MAY 2012
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05/31/2012

Made arrow holders for shooting and storage.
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05/30/2012

Fletched Arrows, Old Aluminum and Douglas Fir.
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05/29/2012

Made an obsidian point and put it on a primitive arrow.

Douglas Fir Arrows made with new arrow jig.

45 minutes work.
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05/28/2012


Real and imagined dangers of home made Bows.  Broke when I tried
to string it.
 
We remember who made our Freedom Possible
  
  
  
Thank
You!  
Dad, Hank E., Marvin M., Mike E., Ron E., Tim M., Neil M.,
Dennis P., Gary  L., Brian O.,
and to all the
veterans.
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05/27/2012

Worked on a new bow.
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05/26/2012

Made an arrow jig for making arrows.  This is my first Douglas Fir
Arrow.

Moved more dirt.
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05/25/2012

Worked on primitive arrows.
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05/24/2012
Happy Birthday Mom

Marge, she would have been 93.

Moved dirt.
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05/23/2012

16 Bees trying to get in the door at one time.
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05/22/2012
 
Moved trapped bees into a new home. 
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05/21/2012
 
Ran around town and mailed stuff, moved the new swam home.
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05/20/2012

Made Arrows.
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05/19/2012

Made three more fletching jigs, out of scrap.
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05/18/2012

Worked  on cordage from Maple bark.
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05/17/2012




Made a Fletching Jig
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05/16/2012

Caught another swarm.
 
Made New Pitch Bar.  Made a fire biscuit with carbon cloth inside,
wood shavings outside 
and bees wax to seal and burn.  Cut in half and hit with ember or
spark.
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05/15/2012

  
Worked on cordage.
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05/14/2012

Made some arrows
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05/13/2012

Made a Bracer
Happy Mothers Day Mom!
 
Marge                          
                
        Helen
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05/12/2012

Worked on arrows, cat tail, maple sapling.  
Turkey feathers, homemade glue and sinew.
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05/11/2012
 
Indian Soap Plant
 
Hats 
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05/10/2012

Happy Birthday Dad!  He would have been 92.
  
Once she learned how there was no stopping the box killer Karen!
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05/09/2012

Found a dead Cedar and cut out fire tools with my knife.

Made these tools with just this knife.  Fire board, drill, pivot,
catch board 
and Atlatl to use as the bow.  Made fire first try took less than
5 minutes.

Made a Hat 
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05/08/2012

Mowed
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05/07/2012

Worked in the Garden
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05/06/2012




Started the Garden
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05/05/2012

Put out the last Bee Trap
 
Bought plants for the garden.         
                 
Practiced with Atlatl from 10 yards.
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05/04/2012
  
Found a Prunus limb for an Atlatl and Mullein Stalks for Darts

Atlatl and Dart

In a short time, under an hour I made this Atlatl and dart. 
Works well.

Made a fire piston out of Lemon wood from Sharon's house.
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05/03/2012
  
Made soup, and started work on a new bow.
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05/02/2012
 
California ring snake,  getting color from the Indian Paint Brush.
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05/01/2012
 
Worked on the grapes, washed windows on the Greenhouse.

Fixed the water cooler.