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that reminds me... i must look into acquiring some brass feet...

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Some brass feet?

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due to cutting wood, i have ended up with a number of nice straight, slim branches which would make for some nice walking sticks... have a nice stave too, need some brass ferrules (or brass feet) to tip the end of them... stops them from getting mashed up on tarmac (asphalt)

i think i still have some deer horn up at my dad's to top one or two of them...

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Ah!

Okay, thank you.

brass ferrules = brass feet for walking canes. :) .

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yeah, ferrules would be the proper name, brass feet is something my dad calls 'em from time to time...

i've been peeling the bark off the sticks as they loosen... need to get some wire wool and some bees wax and i can polish em up real nice :)

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Ahhhhh those sound so great, chidder... just the kind of thing that we could use while geocaching

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you'd probably like the stave that i have then... it's about 6'2" in length, also have a more slender 5' stave, and walking stick, and what, for lack of a better description, would be called a club... i think i'll need to make a foot for that... if i get creative i could take a broken umbrella and take the 3-4" spike off the end and mount it...

maybe a brass endcap on the top of it too....

course, if i can get real close to some of the blackthorns near me, i may be able to get myself a nice blackthorn walking stick :)

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I generally use my plain old walking cane on the rare occasions that we go caching anymore... hubby has one of those telescoping aluminum hiking poles that he picked up I think when we were at the mountains in May...

I have always loved handmade walking/hiking sticks... they are beautiful

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my dad is the one responsible for my interest in walking sticks, but he's a carpenter anyway... so i've always had an interest in wooden things, and given my location, the trimming of various trees can result in a wide variety of off-cuts that can be utilised for walking sticks...

geocaching sounds interesting

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We haven't had the opportunity to go in a while, but we enjoyed it immensely... Well, I enjoyed it a bit more when I could walk and hike and climb like a normal person... I hope to get back into it more again once my grand daughter gets old enough to go... at 8 months old, she isn't quite there yet... LOL

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yeah, she might not like the long walks just yet....

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I do truly encourage you to check it out if hiking and "scavenger hunting" is something you might find yourself enjoying

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angimac wrote:I do truly encourage you to check it out if hiking and "scavenger hunting" is something you might find yourself enjoying

well i do a bit of "hedge hunting" at the moment, since people have decided to use part of the bureen to dump stuff... so i see what is salvageable and either use it or put stuff up on freecycle to try and rehome it...

the weather at the moment here isn't very conducive to spending too much time outside, but after winter is done it'll just be rainy season for another 9 months or so, so that's not too bad...

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I used to geocache alot. Every chance I got.
I was on a 2-year binge
until I started to feel guilty
about going to caches
that were placed in spots where the local wild plants
were getting stomped on to get to the cache.

It IS fun.

Here's a link for the main site folks use for geocaching chidder:

Geocaching.com

P.S. I make walking sticks too. Hence my SS nick. I generally woodburn designs on mine.

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i'll have a look at that, thanks :)

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i had been wondering how your ss nick came about...

i weave maille too, but generally find lots of nothing to do with my time so i don't weave as often as i'd like to (which is ironic... since right now i have lots of time available)

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Oh how cool, walkingstick....

I always tried to stay on trail as often as possible.... then after I got myself hurt, I just stayed in the truck... I was the "driver" for a while... then I became the navigator so hubby didn't have to hand over the laptop every time we got to a parking coordinate... yes, we got THAT into it... we have 2 hand held Garmins... and the routing software loaded to turn the laptop into a large screen navigational system... with all the cache information loaded into GSAK database... and a box of "swag" was always in the back of the truck...

the best part was the hours we spent as a family on our caching adventures... then the kids grew up and didn't have time anymore :(

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well, if i get into it, i'll be out on my own, well, at least until my life got sorted out and i could be where i want to be...

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I know many people who enjoyed caching alone as well...

I hope that whatever needs to happen to get you where you want to be happens soon, chidder

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so do i, but, since lawyers are involved, how long it will take is anyone's guess....

so my life is on hold... almost 5,000 miles separate where i am to where i want to be...

but that's life... you just learn to deal with it... well, the choice is deal or go insane...

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I tend to juggle both.... dealing and going insane... the latter is winning...

was nice chit chatting... think I'm going to head to bed...

g'nite

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angimac wrote:I tend to juggle both.... dealing and going insane... the latter is winning...

was nice chit chatting... think I'm going to head to bed...

g'nite

oh, i occasionally have sane days...

hmmm... sleep... i might have to try that....

sleep well

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Blackthorn walking sticks are beautiful to me.

I had an uncle that had one.

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my dad has one or two

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BTW I did go geocaching with my best friend and/or her kids on occasion
but I did most of my geocaching on my own.

It was a wonderful way to get exercise
in beautiful places
and have a fun treasure hunt at the same time.

Highly recommended for anyone going through life changes
as a form of therapy and escape.

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there is no escape... not til it's over...

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That is true chidder.

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no matter where you go, there you are

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And here I am .. because as far as the internet is concerned .. this is where I go ... :) .

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oh, i'm a number of places at the same time, when it comes to the internet...

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I can only do a few things at a time ..
Drinking my coffee and listening ..
Or drinking my coffee and reading the boards ..

Or drinking my coffee and trying to see if I can sing a rendition of a song that someone might recognize as being the song I attempted.

I'm limited as to how many thing's I can 'juggle' at the same time.

:) .

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drinking coffee whilst singing?? that's a talent!

back when i was in uni i was terrible for multitasking.... in the evenings after my classes, i'd:
watch a video
play a computer game
listen to music
read

at the same time, and keep track of everything... oh, i'd occasionally be talking on the phone too....

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You have the ability to multitask like that of an air traffic controller!

:) .

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that's what i did to get my mind to wind down....

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I drink a cup of coffee to get my mind to wind down .. :) .

Speaking of which .. I'm out of coffee. I must have ran out last night or my kids have hidden the coffee grounds from me.

I think I'm going through withdrawals .. :| .

I can't seem to stop thinking about having a cup.

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i haven't had coffee since july....

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Hello ... :) .

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you got your coffee then?

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Yes .. I got coffee.
One of the girls brought it to me.

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eggcellent

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Howdy ... :) .

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afternoon

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Happy Thanksgiving ... :) .

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Oh I remember my Grandpa had a walking stick and it told a lot of stories, cause he nailed those little souvenir thingies, can't think of the name of them, you can buy to show you where you have been, on them. In my mind I can still see his stick covered with them, and he would proudly show it off.
His walking stick also had feet...lol...but I don;t think they where very fancy. His stick was a hand carved from from a nut tree.
I loved that stick, wonder whatever happened to it.hmmmmmmmmmmm.

Hi (((all))))

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I did a search and found it :)

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hmmm.....

The Last Post - Fred Killer :D

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