What did you do today

[ML48]

Yesterday, went out and did some upgrades to the camper before hunting season. I drag it out to the Greenhorn Wilderness in southern Colorado, use it for a base camp.

 

[painter]

The county thinks they are doing me a favor by sending their tractor and mower to cut the ditches if front of my house. I try to get there before they do but sometimes they beat me to it.They don't bother cleaning off the mower deck before making a swath through your ditch. What they are really doing is spreading grassburrs. My little corner of the block has their ditches. So I was busy digging up burrs then mowing.I only spent a couple of hours on it but I'm bushed.

I used to have a nice grass and clover field. I let a buddy cut it for hay. It was the best hay he cut, although a small 1 1/2 acre piece. He brought bed straw in. The piece is junk now. It will cost me a bunch to try and revive it, and the bed straw has migrated beyond where he was cutting. It's a nightmare.

 

[ML48]

Today...took a used Thinkpad T430 laptop and finally had the parts to upgrade it to the max....just a change of pace.

 

[kje54]

Yesterday, went out and did some upgrades to the camper before hunting season. I drag it out to the Greenhorn Wilderness in southern Colorado, use it for a base camp.

That's a nice area down there. My favorite back in the early 70s was the Tarryall Range, Spruce Grove campground was a primitive campground at the time and would make a great base camp for hiking. You might see one or two people in a weekend. Now the campground is a modern campground with trailer hook ups, etc, what a waste.

 

[ML48]

That's a nice area down there. My favorite back in the early 70s was the Tarryall Range, Spruce Grove campground was a primitive campground at the time and would make a great base camp for hiking. You might see one or two people in a weekend. Now the campground is a modern campground with trailer hook ups, etc, what a waste.

We like this area. Most days we don't even see another hunter. This is one of those areas where you are gonna walk and walk for your game. Most folks don't want to walk 50 yds. off the road, if that.

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Got all of our hay in. Good to go for winter.

 

[Woody Morgan]

Planted a couple of cherry trees.

I don't care what Continental Army you're in charge of.
Show up at my place with a hatchet in your hand and you're gonna lose more than your wig.

wm

 

[kje54]

Planted a couple of cherry trees.

I don't care what Continental Army you're in charge of.
Show up at my place with a hatchet in your hand and you're gonna lose more than your wig.

wm

Would a chain saw be alright?

 

[Mike Payne]

Got up this morning practiced some carving then my son and I went fishin.

 

[deerstalkert]

made little rocks out of big rocks.
then turned the little rocks into gravel.
every thing i touched today crumbled, broke or splintered.
finally gave up and watched youtube vids.

 

[kje54]

made little rocks out of big rocks.
then turned the little rocks into gravel.
every thing i touched today crumbled, broke or splintered.
finally gave up and watched youtube vids.

I've had those days.

 

[kje54]

Worked on an older, unmentionable shotgun I've had for at least 15 years, cleaning up the rough internals (Chinese copy of famouse trench gun). Waiting on my gunskins wrap and some camo paint to arrive.

 

[TFoley]

You left out RWL (Run, Walk, Lay down) and Thunderbird, Skid Row Scotch at it's finest.

No doubt made with the finest Whiskey beans obtainable.

 

[TFoley]

Well, me got up in de morning, slavin' for bread, sir, so dat every mout' could be fed, poor me, me Israelite.

Grandottie's 16th birthday today, which promises to be the hottest day of the year for YEARS.................at 9.30 this morning it was 24C. I daren't look now...

You gots to remember where we are in the world - as far as you guys are concerned, we are practically in the sub-Arctic zone. Right on 52-35 N........

 

[Whitworth]

Well, me got up in de morning, slavin' for bread, sir, so dat every mout' could be fed, poor me, me Israelite.

Grandottie's 16th birthday today, which promises to be the hottest day of the year for YEARS.................at 9.30 this morning it was 24C. I daren't look now...

You gots to remember where we are in the world - as far as you guys are concerned, we are practically in the sub-Arctic zone. Right on 52-35 N........

Had a friend over from Germany a few years ago during summer. Poor guy nearly drowned in sweat whenever outside in our 32C+ (90F) temperatures. Hottest was 40C (105F) in the parking lot when visiting the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles. Think he was glad to go back to Germany.
Going to hang up a new swing for the great niece today, she's two and half. Her Mom brings her down to my Mom's house (92 and going strong) every two weeks for a visit so it's where we meet. My brother and I had wonderful uncles when we were kids so we are making sure she has the same experience where uncles = fun.

