Mike, hope your wife is doing better this morning and wishing her a speedy recovery.   

Welp getting ready for winter 50K btu Mr. Heater Mounts and hooked ready to go up.
And hometown girl back home with the gold.

      

Thats awesome!  Heater's nice also. Stic, have you thought about insulating those rafters?
Unlike your pellet stove, those heaters heat the air.

What did she win the gold in???

I've been doing some meat processing the last couple days. Yesterday I got some pork bellies started curing for bacon, got some deer jerky marinading, made 10 lbs of maple deer sausage, and today I made 25 lbs of deer hot sausage. Tomorrow gonna do some racks of ribs in the smoker... and smoke the jerky. Lots of work, but worth it.

Nice

What time's supper. 
It is a lot of work but you forget that part of it soon enough and enjoy the fruits of your labor. 

Quote from: Bowjunkie on July 31, 2021, 04:00:55 PM
made 10 lbs of maple deer sausage

That sounds great. We have a local butcher do a honey garlic pepperoni sausage and it is fantastic.


Mark

Looks great Jeff, but where did ya get the deer meat? LOL

I'll be up....

Trying to shoot a little between caregiver duties.  Grandkids shot my bows last week and now the arm guard and finger tabs are dissapeared.   

So I'm making two arm guards.

Damn that sausage looks good

Quote from: Longcruise on July 31, 2021, 06:35:01 PM
Trying to shoot a little between caregiver duties. 

Hope she's keeps on the mend  Nothing worse than watching a loved one suffer.

Finished roughing out the other part of the hickory wattle sapling from the previous bow I posted. There's a lot more meat to work with, so as long as I can get past a couple of issues (2x diagonal knots just in/out of the fades) I should be sweet. This was a pipe straight sapling yet both have pulled into reflex while drying, and after a hundred or so shots the first bow still holds all it's reflex so it will be interesting to see if this one holds it too.

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Built another string to replace the one I cut, added a raised rest and played around with silencer size and placement. Now that it's closer to where it was probably originally tillered (for split), the bow is somewhat quieter and a little deader in the hand so some good came out of a bad situation!

She's doing better.

Might be able to lay up a bow Tuesday.

I have two all precut and ready to go on the forms.   They are beckoning.  😀

Great news Mike !!

Did a rain dance...... and it worked!!     Wasn't pretty though.
Spent some time thinking about glue, thats about it.

A little shadetree engineering by mounting my boat trailer winch (used for checking draw weight) on a 2x6 to the work bench hoisted the heater up to the hanger bolts. Needs a vent pipe run thru the roof and gas line.

Today I wrangled a 40" mulberry log. Hole. Lee. Crap. Would have been nice to take it to my buddy's sawmill and get a couple of flintlock stocks out of it, but there was no way I was getting it out whole from the spot it was in. Good workout.

A couple more

Finished a new Favorite. 62" Hybrid, Bingham's design with my alterations. 52@28" Bacote, Osage and Wenge riser. Amber Action boo core. Bacote grip overlay, tan phenolic tip overlays. 18 strand BCYx padded 20.
Definitely diggin the brown. JF