Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[SteveC]

Beautiful Barlow Steve

Thanks pal !

I hope everyone's week is off to a good start. I've had a nice day After taking care of some chores in the house, I walked down to Charlie's for coffee and a croissant, then caught the bus into town, called in at the bank, bought a few groceries, bumped into an old friend, and then went for a Japanese lunch

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I walked through town, and bumped into Slimline Scott, who told me about the 'Rods and Rockers' weekend. As I'd predicted, Boring Ray and his missus ended up sleeping in their car, which can't have been very pleasant, particularly 2 nights in a row

After leaving Scott, I went to the market to buy bread, and was introduced to the new lady who is going to be working on the bread stall. She is originally from Vanvouver, and I was surprised when she said she didn't know Charlie

I picked up a few more things, and headed home, bumping into Matt on the way. He was due back at work unfortunately, but then Wolfie came over to take me for a coffee. We headed up the road, and sat outside in the sun with coffee and cheesecake, putting the world to rights

All in all, a pretty good start to the week

Sounds like it buddy !

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks again, Jack!!
*So much history lost!!!

Maybe I need to get over to Sheffield in my Wellington boots Charlie! Sadly, the cutlery industry were often very poor at preserving history. It was worse in London, where the cutlers' guild lost all their records in a fire

And I thought I knew everyone out here!!!

I definitely thought everyone knew you my friend!

I was up a 0630. Which isn't early for most people but it is for me. I usually up and down a lot at night but don't usually stay up till 1000 or 1100. Probably be napping when I get back to the house. Been to the pharmacy, grocery store and went by the Apt to get my mail. Hadn't been to to town in over a week.

I hope you sleep better tonight David

 

[echoscout]

I hope you sleep better tonight David

Thank you kindly buddy

 

[Campbellclanman]

I hope everyone's week is off to a good start. I've had a nice day After taking care of some chores in the house, I walked down to Charlie's for coffee and a croissant, then caught the bus into town, called in at the bank, bought a few groceries, bumped into an old friend, and then went for a Japanese lunch

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I walked through town, and bumped into Slimline Scott, who told me about the 'Rods and Rockers' weekend. As I'd predicted, Boring Ray and his missus ended up sleeping in their car, which can't have been very pleasant, particularly 2 nights in a row

After leaving Scott, I went to the market to buy bread, and was introduced to the new lady who is going to be working on the bread stall. She is originally from Vanvouver, and I was surprised when she said she didn't know Charlie

I picked up a few more things, and headed home, bumping into Matt on the way. He was due back at work unfortunately, but then Wolfie came over to take me for a coffee. We headed up the road, and sat outside in the sun with coffee and cheesecake, putting the world to rights

All in all, a pretty good start to the week

Sounds like a great outing bumping into friends Jack!

 

[cudgee]

I cooked steak sandwich for dinner

couldn't finish it though.

You could have sent what was left my way. . Do love a steak Sanga .

 

[euroken]

With respect, hats off to all regular posters!

Lucky to own one of the HHBs!

One for the show, and another for a day's work!

 

[SteveC]

It's a hot one here at 90° and a storm on it's way. Should be much cooler tomorrow


Bonus pic of the day

 

[black mamba]

Sublime, Steve, beautiful mahogany bone!

 

[mitch13]

It's a hot one here at 90° and a storm on it's way. Should be much cooler tomorrow


Bonus pic of the day




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Very nice
It will be a hot 64f today

 

[echoscout]

Suppose to have some thunderstorms roll in this evening

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[SteveC]

Sublime, Steve, beautiful mahogany bone!

Very nice
It will be a hot 64f today

Thanks fellas !

 

[cudgee]

the cutlers' guild lost all their records in a fire

Mate record keeping was very hit and miss in the day. Pre-Computers everything was done by hand on paper and kept in cardboard Manilla files most are lost. A good friend of mine over 40 years ago was highly successful in body building, she won a swag of tiles across the world and virtually the only records are her trophies and diaries. These sports were amateur organizations run by volunteers, and they had full time jobs. Where all her records were kept was a small office which is now under about 30/40 stories of offices and all the files just disappeared, to put them into a computer would have been a full time job itself and probably no one had the tech skills to do it. Sad, but record keeping back then was just so haphazard, and most of those old offices/factories were just fire traps waiting to happen.

