EDC XIII Which knife or knives are you carrying today?

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I left the Lower Cape early for a 6 hour session of continuing education that's part of the 12 hour, every two year cycle for renewal of my unrestricted construction supervisor's license. (It's the same material every two years, if that makes any sense. Not!) Traffic was light heading off and I got to Plymouth in 55 minutes, but returning mid-afternoon with all the incoming vacationers on changeover day took two hours--groan. :mad:

Anyway, it took me a while to pick a knife for today, passing on a couple larger ones--the new AFCK and my Crooked River--finally settling on the CruCarta PM 2. The room's mostly older construction guys sitting two to a table, so I wasn't worried about shocking anyone, but it did seem something a bit more modest was appropriate and I did have it out to use while partaking of the lunch I carried in for our short mid-day break. It was striking that only three of us out of 40-50 there carried in--my usual work habit--while the rest left the building in search of nearby sustenance.

I should have shot some stationary in-car pics today as I spent a lot of time cleaning its too-long-neglected interior, but I took my usual sorts instead, wandering about the property when I got home.

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Today I went to the center for pipe tobacco.

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The place is called Five Corners. Five streets meet here.

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On the way, I photographed two tenement houses.
House of the architect Nikonov.

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The so-called "Russian" style.

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Entrance to the courtyard, and the courtyard itself.

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House of Count Tolstoy. Only not the writer, but his brother.

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Style Modern. Architect Lidval.

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There are three courtyards here.

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I chose these houses not by chance. They were built by two of the largest architects of St. Petersburg of the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries. These people built dozens of houses, temples, state buildings in the city. And the Soviet government got rid of both of them. In 1918, Nikonov died, and Lidval was forced to flee to Sweden so that he would not be shot. And that's probably all you need to know about this country.

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Does knife like that need permit in Ruzzia to carry? Or did you get ”special” permit?
 
Carrying my new $65 eBay score. Just arrived this morning. Used, with some light edge damage near the tip. Blonde scales had some scratches and black grease stains so I sanded them out and used black Rit dye to disguise it. CLP break-free and nylon bristle brushes with compressed air. It’s clean and sharp now, with a snappy walk-and-talk.

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