ETAR: WE ARE COMING!!!!!

[grumpy]

#132160

ETAR here we come…..

Remember

I’m the short, ugly, old man with a white mustache.  Wears a dirty, old hat…

Harriett just said we have to have to set up a time and place to meet (NOT the showers).  There is an old fishing joke about directions:  Turn left when you see the blond selling strawberries…

I have been suffering with Hydrocephalus, but in relapse now, and should have operation to correct in June (gory details omitted).   It HAS affected my accuracy, and the bow I have been using for the last 2+ years died.  Making a replacement now.  Actually have made 2 I don’t like.  May bring them if you are interested (one is red oak, the other ash/ recurves, 40# @ 24) . Between new bow, and the big H, I may not be able to hit anything, but I can see other bowyers, steal some ideas, and tell them what doesn’t work.

Sunday they have a worship service.  Will we be praying to the Bow God, or the Arrow God?

Grumpy

 

[Stephen Graf]

#132161

I’m sorry to hear about your soggy brain but on the bright side, it does make a capital excuse for the occasional miss.  I sure hope the surgery takes care of it.  Good Luck!

And have fun at ETAR.  I have never been as things are just to busy around here this time of year.  But I hope to one of these years.  It looks like it would be a LOT of fun.  And good luck getting some ideas from the vendors there.

If you get a chance, post some pictures of the bows you are making 🙂

[grumpy]

#132163

But Steve……

May be wrong but I thought you lived somewhere in that neighborhood.  Gotta  be closer than we are.

Hay, if you’re just afraid of loosing arrows, we’ll bring extras.

Grumpy/Harriett

[David Coulter]

#132166

Grumpy, it’s all relative, right? I’m an hour and a half drive to New York City, but a world away. ETAR is about a 4 hour drive for me. Too close to get a hotel, and a lot for a day trip. Then I have cousins that put a drive like that in before breakfast.  Every year I put it in the calendar and every year I end up working. I have a wedding on that Saturday this year. Maybe next year. Best wishes with your health. I’d rathet hear you make up a tall tale about your misses. Best, dwc

[lshines]

#132167

I complain because it’s an 8 hour trip for me, but my gosh I love going there.  The forest there is beautiful; despite the number of people one can shoot without feeling crowded.  The number of “trails” with critters is amazing!  kudos to the people who run the shoot!  I miss it when I don’t go, but have a hard time getting a weekend like this for myself – really hard time.  But I’m going to try this year.  Steve, if you haven’t been, you owe it to yourself to go.

[grumpy]

#132171

Steve/Dave.  Tell you what, not enough room in the car, but we can bring the trailer, and pick you up.  No seat belts back there, but we could strap a couple kitchen chairs on.  We’ll even bring a tent so you guys can bunk together, and don’t have to listen to us all night (although we DO harmonize rather well).

Sorry Arwen won’t let Stewart (angora rabbit) go..    Afraid someone will get carried away.  I told her we could paint PET on him and got a head slap.  I’m getting the one eyed stare from the rodent right now….

ISHINES.  Do we need any warnings, reservations, ????  How will we know its You? Are you ugly, short, tall, kids that wont stop talking?  Anyone coming with you?  Where is 8 hours from somewhere in PA?  Puter says 6 hours from here.  Do you speak English?  Yankee English or Dixie? Harriett says she can translate Dixie for me (born in South Carolina raised in Texas).

Harriett says she will be the one carrying the bow with the empty quiver.

Serious question: Is there some rule that only venders can sell things (I said things, not Harriett)?  Like arrows, bow quivers, bows…?  Saw something about a swap meet with 5 things on a blanket. Does that mean arrows, bow quivers, and bows??? Swap for cash?  What would someone want to swap? We are NOT interested in your kids, junk truck, politicians, or haircuts.

Have to go now Harriett says I need to make more arrows….

