nice pics. you live in a beautiful area.

+1 <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> Looking good Vic! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

It rained hard after midnight for a good hour or more. I bet that swamp has water in it this morning. My little yard swamp does.

Our winter storm warning turned into a non-event thank goodness! We only got a little ice and snow overnight, and it melted off as it's near 50 degrees now. Looking like Spring again! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Private Klink, got to love it! Spring is here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dang, HD, you live in an awesome area. Swamps are very interesting places.

More rain. It's been raining all week. I think the swamp is wet again by now.

I'm getting my hands on a Rainwalker Coyote Brown Kydex Sheath for my Scrap Muk... yeah buddy!!!

Now that the rain has finally ended, time to check out my yard and the little fern swamp. My wetlands have returned.



As soon as it dries, I have some mowing to do, but for now, I can enjoy the wildflowers that have sprung up.



My drainage ditch is full. That's a good sign that the swamp may have returned.



Down the old trial I went, so far, so good.



Unless I want to get wet, this is as far as I can go on this trail.



I'll have to hack my way through this thick stuff to get to the fern swamp. If I had my old boots on, I'd just wade the trail. It would be easier going for this fat old man. I used my Busse SAR7 Bowie (not available in stores) as a machete.





At last, I'm at the swamp. The ferns are coming to life. In a week it will be a green lush jungle of them.

great pics ! i'd have gone wading no prob....



uh wait...you guys got them snakes and crocs right?

alligator or crocs...they make good eating

Took a walk back to the fern swamp today. It's been raining for four days, so I took advantage of a break in the rain to get out and about. Good thing I did the yard last week, too wet now.


Today I used the Urban Mutt as my micro-machete. Keeping limbs off the trails reduces getting ticks and such when I walk them. The swamp is back. No wonder nobody ever built here. I like it just the way it is anyway.



The private drive, known as East-West Blvd. What a dumb name for it. Real estate developers just have a knack for giving roads dumb names. It should be Horn Dog Road.

Back at my own property, I checked the edge on my Mutt. Who says a thick knife won't cut?

The weather has been strange, 58 to 62 degrees, windy and rainy. Sounds more like pitman's weather than coastal Georgia's. Things have greened up. Checked the view out back.



Touched up the edge with my paddle strop. It isn't just for Bark River knives, you know. It works fine on Scrappers, too.
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This is one Barkie that is almost as tough as a Scrap Yard knife, the Bravo-1 in CPM 154. Nice knife.
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If you touch up your knives after each use, they never get dull.