What Did You Do Today?

[JEB]

Pearl Drums, I know. Glad my wife has been a nurse for 40 years and she knew what to do.  And I am just about done with that osage stave I got from you so that is on the back burner for a month or so.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Bring it to Marshall, we can whip it into shape there. At least your a righty and your shooting wont be effected.

[TRACY]

Bummer about the thumb JEB   

[IdahoMatt]

That sound painful to say the least.  My brother in law is a fish manger and did something similar right before Christmas.  But his was on a ban saw.  It cut just the pad too.  Sorry to hear that.  His healed surprisingly fast.  Hope your does too.

[osage outlaw]

Ouch!  That sucks Jeb.  Table saws scare me.  I hardly ever use mine.  My uncle is down to 7.5 fingers because of table saws.  When he is golfing and somebody misses a short put he says "Where I'm from they cut fingers off for missing a put like that", and then he holds up his hands and shows them his nubs.  It gets a laugh every time.

[JW_Halverson]

Ouch!  That sucks Jeb.  Table saws scare me.  I hardly ever use mine.  My uncle is down to 7.5 fingers because of table saws.  When he is golfing and somebody misses a short put he says "Where I'm from they cut fingers off for missing a put like that", and then he holds up his hands and shows them his nubs.  It gets a laugh every time.

Your uncle is a funny guy, I like him already.

When I worked at Mt Rushmore the second National Treasure movie had just came out.  One day I was explaining to some folks that there was no "secret lake" behind Mt Rushmore when  man with one arm walks up and interrupts.  He says, "Oh, just give him $50 like I did and he will take you fishing there!  I caught a trout there this morning THIS BIG!" And he proceeds to hold up his one remaining arm.  He looks over the horrified crowd of people that are staring at his pinned up empty sleeve and starts to look sheepish.  He moves the one arm a little to the left and says, "Ok, I exaggerated, it was only this big."

[mullet]

I ate lunch at a Bedouin tent in the Negev Desert. Pita Bread cooked on a cast iron, round grill and squirted with goat cheese, olive oil, hot sauce, and spices with Arab cafe.

[osage outlaw]

That sure sounds like an interesting meal Mullet.  You didn't say if you liked it or not. 


Well, that free donkey has cost me two days of vacation and over $200.  It turns out him and the pony can't get along enough to share the small barn.  The donkey usually takes control of it and the pony and the stupid goat are left outside.  The wife was worried about them getting to cold or wet.  We are having a pretty cold and snowy winter.  We wanted to build a lean-to off of the side of the barn this spring.  I went ahead and built the roof and leaned it up against the barn for a temporary shelter.  Now they can all have a place to get out of the weather.  When it warms up I'm going to set some posts and build some walls to make a better lean-to.  For right now its enough to make the wife happy which makes my life a lot easier.






I did get a little time in the shop tonight.  I put a bendy handle bow on the caul.  I added a little extra reflex. 



As I was working on the end of the limb there was a loud pop that caused me to jump.  I thought one of my clamps had broke or something.  I looked everything over and found a crack in the handle.  It doesn't look to bad.   I filled it with superglue.  I don't think it will be much of a problem. 

[okie64]

I bet that crack holds up just fine Clint. Looks like u got plenty of nice snakey staves hoarded up, cant wait to see what u make from them.

I went out this morning to gather up some osage for smoking, it really helps the smoker get nice and warm on cold days this time of year. I try to remember where I see blowdowns when Im out hunting. Heres all I could haul back on my four wheeler. Might even be a few short bows in the longer pieces.

[JW_Halverson]

Be some awful short bows in that pile on the left! 

[blacktailcody]

I shot my recurve for 2 1/2 hours today!!!!!

[osage outlaw]

Okie, I see some nice pieces in that pile on the right.  The dead stuff like that makes some good bows.

[chamookman]

I was going to say the same thing Outlaw ! Bob

[YosemiteBen]

one of my coworkers started off their day just plain bad! I passed an accident this morning and it was an NPS vehicle! No details yet.

Apparently this guy has only been working a couple of weeks for the NPS. He is a local kid to the park. Going to fast and fell asleep at the wheel! He is physically fine  definitely feeling more than a little sheepish.

[Eric Krewson]

Deer season is over in Tn where I hunt so I pulled my lock-ons yesterday. I took my 22 and made a sweep of part of the property about an hour before dark looking for armadillos. They were everywhere, I killed 5 before I headed home.

Every few years I have to thin the armadillo population on the land because they get so thick you can't hear a thing because they are around you rooting in the leaves at prime deer movement times.  I have never had a deer come by when I had an armadillo around me, they shy away from the noise.

Still a few days of flintlock hunting in Alabama this week then I will store my gear and get ready for this years traditional tournaments.