| Women in the Outdoors Saturday, March 29, 2008 |
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| Friends K and Sa Olsen joined
me on a trip to Sapulpa for a Women in the Outdoors event. The
weather turned off cold, but at least it didn't rain. (The following
day was 80 degrees though, that would have been nice!) We had a
great time and learned lots of neat things. |
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| Here K and I learn all about outdoor grilling while Sa is in the Shotgun class. |
Next Sa & I learned knife forging. Here is a tray full of our raw material - tines from a hay rake. They weren't red, that was a trick of the light. |
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| I'm unusually happy about getting to hammer. | Here I get some last-minute instruction. |
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| Me removing the red-hot metal from the forge. | And wailing away at it with the hammer. |
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| Once I got the handle long enough, he shaped the handle into a curve. | Here he grinds the blade. |
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| Now Sa gets her turn at knife-making. | She was a natural at it. |
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Group shot taken just before lunch. Why it couldn't have been AFTER lunch is beyond me, I was hungry! |
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| Next K & I learned to make pine-needle baskets |
Next I went back to the knife class where he tempered the steel by heating and cooling it over and over for us. |
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| Our last class of the day was archery - a big hit! | We all enjoyed this one, it was fun. |
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Here we are - Outdoor Women at the end of a good day. |
