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

5K Qs, that is great that your dad came through his stroke without major problems lingering, I savor every moment I have with my parents, even if it is just on the phone...


Dan, so sorry to read of the loss of your dear old faithful companion. I can tell you from experience that in time, the pain of loss lessens, but the warm memories of a life shared will never falter. I wish you comfort and peace...
 
MT Damascus said:
Made a careless mistake at my shop on Tuesday, I had a rag in my hand as I was wiping some coolant of the timing cover of a Honda 3.5 L and my hand got sucked into the harmonic balancer. It compound fractured my ring finger on my right hand and severe lacerations on my 3 other fingers. I had to go in for surgery Tues. night. The surgeon said I was VERY lucky not to have damaged any tendons or nerves. As many of you know, I own and operate a busy 5 bay shop with just one entry level employee, it is going to be a challenge to get back going, but I have great customers and I think they will understand. My hands are my lively hood so I am hoping for a smooth recovery. The x ray dosent look as bad as it really was. Lots of pain.

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Kris - As usual I am behind on this thread. I am sorry to hear about this happening. I am praying for a speedy recovery.
In the mean time I hope you will enjoy a wonderful Fathers Day with your family.
 
Thanks Ron, I appreciate all the kind words. I am trying to take it easy and I will definitely heed my doctors advice(thanks Fausto).

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all you dads tomorrow, I hope you have a great day. We are going for a early hike with dogs.

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Cool pic Kris, definitely some Krisness there! :D :thumbup:
 
MT Damascus said:
Thanks Ron, I appreciate all the kind words. I am trying to take it easy and I will definitely heed my doctors advice(thanks Fausto).

HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all you dads tomorrow, I hope you have a great day. We are going for a early hike with dogs.

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That may well be the cheeriest Father's Day greeting I have ever seen.

Congrats to you, Kris, and continued prayer for a fast healing.
 
5K Qs said:
I'm very thankful today that my 85-year-old Dad is doing well after suffering a "small" stroke on Tuesday. He's expecting to go home from the hospital today. When I visited him yesterday, there seemed to be no lingering effects of the event - slurred speech, droopy face parts, memory deficits (all of which I've had for years :rolleyes:) - which seems quite amazing to me.

- GT
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I will say a prayer for your Father.

Cate
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Please say a prayer, send up smoke, or just good thoughts, for my old labrador, Beau. He passed away yesterday, he was 15. I'd like to think he was the best dog I ever had. He was plump, not fat, but stocky, his entire life, and he just lost a ton of weight. He ate like a horse to the end, but Wednesday night, he looked at his food, and didn't eat. Over the past week his appetite had gone away, and my sister found him Thursday afternoon. My other dogs are upset, my pup Mack has been moping around, his old baby isn't there for him to play with. My old man now, Remington, about ten years old, has been very antsy for the past week, he has that sixth sense business, my great grandmother had it, my one sister has it. I guess animals get it too. My alpha male, 7 year old Dock, was in a blue funk when I got home, and didn't get excited for our nightly hike until I got him going with "wanna go for a walk!".

Carl had told me a couple years ago after my accident, don't cry over what can't cry for you. Squeeze your two legged and four legged family members.
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Hello,

I will say a prayer for you, your family and your other dog too.

I do believe that many people, dogs and other animals have a sixth sense about some things in life. My late dogs had it, my late husband had it and I have it in specific matters too.

Carl was right on his comment. That was how I was raised in my outlook on life too.

Treasure what you have in your life NOW! Hug, love, like, share and respect people that you cherish in your life.

Take care.

Cate
 
So hold on a second, i been gone awhile, and i have been just starting to poke my head back in around here and i notice i am a gold member?!
when did that happen??

i can only presume someone "gifted me" a membership, the problem is, i have no idea who, so i cannot thank that person..wow
oh and hi guys! long time no see :D
 
You look good in gold. Our thanks join yours.
How's the job situation and family?
 
Welcome back, Mr. Smith. Haven't heard from you for a while, but your membership status changed? Must be that "silence is golden" thing! :D:D

- GT
 
family is good
job has been located and acquired. learned alot, still learning
seem to be pretty ok at something that i knew NOTHING about 4 months ago :P
so there is that
 
Good to see you back, Ryan. That's the funny thing about jobs - no matter what they say they are looking for when they hire you, what they always want is someone that can figure out what needs to be done and then get it done. I usually spend 10% of my time on things that fall into my official job description, and the other 90% on the catch-all phrase at the end "other duties as assigned."
 
