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Well done Randy 
. I would have done anything to go to a school like that in my youth. I wanted to be a forest ranger like my cousin in the worst way but my drunken (guidance counselor) convinced me that "I didn't have the grades and that the world needs ditch diggers." That's some Happy/Lucky student's you have their and they should be as proud as they look. BTW I wore a Buck 110 every day at Highschool and never got a second look but that was a long time ago.
. I would have done anything to go to a school like that in my youth. I wanted to be a forest ranger like my cousin in the worst way but my drunken (guidance counselor) convinced me that "I didn't have the grades and that the world needs ditch diggers." That's some Happy/Lucky student's you have their and they should be as proud as they look. BTW I wore a Buck 110 every day at Highschool and never got a second look but that was a long time ago.I forget I have my knife on my belt and it surprises me the places I go and no one says anything. Although I did wear it to pick my daughter up at the airport. Just in the waiting area...not through security and a guard comes along to chat with me and let me know that it isn't wise to bring weapons into an airport.Well done Randy
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I gave my apprentice a knife for Christmas (so he would stop asking for mine) and he forgot to leave it in the car when he went into a courthouse so instead of running back 4 city blocks he went outside and stuck it under the mulch in a planter. When he came out someone had sat down on that spot to eat lunch so he politely asked the man to move for a second and then proceeded to dig it up. He said the look on the guys face was priceless LOL. That said, Don't forget to remind those kids of what a great rewarding/important job they may have someday taking care of those beautiful forests you have their in BC. I have only been there in the dead of winter and I was in awe of its vast beauty.
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After 40 years of teaching, in public and private schools, I know the spectre of politics never goes away. I'm glad you are fighting to keep your slice of pragmatic education.
yep, I call it tap dancing in a mine field. You know you are going to get away with it for a while, but eventually something is going to blow. You just hope you will survive the blast so you can keep on dancing.
I've always been pretty good at reading people and finding ways to get them on side which serves me pretty well in this role. But I have had so much fun teaching here and now being the administrator. I also look at what we are producing in our kids and I want to keep going. It's pretty powerful.
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Couple recent stories Randy to show ya why you and what you are doing is important. Keep up the fight! First to set the stage, a pic of me so ya understand. Not exactly a spring chicken:
Anyhoo one of the shows we do every year is our local rodeo. It occurs at the same time as a big craft fair in town, but we set up at the rodeo cause thats more our crowd. Setting up early on Saturday and they had just opened the beer booth just across the vending area from us. Its hot and a beer would be good after hauling all our stuff in from the truck and getting it set up. So I go over and the young kid sitting at the booth taking the $ says can I see your ID please (drinking age here in Cali is 21)? I kinda just look at him as I dig out my id to give him. So I tells him, "Funny story last year at the craft show in town." He says; "Oh yeah?" "Yeah, I got a buddy, he's 90 plus, a Korean War veteran, he'd been in the hospital down town for a while cause he'd fallen and broken a hip." "They gave him leave so his daughter, grand daughters and great grand daughters came and got him and were pushing him around the fair in a wheel chair and he's on oxygen too." "Wow really, thats cool." "Yeah, it was hot last year like this year so they say grandpa would ya like a beer? He says yeah of course and so they push him over to the beer garden. Funny thing they won't let this 90 plus year old Korean Veteran, in a wheelchair, on oxygen, being pushed by his grand daughters, with his great grand daughters playing on the grass, into the beer garden because he doesn't have an ID on him." "So his daughters and grand daughters go in and have to park him outside where they can still talk to him and the great grand kids too. He says: "Well thats just stupid! Obviously he's over 21!" I say "Yeah obviously", as he hands me back my id. Funny part is the guys working with him and actually pouring the beer are all smirking at him behind his back. Couple of hours later the manager of the beer booth, who wasn't even there at the time, came over and gave me a couple of free tokens. He says sorry about that so those other guys must of told him.
Few months back the wife and I walk into our local Home Depot, we're looking for some velcro for her CCW purses she makes for the local gun store to sell. We'd bought it there before but didn't remember where in the store it was so we stop at the info desk. Pretty young girl just out of high school is manning the desk. Goes like this: "Hey where's your velcro?" She steps over to the computer and starts typing she then looks up and says "How do you spell crow?" I said; "C....R....O..., velcro, ya know hook and loop closure, pulls apart." She taps away and says "We don't carry it." I say thanks and we walk down the stores main aisle. There's an old battle axe gal standing down a ways. "Can I help you folks find something?" "Yeah where's your velcro?" " Aisle 26 bay 3," she replies and she was right.
So keep doing what you are doing Randy. what I meant by the "I dunnos".
