All About Pocket Knives

Unk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:32 pm Very nice pics, guys.

I went out to the shop the other night, and there was a copperhead next to the door. I dispatched him with a shovel. Then today I was sitting in the shop watching Youtube, getting some ideas for a chisel rack, and saw some movement out of the corner of my eye. This little scorpion was headed my direction. This is a couple of days after accidently stabbing myself in the hand with a chisel.

I am starting to think my shop may not be the safest place to hang out.

Mike, you live in Texas, where everything is beautiful but most of the beautiful things will sting, bite, or scratch you! I know you know that.

Ken

Ridgegrass, you have provided us with a most interesting photo. Might the color variation be due to a difference in the amount of sunlight reaching each side?

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:26 pm I was parked next to this stump yesterday and these bracket fungi caught my eye. On the left they were much darker than the ones on the right. I'm just assuming they were the same organism and the color difference puzzled me.
J.O'.

Were you puzzled?.....or were you "stumped"?

Quick steel: Good point but the "stump" is actually a log stood there as a post to limit parking near a garden. It hasn't been there too long, and I don't know where it came from. (I'play music there on Sundays and I know they just re-did the area.) I just walked past it yesterday and the contrast immediately caught my eye. I'll see it again soon and try to figure it out.


UNK: I'll try to get to the "root" of the question and I'll keep you "posted". J.O

Ridgegrass wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 8:20 pm
UNK: I'll try to get to the "root" of the question and I'll keep you "posted". J.O

Ridgecrest, I believe the stuff on the stump is called Turkey tail mushroom. Look that up, might be good for your health.
Treefarmer

Thanks TF: Interesting. Evidently we have the brown and pale varieties together on the same log. I saw lots of info on their possible healing properties, but there was also an FDA warning associated with those products. They are part of some Chinese medicines.
I don't need any of that right now but at least I have a source. O'.

Happy fall yawl.

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Sep 25, 2023 2:49 pm

Unk wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2023 9:32 pm

Mike, you live in Texas, where everything is beautiful but most of the beautiful things will sting, bite, or scratch you! I know you know that.

Ken

Ken, yes, from an early age you learn to keep an eye on the ground when you are walking around, and don't reach under or in anything that you can't see under or into. I haven't ever been bit by a copperhead, but have had several friends (and lots of dogs) bit by them. I have been stung by scorpions a couple of times. They weren't too bad - about like a bee sting.

"Help, I've fallen and I can't get up!"

Miss Joy enjoys decorating our home according to the seasons and holidays. There are Spring decoration followed by Patriotic season, Memorial Day through 9-11, red, white and blue and we're are gearing up for fall/Thanksgiving. I always like to add some knives to her displays. Here are the 3 Case knives that are helping us with the fall season: No Christmas until Thanksgiving is over!
Treefarmer

treefarmer wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:17 pm Miss Joy enjoys decorating our home according to the seasons and holidays. There are Spring decoration followed by Patriotic season, Memorial Day through 9-11, red, white and blue and we're are gearing up for fall/Thanksgiving. I always like to add some knives to her displays. Here are the 3 Case knives that are helping us with the fall season:003.JPG
No Christmas until Thanksgiving is over!
Treefarmer

Nice!!!!!

Phil, your wife and you have a lovely practice with those seasonal displays. These are sure to stay alive in the memories of your children, grandchildren, and friends.

Quick Steel wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:47 pm Phil, your wife and you have a lovely practice with those seasonal displays. These are sure to stay alive in the memories of your children, grandchildren, and friends.

Very good point. They are the sort of things that kids and grand kids remember. I have many fond memories of how my grandparents and aunties and uncles lived. And the times were much simpler, and they seemed generally happier.

Fall sky......

A couple of Pyrite Suns, as is when found, cleaned up they would be a shiny, sparkling gold. They are only found in a limited area of the Southern Illinois coal basin, approximately 300' underground.

The sky was on fire yesterday evening

Keith

Never saw those disks befoe. Thanks for showing them, Ike. I'm learning something new every day.

ozzie marie wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 3:33 pm The sky was on fire yesterday evening

Keith
Sunset 10 15 23.jpg

Beautiful! Doesn’t God do great work!

Ken

Sunrise out of my bedroom window this morning.

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!!
We always heard about "the red clouds in the morning", are y'all expecting any rain?
Unk, what is the old, high iron wheeled implement in the lower center of the picture?
Treefarmer

TF, we are expecting rain all next week, starting on Monday, I think.

There's a story behind the farm implement. Kinda sad.

Its a Deere & Mansur 2 row corn planter. Circa 1910 - 1915, I believe. Belonged to my wife's best friends grandfather, who farmed in this area. She wanted my wife to have it, so I had to go dig it out of the ground (in July 2022) where it had sat for decades, intertwined with trees and roots. Took 2 days of digging in 100 + temps. Didn't know it at the time, but I had 5 blockages in my heart. Had my bypass surgery 4 months later.

My wife's friend has had stage 4 cancer for last couple of years. She's in her last days now. When she said she wanted my wife to have the planter, I didn't have any choice but to go dig it up. But now that it's on our place, I love opening the blinds every morning and seeing it sitting there.

Here's a pic my wife took last fall. I've put a seat on it since then, so that it looks less painful to operate.

Mike,
Thanks for the story about the old planter. Lots of us have special possessions from similar incidents.
Deere & Mansur is a new name to me. I have an old John Deere-Killefer offset harrow setting in the bushes. That was a new name to me about 48 years ago. I still use a Van Brunt steel wheeled grain drill that was originally horse/mule drawn. Van Brunt was bought by John Deere in 1911.
Treefarmer