Shabumi

Spatchcocked durian with fermented Balut in a habenero curry tzatiki sauce?

Thanks for the clarification, I was close. Maybe their humor didn't change that much. Gronk: I brought down a cave lion *this* big with one spear. Thac: Oh, yeah. Where is it then? Gronk: Well, when I went to pull out my spear, it got up, attacked me and ran off. I was lucky to get away with only this small scratch. *shows a scratch from picking berries* Thac: Yeah right. Without a pelt, it didnt happen.

yeah that was one of the ones I couldnt grasp. Would it be the shape of the humerous? Im guessing their jokes must have morphed drastically between the ages.

I'm glad I'm not the only one interested in this part of the past. I'd heard of Gobekli Tepi before, but i hadn't heard of the beer vats. Perhaps it was alcohol that started civilization and farming was a way to make it in large quantities. I found the site when I was looking into GMO bioluminescent plants, and found the search function. Beware though, I put in iron and there were 72 pages, mostly about micro particles of iron oxide used to treat cancers and tumors. As for early farming, another article on proto-weeds from the same site shows that weeds have been a part of farming since its inception. They were found among the earliest known small scale farm on the shore of Galilee 23,000 years ago. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0131422

Some of the jargon was over my head, but I gather that with the increased use of metallurgy, males became more one sided with the use of tools... hammers, spears, axes. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0112116

Not directly associated with iron, but still interesting. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051374

Ok, now to find the bench that went with it. Thanks everyone

The base is the same as the rest of the leg. I took another picture of it in a different configuration in case it helps. There was also a partial stamp on the arm. Looks like a B, possibly with a diamond around it

Bottle capper? Maybe if the tooth on the jaw had a divot in it to cradle the cap as its pushed on, instead its flat. I haven't found much more than a hand saw when it comes to carpentry tools, but it may be a hold down. If it helps, this was found in the plumbing area of the barn, not to say that carpentry tools arent there (the grinding stone was so buried that it was a complete surprise when we found it) or that this is for plumbing, but most things were set in an area that had things used for similar jobs. Size reference, standing on its leg, it comes to mid thigh on me, so ~2.5 feet tall without the extra from the screw and 2 foot long jaw. ~1+ inch solid round leg

My family has raised mini dachshunds for 30+ years. We have the longest unbroken line of them in the US, 26 generations of unbroken lineage registered to Akc (3 or 4 more before we started registering, im not sure as that was before I was born), and to my knowledge we are the largest breeder of mini dachshunds on the west coast. Things you may not know about raising dogs is that it is way more work than people think to raise a litter right. Each litter should have as much effort put into it as you would a human baby. Also to do it right you need to plan your breedings generations in advance. We are far enough into our lines that we know what we will get from each breeding so we only plan 2 generations ahead, but when starting out you should have a plan for at least 4-5 generations in advance, as you should when you start breeding ANY animal or plant. We keep females from our lines that have great mothering abilities, and in doing so we have increased the amout of puppies per litter, and reduced the amount of c sections to maybe one a year, which is very small considering we have 3-5 litters every other month. We would rather keep pups from a litter with 4 good puppies that are uniform instead of one with 6 puppies where there is 1 or 2 amazing pups and 1 or 2 runts, that way as our quality increases, all our dogs get better not just a few. Dispostion is also something we have bred for since the beginning, and in doing so have no dogs that would be considered intense. None of our puppies are predisposed to being skittish, aggressive, hyper or yappy, not to say they can't learn that behavior though. To me these are basic animal husbandry practices, but apparently they arent basic to everyone. A big part of our job is to be a grief counselor, a good portion of our customers have just lost a dog and we need to console them without pushing our dogs on them. Even if they don't get a pup from us then, they tell us that we help them quite a bit and generally come back to us when they are ready. We do all our own marketing, deliveries (up to 3 hours of driving away, after we have met the family), screening of potential families, and because we are 45 minutes from our regular vet (2 hours if its an off time emergency) we do most of our own vet work and have gotten so good at it that we have taught our newest vet (took over when our old vet retired) some things about canine nutrition, pulling stuck pups and the proper way to hold a trouble dachshund that won't allow the vet to examine it. Our vet knows that if we need to bring a dog in then it must be life threatening. We now have dogs in every state, except a few states in the mid west (puppy mill country), as well as Canada and we even shipped a few to Germany. Also to be clear, we are NOT a puppy mill. Our dogs are in climate controlled pens, in groups of 2-4 dogs in each pen, and have free access to fenced yards that are at least 20'x20', unless they are ready to whelp, which is when we bring them into the whelping pens in our living room so we can keep an eye on them and can be there when they have the puppies. Some mothers have their pups only when we are right there, others wait until we leave the room to go to the bathroom then pop out 3 pups before we get back. The puppies are raised in our house and are well socialized by men, women and children before they go to their new homes. We also get them used to having their nails trimmed and having their eyes ears and mouth looked at so they dont pull away from their new family vet. We have even had vets call to ask what we do to them to make them so nice to examine. The short answer is imprinting from the beginning. We are extremely selective of what we choose to breed. Each prospect MUST be as good if not better than both parents to be kept back as potential breeders. If they don't breed naturally, we don't force them. If they don't get bred by the time they are 2 then we find a home for them, free of charge. We also retire and re home them free of charge by the time they are 4 or 5, that way they can still live long happy lives with a family. Sorry this post is so long, I started typing and more came out than expected. Below is a small example of the dogs we produce.

