What did you do today

[Whitworth]

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.

Yikes

 

[ML48]

Cutting up some cedar/red cedar/juniper logs for knife handles. Theses logs have a beautiful heart.

 

[JamesA]

Went on a UTV ride (yesterday - couldn't post out there, no reception and the Pony Express rider thought I was crazy) with some old retired farts like me. Had a great time. Like I've said before, my interests are varied. I need to get back out to the range, the obsession is starting to take over.....

The lower half of a meadow at a little over 6,000 feet. No smoke to speak of, thank goodness.

The upper half of the meadow.

Silver City, Idaho

Bases for electric motors and pumps for a silver refining operation. Poured in 1900.

 

[deerstalkert]

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........

three dog night in july! with temps like that i can see why you are thinking of three dog nights.
yeah i know desmond decker and the aces did it first!

 

[bisleyjohn]

Ordered a .380 ball mould. .375 a little slack in the chambers - scares the out of me.

 

[Lonewalker]

Dug up few test taters

 

[Woody Morgan]

Battling raiding mule deer.

wm

 

[Omahkapi'si]

Cool & foggy this morning and grass was wet so I went to the range. 60 gn Goex, .490 ball, .015 patch. Frontier .50 cal. 50 yds off hand. Love this rifle and shooting BP! Only a few shots before it started to dry out again so I packed it up and headed home. It's very dry here so not worth taking chances of grass fire.

 

[bisleyjohn]

Nothing, too hot for an old man to go doing stuff!

 

[ML48]

Got tired of my lawn tractor tire going flat. Pulled out the tire valve and filled the danged thing with Great Stuff foam.
Then went up to Weston Colorado and looked over a bunch of lumber to buy at the mill.

 

[JamesA]

In the middle of a bathroom remodel. Today, I went crazy.

 

[Sudsy]

Got behind on the bushes, and we've a lot of rain over the past two years, damned things were up to the second story windows on the side of the house. Cut them back big time today. We have a tree guy coming on Wednesday and as part of the deal he's chipping up all these branches, so I have to get it all done now.
Tomorrow its the bushes along the driveways turn to get whacked.



Was pretty hot out so I'd work on the bushes for an hour or so then go into the house and the AC and work on this for a half hour or so.

 

[Flinty Scot]

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.

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Thanks for that PVC tip. Hadn't occurred to me.

 

[Nazgul58]

Went to the farm today to shoot the Colonial 58 for the second time. Ran into the school Resource Officer on the way, showed him the gun and we talked for an hour. Had to hurry, the wife was an hour behind me with her list of things to do.
Fired 6 shots at 60 yards before the wife showed up. First 3 were in the 5" circle. Last 3 were around it, mostly me, was sweating like a drunken sailor on leave in the Bahamas.
Ended up running the chainsaw cutting limbs that were in the way mowing. Came home, grilled steaks and made some baked taters.

Done for the day.

Don

 

[ML48]

In the middle of a bathroom remodel. Today, I went crazy.

Been there....no fun.

 

[ML48]

Went to the farm today to shoot the Colonial 58 for the second time. Ran into the school Resource Officer on the way, showed him the gun and we talked for an hour. Had to hurry, the wife was an hour behind me with her list of things to do.
Fired 6 shots before the wife showed up. First 3 were in the 5" circle. Last 3 were around it, mostly me, was sweating like a drunken sailor on leave in the Bahamas.
Ended up running the chainsaw cutting limbs that were in the way mowing. Came home, grilled steaks and made some baked taters.

Done for the day.

Don

Well, that last part sounds the best.

 

[deerstalkert]

made little rocks out of big rocks, then made tiny rocks out of the little ones. gave up and shot a couple unmentionables i'm selling.
then made this.
not very big but it cut open a amazon box of Ballistol!
tried it on a patch but it snagged pretty much. didn't want to break it like the rest of what i tried to make today, so put it in the display case.

 

[1950DAVE]

In the middle of a bathroom remodel. Today, I went crazy.

Settle down, you'll be alright. It's all in your mind.
Dave

 

[Woody Morgan]

In the middle of a bathroom remodel. Today, I went crazy.

Just the bathroom? We're 4.5 months into a 100% interior redo. Aaaaaaaaa!

wm

 

[bisleyjohn]

Confirmed that unmentionables have their uses.

My new 54gn (Swiss 2) spout

0955 and already too hot to be outside. Where's me book?