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We vote by returning a completed, dark ink pen fills in small ovals to indicate your choice, paper ballot both received and sent in the mail here in this neck of the woods. So you don't have to get up off your BWB to visit a polling place in Oregon.
Setting the scene: Lovely wife is out of town, knife project consumes the entire 6 place dining table :thumbup:, first cup of morning coffee in hand (re-heated yesterday's), reading ballot and imagining the bright future given my critical votes.
I finally make a voting decision and reach for the pen but grab a nearby fully open, all three blades sharp as can be, Buck 301 Stockman instead!
Strangely, no cuts and not even those sneaker cuts that you can't feel until later. Dodged that bullet. Phew! Put down the knife, picked up the nearby pen and did my citizen duty. Oh, and then I closed the knife blades (it had received an alcohol bath the day before and was drying over night in anticipation for a tiny bit of mineral oil for its moving parts). I can't seem to avoid cutlery here so perhaps I'll vote in the afternoon from now on...
I suppose that if I were a button collector then I might have tried to mark my ballot with a vintage tortoise shell button.
Funny to me.
Stump making in progress near Tualatin River:
Setting the scene: Lovely wife is out of town, knife project consumes the entire 6 place dining table :thumbup:, first cup of morning coffee in hand (re-heated yesterday's), reading ballot and imagining the bright future given my critical votes.
I finally make a voting decision and reach for the pen but grab a nearby fully open, all three blades sharp as can be, Buck 301 Stockman instead!
Strangely, no cuts and not even those sneaker cuts that you can't feel until later. Dodged that bullet. Phew! Put down the knife, picked up the nearby pen and did my citizen duty. Oh, and then I closed the knife blades (it had received an alcohol bath the day before and was drying over night in anticipation for a tiny bit of mineral oil for its moving parts). I can't seem to avoid cutlery here so perhaps I'll vote in the afternoon from now on...I suppose that if I were a button collector then I might have tried to mark my ballot with a vintage tortoise shell button.
Funny to me.Stump making in progress near Tualatin River:
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