All About Pocket Knives

Interesting pictures guys!!

So I fixed this two dollar flower bed shovel for my mom today… She’s from the generation that repurposes everything and has a hard time throwing anything away… I get my hoarding honestly! LOL… She’ll be tickled pink that I fixed it for her and it will be better than if I gave her $1,000,000!!

David R, Ever since I first saw them in cowboy films, I have always wondered are Longhorns aggressive, i.e. dangerous.

Good job on the garden trowel/shovel Ryan. Brazed or welded? Looks welded.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:32 pm David R, Ever since I first saw them in cowboy films, I have always wondered are Longhorns aggressive, i.e. dangerous.

Longhorns generally have a wild streak in my experience. They’re mostly nostalgic but there are a lot of them around here. A friend of mine who had Longhorns was constantly pestering me to breed some of my cows to his bull. Said the resulting calves would be smaller at birth and therefore easier for their mommas to birth them. I finally agreed to try it and took a couple of cows over to his place.

Well he was right, but those calves were wild! They kept jumping the fence and getting in my neighbor’s pasture, so when they were about 600 lbs I sold one. Before I could sell the other she jumped the fence again, two fences actually, so she was in my neighbors neighbor’s pasture. This time she didn’t come home, so I asked a friend from church, a part-time cowboy who was a team roper, if he’d help me catch her. He was excited about it and said he’d get his roping partner and come over the next Saturday,

Saturday morning he and his buddy showed up, unloaded their horses from the trailer and commenced trying to rope that half-Longhorn calf. The calf was not cooperative. She kept jumping fences and each time she did, the cowboys had to open and close gates to get their horses into the right pasture. Where the chase would begin again!

They finally roped her, and I pulled the stock trailer to that pasture (by now they were a couple of miles from my place). We finally got her into the trailer (which was a chore itself - she wasn’t cooperative then either). My friend asked me “Ken, you got any more like that ?” I said no. To which he said “ Thank God! My horse is plum wore out!”

Ken

steve99f wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:01 pm I'm no expert, my wife says these are dahlias. Pretty flower.

Never doubt your wife. They know about these things, flowers & such.

steve99f wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 6:40 pm Good job on the garden trowel/shovel Ryan. Brazed or welded? Looks welded.

Thanks Steve! !Mig welded. I did it real quick with no hood, eyes closed!

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:04 pm

steve99f wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:01 pm I'm no expert, my wife says these are dahlias. Pretty flower.

Never doubt your wife. They know about these things, flowers & such.

Jerry, I believe everything she tells me, honest injun.

Ken, Thank you for the vivid answer. If I ever find myself in proximity to a Longhorn, I think it best that I stand clear.

Sunrise at Weiss Lake, Alabama, 0532 til 0540, 19 June 2020.

iPhone photos.

Charlie

God does amazing work.

He is incapable of doing otherwise.

Great pics Sir. And He does it like an etch a sketch. It's there and then it's gone. Tune in again tomorrow.

RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Fri Jun 19, 2020 5:47 pm He is incapable of doing otherwise.

Amen.

Even His wrath is perfect.

Very nice images, beautiful.

Love my John Deere Zero-Turn mower! I'd mow the whole neighborhood
if they would let me. I would never use anything else.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:20 pm Ken, Thank you for the vivid answer. If I ever find myself in proximity to a Longhorn, I think it best that I stand clear.

QS the other thing I always laugh about is people and bulls. I handled rodeo stock in my 20s and I've never been as worried about a bull as a protective mama with a calf. A mad mama is about as bad as it gets. Although we've put in about 800 okies off the wheat in the last month and they're wild but won't come after you unless you corner them and leave them no choice. Time to get back to nice calm Kentucky cattle.
Bill

Nice ride David. I agree, zero turns are the only way to mow.

Ken

This is prickly pear and it is only pretty once a year. I thought I was being smart and planted it at the base of my bird feeder to keep the squirrels out, but at the first frost it falls over like a limp biscuit. Even here in central Indiana it does quite well in warm weather. It is very easy to grow. You just stick an ear in the ground and you never need to water it. If you touch it you'll have tiny spines in your hands that are really hard to get out.

Beautiful cactus just Bob. The problem here in Texas is not how to get it to grow but how to get it to stop.

Beautiful pictures Bob. Nicely landscaped - looks natural growing in the rocks.

Prickly pear is good to eat! Snip off a pad (carefully! ), scrape off the spines with a knife, rinse In cool water, brush with olive oil and lay it on a hot grill. Known as “Nopales”, it can be found on the menu at an authentic Mexican restaurant, usually served as a side. The pads are sold in the produce section of grocery stores here in Texas, spines already removed. Recipes easily found on line. Give it a try, I bet you’ll like it.

Supposedly has several health benefits, or at least that’s what I’ve been told by some of my Mexican friends. The fruit is edible also. Shiner Brewery even makes a beer with Prickly Pear - a little sweet for my taste but not bad.

Ken

Nice shot, Bob.
But the $64,000 question - does it keep the squirrels at bay?

Anybody have any idea how prickly pear would fair in south Jersey?

dlr110 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 1:01 am Love my John Deere Zero-Turn mower! I'd mow the whole neighborhood
if they would let me. I would never use anything else.

Very nice JDZT David!

We had some strong thunderstorms blow through here yesterday evening and part of the night.
If you enlarge the picture you can see an arrow showing just under 5.5 inches of rain. Then
in the background another arrow shows one of our young fruit trees snapped right at the base
and it had some good looking small apples on it. There are several other trees or branches
down this morning.

Wow, that's a lot at one time, David!