 

[lshines]

#132172

Grumpy:  reservations for going to shoot/camp – not that I know of – ’cause I’ve been there, they will let anyone in.  Now let’s talk about warnings – have you seen me shoot?  I recommend that people get on the other side of the mountain from where I am.

description:  I’m grumpy, yes, ugly but not too bad looking for an old fat guy (140 lbs soaking wet), BUT!  I have a white moustache, so I can’t be all bad!  I’d be driving a dark red honda Element (a box on wheels), and camp down the hill, in the woods from the ski-lift, or way up the side of the mountain from the lift.  You might know it’s me as I’ll have my pipe lit if I’m in camp.  Harriett, all the gals say my pipe tobacco smells good.  Would you please tell my wife that – maybe she’ll believe YOU!

You do know about the ski lift, I assume.  Yes, they charge to ride it (up the mountain), but that’s how the organizer pays for use of the lift.  Once up there, you pick from 5 trails to walk/fall down – each trail has lots of critters to shoot at.  of course you can walk UP the mountain, shooting at the critters, but the normal people coming down the mountain (shooting) might think you’re dangerous doing such a thing as that, so you might meet some armed resistence.

located South of Richmond, VA.  I speak Southern and the queen’s English, sir.  I’m originally from Norfolk, tho’ – which is East of the Mason-Dixon line.

Selling:  there’s a swap meet every night right at the lodge.  Blankets full of stuff, people walking around with a bokay of bows in their hands.  Sell, swap, give it away – anything – and, btw I’m looking for a 35-40# Hill bow for someone.

SO Y’ALL COME.  All y’all.

[David Coulter]

#132173

Grumpy, where’d you get your compass?  I’d like to get one like it. dwc

[Stephen Graf]

#132177

Sounds like you folks are gonna have a good time!

[grumpy]

#132180

Compass??  Which are you talking about?    I found 3/4 ” compasses I put into the riser of my bows.  Found them on internet.  about $12 for a dozen.

Gave compass necklaces for Christmas.  Which I also found on internet.  A little more, but still too cheap to pass up.

Are you talking about the pin – on compass?  Think I got that at camping dept of a dept store. Brand is Coughlin, I think. You will also find them on the internet for couple of bucks.

Do a google search on compass, and you will find a rabbit hole extending to China, and beyond…..  Good idea to get liquid filled, they are more accurate.  You also have to hold them level, i.e. the little bubble in the middle of the crystal.  The one hanging around my neck still works, and it has been there almost a year. The pin-on may be decades old, kinds scratched up but still works.  They are so cheap, and small no one should EVER be without.

 

[David Coulter]

#132196

Grumpy, I was just making a wise acre comment about Norfolk being east of the Mason Dixon line… dwc

[lshines]

#132197

dwc:  that was me – not Grumpy.  I was answering Grumpy – …..the entire thing was he was asking me where I was from, why it takes me so long to get to ETAR, etc. and I was trying to be funny.  I know, looks aren’t everything.

Oh the heck with it.  Y’all get to ETAR.  It’s amazing!  and no, they aren’t paying me to say that.

lsh

[David Coulter]

#132202

Ahh, a sleep at the wheel here and also trying to be funny. After all these years, I should know better! ETAR is on the list. thanks! dwc

 

[Ralph]

#132274

Nothing like a wrong compass heading to make one’s day go downhill eh

 

 

[David Coulter]

#132275

If all else fails head due west to the Mason Dixon line, ha!  Actually, us PA folks think the the MD line is just the southern border of PA, when it actually does head south along the western side of Delaware, so if you managed to get lost in Delaware you could head west and find it. They only told us part of the truth in school… ha! dwc

[grumpy]

#132280

Thought that was kinda odd about the Mason Dixon line. but Hay what does a New England Yankee know about some Dixie line???

Moving on….

I said something about TBers meeting somewhere, which got nowhere.  I have a better idea.  When my kids were smaller than I am, I made them wear a white hat so I could find them in a crowd. I don’t have a white hat (or a hat that was white), and if your dirty old hat was white, I don’t want to know the gory details. Could we all put a white feather in our dirty old hats, so we can spot each other?

BTW.  Arwen (remember Arwen, my granddaughter) she’s coming.  I told her there would be other teens there. So youse guys (y’all in Dixie) need to bring your teen age grands so I don’t end up with egg on my face. No, your grands are NOT going to sleep in my tent, nor am I going to feed them!!!!

Grumpy

 

[grumpy]

#132281

Assuming R2 will be there.  Since he is retired, he has no excuse.

Grumpy

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