photoblog awesome

http://internetkhole.blogspot.com/?m=1&zx=247eb4edb510d573

Thanks to Andy for the link

milk chocolate messenger boy

Lid detail from the 100-piece Whitman's chocolate sampler.  It's the chocolate whip, yo
 

shreddit brah

I love snowboarding

There was nobody on the slopes post-Christmas (that's Nub's Nob across the street)

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(I wear pink pants so they know their ass is getting kicked by a girl)

Boyne Highlands has an outdoor hot tub - it's like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgoN-u_77NE

see you next year

Putting the ornaments away for another year is the most melancholy of jobs.

welcome to the polar vortex

 

 

Happy January 2014 - now run for your lives!

 

winter birds with the best hairstyles

I saw all of these birds at the farm this weekend: good hair days, every day

pileated woodpecker

tufted titmouse

cedar waxwing

take thee a sharp knife

My brother Steve is a talented metalsmith, and made me this knife for Christmas. Then he wrote me this e-mail describing its construction:

"the knife is handmade out of O-1 tool steel.  Hand-forged from a rectangular steel billet  It's a high carbon steel that will naturally rust/oxidize - no sweat. This is normal and expected with hand forged knives.  Rub it with a scrubby pad to knock the surface rust off and dry off after using it and the natural patina will end up being a dull gray/black.  Again, normal. Old-timey knives before stainless steel all do this.  You can sharpen it easily with a kitchen sharpener or stone, or dad's belt sander like he does and that works best.  The handle is a linen/epoxy sandwich called marcita and held on with a clear epoxy and brass handmade rivets.  All the knives I made this year were forged in my crucible forge and on Dad's anvil he had from years ago.  I'll keep making them."

How badass is that.  Plus the duct tape / glove finger sheath.