Recent content by Woodpuppy

That’s a very cool shot of the green canoe flying low over the water!

Yes sir! Two sets of mayhem. First set was easy. Second set complicated things a bit 🤣

It’s that compound grind that makes it work. It’s no comparison to a decent santoku, and I’ve got to go a lot slower than my normal slicing and chopping speed, but it works well enough!

I was in Boy Scouts but we didn’t do any canoeing to speak of. Summer camp in the Adirondacks, I’d do some with my uncle. But it was mostly with my high school cross country team where I built fond memories paddling canoes in a group. Utter mayhem and I loved it! I started hauling my kids...

I like Moras very much. They’re quite capable, it’s impressive the abuse they take. Batoning seems to be the way they meet their demise, but they’re inexpensive enough it’s not a big deal. Or, use a small ax and the Mora will live a long happy life. I have several, and find I’m partial to the...

Oh that is just gorgeous!!! I almost got my IXP Phoenix in red glass over Kevlar, but decided I’d better go with IXP. I’d have gone with that color (and cherry!) if I knew it was possible. Great pair BTW, my Polaris is Blacklight/aluminum gunwales. I often regret not getting wood, but the...

Down here in the south, “carry” means to take a passenger in your conveyance, be it auto or canoe. If we have an obstacle to get around with a canoe, we would “tote” the canoe and gear around it. I carried my daughters down the Suwannee river, we had to tote everything around the Big Shoals.

Looks like a clump of oysters on a phone sized screen!

I remember registration questions but no longer remember what site. I was definitely surprised.

Wild.

Driving is likely the most dangerous thing we ALL do on a regular basis. Excess humans make it worse, whether simply excess or ill-willed. Last time driving through Atlanta on our way from Florida to Michigan I told my wife I wasn’t doing that again. We found a route around that costs us no time...

It took a few tries to get it right! That’s one of the little streams parallel to the Wacissa that go from Big Blue Spring’s main run to its smaller downriver outflow. I like the narrow twisty stuff sub-parallel to the main channel. Though sometimes you have to backtrack, and it’s a good idea to...

Does your dog bite? He’s got teeth, ain’t he?

Along these lines, I experienced a first the other day. At the end of a digital book on my kindle, there was a page with a “Human Authored” certificate symbol which led me to: https://authorsguild.org/human-authored/ I’ve read 111 books in 2025 on Kindle, and it’s the first time I’ve seen...