All About Pocket Knives

Over the hill and thru the woods to grandma's house we go! Cause
...you know what happens at grandma's stays at grandma's! ftd

fergusontd wrote: Over the hill and thru the woods to grandma's house we go! Cause
...you know what happens at grandma's stays at grandma's! ftd

What happens at Grandma's house usually involves real good food in my experience!

That is a very cool photo - looks like the boys are on a well traveled trail.

Thanks guys. Cheryl aka Mimi always has cookies and yahoos waiting for them . Fill them up with sugar and send them home

Larry

Don't have the time to go back through all this thread, but I don't think I've seen a more meaningful picture posted! Not throwin' off on anybody, it's all interestin' stuff, but this one really hit the spot! Thanks, Larry, for sharing it!
Treefarmer

That is funny: filling them up on sugar and sending them home.

Great picture, Larry.

Larry.....that is life....it should be your Christmas Card this year!!

Garry.....love that wood pile! Not much more that I like to do than cut and burn wood. Of course
we don't need it for warmth that often.....

Point taken Scott. Yes, I can't imagine central Fl. offers much opportunity for wood fires. Though I guess you do get some frost, or maybe that is north of you. I am very interested to see what my first KY winter is going to offer.

Quick Steel wrote: I am very interested to see what my first KY winter is going to offer.

Be careful what you wish for.

Quick Steel wrote: the wood burning stove does a fine job of keeping the entire house "toasty" including the 2nd floor.

Quick Steel, I had a wood stove very much like that years ago. The "Momma Bear" model. Is that what you have?

Great photo of The Home Place, The Grandkids and The Sun Shining Through The Trees.

We love our four grandchildren, but I heard a little poem a while back that seems apropos:

I've seen the lights of Paris.
I've seen the lights of Rome.
But, the brightest lights I've ever seen
Are the taillights of my children's car,
Carrying my grandchildren home.

Charlie

Charlie, I vote for "Best Poem Ever Award" for that one..............

Here's a little critter I picked up today only because it exemplifies the concept of, "superfluous ostentation". An adjustable wrench whose jaws are powered by a small electric motor to quickly adjust it to size. It operates in the manual mode as well(probably most of the time as the operation is a bit sporadic).It also features on the sides of the fixed jaw a scale for metric and USA measurement which likely facilitates finding the proper wrench to use after you tire of making this one work. For a dollar I'm getting a lot of laughs from it.

Well ain't that somethin'. Is the battery in that black part in the handle?

That is different
It's time to give up when you are to lazy to adjust a adjustable spanner.
My luck, it would have a flat battery every time I went to use it.

Grant

jerryd6818 wrote:Well ain't that somethin'. Is the battery in that black part in the handle?

Yes it is Jerry;it takes two AAA batteries. The screw that holds the cover down was rusted so I had to drill the head off to get them out. It works but is sluggish;probably hasn't run in awhile.

Quick Steel wrote:Point taken Scott. Yes, I can't imagine central Fl. offers much opportunity for wood fires. Though I guess you do get some frost, or maybe that is north of you. I am very interested to see what my first KY winter is going to offer.

QS I was snowbound for 6 days last winter. Of course I wasn't tryin' all that hard to get out either. Kentucky winters are a complete crapshoot. Some years there's hardly any snow at all and it does not get all that cold. Other years it drops below zero for several days in a row and there's snow that can be as deep as three feet. Roll the dice and wear your mittens.

Phil, for some reason I don't find your comments reassuring. I was counting on KY getting just enough snow to be picturesque. I'll lay in extra birdseed.

FRJ: Just now found your comment. Tomorrow I'll go over the stove with a flash light and see what I can find.

Joe, no identifiers on the stove. Came from a friend years ago who in turn had it for years. We'll check and see if she has any more info. If so I'll send you a PM.

Quick Steel, upon further review I found mine to be a Fisher stove. They had a Baby, Momma and Papa model and other models.
Yours appears to be a very good copy of the stove. Maybe even more solidly built.
They are great stoves.

Time Square in NYC.

Works but is sluggish, probably hasn't run in awhile.[/quote]
Describes me to a "T". ftd