"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Peregrin said:
Have a Happy Easter or Passover or whatever you're celebrating today.
This will have a good dent in it by day's end. My wife's "Bunny Cake". She makes it every Easter just like here mom did.
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That looks good!

Happy Easter and Passover to all of the people here again even if I am late here.

Cate
 
Raymond1000 said:
My mother used to make a lamb cake for Easter. Because, Roman Catholic. Christ was the Agnus Dei, the “Lamb of God.”

She topped the frosting with shredded coconut. It made a surprisingly woolly lamb.

It might make a furry bunny.
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I read your post wrong - apologies. I thought that you meant LAMB as the meat and you wrote lamb cake. Sorry about that!

The lamb cakes sounds yummy too. Significant meaning.

Yummy - lamb.

We had lamb and usually some other type of meat too.

I can't think of the one bread's official name that my late Dad's sister made.

It was braided, baked to a wonderful color, a bit sweet with an boiled dyed egg in the middle of it. Different nationalities call it by different names. We used REAL butter on it too. Yummy!

Cate
 
btmccutcheon said:
Had a bit of an encounter with serendipity this past weekend. Friday afternoon, after work I decided it was time to get out of town. So I rushed home, packed a bag, and Donna and I headed north to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. We didn't have a room booked, so we made reservations on the way up. Turns out the place I booked closes check-in times at 9pm. I didn't realize this until 5 minutes after I booked it at 8:55pm and I was still 1:30 to 2 hours away. So I called the hotel and a gentleman with a European accent answered and after hearing what I'd done said he'd wait for us.

An hour and 45 minutes later There he was letting us into our cozy little room. The thing that struck me was the room key, or actually what was attached to it.









Frankly I thought the fit and finish was good. No gaps, pull about a 2, blade centered, no half-stops. Doesn't hold an edge very well though.

The next morning during checkout, Robert the owner hoooked me up with one carved by a local artist. And that European accent was Swiss. Turns out he was a former Swiss soldier. We compared his issued 1981 Vic soldier to my recently acquired pioneer, which he thought was a soldier knife too, but he was soon able to find the differences. I told him about my Wenger (which he pronounced "ving-ger") S.I., to which he smiled and said it was a good knife, but the Swiss Army never issued knives made by Wenger. He said they only issued the Victorinox soldier, and that Wenger made that model for their civilian customers. He definitely liked my Pioneer though. Super nice guy. I thought it was a perfect stay.
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Cool story! Neat room key.

Cate
 
r8shell said:
Very fine jelly mold there, but when a 40 year old man is having a bris, you might want to keep the pocketknife out of sight. Don't want to make him any more nervous. :eek: :D
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I wanted to say something like that too. I held back.

Since you brought it up - I AGREE with you!

Cate
 
MT Damascus said:
Here is a gift for my wife that i just received back today from my friend, climbing partner and knifemaker, Phil Dobson. Spyderco Mule in S110v and Phil halved it in Mexican Kingwood, from the rosewood family. Phil's mom made the sheath, dyed to match the kingwood and hand stiched. Fits perfectly in my wife's purse and she loves it. Thanks for looking,

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Beautiful knife and sheath!

Cate
 
Fishing on the Pearl River today with some knife maker and his girl friend, caught the ugliest flathead I've ever seen.
Had a great time, I guess it's hard to have a bad time fishing.....:D

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Looks like you had a good day Al. They say a bad day fishing is better than a good day working. I think they're right!
 
Well I had a bit of good news today, and as some of you have corresponded with me via PM's about my health issues, I thought it might be easier to post here. I've been in the hospital for over a week now because I wasn't responding well to the chemotherapy. Yesterday and today, things turned around finally and the Dr says my lab work looks much better now so I'll be headed home tomorrow. This makes both my wife and I very happy. Nobody likes hospitals anyways, right? Hopefully things continue on the current path and continue to improve. But for now, going home is a step in the right direction.
I just wanted to thank everyone for your continued support and staying in contact. It means a lot. I even got a letter from the Dana Farber Cancer Inst. saying that a donation was made in my name from a very thoughtful friend here on BF. Thank you so much Ron. You made my wife cry though. But in a good way. :thumbup: :D
Hope to join back in the conversations here.
 
Super news, Bob! :thumbup::thumbup: BF always feels better to me when I can flit from thread to thread and see that BigBiscuit has already been there before me, making his positive contributions. :D:D Looking forward to reports of some of the fine knives you've been accumulating, too; that's probably easier to do from home than from hospital. :p:p Will the hospital even allow knife orders to be delivered there? :confused:

Anyway, you keep getting better and I'll keep praying for you! Thanks for the super news!

- GT
 
I'm really glad to hear your good news, Bob. You've been in my prayers.
 
Thanks fellas. Funny you mention the hospital deliveries GT. Yesterday, I completed a trade in the Exchange so I had to have my wife mail my half of the trade out today. She's been bringing me a different knife every other day to boost my spirits. :D
 
BigBiscuit said:
Thanks fellas. Funny you mention the hospital deliveries GT. Yesterday, I completed a trade in the Exchange so I had to have my wife mail my half of the trade out today. She's been bringing me a different knife every other day to boost my spirits. :D
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Very cool (and somewhat crazy), Bob! :thumbup::eek::thumbup: She sounds like a good-hearted woman in love with a good-knifin' man! You better hang on to her!! :D:D

- GT
 
Oh she's a keeper for sure. We're coming up on 39 years. I jokingly told her last year, I wasn't sure the marriage was going to last. :D
 
Good to hear, Bob.
Smoke and prayers for continued progress.
 
Overjoyed by the news Bob, really made my day :) Keep it up mate :thumbup:
 
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