We went for a walk in the Forest of Dean, to just get away from it all. We got back to the car and had a visitor, see below
Andy
Andy
What did you do this morning?
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A carving Jack Wayland?, very nice.
I got up at 6, got the stove going and made a brew then let out my 5 dogs, 2 farm dogs and fed 6 horses and have now just returned from a good walk with dogs... just considerig having a snooze now
I got up at 6, got the stove going and made a brew then let out my 5 dogs, 2 farm dogs and fed 6 horses and have now just returned from a good walk with dogs... just considerig having a snooze now
They are all specialized blades for carving and whittling.
I've just made my first spoon (almost) and that's quite an achievement because I'm a hopeless wood worker.
I'm more of a metal tamer..
I've just made my first spoon (almost) and that's quite an achievement because I'm a hopeless wood worker.
I'm more of a metal tamer..
AlbeoLupus said:Now I know it a folder but what are all the weird blades for?
Andy
It's for carving so the blades are for the different cuts and for scooping. Do a search on the forum for carvin jack, I know that Hoodoo's put up a bit on them.
This morning was kids stockings and then the family came over at 7 so we had 14 kids, parents and grandparents, the logs burning in the wood stove...Quite lovely really, although a bit noisy
Then off to church for some carols, then back for dinner (23 people), a quick nap and then carol singing at the local old peoples home.
Quite a busy day really but a satisfying one.
I hope it's been a great day for the rest of you. :You_Rock_
I spent the morning walking the two dogs along the beach. Not much wildlife, a few gulls. The highlight was a little Egret. Getting a few around here.
Busy, busy...family, food, pressies, fog
Spent an hour clearing up in the garden though Crisp, frosty and beautifully cold.
Dozens of birds; I have a pair of robins that insist on accompanying me everywhere I go in the garden, three backies, two thrushes, and a flock of blue, great, coal, & willow tits. There's a family of seven long tailed tits, chaffinches, an occasional bullfinch and lots of sparrows. A couple of wrens flittering through the beech hedge and the ivy, and siskins on the fatballs. A little male reed bunting and two females up from the burn today too.
It's an interesting way to spend a little time near to the kitchen while food's cooking in the oven.
G. & J. went for a walk down the castle policies and along the Clyde; cold and foggy but lovely too.
My brother phoned, one of the friends we grew up with died this morning. My young sons called him Uncle, he flew kites with them, carried them on his shoulders, built them snowmen and castles. Scott was only 39, and he died of a heart attack. I was thinking of him as I worked in the garden, he used to find such calm in his. He liked to wander round mine pointing out how things grew better if.....different soil/companions/situations.....I'm so tired of grieving, this year. He's the third friend under 40 to die this way in the last two months...... and it's Christmas
I'm going to go for a walk with Graham_S in a couple of days, wander around Brownlee woods, try out my new kettle, just enjoy the calm and the company, maybe do some scrub clearing.
Roll on Hogmanay.
Cheers,
Toddy
Spent an hour clearing up in the garden though
Crisp, frosty and beautifully cold. Dozens of birds; I have a pair of robins that insist on accompanying me everywhere I go in the garden, three backies, two thrushes, and a flock of blue, great, coal, & willow tits. There's a family of seven long tailed tits, chaffinches, an occasional bullfinch and lots of sparrows. A couple of wrens flittering through the beech hedge and the ivy, and siskins on the fatballs. A little male reed bunting and two females up from the burn today too.
It's an interesting way to spend a little time near to the kitchen while food's cooking in the oven.
G. & J. went for a walk down the castle policies and along the Clyde; cold and foggy but lovely too.
My brother phoned, one of the friends we grew up with died this morning. My young sons called him Uncle, he flew kites with them, carried them on his shoulders, built them snowmen and castles. Scott was only 39, and he died of a heart attack. I was thinking of him as I worked in the garden, he used to find such calm in his. He liked to wander round mine pointing out how things grew better if.....different soil/companions/situations.....I'm so tired of grieving, this year. He's the third friend under 40 to die this way in the last two months...... and it's Christmas
I'm going to go for a walk with Graham_S in a couple of days, wander around Brownlee woods, try out my new kettle, just enjoy the calm and the company, maybe do some scrub clearing.
Roll on Hogmanay.
Cheers,
Toddy
You look after yourself :You_Rock_
Finished my Christmas Wreath, and cooked christmas lunch. Been a bit more ambitious this year - goose with a prune and apple stuffing, carrots vichy, honey roasted parsnips, roasties, giblet gravy, yorkshire puds and of course sprouts. Luckily it all turned out well.
Happy christmas all. Hope you had good christmas days.
Happy christmas all. Hope you had good christmas days.
Toddy said:I'm so tired of grieving, this year. He's the third friend under 40 to die this way in the last two months...... and it's Christmas
I'm going to go for a walk with Graham_S in a couple of days, wander around Brownlee woods, try out my new kettle, just enjoy the calm and the company, maybe do some scrub clearing.
Roll on Hogmanay.
Cheers,
Toddy
Death is just another journey we must all take. Some of us get an early start and some of us will be late but we all set out in the end.
The most important thing to remember is not that they have gone but that they were here and what that brought to your lives.
Thank you for the kind thoughts, people, much appreciated. :You_Rock_
I went to sit with Scott's mum & his sister for a little while this morning; sore, sore, sore
His son is only 11. The funeral can't go ahead until there's been a post mortem and the report has been cleared with the Procurator Fiscal. Looks like it'll be after Hogmanay before things are settled. Scottish funeral are usually done in three days, this extra time seems such an added cruelty.
Today *was* better though, busy with family and friends. Got a new compass....Yesss!, played with my kelly kettle, J terrorised the moggie with an rc flying saucer, I decanted the sloe gin sorted out the ice-brewed elderflower wine since it's been so cold the past few nights and I'm trying to finish sewing a new jacket to wear with my arisaid. I went for a walk just as it got dark. It was damp, misty and cold....lovely really. Quiet and peaceful and we have so much left over food that I don't even need to cook dinner Might go and soak in the bath, got a copy of Mors Kochanski's Bushcraft to read, and 9 different bubble bath thingies......you'd think I needed a hint or sumthing :bluThinki
Cheers,
Toddy
I went to sit with Scott's mum & his sister for a little while this morning; sore, sore, sore
His son is only 11. The funeral can't go ahead until there's been a post mortem and the report has been cleared with the Procurator Fiscal. Looks like it'll be after Hogmanay before things are settled. Scottish funeral are usually done in three days, this extra time seems such an added cruelty.Today *was* better though, busy with family and friends. Got a new compass....Yesss!
, played with my kelly kettle, J terrorised the moggie with an rc flying saucer, I decanted the sloe gin sorted out the ice-brewed elderflower wine since it's been so cold the past few nights and I'm trying to finish sewing a new jacket to wear with my arisaid. I went for a walk just as it got dark. It was damp, misty and cold....lovely really. Quiet and peaceful and we have so much left over food that I don't even need to cook dinner Might go and soak in the bath, got a copy of Mors Kochanski's Bushcraft to read, and 9 different bubble bath thingies......you'd think I needed a hint or sumthing :bluThinkiCheers,
Toddy
Damascus said:
I know what you mean I am back to work all week but they have given me the weekend off.
Andrew.
Me I got up this morning far too late. Hade some breakfast with the family then spent the day smithing. I made a couple of slim bushcrafty/wood carving blades and put them to anneal in my new anealing pot. I will see how well it worked when i take them to the grinder.
