In My Mind It's Mirkwood....

[Mistwalker]

It's a place I frequent a good bit during the growing season just to wonder, observe the fauna and flora, and gather a few things here and there for herbal extracts.

I've come to refer to it as Mirkwood in my mind when I think about it. Partly because of all the nightshades that thrive there, and partly due to all the dark spots on some of the fruit tree leaves the first years I wandered there, that does seem to be improving this year, and partly because it feels like there is a brooding sense of leftover evil from bygone days of being one part of a military industrial complex.

But being as I go there to find dark ingredients, for a dark extract, for a dark illness in dark places.... it somehow just seems fitting.

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[John A. Larsen]

It's a place I frequent a good bit during the growing season just to wonder, observe the fauna and flora, and gather a few things here and there for herbal extracts.

I've come to refer to it as Mirkwood in my mind when I think about it. Partly because of all the nightshades that thrive there, and partly due to all the dark spots on some of the fruit tree leaves the first years I wandered there, that does seem to be improving this year, and partly because it feels like there is a brooding sense of leftover evil from bygone days of being one part of a military industrial complex.

But being as I go there to find dark ingredients, for a dark extract, for a dark illness in dark places.... it somehow just seems fitting.

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Very Nice Knife! John

 

[Mistwalker]

Very Nice Knife! John

Thanks, I'm very fond of it indeed. Ed makes some really nice stuff. and does a great temper and cryoquench on his stainless This one inspired by the Randall #24, and very purpose driven. I was taught fieldcraft using similar knives in the 70s, so I'm more familiar, and more comfortable, with something like this in the deeper darker places than with what most folks label bushcraft knives.

Ed turns 80 this year and he says he's going to take some time off. So I've asked him to make one more for me just in case he retires all together, since he's been talking about doing that the last few years