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Thanks Bro.
It's good to be back even if I have to post sorta through the back door.
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A Dhankuta Village Model.

About a year and a half ago I gave our daughter Penny the above khukuri.
For quite a spell she didn't want to use it since it was a gift from "Pops" and also that she was a bit intimidated by the knife.
But I told her it was made to use and there was nothing she could do that would hurt the khukuri so she started using it.
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It is a typical village model in that it's butt ugly but tougher than nails.
And I had the knife sharpened up nicely for Penny.

The village Dhankuta is Penny's "Cactus Knife." The blade is long enough that she doesn't have to get close enough to the cactus to get poked by it. And it cuts through the cactus like it wasn't even there.

Not long ago her and her sister were on a job and the chainsaw had broken down and they were SOL except for the village knife.
Penny didn't know quite what to do since they needed to get a stump out to finish the job they were working on.
Paula asked Penny, "What about that big knife Pops gave you?"
The khukuri was retrieved from the truck and they immediately set to work chopping the stump into pieces.
Paula said it was kinda funny since the elderly lady they were doing the work for just kinda stood and stared at these 2 girls with their big knife chopping and digging the stump out of the ground.
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Although the digging blunted the softer point somewhat the sweet spot was still very sharp and still suitable for cactus work.
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Penny left it home this morning for a tune up. This was the 1st time I had seen it since I had seen it since I had given it too her.
I expected a whole lot worse than what it was.
It was real tight in the scabbard and a bit rusty in places. It has been used like the true village knife it is....

A few minutes work with the extra coarse Diafold and the dings were out of the blade.
I used the coarse and fine to get the edge to where it should be then used the extra fine to polish the edge to perfection.
I then went to the shed and got some motor oil to put on the blade not only for rust protection, but to make it easier to remove from the scabbard.
It's now ready to go back to work for another year of use and abuse.
I am really glad to see the village model working in the way the kami who made it intended for it to work.
It's down and dirty and not always cleaned off before being put away and it still wasn't nearly as bad a shape as what I expected it to be.
The sweet spot wouldn't shave, but it would pull a few hairs out and that's after the workouts it has had.
Another fine testament and report on the knives that are meant to be used and abused.
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I give the butt ugly villager a 10 out of 10!!!!

And what really tickles me pink is the way my 2 kids brag on this knife. Never have I heard girls give any knife such praise as this one gets.
Maybe one of these days they will inheirit a couple of pretty ones from Pops.
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I am really proud of these two kids.
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And all my other ones too, but y'all know what I mean.
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Yvsa-G@WebTV.net

"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
What he's doing is making himself scarce!

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Hi Gang.
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Sorry for the absence but we ran up to a small town in Kali-Fornication on about the same latitude as 'Frisco called Copperopolis to see Barb's brother. And although they have a computer they're not online.
The area was a welcome respite to the abnormally hot weather Phoenix is having, about 10 degrees over norm the weather people say.
We got there at 3:30 a.m. Sat morn and got them up.
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They had a wedding that they had to attend that day and we were invited, but decided to stay home until the reception.
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We were up fairly late Saturday night and then left about noon on Sunday.
We got back to Phoenix and Penny's place at 12:30 a.m.
A good quick trip!!!! Penny came down sick on the way home so was extra specially glad to be home.
And it seems the heavy Smog was enough to set off my sinuses just as it did way back when, hopefully they will clear up on their own by this weekend.
I had really terrible resperatory problems when I lived in Yucaipa and worked in Ontario.
The docs in So Cal told me to either move or die back in '79 so I did.
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I couldn't hardly believe my eyes as we went through the pass at Banning, just up from Palm Springs.
There seems to be thousands of huge wind generated turbines to make more electricity with planted all over the ridges on the hill and mountain sides. And also up around Tehachipi(sp?).
I have to applaude the alternative power source since they Dayumed Sure Don't Need any more Smog and the towers have a sort of strange etheral beauty!!!!

Going through the pass one could just barely see San Jacinto and San Gorgonio Mountain had disappeared behind the veil of Smog!!!!
And where I used to happily hunt rabbits is now full of houses in various states of repair.
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It was on the Morongo Indin Rez back then and probably still is from its appearance. Typical Rez and what makes me really angry is that there is absolutely no excuse for it to be that way there!!!!
There is plenty of work to be had unlike the Ridge and Rosebud where one can't hardly beg a job. That's why I say I don't care for Blanket Asses either!!!! Sometimes or always I guess there are always the few who don't want to work no matter the race, but I always get really angry when the opportunity is there and so many don't take advantage of it.
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I was aquainted and friends with many of the people when I lived there. That's one of the reasons I pretty much had free reign as to where I could go on the rez.
And the ndns there that I knew were all hard working people with fairly decent jobs.

I am even happier now that I left there 21 years ago!!!!!
But when I went home to Tulsa after 6 years it too had changed, but not nearly so much and for dayumed sure not not nearly as extreme.
And seeing California, hopefully for the last time, I am even more appreciative of the still wild areas that are in Oklahoma. But I know that in another 21 years it is going to change even more with fewer and fewer wild areas close to town.
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I am glad that I am of the age that I am and that I won't be around to see all the wild areas gone forever.
And I am at least glad too see that the area we were in still wasn't that bad. I have always loved Northern California and I pray the people up there keep things as much like they are now up there as it is possible to do so.

Sorry for the rant, just frustrated with what happens to our only home every day now. And after hearing Dick Cheney on the news this evening it appears that things may get worse before they get better.
Someday someone is gonna wake up and find out it's too late to change things for the good I am afraid.


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Yvsa-G@WebTV.net

"VEGETARIAN".............
Indin word for lousy hunter.
 
Yvsa,

This weekend is good. Looking forward to your call. The air is great up here, and it hasn't gotten hot yet.

How well I know the feeling you get when you visit old haunts- places where you used to hunt, get lost in, learn about important things in, now covered with housing, or fast-service businesses. I remember huge, ancient trees, and mysterious mounds out in the woods that had to be older than the oldest trees growing around them. Now of course, that junk was just in the way, stuff to be erased (execept in the minds and hearts of some where they live forever) because affordable housing and fast-whatever were more pertinent to the times. You can just see it all over.

I am happy with whatever beauty I can find (which is a lot), whenever I find it, and there is a lot around, in some unsuspected places too.



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Yvsa,

I'm trying to arrange a jam session with a local bear's cousin.

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Many thanks for report from the field, Bro, even though I found it a little sad. This is the direction we have come and the direction we are going. Like I've said, I feel for the grandkids.

Anyway, stay in touch the best you can. I saw Rusty yesterday and told him you'd send up some special smoke and maybe you have already. His angiogram came back clean for which we can all be thankful. A compound fracture AND bypass is too damned much for one visit to St. Marys.

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