mitch13
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Thanks GaryAt least the thieves stealing trees or stones have to work for their ill-gotten gains.
Jack, the gang you described had a "business model" that seems to have been adopted by the U.S. government recently.
Sorry the citric acid doesn't agree with your stomach, Jack.
Thanks for the Cracker Jack compliment.
We used a tool very similar to that while baling hay on the dairy farm where I was raised. But instead of a hammer head on the end of the shaft opposite the hook, our tool had a wooden handle fastened perpendicular to the shaft. The guy on the wagon being pulled by the hay baler being pulled by a tractor would hook the bale currently coming out the exit chute, use his other hand to grab one of the 2 twine looks the machine had tied around the bale of hay, and then carry the bale to the carefully stacked pile of bales that had come out previously. The hook made it easier to manipulate a bale to lift it to the top of a stack or swing it into position to keep the structure of the stack of bales stable. I imagine dockworkers might use your tool in a similar way as they handled cargo.
Thanks, Steve.
You and Berry the Beauty are welcome, Jeff.
Handsome TEW, John; is that rosewood?
As always, clear and interesting photos!
Thanks for the info, Jer.
Since my personal experience with black walnut theft was about 60 years ago, I did some googling, and apparently black walnut trees are still valuable today.
That stag looks spectacular, Steve, even in the snow!
(I have the feeling that I already typed this comment, but maybe I just thought it when I first saw the photo.)
I can remember many events that have occurred since that time, but the initial COVID shutdown sometimes seems like it was only yesterday.
Nice pitcher, Jer!
Is there still an "antique mall" in Lake Odessa? I have a "gift card" from Lake Odessa antique place that I received the Christmas before COVID and I've never made a trip out there in the subsequent 6 years.
Lamb of distinction!
Great grain, Steve!
I also looked up "charabanc".
I'm amazed at your recall of early memories, Jer and Jack!
The vast majority of my memories are "propositional", just mental statements that such-and-such happened. I have very few sensory memories in which I recall the visual or auditory or olfactory aspects of an event. One of the earliest visual memories I can drag up is me pulling our refrigerator in my red wagon across the orchard when I was 5 and we were switching houses with my grandfather because my Dad had officially bought his farm from Grandpa. That memory is obviously totally bogus!
Cool photo, Mitch!
Does the griffin on the hat band represent anything special?
Your ram horn lamb is splendid, Jack!
Ram-a Lamb-a Ding Dong!
Superb stag senator, Bob!
Your avocado looks like it has much smoother skin than the ones I sometimes buy for my wife. I like guacamole, but I'm not very fond of fresh avocado.
Pretty lighting in that pic, Steve!
Sweet slip with your GL-24, David!
- GT
Griffin
mate that is the welsh dragon, same as on the Welsh flag.My surname is Welsh.
It will be cold on the market, but that is probably better than having to listen to Tool Man whining and blubbing on the phone, if I'm not there! 
I also have a refrigerator memory Gary. Just before my fifth birthday, in my first term at school, we had our first refrigerator delivered, and I ran all the way home from school, excited to see it. I told this tale to some younger folks once, and they it hilarious that I would be excited by a humble domestic appliance. I told them, "It wasn't just me, the neighbours all came running to see it too!" 
Tool Man sounded excited on the phone 
