All About Pocket Knives

re-planted Easter Lily's from church. And a vintage Stanley bench vise. around 1950, missing a jaw insert but, that is okay giving age and I will bend up copper shims for it and I have several others. clamped to wife's potting bench.

Holiday in Greece

Living the good life Eustace? Nice pics.

Steve Warden wrote:Living the good life Eustace?

I'm trying, Steve. I have just one

MRWatch, cool old vise and beautiful lilies.
Eustace I think Greece must be your favorite get away place. It is beautiful.

Greece is certainly a beautiful part of the world. Thanks for posting these Eustace.

Thanks, friends!
Interestingly, I was on Sitonia, Halkidiki, and I have been through this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/worl ... idiki.html
The main blow of the hurricane was on the first peninsula - Cassandra, but also on the Sithonia was scary. We were at a restaurant when I saw a storm coming up. We were a big company, I told them that it would be scary soon after, but they did not believe me and they were kidding me. We were late with the fatal 10 minutes and the storm caught us on our way to the hotel, which was about 500 meters away. As if a wall of wind and rain hit us, which in a few seconds passed into hail. I was walking in front and fortunately I saw an open garage, where we hid until the storm passed. So, we got away only with wet clothes, 6 dead mobile phones and children's fright.
Interestingly, the hurricane has somehow surrounded the monastic republic of Mount Athos and hit the island of Thassos on the other side

Eustace, when you say the hurricane surrounded Mt.Athos, does that mean the storm passed by without hitting the monasteries or it did hit them? Sorry, I am not clear on what happened; I've read considerably about Mt. Athos.

Hurricane circumvented Mount Athos, I.e., the storm's front goes south after Sithonia, then east, and then northeast, and hits Thassos. No monasteries suffered.

Just a butterfly posing for my camera.

In recent days we have had an abundance of white and yellow moths flying around. More than in past years

That’s a beauty Phil! Maybe you can wade through this site and identify it. https://www.butterfliesathome.com/black ... arison.htm. Good luck!

Ken

Phil you did good with that photo. A calendar shot. How beautiful they are.

Cool old vise, Mr. Watch. I love watching those old vise restoration videos on Youtube. I have a couple of my great-grandfather's vises from early last century. One is in good shape, and one is in rough shape and missing some parts ( I posted some pics on some thread a while back.) I have been eye-balling some donor vises on e-bay to scavenge some parts off of. I will attempt a restoration on it after I finish the bandsaw.

dinner plate hibiscus.

Pretty flowers.

Very pretty indeed.

Niiiiiiiiiiiiice, BH!

We got a few peaches off our tree this year. Now if I can get my wife to make some peach cobler, I'll be sitting good!!!

dlr110 wrote:We got a few peaches off our tree this year. Now if I can get my wife to make some peach cobler, I'll be sitting good!!!

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I am so envious of you having all those peaches. Man-o-man, a good ripe peach is a real treat. With a bit of a blood sugar problem, I have to limit my consumption of peaches and cobbler is not on the menu any more. Beautiful fruit!!

Ray

Paladin wrote:

dlr110 wrote:We got a few peaches off our tree this year. Now if I can get my wife to make some peach cobler, I'll be sitting good!!!

20180710_160329.jpg

I am so envious of you having all those peaches. Man-o-man, a good ripe peach is a real treat. With a bit of a blood sugar problem, I have to limit my consumption of peaches and cobbler is not on the menu any more. Beautiful fruit!!

Ray

Thanks Ray, I understand I'm a Type II diabetic, but I have to have a little bit. I would share some of the peaches with you.

Phil, beautiful butterfly.

Are the bricks on your house laid vertical like that?

Unusual building technique..

Charlie

dlr110 wrote:

Paladin wrote:

dlr110 wrote:We got a few peaches off our tree this year. Now if I can get my wife to make some peach cobler, I'll be sitting good!!!

20180710_160329.jpg

I am so envious of you having all those peaches. Man-o-man, a good ripe peach is a real treat. With a bit of a blood sugar problem, I have to limit my consumption of peaches and cobbler is not on the menu any more. Beautiful fruit!!

Ray

Thanks Ray, I understand I'm a Type II diabetic, but I have to have a little bit. I would share some of the peaches with you.

A lady at our church, now deceased, was famous for her delicious desserts. Her banana pudding was especially good. One Sunday at a church dinner I overheard another member, a diabetic, say “Someday I’m gonna get her to make me a banana pudding. I’m gonna take it to the hospital, sit in the door at the emergency room, and eat the whole thing!”

Of course, he was joking. I think.

Ken

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Phil, beautiful butterfly.

Are the bricks on your house laid vertical like that?

Unusual building technique..

Charlie

Oh Charlie. I can't tell if you're serious or just pokin' Phil.

Nice (moth?) picture, Jerry. Great colors!