TIME FOR A GIVEAWAY!!!!

[Leslie Tomville]

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It has been a while since my last giveaway. I have a good one for you; a Case Ginger Ale Winterbottom Bone Saddlehorn Trapper! The only rule is that you post a few photographs of your home, the area around your home, and your pets. Please do not be shy or stingy with the pics!! I like learning more about our friends here on the Porch. Plus, if you are like me, where you live and the pets you have reveal a lot about the person.

I live on a horse farm across Lake Pontchartrain north of New Orleans. It is a very peaceful part of Louisiana. Animals have always been a big part of my life, especially horses and dogs.

I will keep this thread open as long as people keep posting. Along with your photographs and descriptions, just state whether you want to be included in the drawing or not.

 

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Plus, if you are like me, where you live and the pets you have reveal a lot about the person.

Exactly! I'm too devious to enter this one, but that is a glorious knife and thanks for your generosity.

Maybe I could sneak some pictures of somebody else's house and pets. But for now, not an entry.

 

[flatblackcapo]

Not an entry as I was recently the recipient of your generosity.
I will join in and post a few pics of my best friend Rilley.

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the generous giveaway Leslie Not an entry from me, just a thanks for those wonderful pics I imagine our regular posters already know a heck of a lot more about Yorkshire than they did before they signed up here, and possibly more than they may want to, so I'll keep this brief! Good luck everyone

 

[knowtracks]

Also not an entry but here is my little corner of this planet!

Summer


Winter


Almost done with the log work


Where I spend most nights in summer!


The Valley

Friends!!



Knife content!


Dave

 

[black mamba]

Thank you, Greg, I'll play! You have a beautiful home! And you did say to be free with the photos!

We live in a subdivision about 30 miles west of St. Louis, but pretty near farmland, and with lots of undeveloped areas close by.

My wife, Diana, and me with one of our grandchildren, Annalynn.

Our little Maltese girl, GG the Wonder Dog.

Our Coton de Tulear puppy admiring his likeness in the mirror.

A Barred Owl in our front yard oak tree.

A Red Fox peeking out of the woods behind our back yard.

He got bold enough to come all the way in!

A Red-bellied Woodpecker on our feeder island.

The woods and creek behind our house from the deck last winter.

A Cooper's Hawk from the same deck in back of the house.

A whitetail doe in our woods.

 

[Ernie1980]

We live in a small town with three cats and a ball python. Our street is super quiet! The only backyard picture I have is from the “snowfall” a couple of years back. Lol

 

[Leslie Tomville]

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We have a few cats also Ernie1980

Beautiful Jeff! black mamba , especially the granddaughter!

Jack Black , we cannot get enough of all things Yorkshire Jack. Please keep it coming!

knowtracks , can we trade places for a while ?! I would love to have a crack at riding those Appaloosas. On second thought, can I wait until spring?

Kevin flatblackcapo , what a great pal you have there!

seas165 well done! That orange cat attacking your dog is hilarious!

This knife content is the Bose knife I hope to have one day but don’t yet.

 

[seas165]

This sounds fun im in, the pets, two dogs, two cats. Benny, basil, mazzie and isabel. Now heres a pic of my familys camp a few winters ago and a pic of my woodshed i built last fall (last minute and for free!) and for knife content, one of my famorite fixed blades that i always bring to camp when i go.

 

[Bigfattyt]

I'm in for the giveaway. Thanks!

Here is the backyard. Bassett hound cooling off on the grass..

Back yard s'mores

Here is a cattle ranch where we go to participate in roundups. We brand, and cut, tag, and innoculate. Usually between 250 to 500 calves.

Brands getting hot!!!

Different day, same corral.

Different year....corral is green!!

This is where we camp when doing "roundup"

Some times, we go fishing here.....

Fall colors on the Spokane River.

Waterfall hiking

Huckleberry camping

 

[eisman]

Well I don't have any pets anymore. I've had jobs with too much travel, and I won't get a dog I can't take time to train properly, but all the neighbor's critters and kids love to come visit. I live in a small town of @8000 people squeezed up against Puget Sound by Tacoma and Ft Lewis. We don't have much front yard, but the back is pretty good. This house is the only place I've stayed in more than 3 years since I left high school. I'm not planning on moving again if I can help it.

A water view would double my property value, but I'm only a 5 minute walk from the water. I love to go down to this park and just watch the ferries while the sun goes down.

 

[Jolipapa]

Not an entry, I've got more than my share this year as a matter of gifts!
Not my home, btw, but my daughter's, in a tiny village (<350) North of Burgundy where I stay as often as I may.
(t'was a foggy november morning, missed of little a wild hog crossing the road running away from hunters!)


Summers are quite hot, a farm and sawmill as neighbours,


the pond (the house is between the trees),

and of course a hidden medieval castle (#1400 - no known ghost).


