[TheForge] [YAK] Re: electric "firecracker"??? OT

[Doug Ayen]

Thus Spake Schade (schade at acegroup.cc):
> Deer hunter shoots llama by mistake
>   Associated Press
>  November 8, 2004 LLAMA1109
> 
>  AUSTIN, Minn. -- A llama had to be destroyed after a hunter in 
> southern Minnesota mistook the animal for a deer and shot it.
> 
>  Police said the man was hunting south of Austin Saturday morning when 
> he saw a deer run into a cornfield.
> 
>  The hunter trailed the animal, but mistakenly shot a llama on private 
> property next to the property where the man had been given permission 
> to hunt.
> 
> ______
> 
> 
> Anyone know any good llama recipes?
> 

I own a small farm, and get an agricultural tax credit so long as I use
it agriculturally somehow.  One of the things I looked at was running a
string of llamas, mostly for the wool. I made the mistake, however, of
asking a family selling some of their excess llama stock "how do they
taste."

I received a cold stare, then a brief lecture basically saying "llamas
are our friends. We don't eat our friends." 

obBlacksmithing: Started forging my xmas presents to friends and family,
a bunch of D2 steel knives. I'm using 3/8" stock, and doing a very simple
foring under the power hammer to draw out a blade about 4" long, 1/2" wide,
and about 1/8" thick at the spine, and then forging the handle out so it
forms a little fantail. They feel good in the hand, and I get to play with
liquid nitrogen when I heat treat them!

--doug