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Leonard
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posted May 25, 2020 11:56 AM
YEAH, IT'S A BIG SLAB OF REDWOOD THAT'S VERY POPULAR UP THERE IN WASHINGTON, OREGON.
oops, cap lock!
You must know what it is, having lived up there, maybe you know it by another name? A big, thick slab used as a wall hanging or to make a coffee table. Usually decoupaged.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Kokopelli
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posted May 25, 2020 01:25 PM
Thought that's what it is but wasn't sure.
High $$ tobacco pipes are also made of 'burl' from the root of something.
Do they still allow logging up there or can they only use trees that died of natural causes ???
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Leonard
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posted May 25, 2020 05:10 PM
You know, I was always just a tourist. My sister lived in Tacoma and my mom and dad were in Everett, WA however it's spelled, then my mom lived in Olympia after my dad died and my brother still lives in Tumwater. Bunch of 1st cousins in Vancouver, WA and my aunt lives there too. But I really only saw it during the two week summer, so you are asking the wrong person. And there were a few occasions like Christmas and maybe a funeral or two at other times but I'm hardly an expert. I thought you were?
Personally, I would not live up in the Suicide Capital or anywhere where it rains for 180 days straight. The Pacific Northwest, yeah, it's green but you couldn't pay me to live up there!
edit: you know, as far as harvesting those burls, I am not sure about the dead stuff. I think there are any number of specialty shops that might sell eggs and honey and slabs of the crotch burls and driftwood and then people sand them themselves and put some kind of finish on it and display it in some prominent fashion. What I do know is that a lot of people have a hunk of wood somewhere in the house, seemed quite common to me? The one I have is probably 3 foot across or so and it has my Parent's Seth Thomas set of Ships Clock and Barometer mounted on it. They had a 41 footer that they lived on and when they sold it they took the nautical instruments with them, kind of a keepsake. And, I treasure it very much, and she wanted me to have it.
Good hunting. El Bee
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Paul Melching
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posted May 26, 2020 04:16 AM
I would have gone with the burl and the Mule deer, Pipes are made from briarwood extremely hard an beautiful. we get some juniper burl up here some of it very nice the difference is the juniper is a hardwood I run it in my smoker very nice smoke. I refuse to burn pine as it soot's up the chimney. Nothing more stunning than a redwood forest !
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Leonard
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posted May 26, 2020 10:54 AM
We used to go with my brother in law and his wife to all these boutique places, southwest stuff, everywhere from Taos to Santa Fe and Sedona. In one of those tourist traps I bought a bunch of incense, juniper pellets, and the fragrance was so invigorating!. I bought others, like cedar and I forget, but the juniper was the best, for me. It's long gone.
Another thing you can buy in these type of shops is bundles of sage that you can burn as incense. Nothing wrong with that either! I love the smell of dew drenched sage at the crack of dawn. It's actually exciting, because I usually have some type of firearm in my hands and am about to pursue some type of game, fish or faun. But, wet sage is a magic fragrance!
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: one time, I watched a transaction between a proprietor and an obvious Indian selling a bag of bundled dry sage, wrapped with some kind of strips into shapes like fat torpedo cigars. I didn't buy any, but I imagine something like that would smolder for a couple hours. Wish I had!
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Cdog911
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posted May 26, 2020 06:02 PM
TR, Four years ago last night, Mother Nature cleared a 26-mile long, half-mile wide swath through my hunting area and she cleared out a lot of old growth hedge trees and fence lines. Still an abundance of big assed brush piles across the county that are probably well seasoned for cutting, IF you can cut them.
I think I've got a handle on the Kansas weather lately. Been doing a "study" and impressing folks with my weather forecasting skills. And I don't even need a weather app to know when a storm is coming.
(As I'm typing, there's an Apache helo circling my neighborhood. Ft. Riley's Air Cav has been flying a lot of training over us for the past week.)
Anyway, back to the weather. I've learned that where I live is like living inside an air compressor. If you've ever laid hands on the line between the pump and the tank as it pumps up, you get learned up about physics really fast because that bitch gets hot quickly.
And anyway again, it turns out that colder, drier air sliding down off the Rockies doesn't blend too well with the wetter Gulf air coming in from the Gulf region right over Kansas. As that cold air approaches, and doesn't mix, it bulldozes the warmer air in front of it causing the pressure to increase. Temps go up. At least, until the front gets here, then just like an air valve, that extra pressure is released and the temps fall.
The problems here are that when that air is a lot drier, like along a dry line, things get really shitty, really fast and you end up digging a hole to hide in as that pop off valve releases. Like a lot of you have been discussing, it's been really nice around here temp-wise. Nice and cool, so when the thermometer goes up above normal, all I need to know is when the next front is here that will release that pressure and set off the show. Holds true in the dead of winter and the height of summer heat. People keep saying that the violent weather patterns are global warming. Like hell, it's the cold air colliding with that normally warm air that's raising all the hell.
So far, we haven't heard a tornado siren yet this year, but we're past due. It is what it is.
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Paul Melching
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posted May 27, 2020 03:17 AM
Good thoughtful info Lance ! you may be the next Dr. George!
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Kokopelli
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posted May 27, 2020 07:56 AM
I miss Dr. George.
Course I miss George Putnam, too.
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Leonard
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posted May 27, 2020 10:12 AM
You two are guilty of being SoCal Refuges. None of these guys know our lovable geek weatherman Dr George, the guy that put Porterville on the map.
Same thing with George Putnam. He's an institution! He was an Anchorman before anybody ever knew there was such a thing. But, we are talking local newscasts. As far as I know, ol' George was never involved with the three networks, and I don't remember if he worked at an affiliate or one of the independents like KTTV or KCAL or whatever. I don't watch any network news so I'm not up on that part. But George Putnam must have been the most prominent newscaster in Los Angeles during the 50's 60's and 70's.
Good hunting. El Bee
edit: what happened? Did Dr George die, or what?
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Paul Melching
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posted May 29, 2020 03:27 AM
He was our local Rush Limbaugh.
After the news was given he would do ' ONE REPORTERS OPINION ' clearly separating it from the news !
He was one of a kind !
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Kokopelli
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posted May 29, 2020 04:04 AM
Sadly, Dr. George caught the weather balloon to the sky about 5 years ago.
Then there was Jerry Dunphy; always seemed liked a decent sort.
Not to forget the hot chicks. Colleen Williams on one network and some blonde named Christeen something (Lund ??) on another network. Both hot but Colleen was hotter. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Leonard
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posted May 29, 2020 09:07 AM
I think Colleen Williams? is still around but boy! the miles are really starting to show. As in; rode hard and put away wet. In LA newscasts these days, I think there is a rule that the "team" has to be black and hispanic.
Yeah, Jerry Dunphy went from the Desert to the Sea and to all of Southern California. He was pretty hot shit at trap and skeet too.
Good hunting. El Bee
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