All About Pocket Knives

I. Will. Take. All. The. John. Deere. And. Tractor. Items.
I am not above my pride to say I am jealous.

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2024 1:17 pm Looks very good. Even the cat likes it.

Renovation in the company of a curious cat is an adventure. Let me tell you, paint from paws is hard to clean.

Somewhere in Wisconsin

One on yesterday’s stops. On the road for the next week thru NY.
Wednesday we are taking a hot air balloon ride!!
John

ozzie marie wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:20 pm Somewhere in Wisconsin 1000004503.jpg

Looks inviting.

jmh58 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 08, 2024 12:36 pm IMG_7987.jpeg

One on yesterday’s stops. On the road for the next week thru NY.
Wednesday we are taking a hot air balloon ride!!
John

Looks like fun. Thanks for letting us tag along.

Barcelona, NY lighthouse being restored.

John

I had some pieces of firewood where the core of the tree had rotted out leaving them with a sort of a canoe shape. So I took off some of the rough spots & placed two of them together forming an even larger "canoe" shape to make an open canoe shaped bird house or nesting place out of them. Mounted it in the carport so I now have 4 different variations of bird houses. One in each corner of the carport. Now to hope for a guest or two next spring.

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The city of St. Louis, Missouri from a hilltop in Edwardsville, Illinois.

You kind of had to be there but it looked pretty cool in person.

The arch is very cool whether you are there or not.
Steve

Sunset while in a hot air balloon.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
John

jmh58 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:20 am IMG_8164.jpeg

Sunset while in a hot air balloon.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
John

I bet it was overwhelming in person. Great photo.

jmh58 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:20 am IMG_8164.jpeg

Sunset while in a hot air balloon.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
John

What a great way to watch the sunset!
Thanks for sharing that moment.

jmh58 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:20 am IMG_8164.jpeg

Sunset while in a hot air balloon.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
John

Our sunset looked just like that because of the smoke in the air from the Canadian wild fires. They need to pass a law against out of country smoking.____Dave

Railsplitter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:06 pm The city of St. Louis, Missouri from a hilltop in Edwardsville, Illinois.

You kind of had to be there but it looked pretty cool in person.

Did you go up in the Arch? We were there a bunch of years ago and went up in the Arch. OUTSTANDING!!!!! Highly recommended!!

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:00 pm

Railsplitter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:06 pm The city of St. Louis, Missouri from a hilltop in Edwardsville, Illinois.

You kind of had to be there but it looked pretty cool in person.

Did you go up in the Arch? We were there a bunch of years ago and went up in the Arch. OUTSTANDING!!!!! Highly recommended!!

Me too, Jerry. It was a hoot. I am normally a little claustrophobic but I really enjoyed the ride.

Ray

jmh58 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:20 am IMG_8164.jpeg

Sunset while in a hot air balloon.
UNBELIEVABLE!!
John

Very nice, John! My only balloon ride was at sunrise out around Taos, quite scenic as well, but not so dramatic as your pic.

djknife13 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:41 am

jmh58 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 11:20 am IMG_8164.jpeg

Our sunset looked just like that because of the smoke in the air from the Canadian wild fires. They need to pass a law against out of country smoking.____Dave

That sounds like something that your governor would have already passed!

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:00 pm

Railsplitter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:06 pm The city of St. Louis, Missouri from a hilltop in Edwardsville, Illinois.

You kind of had to be there but it looked pretty cool in person.

Did you go up in the Arch? We were there a bunch of years ago and went up in the Arch. OUTSTANDING!!!!! Highly recommended!!

I did not go up the other day when I took that picture but I did sometime in the 1990’s. Those little elevators are really cool. Only big enough to sit down in as I remember it. And the top of the Arch was just like you said. OUTSTANDING!

The view in that picture fascinated me because as you already know, Illinois is nothing but flatland mostly. The Arch can be seen from lots of places but it’s pretty rare to be high enough up to see the whole city from a distance like that.

Here is the other picture I took that is not zoomed in on. This looks more like what I actually saw from that hilltop.

Railsplitter wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 7:37 pm

jerryd6818 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 1:00 pm

Railsplitter wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2024 9:06 pm

The view in that picture fascinated me because as you already know, Illinois is nothing but flatland mostly.

Yes, unless you are in the NW corner, or Southern portion. When I was in grade school I really hadn't been North. We were learning everything related to our state, I thought that it was odd because Illinois was called the Prairie State, and in my experience it wasn't flat.
There are a few good views of St Louis coming over from the Illinois side, and it never gets old. It reminds me a lot of the view of Cincinnati coming in from the Kentucky side, all of a sudden, it's right there!

A few recent pics around my neighborhood - I am blessed

bestgear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:03 pm A few recent pics around my neighborhood - I am blessed

Beautiful pics, can't pick a favorite. Thank you for not sleeping in and missing sunrise!

Waukonda wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:41 pm

bestgear wrote: ↑Fri Sep 13, 2024 10:03 pm A few recent pics around my neighborhood - I am blessed

Beautiful pics, can't pick a favorite. Thank you for not sleeping in and missing sunrise!

thanks Ike - I wish the postcard business was still booming cuz I’d have the sunrise market captured.

Very nice pics, Tom.

Thanks for the outstanding photos, Tom. You are indeed blessed with a great variety of natural habitats. These must provide a wonderful variety of birds and other creatures.

jmh58 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 20, 2024 5:28 pm IMG_7795.jpeg
Saw this crawler in a parking lot. Had to stop and snap a quick photo. Looks like it is getting restored.
John

Some of them old crawlers are still being used today . Neat pic John .
We’ve got a little interest in Caterpillar up here . Maybe because it’s the birth place of the” Cat “.
Here’s a little info regarding that and our local Eagle from the civil war.