Couple recent stories Randy to show ya why you and what you are doing is important. Keep up the fight! First to set the stage, a pic of me so ya understand. Not exactly a spring chicken:
Anyhoo one of the shows we do every year is our local rodeo. It occurs at the same time as a big craft fair in town, but we set up at the rodeo cause thats more our crowd. Setting up early on Saturday and they had just opened the beer booth just across the vending area from us. Its hot and a beer would be good after hauling all our stuff in from the truck and getting it set up. So I go over and the young kid sitting at the booth taking the $ says can I see your ID please (drinking age here in Cali is 21)? I kinda just look at him as I dig out my id to give him. So I tells him, "Funny story last year at the craft show in town." He says; "Oh yeah?" "Yeah, I got a buddy, he's 90 plus, a Korean War veteran, he'd been in the hospital down town for a while cause he'd fallen and broken a hip." "They gave him leave so his daughter, grand daughters and great grand daughters came and got him and were pushing him around the fair in a wheel chair and he's on oxygen too." "Wow really, thats cool." "Yeah, it was hot last year like this year so they say grandpa would ya like a beer? He says yeah of course and so they push him over to the beer garden. Funny thing they won't let this 90 plus year old Korean Veteran, in a wheelchair, on oxygen, being pushed by his grand daughters, with his great grand daughters playing on the grass, into the beer garden because he doesn't have an ID on him." "So his daughters and grand daughters go in and have to park him outside where they can still talk to him and the great grand kids too. He says: "Well thats just stupid! Obviously he's over 21!" I say "Yeah obviously", as he hands me back my id. Funny part is the guys working with him and actually pouring the beer are all smirking at him behind his back. Couple of hours later the manager of the beer booth, who wasn't even there at the time, came over and gave me a couple of free tokens. He says sorry about that so those other guys must of told him.
Few months back the wife and I walk into our local Home Depot, we're looking for some velcro for her CCW purses she makes for the local gun store to sell. We'd bought it there before but didn't remember where in the store it was so we stop at the info desk. Pretty young girl just out of high school is manning the desk. Goes like this: "Hey where's your velcro?" She steps over to the computer and starts typing she then looks up and says "How do you spell crow?" I said; "C....R....O..., velcro, ya know hook and loop closure, pulls apart." She taps away and says "We don't carry it." I say thanks and we walk down the stores main aisle. There's an old battle axe gal standing down a ways. "Can I help you folks find something?" "Yeah where's your velcro?" " Aisle 26 bay 3," she replies and she was right.
So keep doing what you are doing Randy. what I meant by the "I dunnos".
Hilarious!!!!! Thanks for the stories.
My students have what I call a "dicey sense of self confidence!" Once in a while they wind up taking care of things that need an adult touch.
Grade 4 (9year old) goes walking by me with blood oozing out of some gauze she has taped to her hand.
I ask, "Cassie, what's going on with your hand there?'
"I cut it on a broken branch on that log. But don't worry, I cleaned it and put lots of gauze on to soak up the blood."
"Well the blood is soaking through now. Let me look." When I get the bloody gauze off I find a gash that is going to need a good 8-12 stitches.
I inform Cassie that she is going to need stitches and I will be calling mom to come get her.
"But Randy. I'm going to miss half of lunch recess! Can you please wait 20 minutes to call mom so I can play til the end of recess?"
When I called her mom I let her know Cassie's request. Mom replies, "I'll take my time getting there. Let her play, she will be in a better mood then!"
Capper, was that Cassie was ticked off that the ER took so long that she missed the afternoon at school.
I've raised my own kids to avoid the "Dunno's."
A few weeks ago when my 19 year old son is home from college he pulls up in his car about 8 in the evening with the window down and a shoelace stretched from somewhere beneath his hood to his hand hanging out the window.
"What on earth are you doing son?"
"Well my throttle cable broke and the parts store is closed, so I tied my shoelaces together and its long enough for me to tie to my throttle and pull it with my hand. Drove all the way from Maple Ridge! (36km)."
He didn't want to bug me and figured he would save $$ over towing it somewhere.
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If anyone is doing a teaching program like this, Please let me know! Id be happy to donate/ sell wood at cost for it. I can also probably match the wood to the region of the world you are in.
Very kind offer. I certainly appreciated Derrick from TripleX Knives for supplying us with blanks at cost for the first 3 years that I did this with the students.
I only switched to Cariboo Knives because I wanted to go to stainless being on the West coast in a temperate rainforest.
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See just cool!
See also just cool. And in my opinion my friend Ben here is another example of what we're talking about. He's built a successful business while a student himself.
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Hopefully ill be able to come up and visit you over summer! Graduation is around the corner!
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Lets see I graduated college in 81, lets see you were how old......? Never mind. Ya bet, ya'll have to come up when we're working cattle.
Look out if you decide to visit when they're working cattle. You will work harder than you ever thought you could and parts of your body you didn't know you had will be hurting at the end of the day. Worked on a buddy's cattle ranch in the summers growing up. Hardest job I did beside's peeling logs for a log house builder. Sure came out of those summers fit and strong though.
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Turned 22 little over a month ago!
Id love to come up. Ill bring up a crate of wood or two.
The girl ive been seeing raises prize winning pigs, so hopefully ill have a good story to tell her...
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So very very true! I don't remember a kid telling me they can't wait to name all the capital cities in Canada, but I have grade 3 students who tell me I can't retire until they have made their knife.