So What did Santa Bring You?

I got the opportunity to meet this fellow. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4RYoow5pKM sitting on the far right.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lpJDLvPolw

Chad is learning to play some dodson songs on the lute and requested that I make him some real gut strings.
Anyone familiar with Dodson's instruments? I'd like to be close to historical accuracy, if possible.
I hope you all enjoy his performances as much as I enjoyed them live on my own 12-string washburn.

The best thing was when he and I played a song I wrote years ago, which he never heard before, and we just hammered it for about 10 minutes. WOW!!

Chad didn't know much about primitive music, but he recognized music as one of the unifying characteristics of all cultures the world over and was interested in what little I knew about indigenous instruments. I have a feeling I will be getting requests from this fellow for drum heads and banjo heads, and probably more gut strings.

He took the time to show my kids several techniques in piano and guitar and I could not have asked for any better gift for christmas than this fellow showing up in the chop shop, and spending his time here with my kids. What a great guy!

Christmas was late last night for me. Got a FoodSaver.

Poco, sweet knife and clean your keyboard!

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Originally Posted by welderguy

I received some very useful things ,

A gerber gator machete
A colapsable 5 gallon water jug
A real tree camo jacket
A folding handle backpack cooking pan

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Well....get to cookin'!:drool:
What's for supper???:blushing:

Well I got 50 bucks, cashews, box o' Pot of Gold chocolates, $2 dollar scratch off, won 4 bucks, and an off brand Hershey bar.

Re-gifted the 50 to the ex, her kids, and the ones' wife.

I'm currently "fiening" out on chocolate.

Considering we're grown ups and it's our Lord's supposed birthday anyway, 5 years ago we stopped buying presents for each other and started contributing money to the NYC Rescue Mission and the Bowery Mission. (homeless shelters)
We've volunteered there before, serving Thanksgiving meals and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate this holy day than to give where it can really make a difference.

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Originally Posted by BENESSE

Considering we're grown ups and it's our Lord's supposed birthday anyway, 5 years ago we stopped buying presents for each other and started contributing money to the NYC Rescue Mission and the Bowery Mission. (homeless shelters)
We've volunteered there before, serving Thanksgiving meals and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate this holy day than to give where it can really make a difference.

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Very cool.

Prop's to you and Mr. B.:clap:

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Originally Posted by Rick

I meant Batch. I was wondering what he was going to make the apple cobbler in. Probably done by now.

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Nope, I don't know what to add to the apples in water. I was using your recipe for peach cobbler in a dutch oven. Only difference is I prefer apple cobbler.

If you have a tip for making apple cobbler with the canned apples in water I would be grateful.

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Originally Posted by 2dumb2kwit

Well....get to cookin'!:drool:
What's for supper???:blushing:

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It's so nice and shiney I almost hate to use it.


I got a nice surprise this morning a friend drop off a fifth of candian mist along with a very nice cookie assortment

EASY APPLE COBBLER

2 (15 oz.) cans apples (not filling)
3/4 c. sugar
1/2 c. brown sugar
White or yellow cake mix (dry)
2 sticks butter
(Cinnamon if desired)

Layer in 13x9 pan apples (sprinkled with cinnamon if desired), sugars and cake mix evenly. Top with pats of butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until golden brown and slightly bubbly.
Peaches and cherries work well also. If you use pie fillings cut back to 1/2 cup sugar and 1/3 cup brown sugar. Cherries packed in water need more sugar, about 1 1/4 cups.

Batch, that recipe that Crash posted should work just fine. The liquid is for the cake mix so the water in the can should work just like the juice in the peaches. Remember, I said if you use pie filling then you have to add some water so you should be just fine. You need the liquid otherwise you'll have apple powder cobbler. :eek:

OK...apologies to those who do this, but it's something I could never understand. My IL used to do it and now we have friends who do it too.
They ask each other what they want for Christmas, then they wrap it and put it under a tree!!!
So later when the gifts get unwrapped, they act all surprised. Is it me, or is this weird? I mean, for whose benefit is this?

It's weird benesse. I've been trying to break that kind of gift giving habit here. There is no sense to it and I'm so over the commercial Christmas hype.

I did get a nice 12qt enamel pot for pickling, and a gift certificate to BassPro (not sure how much. That part is always a surprise.)

well, i guess people get what they want,, not socks and underwear ,, lol

In my stocking I got a cool fire starter thing that I wanted and under the tree my favorite gift was this!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...y/IMG_5588.jpg

I've needed good snow boots for YEARS! These suckers keep your feet warm up to -32 degrees celsius ! NICE!

