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

[black mamba]

Merry Christmas, Randy, have a great one!

 

[netguy1999]

The next couple of days will be both hectic and wonderful for me as we celebrate Christmas with our family. I most likely won't have a chance to post here again until Monday. So I would like to say to all my friends here on the porch a heartfelt Merry Christmas At my age it seems that time between one year to the next is getting shorter. But all you wonderful folks here have made my year much better and I thank you for it.

And a Merry Christmas to you too, Randy. I know exactly what you mean about friends on the porch. I have never met any of you in person, and yet I feel that I am surrounded by friends here on the porch. You and everyone else on the porch have made my Christmas special.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thank You Randy! Have a great Christmas with your Family and I hope your wife is well enough now from her operation to really enjoy 100% of her time with your Family.

Merry Christmas everyone - have a lovely safe holiday.

 

[jackknife]

Merry Christmas to all my blade forum family!

 

[Henry Beige]

Merry Christmas one and all.

I am busy wrapping tonight. My kids and step kids will be getting Moras this year. For most, it will be their first encounter.

 

[leghog]

Bought a 1984 Case 640045R scout pattern at a gun show a couple of weeks ago. When my wife noticed I bought another scout pattern, she took it from me. I'll next see it tomorrow.

 

[screened porch]

Squirrel?

This ~80 year old Marlin .22LR rifle.

Last things it dispatched were five groundhogs making a wreck under a friend's friend's porch. Those didn't make it into the crockpot. They were buried.

That's s big hole.

 

[pertinux]

My oldest, my firstborn son, stationed on the other side of the country from me since Oct. 2015, deployed May-Nov of this year...

... is currently asleep upstairs, home for a week.

Oh, me little heart.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

~ P.

Sarah, Thanks to your son for his service to our country. I'm sure you're resting easy and your heart is filled just having him home for the holiday.

Sarah: Good looking son, pretty daughter-in-law (I am assuming), and cute dog. The dog doesn't quite look so sure about the son, though. Glad you have your family home safe and secure for the holidays.

I'm very happy for you, P! Please send our thanks to your boy! The puppy's face is cracking me up.

Merry Christmas!

Still remember how to wear the "Mom Hat"?

- GT

From the looks of the fruit salad, it looks like he's been deployed more than once. Semper Fi young Devil Dog. Get some for Chesty.

Thanks for the kind words, everyone. It's so good to have him here, I keep driving around crying-- emotions no doubt heightened by the season and his imminent departure, but also just because I've missed him like thunder, am missing him again already, and am humbled by the man he has become.

To answer the above:
1) The dog is Elvis, or as I like to call him, Lifestyle Elvis®. He was my daughter-in-law's before they married, a rescue who'd had a rough go of it before she came along and transformed his life with love and safety. He is one of the funniest little animals I've ever known, loves my son to distraction, and is also the reason I now have a dog. I kept Elvis for her for a couple months before their wedding, therby discovering that I could "do" a dog here with my cats, fenceless yard, and life. When Elvis returned to his own people, I really missed him, and soon after that my own dog and I found each other.

[Then Elvis and my daughter-in-law moved back in while my son was in [further] training, but that's another story. ]

2) No "Mom hat" required, although it seems I'm still in charge of "food," even though I've never been good at it and my people are all young adults now, etc.

My biggest Mom Thing has been letting my oldest son have use of my Wrangler TJ while home. I'm not sure he realizes how good he has it, or how brave I'm being. Which is a very Mom reality, yes?

3) Just one deployment so far. He's sporting some participation medals (heh) and some sort of fancy braided cord thing that's Significant if you know what it is, based on the [insert military group thingy name here] he's in.

I've passed along everyone's kind words; he laughed out loud at the Chesty comment.

Thanks again, everyone.

~ P.

 

[MT Damascus]

Handsome young man giving his service to this fine country, Sarah, a lot to be proud of. Thanks for sharing and enjoy the time you do have.

Kris

 

[mrknife]

Merry christmas and a happy holidays to all!

 

[btmccutcheon]

Barlow came home with us yesterday afternoon. Went to the vet, then to Petco for toys and treats. Poor little guy was pooped after that.

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[netguy1999]

Barlow came home with us yesterday afternoon. Went to the vet, then to Petco for toys and treats. Poor little guy was pooped after that.

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Such a beautiful pup! These are the fun days of getting to know your pup and seeing how their personality develops! Enjoy! I'm sure Barlow will.

 

[btmccutcheon]

Such a beautiful pup! These are the fun days of getting to know your pup and seeing how their personality develops! Enjoy! I'm sure Barlow will.

Thank you. He has a ton of personality already. Crate training has begun and it sounds like someone is whipping a banshee with a red hot poker. I suddenly understand my hearing loss from training dogs.

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[afishhunter]

A Happy Christmass to all! May Sinterklass bring you more than you asked for

 

[Jolipapa]

I wish a MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE to all the friends at BF! Now it is time to sit down to eat!

 

[pertinux]

Barlow came home with us yesterday afternoon. Went to the vet, then to Petco for toys and treats. Poor little guy was pooped after that.

Those lil' legs!!

Now there's a Christmas present.

Congratulations, again.

~ P.

 

[Jack Black]

Good stuff Randy Merry Christmas to everyone here :thumbup:

 

[r8shell]

I just got back from a friend's house where we cooked up a bunch of latkes for Hanukkah. Tomorrow is Christmas. Tonight I get to relax. (and look at pictures of puppies!)

Whatever holiday you celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful one, one and all.

By the way, I just have to share this. I asked my mother to send me some of her recipes, so she scanned some pages from her favorite cookbook. It may be hard to explain why it's so funny to me, and yet makes me sentimental. Many of the pages in this book are perfectly clean, anyone can tell which dishes were the favorites.

 

[knarfeng]

Whatever holiday you celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful one, one and all.

Quoted for its perfection of sentiment.

 

[Peregrin]

"Originally Posted by r8shell
Whatever holiday you celebrate, I hope you have a wonderful one, one and all.

Quoted for its perfection of sentiment.

A re-quote to add my own, Have a wonderful holiday, one and all!.