Cutting Walking Sticks, Questions

[Bugbear]

I haven't seen Jock Scot posting or logging in for a while now. I looked over at the Scots Forum yesterday, though I'm not a member, and he doesn't seem to be posting over there, either.

Hope everything's OK with Jock.

I have a few more sour orange sticks to cut, but I'm going to hold off on cutting the mesquite. I should be able to tie a mesquite branch in a crook. They can be a little scratchy to work with, like a rose bush.

[Jock Scot]

I haven't seen Jock Scot posting or logging in for a while now. I looked over at the Scots Forum yesterday, though I'm not a member, and he doesn't seem to be posting over there, either.

Hope everything's OK with Jock.

I have a few more sour orange sticks to cut, but I'm going to hold off on cutting the mesquite. I should be able to tie a mesquite branch in a crook. They can be a little scratchy to work with, like a rose bush.

I am still about Ted, just not near a computer too often at the moment. Getting onto drying a cut stick, we have a very different climate to you and in our damp climate things just take longer to dry. I should imagine the process will be very much quicker in your dry climate and I should have thought of that when advising you the last time.

Anne, we used to grow those cabbages years ago for the cattle,but I have not seen them anywhere recently . Rightly or wrongly we used to call them Cornish Cabbages.

[Bugbear]

Good to hear from you, Jock, thanks. I didn't think about that either. I guess we just get so used to our climates that we don't think about those types of things. But it didn't hurt anything to wait that long. It's given me time to think about how I want to carve them.

And on a side note, the book on Led Zeppelin philosophy did, in fact, have a reference to cabbages.