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About a month ago, I was admiring a Rough Rider canoe photo posted by Wheeler80. Besides having a soft spot in my heart (and head?) for canoes, Bill's had RR's "gunstock checked brown bone" covers that I find to be exceedingly appealing. Soon thereafter, Will Power sent me an email offering to gift me an identical canoe (if he could find it), since he had never "taken to" the canoe pattern. I was happy to accept his generous offer!
Will warned me that it might take a while for his package to reach me because the Finland Post Office was striking. But a couple of weeks ago, a box arrived in my mailbox.
As you can see, it was quite a festive box, with illustrations of winter birds that looked similar to those I know, but definitely not my familiar juncoes, nuthatches, chickadees, cardinals, etc. Just receiving the box was exciting, since I'd never gotten mail from Finland before! Inside was a familiar Rough Rider knife box holding the beautiful gunstock checked canoe.
I hope you can see from my amateur photos how attractive the checked bone is; it reminds me of scratting taken to its limit. Will also included a postcard of an old-fashioned picnic in a birch grove; he wrote a kind note on the back that I certainly appreciate.
But Will also included a totally unexpected item in the package! In the Rough Rider box with some packing peanuts and the RR canoe was a striking little Hen and Rooster mini-canoe or butterbean pattern with gorgeous green pick bone covers!
What a superb surprise! That beautiful green butterbean represents a number of firsts for me: my first Hen & Rooster, my first knife made in Solingen Germany, my first butterbean, and my first single-spring canoe!!
So thank you very much, Will, for your incredible generosity; two astounding canoes in one package! Will has mentioned the long hours of darkness at this time of year in Finland, but he certainly seems like a source of sunshine to me!
I'd welcome any photos of canoes any of you would like to post here, especially Rough Rider or Hen & Rooster models.
- GT
Will warned me that it might take a while for his package to reach me because the Finland Post Office was striking. But a couple of weeks ago, a box arrived in my mailbox.
As you can see, it was quite a festive box, with illustrations of winter birds that looked similar to those I know, but definitely not my familiar juncoes, nuthatches, chickadees, cardinals, etc. Just receiving the box was exciting, since I'd never gotten mail from Finland before! Inside was a familiar Rough Rider knife box holding the beautiful gunstock checked canoe.
I hope you can see from my amateur photos how attractive the checked bone is; it reminds me of scratting taken to its limit. Will also included a postcard of an old-fashioned picnic in a birch grove; he wrote a kind note on the back that I certainly appreciate.
But Will also included a totally unexpected item in the package! In the Rough Rider box with some packing peanuts and the RR canoe was a striking little Hen and Rooster mini-canoe or butterbean pattern with gorgeous green pick bone covers!
What a superb surprise! That beautiful green butterbean represents a number of firsts for me: my first Hen & Rooster, my first knife made in Solingen Germany, my first butterbean, and my first single-spring canoe!!
So thank you very much, Will, for your incredible generosity; two astounding canoes in one package! Will has mentioned the long hours of darkness at this time of year in Finland, but he certainly seems like a source of sunshine to me!
I'd welcome any photos of canoes any of you would like to post here, especially Rough Rider or Hen & Rooster models.
- GT
I didn't think I was a big fan of green knives that I've seen here, but having that Hen & Rooster green pick bone in hand sure has adjusted my attitude toward green knives! 
