What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

5K Qs said:
Looks like the total for first 6 months this year is about 0.4" above average; this is for the NWS station in Grand Rapids, with average computed since 1951 - I just chose my birth year as the starting date. March 2023 had the highest March precipitation over those 70+ years, and May 2023 had the lowest May precipitation for the period, and apparently balanced out one another.
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You're spoiling my complaining.
 
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jlhoffman74 said:
I am still fascinated with the vintage knife from the antique mall. It looks like a gec clone made a long time ago. It reminds me a 68 pony jack from gec. Here it is next to a 66, and a 15. Happy 4th!
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You've got it backwards: the GEC is a clone of that knife. :) Great old knife; do you know the maker?

I'm taking it slow today, but ready to open a can or bottle if needs be.
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5K Qs said:
Looks like the total for first 6 months this year is about 0.4" above average; this is for the NWS station in Grand Rapids, with average computed since 1951 - I just chose my birth year as the starting date. March 2023 had the highest March precipitation over those 70+ years, and May 2023 had the lowest May precipitation for the period, and apparently balanced out one another.


With another almost 0.9" later in the week, and the highest humidity of the summer so far, I suddenly have a back yard full of fungi! o_O
Great to get the rain!


Nice sodbuster! :cool::thumbsup::cool: I've never picked up one of the big models, even though I've been pleased as punch with the Junior models.
Nice hollyhocks, too. When I was a kid, we had hollyhocks growing by the abandoned outhouse east of our farmhouse. My brothers and I would occasionally urinate in the outhouse just for fun in the summer.
Hollyhock Lane Parade starts a few blocks from my house in 2 hours; neighborhood parade held every Independence Day since 1934.
https://www.ottawahillsgr.org/_files/ugd/05f995_41f152cab7034bdabe62ef8d52b657dc.pdf
(Hollyhock Lane is just an alley.)












World-class whittler! :cool::thumbsup::cool:


🤓 Do you have a "guitar hero" you admire or even try to emulate, Jeff?


Technically, "blackberries" and "black raspberries" are not the same:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/black-raspberry-vs-blackberry
When I was a kid, we had a big "thicket" of raspberries, both black and red, in part of the front yard. Never enjoyed the bloodshed of raspberry picking. 🤓

- GT
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Thanks, Gary!
Yes, Blackberries are not the same as Raspberries.
No Guitar Heroes, but there have been many that influenced me, openend my eyes, and steering me in new directions.

I think the regular Sodbuster is close to perfectly proportioned. There’s something off with the jr to me, and I gave the only one I had away.

I am going to struggle to NOT think of you urinating when I look at my hollyhocks now. 🤨

Thank you for the Whittler compliment. Ron gave that one to me, and I really like it!
 
5K Qs said:
When I was a kid, we had a big "thicket" of raspberries, both black and red, in part of the front yard. Never enjoyed the bloodshed of raspberry picking. 🤓

- GT
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I think what makes the difference is having to do it, as a chore, on orders from Mom ‘n Dad, vs having fun.

When I was a kid, it was for fun ~ I imagined I was an Indian or pioneer living off the land. 😊

Last year when my Grandson was out visiting, it was just at the tail end of black raspberry time, and the gooseberries were coming on. Picking with him was a lot of fun, especially after he discovered how good wild gooseberries are.

He will be out later this month for a week, and I’m hoping that the blackberries are ripe then.
 
Happy Independance Day. If you’re roasting a pig I hope it tastes delicious. May your tiki torches burn long into the night. If you’re hanging around the pool in a vintage hawaiian shirt with an adult beverage drink responsibly. Everyone laughs at the guy puking in the bushes. I know.
Here’s my 4th of July carry. It has white G-10 liners. Seriously let’s have no limbs blown off today.
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