Good to see you back, and as Frank said, you look good in gold :) :thumbup:
 
Ryan, good to see you my Texas Jack brother!

Kris, that is one cute kid!

I would like to ask your prayers again, my great aunt passed away this morning. I'd like to think my pup met her and took her on to the other side. My grandmother had about seven sisters, after my oldest great aunt passed away young, my grandmother was the oldest of the girls, she had about three brothers. They had more siblings that died very young. Anyway, after my grandmother passed, my great aunt Nan (her name was Lenore but most everyone called her Nan) was so much like my grandmother. I love all my great aunts, but I was closest to my aunt Nan. Aunt Irene, Aunt Cheche/Adele, Aunt Sandy (her nickname, I can't for the life of me think of her real name right now) and aunt Betty are still with us. Please pray for them and for my cousins. My cousin Jason, who has special needs, adored her. I was very close with him growing up, and my heart breaks for him. I am glad that she is not in pain anymore, and gets to see my great uncle, who has been gone going on twenty years in a couple years.

Your prayers and good thoughts are appreciated.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Ryan, good to see you my Texas Jack brother!

Kris, that is one cute kid!

I would like to ask your prayers again, my great aunt passed away this morning. I'd like to think my pup met her and took her on to the other side. My grandmother had about seven sisters, after my oldest great aunt passed away young, my grandmother was the oldest of the girls, she had about three brothers. They had more siblings that died very young. Anyway, after my grandmother passed, my great aunt Nan (her name was Lenore but most everyone called her Nan) was so much like my grandmother. I love all my great aunts, but I was closest to my aunt Nan. Aunt Irene, Aunt Cheche/Adele, Aunt Sandy (her nickname, I can't for the life of me think of her real name right now) and aunt Betty are still with us. Please pray for them and for my cousins. My cousin Jason, who has special needs, adored her. I was very close with him growing up, and my heart breaks for him. I am glad that she is not in pain anymore, and gets to see my great uncle, who has been gone going on twenty years in a couple years.

Your prayers and good thoughts are appreciated.
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Hello,

I will pray for you and the rest of your family.

I had an Aunt 'Nan'. She was my late Mom's stepmother. Nice lady! I loved her too. I did not get to see her a lot because she lived in another state, NY. (I was born in NY but raised in MD from the age of one year old.) She was married to my late Mom's Dad who died before I was born. Aunt Nan outlived her second husband too. She died not too long after my late Mom died (1969). Her real name was Italian -Anunciata. My sister, Nan, was named after her and Daddy's Mom - Victoria.

I am not Italian but I love their pretty names as I do many other names from other countries!

I am an all American mutt. Grin.

English, Irish and Scottish = My Mom's Dad. They came over a few ships past the Mayflower. Some stayed in New England and some moved to the New York area.

Scandinavian, Finnish, Nordic background = My Mom's Mom. Legal immigrant from Finland. She died when I was young and she lived in NY too. I wish that I could remember her rural Finnish town off hand but I can't now. Her name meant PEACE in Finnish. Rauha or an abbreviation of a longer Finnish name.

English and Greek = My Dad back when Cyprus was a British colony many years ago. He came through Ellis Island as a legal immigrant right before or right after the '30's depression' hit. He traveled and worked in several countries in Europe with his older brother. He always had a job even during the depression too. He was a shepherd in Cyprus and his Dad had quite a bit of land. His Mom died and his Dad remarried... the stepmother was not too cool with the other children from what I gather.

Later on, after he became a U.S. citizen, my Dad met my Mom who was 11 years younger than he was and they fell in love and married. She was out of college but attending school at the time in NY. (Later on, more schooling in MD.) They had a happy marriage until my Mom died of cancer in her late 40's. Daddy never remarried.

Family history and friends make life interesting.

My late husband came from a German heritage. His 'great elderly aunts' more or less raised him from the age of 7 years old back in the GL region - farm/lake country. I only knew one of those OLD Aunts on his side and she was a nice lady too. All of those old lady Aunts were professional women shy of one of them and the one OLD, old great Uncle of his was a blacksmith. His Dad was nice to me and I knew him but he did not live to an old age. His Mom was NOT friendly, she was NEVER happy about jack squat and she was downright COLD no matter what you did for HER, how much you did for her over and over again and tons more. Ugh. Even though my late husband had an unusual background and had a tough life after WW2... I think that God was looking out for him when his old lady aunts raised him from the age of 7 years old here in the States.

Blessings to you and yours.

Cate
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