Acquired a new knife this week. Casstrom Lars Falt Lockback Swedish made. Classic Scandi grind and curly birch Bushcraft knife, but in a folder. It's going to ride in my haversack as a dedicated woodcraft blade paired with a tomahawk, hatchet, or folding saw. Stripped the bark off a piece of hickory and started making a try stick. It's a very capable little carver. #knifestr #bushcraft #grownostr #getoutside

Took a 6-hour hike up the San Juan mountains in Colorado last weekend. Started at a little over 9000 ft elevation and made it up to 10500 ft. #grownostr #getoutside #nature #proofofwalk

Here's the view from my office today. On a mountain at 9000 ft plus on a Genie lift at 40 ft hanging hand hewn timber window trim. #grownostr #proofofwork #getoutside

I've been playing around with Chat GPT's new image generation. It has finally mastered flawless text within an image. And I have cranked my pipe tobacco labels up to 11. #pipestr #grownostr #ai

Tonight's activities. I'm just getting around to starting this one. I know from her notes, @Lyn Alden has good taste in books and music, so I suspect it will be worth the read. I'm pairing it with some Cult Blood Red Moon. #grownostr #bookstr #pipestr

Never leave home with empty pockets. Show what gear your carrying today. Here's what I've got. Civivi Elementum Maratac brass flashlight Zippo lighter UCO pry tool Leather wallet Gondek EDC brown canvas hank Carpenter pencil #grownostr #edc #knifestr #pocketdump

Old shed, with an old car parked out front. #ruralruins in St Clair county, Missouri. #grownostr #getoutside

Good morning. Time to equip ourselves to start another week. ESEE CR2.5 Maratac AAA flashlight Zippo lighter Gondec edc brown canvas hank #grownostr #edc #knifestr #pocketdump

Here's an old barn still hanging on until time and nature reclaim it. Polk County, Missouri. #ruralruins #grownostr #getoutside

It seems spring has arrived. Several calves on the ground already. #grownostr #farmstr #getoutside

It is my firm belief that every man needs a big rock in the woods upon which to sit and contemplate while watching the sun set or the creek flow, perhaps with a pipe and some good tobacco, and that a large part of what is wrong with the world is because so many men forgot this fact, or never learned it in the first place. This is my big rock, complete with some moss padding and a grape vine to lean my haversack against, and I found a golf ball while walking to it. #grownostr #getoutside #pipestr #knifestr

Abandoned house, St Clair County, Missouri #ruralruins #grownostr

Rainy Saturday afternoon activities: A little old-school scifi-fantasy paired with the scent of black Cavendish #grownostr #pipestr #bookstr #knifestr

Good morning Here's my snow-day leather project: a new sheath for my ESEE Izula #gm #proofofwork #knifestr #edc #leather #makeyourownshit

Today is JRR Tolkien's birthday. Don't forget to smoke a bowl of Capstan Blue and reread some of your favorite passages of Middle Earth lore in honor of the Professor. #tolkien #pipestr #grownostr

Another Meshtastic node deployed. Rak board with an 8 dbi antenna #meshtastic #grownostr

Today, we're going to learn about one of my favorite obscure tools. This is a hookaroon. It's used for moving firewood. It allows me to stick a piece of wood and pick it up off the ground without bending over. It's great for dragging logs or branches. I've also found it to be quite useful for demo work like stripping out drywall and pulling up subflooring. With just a little creativity, I'm sure you can imagine how useful it could be as a breaching tool or improvised weapon. It's basically a backwoods war hammer. It's definitely one of the things I would grab in case of a zombie apocalypse. #grownostr #obscuretools #hookaroon #getoutside

Working in the woods today. It's 14° F. Good morning for a fire. Now that deer season is over, it's time for some high-impact woods activities. I have several dead and fallen tree clean up and process into firewood. #grownostr #proofofwork #fire #getoutside #knifestr

Some people go shopping on black Friday. We go coon hunting. We've got some friends that keep coon dogs and, at least once a year, we invite them to hunt in our woods. The dogs treed this big boar coon right away. We then treed two sets of doubles and ended the night with 5 coons in the truck. #huntstr #grownostr #getoutside

I passed up a buck on opening day, and then had several days without having a shot at anything. Then this guy walked through this morning. 8 point, taken with a Marlin 30-30 #huntstr #grownostr #gunstr #getoutside