My wife and I just purchased a pair of those. She got that exact boot. I got the men's version...obviously......or not so obviously.

I got a noisy wheel bearing. I was really excited to get that. Arrrrrrggggggghhhhh!

-32 Celsius? That's like +60 Fahrenheit isn't it?:innocent:

Turn the tag over Trabitha. Higher math is tough for some of these guys.

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/temperature

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Turn the tag over Trabitha. Higher math is tough for some of these guys.

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I didn't know that it got that cold in Mexico.
Isn't that Mexican writing, on that other tag???:huh:

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Originally Posted by Ken

http://www.convert-me.com/en/convert/temperature

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Hmmm.....I wonder if that site can convert a Yankee to a southerner?

Really good socks can be freakin expensive. I'll take em as christmas gifts!

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Hmmm.....I wonder if that site can convert a Yankee to a southerner?

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No, but it can take a 2D2K and convert it to 2S2TKTD (too smart to know the diff.)

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Originally Posted by crashdive123

-32 Celsius? That's like +60 Fahrenheit isn't it?:innocent:

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LOL! More like -25. You were pretty close though! :smartass:

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Originally Posted by BENESSE

Considering we're grown ups and it's our Lord's supposed birthday anyway, 5 years ago we stopped buying presents for each other and started contributing money to the NYC Rescue Mission and the Bowery Mission. (homeless shelters)
We've volunteered there before, serving Thanksgiving meals and we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate this holy day than to give where it can really make a difference.

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didn't know this forum existed but as an appalachian trail hiker and hub/dad of a family that has hiked half of it i feel right at home thanking benesse for redirecting santa to NYC Rescue Mission (facebook / twitter) before the big snow storm of dec26. rudolph with his nose so bright wouldn't have gotten her done on Dec26th.

Hi Joe, and welcome. If you would be so kind as to Introduce yourself to the "Pack" it would be much appreciated. You can find a "sticky" on the information guidelines here...
http://www.wilderness-survival.net/f...splay.php?f=14

A new No8 Opinel folder :D

And very nice it is too!

Where on earth have you been?! We thought you had defected to another forum (if they even existed). Good to see you back!!!!

Wow! Good to see you're alive and kicking Tony.

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Originally Posted by Rick

What I did received was....

Brunch with the family.
Great fun watching the grandkids open presents.
The family sang happy birthday to Jesus.
A nap.

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Dadgum that there sounds like a dreamy Christmas, sure 'nuff.

I got myself a few things. An alpaca long sleeved polo type shirt/sweater, an alpaca cardigan, a cashmere scarf, a Cold Steel knife that hasn't been made since the early 90s, a Green River Scalper made of Carbon V steel(I've been wanting one since they were first made but they were always hard to find) and last a WiFi antenna for my laptop Oh and one last thing a wool lined stadium coat. I got almost everything at unbelievably good prices except the knife, which I paid way too much for. Such it is when you find something you've wanted for over a decade you lose your mind a little in the bidding. Oh and I bought a Merino wool shirt that I gave to a coworker for Christmas. Still all that came to just over $200 and a goodly share of that was shipping. I'm sorry if it was crass to tell how much or little as the case maybe I spent. I considered the deals I got gifts in themselves.

Crass is sort of expected around here. 2D makes those fake fart sounds with his arm pit. Oh, wait. He said those weren't fake. Well, carry on. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

Santa was good to me this year. He left me a pair of front tires for my Ford " 8N" tractor.

Santa brought me a new gun case built by my wife's grandfather, a 3 room Ozark tent so I can take all 3 girls camping and they will stop complaining about my lean-to's and shelter halves. I also got to spend Christmas with the whole family.

I bought myself some new workout pants. I got a picture from my daughter that she painted at school too. The teacher framed it. It is precious. It's of a cabin in the woods, with a garden and a stream and mountains in the back ground. It's already hanging up.

Santa was pretty good to me, I got a K&M Match Safe, a Filson tin cloth bush hat, a quiver for my long bow, volume 1 & 2 of G. Fred Asbell's Instinctive Shooting and two Henessy Hammocks.

Dang man, you hit the mother load.

I cheated a little. My wife, kids and parents all wanted to know what I wanted for Christmas, so I gave them a list thinking I would get maybe one or two things. I lucked out and they got everything on the list.

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