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  • BushMoot: Come along to the amazing Summer Moot 31st July - 5th August (extended Moot : 27th July - 8th August), a festival of bushcrafting and camping in a beautiful woodland PLEASE CLICK HERE for more information.
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    Do we coddle the kids too much these days?

    Hmmm. Maybe we have a high incidence of germophobes here in Canada.
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    Do we coddle the kids too much these days?

    Never thought about it like that. Touche.
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    I thank you very much. That was probably the one route I didn't check. Lemme see what I can do here...
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    Do we coddle the kids too much these days?

    It's disconcerting how parents keep a bottle of sanitizer to smear on a kid's scrape. In the 60s and probably the 70s, a parent would spit on a tissue and use it. People are too lazy -or whatever - to follow a train of logic. You build up resistance with exposure. Back then, we had pocket...
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    Backyard Arts, Crafts and Sciences In Atlantic Canada. I Got Too Much Spare Time, Eh.

    I got a couple pics posted of my plants in the cloud https://drive.proton.me/urls/059N9S98T0#L34TbHChOlhE It's not far in yet, but they'll get taller than me if I don't tie them horizontal. My plan, though is to see how far I can an push production with training. One pic shows a chewed-up plant...
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    Backyard Arts, Crafts and Sciences In Atlantic Canada. I Got Too Much Spare Time, Eh.

    If you found the Irish River you made it there. I'm about a 3/4 hour drive inland in Sussex. I found Berkshire on Earth, a ways west of London. I saw on YouTube a project where beavers are being introduced up north in Scotland. I have a degree in Environmental Biology and that kind of thing...
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    Backyard Arts, Crafts and Sciences In Atlantic Canada. I Got Too Much Spare Time, Eh.

    Oh, the recovery is going great finally, thanks. Not hard to find things to do. The outdoors is very accessible around here. A one minute walk gets me in the woods and another couple minutes is a beaver pond where I get sticks to carve. If I had a license I'd be able to fish there too. I've...
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    Longest ever intro…

    10 years. I thought my few months was a long stretch.
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    Backyard Arts, Crafts and Sciences In Atlantic Canada. I Got Too Much Spare Time, Eh.

    Hey everyone, I'm finally getting around to a thread of my own. I'm recovering from bone surgery in my face and starring to feel good again. Here comes the boring part, where I say a bit about myself. You can follow my train of babble on Google Earth. I'm from Newfoundland originally, the Bay...
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    Walking sticks and staffs

    Hey Pattree, I've been making mine for >20 years now. The wife still has the first one I made. Right now I have a few, but the one I keep in the car is a Moses stick with a snake head and a fully carved shaft. It's made from a piece of spruce driftwood from the Bay of Fundy, where we have the...
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    Can somebody be so kind as to answer a Q? I got an outdated link in my signature I want to change and for the life of me I can't find my way back there. I'm pretty sure it was only a couple clicks to find it, but anyway...
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    Sorry for the delay... Going through a series of surgeries here. I know all about the munchies. It gets me through the antibiotics.
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    Finishing up on a hiking stick. It has a few spirals on it and a crosshatch handgrip. Below the grip is a maple leaf with ELBOWS UP 2026 carved into the shaft. It seems to be the Canadian battle cry of the times. I'm going to bring it to the dog park and leave it with a message for someone who...
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    Natural selection. They're smart enough to know a pothead is good for a bite of food.
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    WHAT DID YOU MAKE TODAY?

    I guess while I'm thinking about it, here's a couple cool slow motion vids. Here I am firing the dart gun I made. The body is oak, the power is supplied by an extra heavy bungee cord, and she fires darts I make with barbecue skewers: https://drive.proton.me/urls/33V39Y3YXR#UXRB8lI4NGMB A couple...