It is the boundary of the French corn/rapeseed belt and the beginning of Burgundy's vineyards further South.




Three cats (one three-legged) and a bunny.

 

[Leslie Tomville]

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One of my friends pulled this out of his aunt’s pond a few weeks ago!


Bigfattyt Beautiful photographs! I wish I could help work those cattle. I find it interesting that you use an elephant toenail knife. Could you tell us why you chose that knife and how you use it?

eisman What a peaceful setting!

Jolipapa My ancestry is Acadian, or as we say in Louisiana, Cajun. I imagine my ancestors must have left behind the beauty of France with heavy hearts. They might have lived in quaint villages like the one your daughter is so fortunate to live in. To end up several generations later contending with giant alligators in the swamps of la Louisiane, oh la la! How unfair! By the way, I really like your Norton.

CelloDan , I have been enjoying your nature photographs. Thanks for participating. I like your boats, but not sure I would take on a 10 plus foot gator from either one!

 

[CelloDan]

I am in , TY

My boats ( the red rowboat for two I built in 2008 )

My pets. A White Capped Pionus and a Green Cheeked conure

My little shop where I do some wood turning once in a while.

TY

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

View attachment 1198043 Walnuts and hard maples shade the shed I built.View attachment 1198042 Just a few of my walnut trees. Grown from nuts picked up in the woods.View attachment 1198041 Two of my raised beds, beets and kale. Manny patrols for tree rats coming to steal my walnuts.View attachment 1198032 This is the sugar maple in the other pic. Built the rock wall and have it filled with Artemesia, sedum, Siberian Iris, and Peony. I often pose my knives on these rocks.View attachment 1198029 Me and my best bud, my daughter, Andie. She was 27 last week.View attachment 1198020 From our last trip to Colorado to visit my son. Bear!View attachment 1198021 Telecaster copy I built from scratch and ‘76 Pro Reverb. Will be using both in this Saturday’s gig.
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[Amir Fleschwund]

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As much as I love that Case, I am not entering. I want someone who’s never won to get it.
And I am in deep respect of your generosity, Les!

 

[Leslie Tomville]

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Jeff Amir Fleschwund , that was an amazing and moving post. What a beautiful family, and those Walnut Trees!...superb.

Here is my grandson playing with the best dog ever. I also threw in a little knife content and photos of our cow herd for Bigfattyt .

BTW, GT @5K Qs , the Longhorn is standing on the other side of the pond from where I used to take the photos that you admired. And the scrimshaw artist is named Linda Layden. I found her on Etsy as you did. Her work is amazing.

 

[Prester John]

Not an entry. I've won some GAWS AND been the recipient of generosity here on the Porch, but I'll post a few pics.

My home in December 2017. Been living in Corpus Christi most of my life, and have only had snow three times: 1967 (I think), 2003 or 2004 (it was Christmas Eve, and my daughter was a baby), and 2017. That's her at age 14.

More recent pic of wife and daughter at a nearby park.

Visiting my son and granddaughter.

My son lives on Padre Island.

Sunset on the deck.

Relaxing on the island (daughter-in-law's parents' house).

USS Lexington, which saw battle in WWII, now a museum in the bay, a few minutes walk from where I grew up.

How about some pets?

My Chihuahua, Mini, playing with a toy.

Lexi, our Lab mix, relaxing in the back yard.

When she was a puppy:

Cats, too:

Buttercup with a lambsfoot.

We like to keep this one clean:

Haricot Vert. Daughter named her. When we picked her up from Humane Society, she was named "Green Bean," so my daughter just "Francofied" it.

Waiting for me to get home.

Some more knife content:

Cheers!

 

[Sacto]

I’ll enter. I live in Sacramento, but don’t have any pictures of the house or neighborhood readily available. Here’s a picture of my dogs. A couple of border collies that I use at work with the cattle.

I drove to Oregon today to ship calves in the morning. I took a couple pictures of where I’m staying at the ranch tonight just before it got too dark.

Back to Sacramento tomorrow after shipping. Thanks for letting me share.

 

[Leslie Tomville]

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This Scrimshaw GEC 78 really fires up my imagination. I can lose myself in the scene. To paraphrase Jimmy Buffet, I feel like a pirate 225 years too late.

Vince, I knew we could count on you for an excellent post. Prester John What am interesting corner of Texas you live in!

Sacto Now that you have whet our appetite, please post some photographs of the ranch in the daylight. Are you planning any knife purchases with your profits from those calves? Do you buy knives from Dave Ferry @Horsewright ? I know California is a big state, but you must be fairly close to him. He makes incredible knives, and his leatherwork is every bit as good.

I believe the drawing will be this weekend, so please post your entries. That Saddlehorn is a sweet knife!