Blades upon Books - Traditionals

[Jack Black]

Another day, another book...

 

[screened porch]

Another day, another book...

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What's the" ...sser" under the knife?

 

[Jack Black]

What's the" ...sser" under the knife?

A 'posser'. I still see them regularly for sale on the market, and remember my mother using one, though hers was a 'modern' plastic model! We had a huge old mangle in the cellar, though it had been repurposed as a work bench

 

[screened porch]

A 'posser'. I still see them regularly for sale on the market, and remember my mother using one, though hers was a 'modern' plastic model! We had a huge old mangle in the cellar, though it had been repurposed as a work bench View attachment 1895607

Aha. Thanks.
We used the plastic ones in Japan to stir our bathwater and even out the heat. (We had doll-sized electric washing machines.)

 

[Ratatoskr]

There is just barely a knife in this picture, but this is a really cool edition of a book by one of my heroes, that my girlfriend got me a few years ago:

 

[Jack Black]

Aha. Thanks.
We used the plastic ones in Japan to stir our bathwater and even out the heat. (We had doll-sized electric washing machines.)

Do you remember what you called them Jer? That's pretty cool about the washing machines!

 

[Jack Black]

There is just barely a knife in this picture, but this is a really cool edition of a book by one of my heroes, that my girlfriend got me a few years ago:

Nice-looking Puukko

That's a nice gift too

 

[thepapercut]

 

[Jack Black]

 

[LEGION 12]

 

[screened porch]

Do you remember what you called them Jer? That's pretty cool about the washing machines!

I think I was told what it did rather than what it was.
According to google translate, it's an ofuro kakimaze bo {bath mix stick).

 

[Jack Black]

I think I was told what it did rather than what it was.
According to google translate, it's an ofuro kakimaze bo {bath mix stick).

Oh, a bit like German then!

 

[screened porch]

Oh, a bit like German then!

Yes, it is, a bit, now that you mention it.

 

[mbkr]

Bois d'Arc (Osage Orange)

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Wrapping up the 2nd book in the Expanse series today. The show was awesome, and so far the books are even better

 

[5K Qs]

I've been able to find time for a fair amount of recreational reading this summer, but I've fallen behind on posting in this thread the books I've read.
In mid-June, I think, I re-read for the first time in decades Stephen King's The Stand, at least partially because the description, in the first part of the book, of the spread of an incredibly deadly plague is eerily similar to what has happened in the transmission of COVID-19 over the past couple of years. I immensely enjoyed this lengthy tale of a post-apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil. Not really part of King's "standard" horror repertoire.


- GT

 

[BrotherJim]

d.freemont Ancyent Marinere collection: Ancyent Marinere, Panama, Voyager
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems
Camillus 697 Rigging Knife

 

[JM2]

https://imgur.com/n4hwkbb

 

[mbkr]

https://imgur.com/n4hwkbb

Looks like a happy book

 

[JM2]

https://imgur.com/n4hwkbb

Started it last night and finished this morning!