The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Take it easy y'all...
Hope you get your AC fixed. Beautiful IXL Lamb
Wee Staggy for tomorrowHave a great weekend Guardians
Hi Scott, thanks.
Thank you for sharing! Too notch lamb and manhole covers can be so interesting.
Was rudely awoken early this morning by a band of city-employed ne'er-do-wells assaulting the local flora (and peace) with chainsaws and a chipper shredder. You haven't lived until you've seen three incredibly fat men, with no insight at all into arboreal affairs, with chainsaws up a Bulletwood tree arguing with each other in Spanish, let me tell you. I must admit, it would have been quite entertaining had it not been so early. They were apparently arguing about money, as one word I could pick out (my Spanish is awful, but I'm ok with that) repeatedly throughout the argument was "dinero." I think I need a nap.
Packed this C. Johnson Western Works lamb over to my dad's place for my ongoing cat-feeding commitment. The Afternoon Storm (there's one daily this time of year - probably why the inconsiderate fatties were trimming so early) was rolling in, hence the weird light.
Y'all like pile sides around here?
Fantastic Jack, I always enjoy putting a project to rest.Project completed, well paid, and an offer I'm considering. I'm heading back to Bradford tomorrow for a thank you lunch, and drinks
Mountains with a lone cloud... Love it!
Where's that patina Mitch?
Hmm must be something wrong with it!Where's that patina Mitch?
A friend of some friends was a classics professor, and passed away recently. My friends were helping sort out his estate and came across a number of classic books (which their local used bookstore wasn't necessarily interested in) and they couldn't think of anyone other than me who would want them. They asked if I wanted to pick through the stack and take anything, but I told them I'd take anything that nobody else wanted. So I recently received three boxes stuffed with books. Mostly translations of Greek classics, but also translations of a fair number of Latin classics, some commentaries, and other odds and ends. The timing is great (not that there's a bad time to get free books) because my wife and I are jumping into a big study project of Homer, so more context and commentaries is wonderful.
One little gem in there is this untranslated copy of Xenophon, mostly for the handwritten dedication.
If you're having trouble reading this, the book was a prize for a bet between two classics professors over who had more linear feet of classics-related books.
Also, I hate to disappoint everyone, but those are my wife's nails in the pic, not mine.
One non-Greek book in the stack was The Complete Essays of Montaigne. I've read a few of his essays over the years and have always intended to get a complete edition, so this is what I'm reading for now.
GL-24 is my companion pretty much all the time these days.
Thank you my friend, I'm reminded I'm overdue some barefoot walking on wet sandReminds me of " footprints on my soul"
Thanks SteveI'll be joining you with my wee staggy
Beautiful photo
Thanks Pete, me tooFantastic Jack, I always enjoy putting a project to rest.
I think I'm about to be offered a job though, and flattering and prestigious as it is, I really should turn it down. I'm 63, and have been trying to wind down for a few years now, and a full-time job would change my life Wow, fantastic Barrett, what a great souvenir
Poor Hannah
Still, that's a nice way for you and Billy to start the weekend mate Cool pic Mitch
Wonderful post TysonA friend of some friends was a classics professor, and passed away recently. My friends were helping sort out his estate and came across a number of classic books (which their local used bookstore wasn't necessarily interested in) and they couldn't think of anyone other than me who would want them. They asked if I wanted to pick through the stack and take anything, but I told them I'd take anything that nobody else wanted. So I recently received three boxes stuffed with books. Mostly translations of Greek classics, but also translations of a fair number of Latin classics, some commentaries, and other odds and ends. The timing is great (not that there's a bad time to get free books) because my wife and I are jumping into a big study project of Homer, so more context and commentaries is wonderful.
One little gem in there is this untranslated copy of Xenophon, mostly for the handwritten dedication.
If you're having trouble reading this, the book was a prize for a bet between two classics professors over who had more linear feet of classics-related books.
Also, I hate to disappoint everyone, but those are my wife's nails in the pic, not mine.
One non-Greek book in the stack was The Complete Essays of Montaigne. I've read a few of his essays over the years and have always intended to get a complete edition, so this is what I'm reading for now.
GL-24 is my companion pretty much all the time these days.
I love that dedication Great pics of your GL-24 Enjoy your study project 
I'm not sure what has happened at the cafe, but while everyone is still on very friendly terms, Anna and Fabrizio were given a month's holiday after the Carnival, and Hisham and Sara are both back full-time. I haven't asked, but Hisham said that he thought he really needed to come back, and I agreed that was the case. I suspect that having worked alongside them at the Carnival for several days, Hisham became aware that his friends really weren't up to effectively running the place 
Since everyone speaks English now, my Italian may be suffering, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make! 
Wishing everyone a great Saturday, and hopefully I'll have more time next week, now that my work project is over 
Beautiful photo
Good morning Guardians, I hope you're all well, and with a fantastic weekend ahead of you. I'm feeling tired today, but hopefully a couple of cups of Charlie's coffee will pick me up