Found this in one of our barns, my guess is it went on a yoke or tree of an implement pulled behind a horse (not sure if those are the right terms). Even through the rust, the workmanship of the section that would go around the wood impressed me, though my bar inst very high as I don't have much experience evaluating others work

I found this in one of our barns, though its use and what it could be elude me, my guess is some sort of clamp or vise, but it only seems to be half of it. The jaw slides back and forth, but not up or down the shaft, and the screw adjusts the angle of the jaw. Anybody seen one of these before?

Jhcc, Good looking weed puller, the ones I like have a built in fulcrum just above the blade so you can dig the weeds out vs just cutting them, though those were just a simple V instead of your robust W blade. Maybe something to think about for v2 Llama, looks like the bellows work great. Spent some time cleaning up one of the barns. I found a few things that could be useful. Most notably a foot operated grinding stone. The stone is a bit uneven, but it sharpened up my pocket knife well enough. Is there a way to dress a stone like this? Also a set of bolt tongs with a broken reign, i eyeballed it to hold 1/2-3/4 inch round stock. As for work in the shop, I have been doing some more viking weaves for some scrap art ideas I have. A snake and a mosquito, both still in progress as i find and modify the right pieces.

A few videos of musical anvils

Been away for too long, but I did mess with a bit of the viking knitting I did a while ago. Also got to show the young doxies where their bones come from

Living in California, I have access to some of those too

That's the plan, though which herbs to use? I have some sage smudges drying, as well as as much fresh chocolate mint, rosemary, thyme, catsmint, horehound, mullein, lemonbalm, fennel and feverfew as I'd want. The lavender hasn't started blooming yet, but I can add that when it is. Also coming soon will be dill weed, oregano, basil, fresh coriander and chives. That doesn't count all the non fragrant herbs available to me. I had read in an old Italian manuscript (I think it had medico or medici in the title) that the "hot" herbs shouldn't be used, and mint was listed as "hot", but I can't seem to find it again to double check. I can't remember if it mentioned if dried or fresh herbs were used or if you stuff the beak with loose threshs or use a satchel. I am fudging on the details I did remember, like I should have used Heather oil to permeate the mask, but I don't think the Heather I know would let me press her for oil so I used BLO instead. I wish I could find the manuscript again, it was an interesting read. It also had a preventative for the plague that was made with mercury, cobalt and liver of sulphur mixed with herbs into a paste and added to your morning tea

I'm sorry to hear of your loss. Abby was a special one indeed. May her calming joy wash over you with each memory

Looks like it holds napkins. Job well done CC

not too difficult, I used some extra bailing wire to give it a try. I like it

#14: Raven Mask

Got the mask all put together, its not as flexible as the paper version so it doesn't fit as well, but not too bad for a first try at a mask, eh? There's a lot i'd do differently next time, like start collaring from the tip vs the opening, as well as changes to the template to make it easier to work in metal, but I'm proud of the effort i put in and the result that came out. Also tried out the viking weave in what passes for bailing wire these days to see how it would come out. I like how it went from a not so nice looking weave to halfway decent just by drawing it through the draw plates. Also shown are my draw plates and my sophisticated drawing method of hanging the chain from a nail in an overhead beam and using my whole body weight to draw it through. Went from 6 inches of ~1 inch round to 11 inches of 1/2 inch round. I want to see how it will look if i draw it through smaller holes at forging heat.

Thank you, I was forgetting this part. I will try again when I have some time and see if I can get the last chance to work. If not I may just go for the steel sheet version that's been brass brushed instead

today i had a day where nothing seemed to go right, it might have had something to do with me working too hard on the first 90+ degree day we had yesterday. No heat stroke, but it felt like i was close, which is why i took it easy today and was able to get a bit of shop time in. i had enough .01" brass left for 3 tries at making the tip of the raven/plague mask i am working on, and i made a sheet steel rivet-less trial 2 days ago with little trouble, but the brass didn't want to cooperate. the first try i chiseled the fold lines all the way through with out thinking, and the second time i was much more careful and got it all folded together, but on the 2nd hit when riveting it fell apart on me. any suggestions for improvement? perhaps my design is to difficult for this thin of brass, am i just too heavy handed or should i just go with the sheet steel and brass bush it (after i clean it up)? I'm showing a picture of the 2nd failed brass piece, the steel piece that is should look like and the riveting anvil i made from a tooth off an unknown farm implement and a 25 lb counter weight off an old homemade sawmill that has had more salvaged from it than is left on it. I drew a rough profile of the tooth as you cant see it in the picture. the tooth fits right up to the last rivet in the tip of the beak, but only just, so that may have been my problem as well. it worked fine on the test rivet i did on a random piece a few days ago, it didnt even shift as i hammered the head on the bailing wire test rivet like i was expecting it to.

Got it figured out. Here's the picture