Life is good

[mississippidave]

Man, that looks like fun...aside from the busted knuckle....Will looks intense in the frontal pose with the snakey bow....I'm with Jon, I'm all about eats!

[FlintWalker]

AWESOME  weekend ! Maybe real soon I'll get to be a part of another one

[cowboy]

Man, i bet you boys was tire! That's a pile of hickory there. Another fun productive weekend, i'm jealous of course .

[Wolf Watcher]

You fellows are amazing with all you get done just so the rest of the visitors can reap the benifits.  Good looking bows and hickory!  A/Ho Joe

[MWirwicki]

Pappy:  Looks like you "scared" the bark off that hickory.  Nice haul!  Is that the static that Al Gosnel gave you?  I saw him this past weekend at our Marshall, MI shoot. 

Will:  It looks like you were inhaling that feather smoke!  Nice lookin' arras!

[Badger]

  You guys sure did get swome work done, about $4,000 dollars worth of hickory. Love that drill and the static bow you are working on. One heck of a team you have there coach!

[BearG]

Freakin home sick

[BearG]

less than a month

[Pappy]

Looking forward to it Shannon, yes we have a good team that knows how to get stuff done, Steve never thought about it like that but I guess you are right,so much Hickory around the farm t's hard to think of what it is worth.Yes Matt that was blank  ,finely decided to get it tillered and shooting.It is looking good right now,I think it will make a bow. Bear see ya in a few more weeks,looking forward to that. Joe /Paul  wished yall could come visit,you know you are welcome anytime.

Pappy

[Eric Krewson]

If you put a little borax in the trash bag with your feathers and shake it up bugs will never touch them. I do the same with arrows that I display for years in my shop. I put the fletched end in a zip-loc bag with some borax in it, shake the bag to distribute the dust on the fletching, tap off the excess and put the arrows back on the wall.

In the past some of the fletching on trophy plaque arrows would rot off in 5 or 6 years because of mites. So far the ones I have treated with borax are still pristine.

[Badger]

  Pappy, I have to buy at least 70% of my staves. I get a few here and there from tree trimmers. Since I retired a few months ago my stave budget has dropped from 4 a month to one a month. I can't help but see dollar signs on staves as much as I hate to. Los Angeles just doesn't have many places to cut wood.

[Pappy]

I am blessed Steve,don't guess I have ever bought a stave,sorta like dogs I don't buy um. Well I thought I was going to have a easy weekend and get some finish work done on a couple of bows I have been working on but last evening we had the BIG Maple by the dog kennel, [anybody that has been there knows the one I am talking about ] fell across the target/tool shed that is attached to the cabin and tore the crap out of it,going to have to have new rafters and roof,also another wild cherry fell on the vendor's tent[he should have taken it down] 
and the shower tent is on it side and limbs everywhere.Quite a mess. Miss Joanie said the weather said it was 65 mph straight line winds came through just before I got over there about 5pm. The electric was also out,hope that is back on or we will have to do something with the freezers and refrigerators. O well it could have been worse,only missed the cabin by feet. and if it had fell the other way it would have gotten the bow shop. Back to wood cutting. 
   Pappy

[Wolf Watcher]

  Never a dull moment at the farm--mother nature just adds to the work load!  Never saw anything mentioned about the rain at this years Classic! Seems when you don't have a lot to do on a given weekend you find lots to do anyway!  Guess that is just one more unique thing about Twin Oaks!  A/Ho Joe

[stringstretcher]

Sorry to hear that Pappy.  At least no one was hurt, as everything else it replaceable.  Get some of those young bucks lined up, and by the way it sounds that they can cut wood, it should be done in a few hours

[MWirwicki]

Maybe there's a bow in that Cherry or Maple tree.  Might seem fitting.