2021 what did you do today?

[Longcruise]

The lake is a few miles west of my home in Arvada in the Denver metro area.   It's fed by a smallish creek and is part of the Arvada water supply.

These white pelicans are pretty common in Colorado.   They are larger than the brown coastal pelicans.   The journals of Lewis & Clark note that one of the hunters killed a pelican on the Missouri River.  They ate it. 

[Pat B]

They also ate 15# of lean meat each every day and almost starved to death. They would have been better eating fish like the locals did for the fat content.

[Roy from Pa]

Just 5 minutes ago...

https://youtu.be/ghdSKTq_lVs

[Mad Max]

She knows it's a safe place in front of roys bow shop

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Longcruise]

Nice way to start the day.

[Roy from Pa]

Little bit of a rough morning here, the Navy Recruiter came to pickup my great nephew.

Things won't be the same without him being next door.

But I'm proud and happy for him.

[onetone]

"Anchors aweigh..."
Do you know where he'll be for boot camp?

[Pat B]

God speed to your nephew, Roy. 

[kennym]

Thank him for serving! 

[Mad Max]

Thank him for serving! 

YES

[Buemaker]

 

[Roy from Pa]

I believe he will be heading to Texas for training..

Thanks guys.

[Longcruise]

Wishing him the best.  It's a huge job with little compensation.  👏

[Pat B]

In the end, he will be well compensated. 

[wood carver 2]

I got out of work early today. An electrical bus took a dump right after lunch. It was quite a light show. They had to shut off the main and that meant no more work. I had to unload all the finished product from the drop trailer because we couldn't get the dock plate off.
So, I was able to mail the St. Jude game calls early.
Dave.

[flyonline]

Opened my birthday present from the big sis' to find a brand new coarse/medium shinto rasp 

Been looking at a couple of saplings at work with a view to trying my first sapling bow, what with 2 weeks holidays coming up I feel a bit of 'non-essential pruning' coming on, so this should be just the ticket to try it out 

Actually have been eying a few thickets of various tree species around the traps, so this might be the time to make a trip with a saw, hatchet and do a bit of roadside thinning and get them rough shaped before getting them in the hot box, aka gas burner for our hydronic heater.

Steve

[Mad Max]

Tree poacher 
I've been eyeing one myself

[Eric Krewson]

I spilled diesel fuel all over me and the bed of my truck last week, I got some sawdust out of the bag of my huge shop dust collector to soak some of it up with.

I went out to actually try to make a bow, cut my big belt sander on and was sanding an osage stave down with a 36 grit belt when I realized I never put the bag back on my dust collector. Talk about a mess, my dust collector is in the adjacent room, I had to clean layers of microscopic dust off every thing that room for hours. I wore a cartridge respirator but still had a dust overload.

I am deathly allergic to wood dust, even though I had a 3M cartridge respirator on some of the microscopic dust got through. I have ben hacking and coughing for two days.

I am attempting to fix my friends bow by replacing the overlay that turned loose.

Here is the original fix, the string slipped out of one nock and split the limb, I removed the cracked wood and glued on a very long overlay. I repaired the bow in 2015, it has shot a lot of arrow since.

I gave the bow to a friend to shoot in the IBO worlds, his draw length is longer than mine and the patch turned loose, I am trying to fix the bow so he can use it.

Here is the initial repair;

[Eric Krewson]

Years later;