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[DrPrepper]

This was my Mother's treadle machine, which is now one of my treasured heirlooms. It needs to be cleaned up some, with a new belt, etc. I can't wait to use it!

 

[The Innkeeper]

This was my Mother's treadle machine, which is now one of my treasured heirlooms. It needs to be cleaned up some, with a new belt, etc. I can't wait to use it!
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A beautiful and functional work of art. Very nice

 

[Flight]

Soooo you are the sort to pick up hitchhikers eh? Heehee great pix!

Apparently so. Lol

 

[LadyLocust]

This was my Mother's treadle machine, which is now one of my treasured heirlooms. It needs to be cleaned up some, with a new belt, etc. I can't wait to use it!
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There is a singer site that you can plug in the serial number and it will tell you what year it was made. I have my great-gma's and love it. Stitches like a dream.

 

[Flight]

I remember as a kid knee high to a grasshopper I was playing with a sewing machine similar to the one pictured above, well I don't remember but apparently I put the needle and thread right through one of my fingers,

 

[rusty]

@rusty really beautiful photographs and we love taking photos of native wildlife and flowers too.

Thanks, I still use a real camera. These were taken with a Nikon 5100 with a 300 lens.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@rusty also I still use a real camera Nikon D3100 camera and use Picasa photo editing software available free online to edit my photos with.

 

[Terri9630]

This was my Mother's treadle machine, which is now one of my treasured heirlooms. It needs to be cleaned up some, with a new belt, etc. I can't wait to use it!
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I used to sit on the back side of my grandmothers and pedal for her. I never paid attention to the sewing, I was usually reading a book. She had a huge Louis L'Amour collection.

 

[DrPrepper]

There is a singer site that you can plug in the serial number and it will tell you what year it was made. I have my great-gma's and love it. Stitches like a dream.

Yes, mine dates to 1911, made in Elizabeth, NJ. It has the Red Eye decals, but I am thinking to restore the machine, I am going to have to replace the decals, and they are really pricy!

 

[rusty]

@rusty also I still use a real camera Nikon D3100 camera and use Picasa photo editing software available free online to edit my photos with.

I don't edit any photos. Whatever I get, I get.

 

[hiwall]

I don't edit any photos. Whatever I get, I get.

I re-size my pictures before I post them so they are smaller, like this one.

 

[Flight]

@hiwall all pictures I see on my phone are the same size, but apparently when I put a pic from my phone onto here and chose full image, well I guess it's big, lol

 

[Terri9630]

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I re-size my pictures before I post them so they are smaller, like this one.

He's pretty. I haven't seen or heard any wild turkeys at our place.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

@Flight you are so right when you choose full image it does make the photo huge but easier for most people to see.

@hiwall I also crop the pictures to make them smaller on my PC and the editing software I use automatically puts them to size for posting . Not sure how that works but happy it does it anyway.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Don't want any wild turkeys here as they rip up all your vegetable patches although they are beautiful @hiwall. We already have a swamp wallaby that is digging up the trench composted vegetable and fruit peelings in the gardens.

 

[hiwall]

He's pretty. I haven't seen or heard any wild turkeys at our place.

We had three here today. They have never bothered anything in the garden so far.

 

[Terri9630]

Don't want any wild turkeys here as they rip up all your vegetable patches although they are beautiful @hiwall. We already have a swamp wallaby that is digging up the trench composted vegetable and fruit peelings in the gardens.

They are just "pre-stuffing" themselves for your dinner.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yummy turkey

 

[Caribou]

Problem turkeys should be sent to remedial freezer camp. Come to think of it...

 

[Amish Heart]

I just cooked one last weekend that was attending that camp.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

If we do get a wild turkey in our property it will make a lovely addition to the freezer @Terri9630 and @Amish Heart.

@hiwall you are safe for now but come breeding season the males build the biggest nests to impress the female turkeys and then your vegetables and anything in their path is gone into the incubation mound. They can defoliate your whole property. I have seen them build nests about 4 foot plus high. They can build them up to 4 metres wide and 2 metres tall.

 

[Amish Heart]

Yes it would, Sewing. The wild ones around here, though, seem to be mostly worth the breast meat because they are leggy. But just taking the breast and upper thigh maybe is still good meat. They are built different than the meat turkeys I'm raising, where there's meat on the whole bird. Smoking the turkey breast on a wild turkey is very yummy.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Thanks for the info @Amish Heart I will keep that in mind. Fortunately not seen any wild bush turkeys here as yet and just read that they are a protected species so if I find one here relocating it a long way away would be the go.

 

[hiwall]

If we do get a wild turkey in our property it will make a lovely addition to the freezer @Terri9630 and @Amish Heart.

@hiwall you are safe for now but come breeding season the males build the biggest nests to impress the female turkeys and then your vegetables and anything in their path is gone into the incubation mound. They can defoliate your whole property. I have seen them build nests about 4 foot plus high. They can build them up to 4 metres wide and 2 metres tall.

I always have freezer space so I am not worried.

 

[Amish Heart]

I find freezer space.
Wonder why they are protected, Sewing? That few of them?
I believe the turkey was almost our national bird.

 

[Dutchs]

Thanks, I still use a real camera. These were taken with a Nikon 5100 with a 300 lens.

Me too. D7500 Nikon with multiple different lenses..... I am almost never without it anymore. Just so much more fun ... Some great pics. There Rusty ..

 

[Bacpacker]

Me too. D7500 Nikon with multiple different lenses..... I am almost never without it anymore. Just so much more fun ... Some great pics. There Rusty ..

My go to is a Nikon D70S. Wife uses a D50.
I still like the pics I got with my Nikon N5 film camera. Much better quality IMO. Always shoot Fuji Velvia 50 unless I was going for B&W.

 

[Sewingcreations15]

Not sure why the bush turkeys are protected as we have heaps of them. In an emergency though I don't think I would classify them as protected .

 

[Amish Heart]

Well then, get your bow out.
Winner, winner, turkey dinner.

 

[rusty]

My go to is a Nikon D70S. Wife uses a D50.
I still like the pics I got with my Nikon N5 film camera. Much better quality IMO. Always shoot Fuji Velvia 50 unless I was going for B&W.

I also have an old Canon PC1130. It still takes great pictures, but I like the different lenses for the Nikon.