I am knocking on the door of 75 years old. My left shoulder will prevent me from ever throwing effectively again. I quit playing softball at age 35. My son to whom I threw and hit baseballs throughout his preteen and teen years is now 44 years old. I am too old and decrepit to play catch with my teenage grandchildren, a baseball and a softball player. But for several years now when what my dad called green-up time comes and the fresh smell of newly mown grass evokes memories, I have a yen to go buy a new baseball glove. When you grow up tall and left-handed they put you at first base and that's where I always played. My old glove is now ragged beyond use, and doesn't even smell of leather anymore. Maybe that's what I want, that fresh leather smell and a glove to oil and shape. Maybe even buy a bat, although the glove is the main thing.
It's the same thing with knives and guns. Although realistically I will never be able to move about in the woods again, I still find myself wanting a new field dressing/skinning knife, and I still occasionally buy another handgun I deem ideal for woods-walking, although I own more than enough of such guns already.
I am a very lucky man whose wife doesn't think that my want for a new glove is foolish. She is a country girl who grew up with two country boy brothers and understands big-boy toys. Still, I don't want to burden my family with even more stuff of which to dispose when I graduate this life, so I try to be reasonable.
It's the same thing with knives and guns. Although realistically I will never be able to move about in the woods again, I still find myself wanting a new field dressing/skinning knife, and I still occasionally buy another handgun I deem ideal for woods-walking, although I own more than enough of such guns already.
I am a very lucky man whose wife doesn't think that my want for a new glove is foolish. She is a country girl who grew up with two country boy brothers and understands big-boy toys. Still, I don't want to burden my family with even more stuff of which to dispose when I graduate this life, so I try to be reasonable.
