What "Traditional Knife" are ya totin' today?

5K Qs said:
Can you only take genteel for half a day at a time, Jeff? ;)
My wife uses eyedrops named Genteal; I wonder if they make her feel genteel?




How deep is your well, Jeff? When I was a lad, our pump and well were in the basement of our ancient farmhouse, and my recollection was that it was only 12 or 15 feet below the basement floor. (I think we had to adjust its depth a couple of times over the years, but not by much.) Soon after I moved out, my Dad was required by health inspectors to drill a new well for the barn/cows because they were worried about possible contamination of the shallow well. He ended up having to go WAY deep for the new well (IIRC 200', but it may have been 300').





I liked your drag strip memories, Jeff! :cool::thumbsup::cool: When I was a kid, the Martin US131 Dragway (now called US131 Motorsports Park, I think) opened about 7.5mi as the crow flies from our farm. They had "big names" (Big Daddy Don Garlits, Don The Snake Prudhomme, Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney, etc.) on the program most Saturday nights, and when the pros ran, we could easily hear the cars from our house. (My first car was a '64 Barracuda with the huge fastback back window, but mine was a 273 V8 under the hood, instead of a Hemi under all that Glass.)
I liked the radio ads too, especially for holiday weekends: "Martin US 131 Dragway! Saturday! Sunday! Labor Day Monday! Be Theeeere!"


Your photos reminded me that my neighborhood's Hollyhock Lane 4th of July Parade is tomorrow! :thumbsup::thumbsup::cool:


- GT
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Hi Gary!
Happy to be able to trigger some of your memories.
I figure the most strenuous cutting duties my knives need to do while at church is maybe trimming the nails on my fretting hand, so that's a good time to tote the genteel ones.
But I break out in hives trying to act genteel for more than a couple of hours, so I go back to more adventursome knivee after church.

Our well? Let's see. He had to pull four sections of pipe until the pump came up. And each section of pipe was 20 feet. And since our elevation is 869 ft above sea level, that means the well bottoms out at 789 feet above SL.
We're just off the side of a long glacial ridge, which is 200 feet higher, and is made of rock and gravel scraped off the Canadian shield, and I believe there's an underground river, which is where our good water comes from.

The .gov built a "secret" radar installation on the high point after 9/12. A lot of us wear tinfoil hats when we go outside now.
 
This old Utica Jack
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Amir Fleschwund said:
Not bad for a +/- 75 year old Jack.
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I didn't know it was that old.
Just introspecting to verify- yes, older than me is old, or at least oldish.

Both of these today, for some reason or none. The Schrade is made by Camillus circa 1980. Not old at all.
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(I was finally going to call my c-pap people today, and I did, but they're closed already for the holiday. So I ordered a nose-cone halter from the river. I should have it Saturday. Even if it's late it will be faster than I could get one from my people. And not expensive, or I'd choose to continue to suffer.)
 
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