All About Pocket Knives

Yes sir, JR!
Kicked back on the couch, drinking coffee, reading Field & Stream. (which has all these pictures of huge bucks that we never see around here.)
Robert Cray playing on the CD player.
Computer is in the same room, so I get a little exercise moving from couch to computer desk.

Got to get that exercise to keep you young!!

Jerry I grew up eating cushaw pie. My grandfather used to grow them every year and we'd always get one or two that moma would cook up in pies. Oh man were they delicious. Haven't had one in years now.

Blue that fireplace scene looks so cozy. Guess I'm gonna have to haul some wood in and have a fire here soon after seeing that picture. BTW, watch out and don't let that little Christmas tree get too hot. Got your Christmas stocking hung yet ?

Yep Phil, you can barely see the end of my stocking in the top left corner.
Nothing in there yet though....

philco wrote:Jerry I grew up eating cushaw pie. My grandfather used to grow them every year and we'd always get one or two that moma would cook up in pies. Oh man were they delicious. Haven't had one in years now.

My ex-sister-in-law gave me a recipe for pumpkin pie that I like a lot so I just substitute Cushaw Squash for the Pumpkin. Mmmm Mmmm good.

Cushaw is much easier to get where you live than it is here so next year, get yourself one and have your wife make a pie for you (or make it yourself, what ever works). You would probably be well advised to work up the squash for her or else you might never get another pie. It's a pain in the keester.

Let me know if you want it and I'll give you the recipe for candied Cushaw. It's a staple around here for Thanksgiving dinner.

Jerryd, there must be a regional difference in cushaws as the ones we grow are not near as big as the ones you had a picture of. Also the color is different when mature, growing they are green stripped, but when they mature they are the color of a butternut squash. In fact they almost look like a giant butternut. We may not even know what we're eatin'? I do know they make great pies and my wife uses them for making pumkin bread. Here's a couple of pictures of some growing a few years back and a picture of a few from this year. Treefarmer

rangerbluedog wrote:First fire of the season. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

Are you roasting a cat in the middle of that fire ?!!

Phl -- Those are some fine Butternut squash (and they are Butternut). Are you saving your seed and using it for each new year's crop?

Cushaw comes in four or five different colors that I've seen but they don't look like that and none are that 'Butternut' color. I have some seed that's been in the freezer for quite some time so I don't know if they are still good or not. I'll send them to you if you would like to try it.

Here are three varieties I've seen grown or grown myself. First picture is the standard and most common green stripped along with golden and one that has crossed. The second picture is of a white variety. There is also a dark green variety.

Edit: found this list of varieties.

Cushaw Type - Black Sweet Potato, Gila Cliff Dweller, Gold Striped Cushaw, Green Striped Cushaw, Hindu, Hopi Cushaw, Japanese Pie, Jonathan, San Fernando Feral, Tennessee Sweet Potato, Winter Vining.

robinetn wrote:

rangerbluedog wrote:First fire of the season. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

Are you roasting a cat in the middle of that fire ?!!

ssshhhhhh, Rob, no one was supposed to notice.
I didn't notice it before, but it does kind of resemble a flaming kitty

Once again, I've learned something new at AAPK, which I'm now calling "The Knee of Knowledge".

I recently acquired this Kershaw SpeedSafe display with attached Scallion. I thought it fell under the heading of Ephemera. Up until today, my definition of Ephemera was any object relating to a main collectible object. The side-bar items in the collectibles field, such as knife displays similar to the one that just came into my possession.

What did I learn today. I learned that once again, I was wrong. Ephemera is considered to be paper goods. Transitory written or printed matter not meant to be retained or preserved. Some collectible ephemera are advertising trade cards, airsickness bags, bookmarks, catalogues, greeting cards, letters, pamphlets, postcards, posters, prospectuses, stock certificates, tickets and zines. Who knew? Well I know several here at AAPK knew but I didn't. Thanks AAPK for another learning experience.

Now to the real reason for my post, this Kershaw display. I posted this in another thread but thought it would get a bit more exposure here.

Jerry, Been doing a search on cushaws since I read your reply and the majority of cushaws are similar to what you have shown. There were several in the pictures I viewed that looked like what we have been growing and were labeled as cushaw . All we know is they taste mighty fine! I would like to try some of your seeds and see if we can grow some of them. I would have to isolate them and not have cross pollination to mess up the next crop. That may be what has happened with our seeds. We have been growing these things for years and they may have crossed with some other squash, maybe even with cucumbers as they are the same family, Cucurbitaceae. Treefarmer

rangerbluedog wrote:

robinetn wrote:

rangerbluedog wrote:First fire of the season. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...

Are you roasting a cat in the middle of that fire ?!!

ssshhhhhh, Rob, no one was supposed to notice.
I didn't notice it before, but it does kind of resemble a flaming kitty

To quote the Naturalist Euell Gibbons, "Have you ever eaten cattails? Many parts are edible."

Phil -- I'm 99.99% positive your squash are all Butternut.

I have your address and will send some seed in plenty of time for next year's growing season. Good idea keeping them separated, 'cause they'll cross like a Catholic Mass on Easter Sunday morning.

A little history: The Cushaw is a genuine American original. C. mixta is one of the ancients. It is supposed that Cushaws were cultivated in Mesoamerica as early at 7000 BC. Still treasured by the Hopi Indians, Cushaws are traditional in Cajun Creole Cooking as well as in Appalachia.

Ralphie's new BB gun!

Cool.

Looks like they'll have to change the line from "you'll shoot your eye out" to "you'll blow your fricking brains out"!!

Here's a couple of old compass planes that came my way recently.
They aren't Stanley. I'v got a Stanley in transit.
These things are so cool!

Cool tools,Joe.

A guy I went through boot camp with is the Director of Security at The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. He sent this picture today and I thought I'd share it with y'all.

A very nice photo. Thanks.

I visited there some years back. It was quite a sobering and moving tribute.

ZOMBIE FINGERS!!

JohnnieR -- Thanks for my morning laugh. The day seems to go better when you start it with a smile on your face (until some AH comes along and pours pee in the pot).



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