 

[Fodderwing]

Great picture

Thanks mate. That rag bone barlow sings!

Great looking knife and an even better pour! Nice shot

Thanks Scubaroo.

 

[Fodderwing]

Havagudn...

 

[mac0731]

My best friend will grow a bunch of starters from seeds and then share them around with everyone for their gardens. A few years ago I think we got three tomato plants from him. He contacted me a few weeks ago and asked how many we'd like this year, and I told him to give me all the tomatoes he can - put me last on the list and I'll take whatever's left over. I was kind of hoping we'd get ten or so plants - we have plans to build a bunch of good raised beds for next year, but we still have the kind of crappy raised bed from last year, and we could get about ten in there.

He showed up with sixty plants - tomatoes, peppers, squash, basil...

So Dawn and I spent all our spare time over the last couple of weeks (which wasn't much because we've been kind of buried beneath work and church commitments) clearing a spot and building the 2026 garden beds. I've moved four cubic yards (that's about three cubic meters for my metric friends, or two full-sized truckbeds-full) of redwood mulch. I have another two cubic yards sitting in my truck right now. This will finish up the bed nearest the camera in this pic and cover up the paper on the ground all around them. Then I need to put two to four yards of topsoil in the beds, then we can actually plant the plants which are currently living on my sun porch - hopefully all done next weekend. With them going in the ground so late I'm not if we'll actually get much produce, but hey, we're way ahead on our 2026 plan.

The GL-24 was around for the whole thing, and was helpful in digging a few redwood splinters out.

Now that's a good friend. Nice looking gardens, tough work but should be a nice harvest or two!

 

[mac0731]

Good morning Guardians !


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Beautiful lamb !

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[SteveC]

With respect, hats off to all regular posters!

Lucky to own one of the HHBs!

One for the show, and another for a day's work!

Nice pair of 's

Suppose to have some thunderstorms roll in this evening

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Nice Burl buddy !

Thanks mate. That rag bone barlow sings!

Thanks buddy, I like the name Rag Bone it is

Havagudn...

Nice !

Beautiful lamb !

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Thanks and nice Albers !

 

[Jack Black]

Sounds like a great outing bumping into friends Jack!

Thanks pal, it can take me a long time walking round my neighbourhood, particularly in summer!

With respect, hats off to all regular posters!

Lucky to own one of the HHBs!

One for the show, and another for a day's work!

Great to see you here Ken, and to see that brace of Lambs

It's a hot one here at 90° and a storm on it's way. Should be much cooler tomorrow


Bonus pic of the day




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Stay safe Steve, that's a stunning pic What a great knife

Suppose to have some thunderstorms roll in this evening

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Hope you get better weather after the storms David, nice pic

Mate record keeping was very hit and miss in the day. Pre-Computers everything was done by hand on paper and kept in cardboard Manilla files most are lost. A good friend of mine over 40 years ago was highly successful in body building, she won a swag of tiles across the world and virtually the only records are her trophies and diaries. These sports were amateur organizations run by volunteers, and they had full time jobs. Where all her records were kept was a small office which is now under about 30/40 stories of offices and all the files just disappeared, to put them into a computer would have been a full time job itself and probably no one had the tech skills to do it. Sad, but record keeping back then was just so haphazard, and most of those old offices/factories were just fire traps waiting to happen.

You're right Leon. I'm not sure about today, but 5 years ago, Wright's in Sheffield didn't own a computer, and still wrote orders down on scraps of paper, which were often lost, or misinterpreted. Other cutlers I've known kept no records at all, or kept 2 sets of books. To quote one feller, "It's for tax reasons...I don't pay any."

Havagudn...

Great pic Dwight

Beautiful lamb !

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That's a nice one Mac

Thanks buddy, I like the name Rag Bone it is

I once suggested 'Ragan Bone' to Charlie

 

[cudgee]

kept 2 sets of books.

Now that WAS common.

 

[Jack Black]

Good morning Guardians, I hope your week is off to a flying start I woke up with a stiff neck, after falling asleep on an extra pillow It's cooler today, and it's been raining. I have a few more errands to run later, but hopefully it'll be another easy day Have a good one Guardians