is a gem. It used to feed a water tank for three homes until the Columbus Day storm toppled th tank/tower many years ago. I have several covered cement cisterns, in the ground and in line with the spring's flow, that hold the water before it flows into Chicken creek, the Tualatin River, then willamette River, then Columbia and finally into the Pacific Ocean. I have a secondary pumping system, second to a well, that I can send the water into the house if I like. I need a solar pump for when the power fails. Something to work on. Funny, with all this water to wash with I think of desert living as cleaner living. I suppose that you always want those things that you don't have.