We're having a bumper crop of Italian Plums this year. The dehydrator has been on full hum for a while now and will be for a bit longer.
Nice! We just bought a proper food dehydrator after drying a huge score of oyster mushrooms in the oven, which took forever. I'm excited to make persimmon leather this fall, too.
Very cool, Julia! Sounds like you will make good use of it. I grew up in SE Pennsylvania and the native persimmons are amazing. I love making a persimmon "pudding" that is really a steamed cake. Asian persimmons just don't do it for me, like the wrinkly post-frost American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana). I'm guessing yours are the Diospyros texana?
Yep. Had some of the neighborhood kids collect some of the pine cones on our street, then we made some squirrel feeders and hung them up. It was a fun project and they got messy like kids should :D
Brought the Military to work today, and thank goodness I did. The longer blade really came in handy!
Finishing up some improvements at the gym as we get ready to re-open. Our county's numbers are improving, fingers crossed we can reopen at the start of next month. Today was flooring day, this was 2" carpet-bonded foam. Also cut through quite a bit of 5/8" closed-cell foam and Carpet Deck (basically carpet with a rubber backing).
I'm happiest with Micarta and Tool Steel.
Top four in rotation: K390 + GCM PM2, ZCarta Shaman, Crucarta PM2, K390 + GCM Straight Spine Stretch.
I've been looking at the knives in my accumulation (I don't want to call it a collection) that I never carry. The Junior is one of those so it has been put on my kitchen counter for a day or two for me to use as a prep knife so it can get some use. Last night it did a fine job of slicing my pizza and it has just bisected an avocado that was lunch. I'm still on the fence. Let's see what happens after it has chopped up veg for a stew this evening.
Junior and Choke (another under used knife in my accumulation) shared prep for a pork cheek braise. Whilst neither was awkward working with in the kitchen (an area where I grip knives without thinking about it and just use them), neither was spectacular either ... I guess they are going to get a bit more use and then return to the "lesser used" storage.
I used the Crucarta Shaman and K390 Delica in my Carhartts as talisman against buying some knives that handled at a store. They were an orange and cork handled floating serrated Mora and two Buck 110s-- a green micarta slim pro and a blue slim LW. The plastic 110 had a more solid lock than the pro, which had vertical play.
I used the Crucarta Shaman and K390 Delica in my Carhartts as talisman against buying some knives that handled at a store. They were an orange and cork handled floating serrated Mora and two Buck 110s-- a green micarta slim pro and a blue slim LW. The plastic 110 had a more solid lock than the pro, which had vertical play.
Now this one of the more unusual stuff that Spydercos can actually be useful for! :D
I used the Crucarta Shaman and K390 Delica in my Carhartts as talisman against buying some knives that handled at a store. They were an orange and cork handled floating serrated Mora and two Buck 110s-- a green micarta slim pro and a blue slim LW. The plastic 110 had a more solid lock than the pro, which had vertical play.
Now this one of the more unusual stuff that Spydercos can actually be useful for! :D
I know, right!?
I do like other brands but don't love thumb studs, I heard this thing a while ago... "Once you go Spydiehole you never go back." :p :D :cool:
No pics but I used my Santoku to quarter a chicken for grilling out. The Santoku has been the main knife I reach for in the kitchen. I enjoy how easy it was to wash it after cutting raw chicken.
) got a new desk. 
