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Love this time of year. Woke up to 45° day, with a high of 77°. Leaves will be changing soon. I noticed that some are starting to turn.
 
The Warrior said:
Love this time of year. Woke up to 45° day, with a high of 77°. Leaves will be changing soon. I noticed that some are starting to turn.
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This is also my favorite time of the year, with the one exception of having to close my pool - too cold at night to keep the water temps swimmable for the daytime...:o oh, well. Cold enough to enjoy a fire last night... Really do need to work on my fire making skills, tho!
 
granitestateofmind said:
This is also my favorite time of the year, with the one exception of having to close my pool - too cold at night to keep the water temps swimmable for the daytime...:o oh, well. Cold enough to enjoy a fire last night... Really do need to work on my fire making skills, tho!
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I need to get some firewood. Probably just buy a cord. That lasted me a few years last time.
 
We were up in Rhinelander, WI a couple weekends ago and the red maples were starting to turn. I bet it's incredible up there, now. More near where we are, Kettle Moraine North is supposed to be nice right now. We may do a day trip next Sunday and find some nice fall hikes in that area or Devi's Lake State Park.
 
The Warrior said:
I need to get some firewood. Probably just buy a cord. That lasted me a few years last time.
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I was really lucky/unlucky this summer; we had a microburst that took down all sorts of trees in our neighborhood and knocked out power for 16 hours (for us...). Storm dropped a big sugar maple on to my neighbor's cars across the street - I foolishly asked what was happening to the wood and got a phone call a few days later that I could have it - ended up helping them out by getting it out of their driveway in three trailer load into my back yard and have been chopping and processing and building a little wood shed for a couple of months now. Ended up with a couple face cord, some still to be split as my back has kept me out of work for a couple of weeks. Mind you, I've got one of those portable fire pit/tables, so this should last me for a couple years. Got myself a chainsaw out of all this, and plenty of practice wood for batonning and the like. Plus sugar maple smells so good cut and when burning... some of it would've made nice furniture wood, might try and save a bit for knife related related swag: scales and beads and such. The price of free for wood is really hard to turn down but after all I've done and still have left to do and the grass I've killed and expense of tools, I know I'd do it again -it's that DIY thang that always takes over....

It occurred to me the other day that one of the things I dig about this sub-forum is that everyone here seems like a maker, diy-er or would be craftsman/woman of some sort or another...
 
granitestateofmind said:
It occurred to me the other day that one of the things I dig about this sub-forum is that everyone here seems like a maker, diy-er or would be craftsman/woman of some sort or another...
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Yeah, pretty much. I'm getting ready to do a BK9 mod.
 
granitestateofmind said:
It occurred to me the other day that one of the things I dig about this sub-forum is that everyone here seems like a maker, diy-er or would be craftsman/woman of some sort or another...
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This subforum really encourages that sort of thing. It's amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it.
 
That's because Beckers were made for people who actually get out there and get dirty :D

Also, I'm pretty bummed right now as watch ESPN Monday night football is not available on Android..
 
Thats a HUGE folder!

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That's absurd.

I'm in San Juan.

Trade, tell that guy who picks up your mail to keep an eye out for a package.
 
will see about the sebenza 21... funny thing about knives, even the super cheapo's 'get the job done'... I carried a kershaw skyline in aus8 for about a year and it was probably the most durable folder I've ever owned todate... It's been sharpened down to almost a toothpick now :) so I bought a backup, though I don't even carry them anymore.... shuffling threw folder collection...

I bought this 21 used here in the exchange, I wasn't about to dish out close to $400 to find out I wouldn't like it and take a loss of $100 to resale... This way if I don't like it I'll get my money back and break even :D

Erik, We're starting to break down a mod building this friday so that may lead me into the weekend of work, we'll see how it goes but I'd love to cruz out for the day if I get it squared away.... pm me the details and whatnot...
 
daizee said:
That's absurd.

I'm in San Juan.

Trade, tell that guy who picks up your mail to keep an eye out for a package.
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With as many times Trade sits on the porch in just a house coat, I'm sure he knows to keep an eye out for a package already!
 
granitestateofmind said:
This is also my favorite time of the year, with the one exception of having to close my pool - too cold at night to keep the water temps swimmable for the daytime...:o oh, well. Cold enough to enjoy a fire last night... Really do need to work on my fire making skills, tho!
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yup. did that. the closing.

need to fire up the twig stove that i bought at the same time as Ethan. titanium. lovely. amusing: TSA doesn't give a rats buttocks about about an envelope filled with sharp Ti flats... but does about all sorts of other innocent things. weird.

nice stove though. should put out some cheery heat some night.

still want to get a nice burn barrel.


granitestateofmind said:
I was really lucky/unlucky this summer; we had a microburst that took down all sorts of trees in our neighborhood and knocked out power for 16 hours (for us...). Storm dropped a big sugar maple on to my neighbor's cars across the street - I foolishly asked what was happening to the wood and got a phone call a few days later that I could have it - ended up helping them out by getting it out of their driveway in three trailer load into my back yard and have been chopping and processing and building a little wood shed for a couple of months now. Ended up with a couple face cord, some still to be split as my back has kept me out of work for a couple of weeks. Mind you, I've got one of those portable fire pit/tables, so this should last me for a couple years. Got myself a chainsaw out of all this, and plenty of practice wood for batonning and the like. Plus sugar maple smells so good cut and when burning... some of it would've made nice furniture wood, might try and save a bit for knife related related swag: scales and beads and such. The price of free for wood is really hard to turn down but after all I've done and still have left to do and the grass I've killed and expense of tools, I know I'd do it again -it's that DIY thang that always takes over....

It occurred to me the other day that one of the things I dig about this sub-forum is that everyone here seems like a maker, diy-er or would be craftsman/woman of some sort or another...
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oh yeah, free wood. great treat. my neighbor across the way, about 85,000 years old, hired real tree people to cut and haul away a lot of oak. damn. had i known :D easy peasy.

still. getting a wood stove shortly. not cheap, but pretty, and good, and installed by pros. we'll see...

even so, still, i know people who want to offer me free wood. unfortunately, i don't have a trailer this year, but next year. yar. free oak pallets. free maple, free oak, free birch :D piles of stuff. mmm, maybe i should just fill up their truck for gas money? i think given the truck size, i might actually get ahead by buying a DUMP TRUCK full. hah.
 
The only complaints I have from the gathering; it's over and y'all got me on a temporary day shift schedule. I hate day shift.
 
We just got home from the gathering. So tired. Having a glass of wine and likely going to bed. Might try and post a few more pics.
 
Glad you guys made it home safe! I'll be in touch about those things we discussed.
 
gmoneyluv said:
We just got home from the gathering. So tired. Having a glass of wine and likely going to bed. Might try and post a few more pics.
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Glad ya'll made it home safe and sound, Gus.

Moose
 
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