 

[Lonewalker]

2 butts done 7a.m.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I needed to trim the bushes in front of the house, I have already done the side. I have a nephew who is out of work and decided to have him do it, having hired him before I know he is a hard worker and with 3 kids he can use the money. When he got to the last few bushes the yellow jackets poured out from under one bush and ate him up, I didn't know they had a nest in the ground there. Now I have to think up a strategy to get rid of them in a very tight place under a very large hedge bush with no access and without killing the bush. I am in the market for a beekeeping headnet to be on the safe side. We kept bees when I was a kid so I am no stranger to bee suits.

I planted my girlfriend a beautiful low maintenance garden through black plastic this year. I did the same last year and noticed she would never go out and pick the bounty it produced.

I gave her one more chance but checked on her garden yesterday and there it was, overgrown huge squash, peppers, beans, cucumbers and okra that had never been picked just like last year, what a waste. No more gardens for the girlfriend, at least she could pick the stuff and give it away at the hospital where she works, she is an RN. She is a very sweet kind person but more than a little ditzzy mentally.

 

[TFoley]

Had a friend over from Germany a few years ago during summer. Poor guy nearly drowned in sweat whenever outside in our 32C+ (90F) temperatures. Hottest was 40C (105F) in the parking lot when visiting the National Air and Space Museum at Dulles. Think he was glad to go back to Germany.
Going to hang up a new swing for the great niece today, she's two and half. Her Mom brings her down to my Mom's house (92 and going strong) every two weeks for a visit so it's where we meet. My brother and I had wonderful uncles when we were kids so we are making sure she has the same experience where uncles = fun.

Horses for courses. Many of your countrymen are not 'happy' in contiguous Canada, let alone in the Northern parts of the Provinces. Sure, it gets hot in Alberta and, as we've seen recently, BC, too. But mostly it's cold, colder, very cold or just plain crazy cold. Even in my locale in SE Ontario it usually gets to a high of around 32 - 34C, but it also spends a lot of time hovering around -20C for at least three months, often longer. And we live in that, and nothing stops because of it, either. A buddy of mine who was a brakeman for OntarioNorthlands railroad used to carry a little taffy hammer to break the ice on his coffee when he walked the train at a halt checking hook-ups..

In April.

 

[Malamute]

Started sharpening my draw knife I just got.

Old but good

The iron is like sharpening glass so I used diamond

I will keep at it but had to try on some Alabama Hickory, hard wood meet draw knife

It's going to be awesome

Have a picture?

Have you used one much before? Ive had newer and older knives, I found I liked the older ones better, and they usually can be bought for less money.

I was having a heck of a time getting my knives truly sharp when building cabins. A cabin builder neighbor stopped by once when I was building one, and dealing with the drudgery of trying to tune up the edge on a knife. I asked how he sharpened his knives, he said "Show me how youre using it", I did, flat side down...he said "turn it over, use the bevel side down, like a chisel". Once I worked the concave-ness out of the flat side and only used it bevel side down it became hugely easier to sharpen and keep sharp. What was previously an hours toil to get truly sharp became a 5 minute simple job, and I could keep them shaving sharp with a two sided round stone and spit.

I loaned knives to a couple people with the stern admonition that they HAVE to use them bevel side down, or dont take it. I could instantly tell when they didnt listen, which was every time, by the wear on the flat of the blade. No more loaning of drawknives.

Some new knives ive seen in stores had a secondary bevel ground on the flat side, it would take a LOT of work to remove that and get it right and easy to correctly sharpen.

One well known cabin builder showed pictures in his book using his knife flat side down, then mentioned that sharpening one was a job for a pro, its too hard to get them very sharp yourself. Using the bevel side down would change that.

If you dont have a blade guard, a piece of 3/4" pvc pipe with a lengthwise cut on a table saw makes a good guard. It snaps on friction snug.

 

[Woody Morgan]

Sittin' out back with a morning smoke and a homemade iced mocha...strong. Actually watching it rain and it smells glorious! The monsoon is drifting over us today and tomorrow after a few years' absence and giving us a break from heat and fire conditions...for now.

Good day to melt 60# of lead into ingots.

wm