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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168743

I have a rip in the side of the driver’s seat of my 1989 Ford Ranger.  Before it gets worse I arranged with an upholstery shop 35 miles away (and the one closes to me) to repair it.  He asked me to take out the seat and bring it to him next Wednesday, so yesterday I removed it, only to find a rusty looking bulge in the floor.  I then took out the passenger seat and it also has this bulge.  I got out my chipping hammer and scraper (the navy taught me well) and got at all the rust I could get to, which removed a good strip of floor 2″ x 6″.  With the floor out of the way I saw that there is a cross member under there which extends under the other rust spot.  I painted what I had cleaned up with Naval Jelly, waited the obligatory 10 minutes plus some, and hosed it down.  Then I could remove the carpet as the rinse water traveled under it, which meant I had to dismantle other pieces holding the carpet down….

88* on the front porch at noon so it shouldn’t be too bad working on it this p.m.

The dog has developed his annual allergies so he gets pilled twice daily, and the old cat has developed hyper thyroid so he gets a pill every morning now.

BUT, the tomatoes are getting ripe, we have squash overload, the carrots, lettuce and beets are looking good although the spinach has bolted.  My sourdough bread came out beautiful this morning and I didn’t have to be an usher at church.   All in all life is good!

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in reply to: Ground Hunting #168637

Thanks for all the replies!  I’ll have to check it out.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168607

Healthy (fat) little rascal!  Good luck when the season opens; bet he won’t be anywhere around, or going to ground during the day…

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168554

Surewood makes the shafts from Douglas fir.  They seem to be tough and straight.  The prices are very good also.

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168504

Picked up a used Bear Montana at 45 lbs recently, and it is a tie with the Grayvn bow.  I do like the later even if it’s not center shot,  I just got a bunch of shafts from Surewood so need to get some more arrows made.  BUT, I have to do a bunch of other stuff around the house so that will be put off for a while…

~Kees~

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in reply to: Rotator Cuff Stuff #168501

My right (string) shoulder was giving popping sounds and grated like it had sand in it, shooting a 50 pound bow.  I dropped down to 45 pounds and all is good again.

~Kees~

• This reply was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by Kees.

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in reply to: Ground Hunting #168500

I vaguely remember reading about a hammock seat, but where to find one?  An on-line search comes up with lots of hammocky swing seats, but nothing which looks like what you have.

~Kees~

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in reply to: FOC, Tieing the threads together #168392

Bumping this back to the top.

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in reply to: Glove grease ………… #168391

Bees wax, the original bowstring wax!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Longbow string question? #168390

What Scout said.  Good thinking to get a longer string.  If it’s too long you can always wind it up, but you can only untwist so much!

~Kees~

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in reply to: 80 joule with recurve bow?! #168389

I am SO glad I didn’t get “the jab!”

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168388

Thank you Robin for the work you do keeping the site going instead of retiring!

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #168366

I’ve been MIA for a while. Got a new Grayvn longbow, 43 pounds @ 28″ on my fishing scale.  I put an arrow rest on it; I’ve had feathers stuck in my hand before and prefer not to have that happen anymore.  Anyway, I am impressed with how well it shoots.  A very slender hickory self bow, very light in the hand with no hand shock.  I’m not the greatest archer in the world, but I’m doing tolerably well with it.

Otherwise we are just going day to day here in SE Ohio.  I’m late getting the garden done, got the beds hoed and raked yesterday with plans to get seeds in this afternoon after it cools off a little.  And hey, it’s Friday – PIZZA NIGHT!  I’d best get it in the oven….

~Kees~

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167817

Saturday was raining, & became a baking day. First a loaf of sourdough bread, then 40 cornbread mini-muffins then banana bread.  The mini-muffins were a request from the church for the fellowship meal on Sunday which had a chili theme.  Sunday was a;so rainy so I spent the afternoon reading.  Today was lovely weather, and I wasted it sitting at the confuser…. it’s an addiction I tell you!  I have great plans for tomorrow though.  There is a stack of wood I need to split and get into the shed.  As long as I stay away from this infernal machine I’ll be okay.

Went out back today and flung arrows using the recurve,  I was pleasantly surprised at how well I did, for me at any rate.

The grass is greening up nicely with numerous tussocks popping up.  I’ll need to mow if this keeps up.

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in reply to: Whatcha Got Going 2024? #167609

The Native people were screwed over all along.  They were considered vermin to be pushed out of the way or exterminated, and then people got upset that the First People fought back, with much the same barbarity the Europeans used.  I have cheered the Alaska Natives for going through the courts to hold up the pipeline until their lands claims were settled.  They were successful because they weren’t conquered; the Indians in the Lower 48 had been and so lost their rights, apparently.  I don’t remember the exact wording but that is the way I understand it.

Otherwise things here are uneventful.  I get out in the back yard and fling arrows every so often, when it’s not too cold.  I feed the wood stove when it is.  I made up some arrows with Larch shafts a while back and am very pleased with them.  They seem to be tough and fly as straight as I can shoot them, which isn’t saying much.  I can get 25 yards in the back yard, 30 if I go out into the alley.  Unfortunately my shooting falls off past 15 yards….

I’m going back to bed.  Take care, everyone!

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by Kees.

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