What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

For fantastic Friday

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update on the challenge ... (if anyone cares) ...
The Bunny and 85 have been in my pocket since 03-01. Still no rush to change. I think I will make it to the target date of 04-07 (tho I might change on St. Paddy Day, 03-17 to the A Stroke Of Luck canoe and XL stockman I have for the green covers.)
The patina on the clip blade is improving little by little. Cooked meat, 1/4 to 1/2 cooked taters, and the occasional love apple are about the only things I have to cut here. For some strange/odd reason they did not get the lemons I had on my March shopping list. ☹️ I dunno why ... lemon slices would be good in my unsweetened lemonade ...
The only times I needed to grab another knife (or the multi-tool) is to open a can of beans, carrots 🤢, beets 🤮, corn 🥰, and other veggies. (the house electric can opener usually doesn't. That's ok though, I don't feel completely useless/worthless when they ask me to open the cans for them. 😁👍 )
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And earlier picture of the state of patina a couple weeks ago:
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Peregrin said:
The snow is melting, and it's in the 40s, with some sunshine today. Gas and groceries from Costco on the agenda.
I'm becoming quite attached to the Boker BFF. Paired it with a Joel Chamblin small Wharncliffe Trapper today.
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Stellar pairing Gary :) :thumbsup:
Johnnythefox said:
Hospital appointment yet again today and another doctors appointment tommorow,its to much. :rolleyes:

Anyway I started with the Bunny 🐰 (is that a wabbit symbol?)
















Then switched to the Cadet for the hospital and having a Cortado sitting outside in the sun of the Italian cafe wearing some new old Raybans from the market. 😎
I even fixed the treatment table for my physio,it was the butterfly screws underneath,years of assembling IKEA finnaly paid off 😂














Then switched back to the Bunny to mooch around in my shed,I straightened some old tins I got on the way back. 🤭
Anyone not like old tins?






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Hope your appointments go well, and that you're not getting prodded and poked too much! :thumbsup:
unclekurty said:
I’ve been staying home because of the weather. It’s nice out today. So I took out my new favorite knife for an inaugural walk. I’ll be sitting outside as much as possible today. My cat was indoors like myself for a bit so I am making up for his reluctant confinement due to the rain.
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Superb! :cool: :thumbsup:
SteveC said:
Nice pic of Big Rose !
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SteveC said:
I-XL Lamb and a Camillus Army Air Corp. Utility


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Thanks Steve :) Congratulations on your IXL Lamb my friend, it pairs well with the old Camillus :cool: :) :thumbsup:
Primble said:
Rosie looking good Mr. Jack and thank you ! :thumbsup:😊
I was reading about your market day with Toolman over in your lamb thread. Gave me a good chuckle or two. 🤣🤣
He better heed good advice instead of living like there's no tomorrow ! 🤣 You know ... that fried Spam ain't half bad though. 🤣
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Thanks a lot Mr P :) Tool Man doesn't have a lot of sense I'm afraid (huge understatement)! :D With the quantity of Spam he consumes, it's not always fun standing next to him! :eek:
Smithhammer said:
Heading out for a good dinner tonight. I'll have this Behring in the pocket (just in case they don't have knives at the restaurant...😉).

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Beautiful :) :thumbsup:
echoscout said:
Big Rose sure looks good in them apples! :thumbsup:🤠 Did you get Tool Man to eat an apple today? 😁🤣
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Thanks David :) Not a chance I'm afraid, I'd have had to deep-fry it first! 🤣 :thumbsup:
5K Qs said:
Thanks for asking, Jack, although it was not the most exciting Pi Day I've ever experienced. :rolleyes:;)
Early in the day I received email from my daughter wishing me a Happy Pi Day, to which I responded in kind, and reminded her of a favorite "mnemonic phrase" for helping remember some of the digits of a decimal approximation of π. The next day, she sent me a follow-up which included an illustration of Worf, a Klingon member of Star Fleet in the Star Trek universe, wearing oven mitts and offering a freshly baked pie with the words, "Today is a good day to eat pie." (This is, of course, a riff on the famous Klingon battle cry, "Today is a good day to die!")

Getting back to the arcane pastime of creating phrases to help remember digits of π in order, I spent a few minutes Tuesday morning reviewing some of these phrases. One famous one that I enjoy, attributed to some madcap physicists (aren't they all? 🤓), is How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. Of course, the way these phrases work is the number of letters in the nth word in the phrase corresponds to the nth digit in a decimal approximation of π. So the italicized phrase above produces this estimate for π:
3.14159265358979... One that I made up for myself is: May I have a large container of coffee, cream and sugar optional? Naturally, cookies desirable, too, if you consider them. Thanks!

If this sort of thing appeals to you, perhaps you'd like to check out the example here:
http://www.cadaeic.net/cadintro.htm
It includes a "short story" of over 4000 words that corresponds to the first 4000+ digits of π. It has I think 12 or 13 chapters/sections, the first of which is an adaptation of Poe's The Raven to have the appropriate sequence of word lengths (words with 10 letters correspond to a digit 0 in Pi's decimal representation, and any words of length longer than 10 correspond to TWO consecutive digits from Pi (e.g. a word containing 16 letters would indicate that at that point in the sequence of the approximation of π, the next TWO digits are 1 and 6 in that order). Other sections contain adaptations of other famous literary works by Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare, TS Eliot, Omar Khayyam, and Carl Sandberg. One section goes completely off the deep end and, in addition to doing the Pi thing, it is also written without using the letter o AND it's an acrostic with the first letter of each line starting with a letter whose position in the alphabet corresponds to the appropriate digit of Pi. For example, since π starts 3.14159..., the first six lines of that section start with the letters CADAEI (hence the name of the website).

My department served pie to students at 3:14pm Tuesday, but I teach class from 3 to 3:50 so I couldn't attend. But much to my delight, after I had answered numerous student questions after class (we had a test today) and returned to my office at about 4:15, I saw that there were still several partial pies still in the Reading Room across from my office, so I managed to get a piece of "chocolate silk" pie before someone came to pick up the leftover pies, paper plates, napkins, utensils at about 4:30.

So, Jack, that was my low-key Pi Day! TMI??? 😁
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Fascinating stuff Gary, sounds like you celebrated in style! :D I'm glad you got some pie :) :thumbsup:
JJ Cahill said:
Thanks a lot, Jack!!! The lil fella got most of the work. :) :thumbsup:

I can see you picked up some fine apples ready for Big Rose to slice up; I'm sure you had another great market day, as well! :cool:;)👍👍
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Thank you JJ, full report in the Guardians thread! :D ;) :thumbsup:
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I had a couple whittlers to hang out with today. :)
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That's an interesting pairing my friend, nice to compare them :cool: :thumbsup:

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Porch folks 🍻

For Full Pockets Friday! :D ;) :thumbsup:

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