All About Pocket Knives

Some Birds from around our house... Ken

Some more Flowers.

Yes mate, we had our warmest day yesterday since March, might be a hot one. How are you going.

koldgold wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:18 am Some Birds from around our house... Ken

You are lucky, we have some beautiful birds here, and you have the pick of some of them.

Wow koldgold, those could all be on a calendar. Beautiful pics, thanks.

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:55 am Wow koldgold, those could all be on a calendar. Beautiful pics, thanks.

You are surrounded by wonderful flora and fauna.

Stump creature..
John

Runted wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:00 am How about another historical post.
First is the USS Cairo sunk in the Yazoo River by a floating mine.
While on duty outside Vicksburg, Ms.
cairo side.jpg
This is the Illinois Monument in the Vicksburg National Military Park
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The Old Courthouse Museum, former courthouse of Vicksburg, Ms.
Was in use during siege of Vicksburg in 1863.
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I would like to make it to Vicksburg, the siege has always interested me, thanks for posting.

Haven't heard any more about your wildfires down under. Are they all extinguished? What's the skinny?

cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 2:08 am

doglegg wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:55 am Wow koldgold, those could all be on a calendar. Beautiful pics, thanks.

Awesome photos! Thanks!

jmh58 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:07 pm DSC07741.JPG

Stump creature..
John

John, I can't decide if the stump creature looks more like a type of Primate or maybe a Barn Owl. Good one!

The Stump Creature has got me stumped. But it looks like the basis of a good sci-fi movie.

koldgold wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:25 am Some more Flowers.

Absolutely gorgeous ❤ ♥ loving every one of your photos.

Waukonda wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 9:53 pm

bighomer wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:56 pm 20200917_185439.jpg
Right pretty canna, don't you think. Getting close to the end for pretty flowers, I love the fall but I hate to see the flowers go

Nice Cannas, my parents always had those at one end of the garden.
Here is a much smaller flower, about the size of a pencil eraser, a tiny Frog Fruit bloom magnified a few times.

Now that's a real eye catching beauty Ike!

koldgold wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 1:25 am Some more Flowers.

Great pictures koldgold! Thanks!

Runted wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 12:00 am How about another historical post.
First is the USS Cairo sunk in the Yazoo River by a floating mine.
While on duty outside Vicksburg, Ms.
cairo side.jpg
This is the Illinois Monument in the Vicksburg National Military Park
Copy of P1010013.JPG
The Old Courthouse Museum, former courthouse of Vicksburg, Ms.
Was in use during siege of Vicksburg in 1863.
dogwood.jpg

I enjoy your pictures of historical sites! Thanks for sharing them!

I'm curious what it's like living where you live in reference to hurricanes. Like how long does it take you to drive down to the Golf of Mexico & is that a fairly safe distance? If not from the rain, at least from the strong winds.

I still dream of returning to the US some day and that's the kind of questions I'm always asking myself. How close can I get to the ocean & still be relatively safe from canes?

Vicksburg is about 200 miles from Gulfport,Ms via highway and about 3 1/2 hours drive and
about 170 as the crow flies. We catch rain if a hurricane hits the right place.
The one that hit the other week didn't cause us any problems.
Now Katrina that hit in 2005 caused problems all the way up past here.
But it was a rare cat 5 storm. Probably the worst to hit the Mississippi Gulf coast.
Mostly wind related tree and powerline problems are what we get.
And most hurricane winds are less than 65mph by the time they reach here.

But here we have had to run the A/C on Christmas Day on multiple occasions.
Our really cold weather is in Feb.
As far as snow goes we get an inch or so every few years. It usually only stays a day or two.

This morning, I was forced, by pileage...to do some cleaning and reorganization. Something slipped off the pile, on top of my gun safe...off the back, in between it and the wall. Who knows what it was...but; it's gonna take an estate conversion to ever find it.
Anyway...I'd seen somewhere else, in someone's photo, where they had stuck their knife stickers, on the inside of their safe. To be honest...I probably would have guessed I had 2-3. I never realized they were so common, in the knife world. These are the ones in my pile. I probably threw some away in the past. Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.

Doc B wrote: ↑Tue Sep 22, 2020 4:27 pm This morning, I was forced, by pileage...to do some cleaning and reorganization. Something slip off the pile, on top of my gun safe...off the back, in between it and the wall. Who knows what it was...but; it's gonna take an estate conversion to ever find it.
Anyway...I'd seen somewhere else, in someone's photo, where they had stuck their knife stickers, on the inside of their safe. To be honest...I probably would have guessed I had 2-3. I never realized they were so common, in the knife world. These are the ones in my pile. I probably threw some away in the past. Don't know why I didn't think of this earlier.

Looking good Jim!

Runted wrote: ↑Sat Sep 19, 2020 2:54 am The movie was Raintree County. Released in 1957 starring Montgomery Clift
and Elizabeth Taylor. Was considered a flop because it lost money.
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..........it's been over 50 years since I went thru Vicksburg, wish I could have spent more time there, much history to see !!!!.............................. ..........................

Leaf colors are going to be really nice this fall. I wish my camera could do them justice and the Calif. smoke has everything hazy.____Dave

Few more

Beautiful pictures Dave. It’ll be at least 4 to 6 weeks before we get any fall color here. Usually around Thanksgiving. Then it’ll last about 3 days before the leaves all fall off!

Ken

KOOL pics Dave..
John