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in reply to: Changing Wood Arrows Points #48966
Acetone works better than alcohol. Dries so fast you don’t have to burn it off. On the other hand sniffing it will result in brain damage. If you spill it it will take the varnish off the table, and melt the vinyl floor. No damage to ceramic floors. I tested that. 😀
in reply to: Duiker quiver #48960I could make one of those, and if we get more snow and cold, I just might. Like the fact that the fletching is protected from the rain. I even have coated nylon camo to make it with. 😀
in reply to: What ya got goin? #48948Where does it go? Since it is unprecedented I couldn’t tell you. Haven’t heard anything about it on the news. If it warms up fast, it will melt fast, and flood. If it warms up slow, it will be OK. The big worry is all of the old mill dams, if one goes, there could be dominoes, all the way to the ocean. Not personally worried. We are close to the river’s source, and have marshes to act as buffer. Cities, like Springfield, and Hartford, are right at river level.
No more snow in the forecast, and March is just around the corner. Not that it means much. We have had blizzards in March and April.
Five deg now, and expecting -11 tonight (plus wind chill). We have water trickling in the kitchen, and bath as we have had frozen pipes. Audrey couldn’t wash dishes for two days, and she was panicking. She was babbling incoherently when the water came on, then she sang the dish washing song, and danced a jig. Arwen just giggled. Ice inside a couple of the double pane windows, but nothing like what I grew up with.
Finishing up on 2 bows, but there is a snowbank the size of R2’s camper between here and the target. Would like to use the snow bank as a backstop (almost as big as the broad side of the barn), but the arrows may just disappear in there. Been using the snowshoes to fill the bird feeders, and they get emptied as fast as we fill them. Looks like bunnies have tunneled under the snow to get to the overflow.
When the snow melts, we do have the MUD season. People have been known to lose boots out there. Audrey loves the spring peepers, who drag themselves out of the mud to sing to us. The geese come back, we have back yard campfires (with our strange neighbors), and go fishing…
in reply to: Winter Rove #48928Our mouse is named Fred.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #46613Snow fall is 67″ above normal.
My heating bill is twice normal.
Hope you are not praying for anything like ice, snow, or rain R2, as (given God’s sense of humor) you could have a epic experience. Somewhere I heard we were going to get a snow storm of “Biblical proportions.” Now I remember reading about the Nile turning to blood, frogs, grasshoppers, blah, blah. Don’t remember anything about snow in Egypt. But if somebody in Texas prayed hard enough.. Some Long Tall Texans, could be up to their eyeballs in snow!!!
in reply to: Asbell Anorak #39623No, Doc. NOT cold in TN, Cold in MASS.
in reply to: Emergency Gear #39617Does anybody EVER remember the TP, and a spare diaper.
in reply to: Cabin Fever Stuff #39595Speaking of cabin fever…
A bobcat (small front loader) came today, and the front lawn is covered in a 6′ (as high as the bobcat can lift) snow bank. I mean like 20 ft by 30 ft. The snow bank in the back yard is twice that size. We can’t see the cars go by out on the street. Can’t see Mushroom Bill walk by, unless he is wearing a hat.
I have a gentler recurv in the works, watching the second limb set after just steaming it. Have to watch it set for 24 hours. Also making a… well a… I guess I have to say a long bow. although it is only 48″ long. I think I prefer to call it a flat bow, as it doesn’t have the sexy curves of a recurv.
Well that’s the long and short of it for these snowbound archers.:)
in reply to: Wind and Arrow Flight? #38969Some time ago I talked about the dread “butt wiggle”
When I used wide 4″ fletches, and it was suggested that the big butt made for big wiggles. The rule I adopted was “The bigger the butt, the bigger the wiggle” Changed to low profile, 3″ fletches, and the but wiggle only shows up when it is gusty (no steady winds here). Mind you my short arrows are 23% foc.
Working on a bow, as we speak. Actually I steamed the upper limb last night, and now watching it as it sets on the rack. Steam the other limb tonight. Then I have to watch it for another 24 hours, before I can fiberglass. Lot of work making bows.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #38940Yup, sideways snow here too, can’t see the church across the common. Trouble seeing the ladies on the fountain, which is half the distance.
Windchill temp is too cold to contemplate, like minus 30. Somewhere beyond our frame of reference. We will have to go out to move our cars when the plow comes. Gee, guess I’ll have to stay inside and make bows…
Read about a bow made in 1453 (A PLACE CALLED ARMAGEDDON by Humphreys – The fall of Constantinople). Maple with sinew back, horn riser, and a horn ring for the arrow rest. Took a year to make it.
in reply to: Antlers 2015 #35566Mushroom Bill would put his eye out on that porch ornament..
I probably wouldn’t even notice it.:roll:
in reply to: moderm recurve #33203Just how big IS that freezer??
BTW forgot where you are.
Wose wrote: [quote=grumpy]No violent or unpredictable people, I became single parent in ’80s. Corporate america didn’t understand. “Why isn’t the kid with his mother?”
Man, I was lucky there. I went through some contortions when I was a single dad, but nothing quite like that.
Good on ya for making it work.
Doing it again with my granddaughter. Have had her since she was 4 mos. now 11 y.o. Single parent at 65.
Lot more acceptance now, in the 80s lot of people didn’t think a man could parent.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #3180262″ is over my head by 1″. Think of the deer who are only 36″ at the shoulder. Fauns, who were born last spring, are shorter. I suspect they will all be dead soon. If not from starvation, than from the coyotes, who can get around much better in the snow. There may be little to hunt next fall. 😥 And there is nothing, nothing, anyone can do, except have faith.
in reply to: What ya got goin? #30953Actually the 3 feet we have has settled down to around 2 feet…I think. They are saying we will get another foot. School has already been canceled (got a really dumb robo call from the supt of schools), so youse guys need to post something interesting to entertain us tomorrow.
Snow showing today, Audrey fell down, and Arwen’s snowshoes fell off, but we all survived. Right now I’m thinking we need thicker snow, bigger snow shoes, or I need to loose weight. It is still fluffier than goose down, and expect what is coming will be just as fluffy.
We’re counting on you to post something really interesting by morning…
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