All About Pocket Knives

Makes me want some great-grandchildren.

Awww, cute little one there!

I better add that I do not consider my niece "miscellaneous stuff." But I am finding it increasingly difficult keeping track of how many nieces and nephews I have scattered through the generations. Even more trouble trying to keep their names straight.

Quick Steel. congratulations on the new niece!

Here are some key rings with worry/fidget beads.

Had to get my old windmill repaired and serviced today. Had to call the Aermotor Company to find someone to work on it. They made this one years ago and they're still in business today. I use to maintain it myself but the wife says I am too old to climb the tower now. I could have done it. Would have been just fine - until I hit the ground!

Ken

Here are some things that I got when my father in law passed away. Can anyone tell me what his occupation was?

Greg,
Did he have anything to do with sewing machines or tailor work?
Treefarmer

Had to have been a banjo player!

treefarmer wrote:Greg,
Did he have anything to do with sewing machines or tailor work?
Treefarmer

Phillip is on the money. He was a traveling sewing machine repairman / salesman!

One of my Labrador retrievers, Mazie, surveying her realm from the roof of the chicken house.

Ken

Rhode Island Reds?? And how the hey did she get up there?

Won't be any foxes hanging around there!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNK8A_bXwA[/youtube]

jerryd6818 wrote:Rhode Island Reds?? And how the hey did she get up there?

The chickens are an assorted mixture of Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshire Reds, Cream Legbars, and a couple of mutts. Whatever they have at the feed store when I need a few. And seven crazy Guineas.

Mazie gets up there by jumping onto the roof of a small coop (currently housing some young pullets) situated at the end of the large chicken house, and from there up to the roof of the chicken house. She reverses that to get down. So far she hasn't jumped directly off the chicken house roof, but I'm sure she could if she tried. You can see end of the small coop in the picture below. The fence you see is six feet high. The other dogs haven't tried it (yet) that I know of.

Ken

....that dog looks exactly like the one I used to have for 10 years!!..he died in 2001, and not a day passes that I don't think about him!!!........ ...........

My dog (Lehua) has chased many a jungle fowl in her younger years...even caught a few (not a pretty sight!). Now she just maintains the perimeter and keeps the feral cats, rats & mongooses (mongeese?) from stealing food from her supper dish.

Private Lehua reporting for duty, SIR! (Best guard dog I ever had.)
~Q~

A sign for in front of your house.

Mumbleypeg wrote:One of my Labrador retrievers, Mazie, surveying her realm from the roof of the chicken house.

Ken

I show up here and the first thing I see is a dog on a roof. Crackin' me up

man down my road has a three legged German Shepard. Friendly and get's around good. when I asked what happened to your leg the owner said he used to be a tire bitter. made me think of the cartoon when Marmaduke cought a car and it was upside down.

And seven crazy Guineas.

- We have 13 (9 males and 4 hens) and they are truly entertaining and a joy to have around. We have 1 French White that weights about 12 pounds and he rules the roost.

Granddad had Guinea hens. They make a good intruder alarm. Maybe not as good as peafowl but .........

Jerry - my driveway is 1,400' long and we used to have a driveway alarm to let us know when somebody was coming down. After we got the guineas in 2013 I took the driveway alarm down because day or night the guineas let us know whats going on - that's why they call them the farmers watchdog.

jerryd6818 wrote:Granddad had Guinea hens. They make a good intruder alarm. Maybe not as good as peafowl but .........

Yep, they're a great intruder alarm. They'll also set off the alarm if my cell phone rings, when I start the tractor, or any number of other incidents. They fly out of the fenced run, then run back and forth on the ground along the fence trying to get back in. They peck at their own reflection in the chrome wheel covers on the car. Every day!

I bought a small Japanese Maple to plant in the yard. Sat the pot with the tree in it down where I planned to plant it, went to get the shovel. When I returned, the guineas had the tree surrounded and were roundly "discussing" it. It was something new!

I could go on and on. Guineas are a hoot but can also be annoying.

Ken

Ours killed a 4' copperhead last year, hauled it up on their outside roost and let it rot in the sun.

We have a border collie and watching her herd them is worth the price of admission.

And my neighbors claim their eggs are the best they've ever had (I don't eat eggs).

bestgear wrote:

And seven crazy Guineas.

- We have 13 (9 males and 4 hens) and they are truly entertaining and a joy to have around. We have 1 French White that weights about 12 pounds and he rules the roost.

We have 5 males and 2 hens. I eat Guinea eggs but my wife won't. Guinea eggs are tough, takes a really hard whack to crack them.

The interaction between the Guinea cocks and the chicken rooster is entertaining. The rooster is very protective of his hens and tries to keep the Guineas away from them, daily stand-offs with displays of hackles and jumping up and down but rarely do they ever come to blows. The rooster generally rules the roost but occasionally the Guineas gang up on him. Then discretion becomes the better part of valor, a chase ensues with the rooster turning tail and running. But he's not kept away for long - he's right back protecting his girls.

Then at night they all go into the chicken house and roost together in apparent harmony. But the rooster occupies top rung on the roost, with his favorite hens beside him.

Ken