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My publisher has a fantastic fishing/history blog – Fishing for History. Every Friday he posts a Video of the Week. This week’s music video is so funny and so good I just have to share it here! It can be found on YouTube too.
Cheers!
Every January, my sons’ Boy Scout troop goes cabin camping on the (frozen) lake at our Council’s camp. I posted about our ice fishing experiences back in January. I forgot that I had taken some video of another favorite activity at the Cabin Camp – potato canons! Also called Spud Guns, Spudzookas, and potato launchers – checkout this article on How Stuff Works for more details on how to build them and some theory of operation.
These canons can shoot a full size potato 100s of feet – we fire them out on to the frozen lake. This year, … Continue Reading
For the past month or so I have been busy converting a Micro Mark mini mill to CNC. I decided to take a staged approach and use as much of the original mill as possible. So, rather than using ball screws and nuts like a lot of folks do, I am using the stock X and Y axis screws – but I am modifying the nut by splitting it and adding 2 adjustment screws so I can take up the backlash.
Things are progressing nicely, I started with the Y axis. Here is a movie of it in operation for the … Continue Reading
On Saturday evening my friend David called to ask if I wanted to go fly fishing on Sunday morning. He didn’t have to ask twice! After a short conversation and a follow-up email and phone call, we made plans to meet at 5:15am and head to the Swift River of central MA. We had fished the Swift a few times before and found it to be challenging. The water there is crystal clear and ice cold. There are large Rainbow and Brown trout … Continue Reading
I took my son Nick out for a couple of hours on the Nashua River last night. I also brought along my new Pentax Optio W60 waterproof 10 megapixel camera to try out. It replaces my Optio W30 that I’ve had for over a year. But this trip was more about paddling on a beautiful September evening than photography!
Here’s me heading out:
And a quick shot of Nick checking something out on shore:
(Click to see the complete photo album)
This weekend we took our first ever family backpacking trip! I planned for a moderate 5 mile trip in to the Pemigewasset Wilderness Area in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. I helped everyone get packed on Friday and we all hit the sack for an early 2+ hour drive.
We managed to hit the road at … Continue Reading