Primble's Mystery GAW - Prizes Mailed

[glassjaw]

Thanks again Primble. It has been great seeing everyone's neck of the woods so to speak.

First off favorite knife. Still new and saving for the one I really want so we are going with old reliable. It really is my favorite

We will start with my home town of Round Rock TX. It's a suburb of Austin, just North in fact, that was a quaint little town until Dell computers made their home offices there. The town was named after.... You guessed it a literal round rock that was a landmark on the Chisholm Trail. There are actually wagon tracks worn in the stone by the creek.



Tracks



I miss this place a lot too! It's one of the top 10 donuts in the country according to the food network or travel channel I can't remember which. But yes that is a donut bigger then your face!



Now I live in Cape Girardeau Missouri in the southeast part of the state. This town has grown on me over the years. I was married here and both of my sons were born here. Moving from Texas I got to actually experience seasons which is nice. The town is situated on the mighty Mississippi.




It still gets river boats. They are bigger then I was expecting. My son and I happened upon the first one. The other I liked because you can see how high the water was in the first. Here is another look at the river from Trail of Tears state park. Where my wife and I were married.



I never thought about it much until the other day but my coworker reminded me that I live next to one of the biggest rivers in the world. It really is impressive to see.

The downtown area is great too!



My favorite picture of my Dad and my eldest son. He's the one who gave me my favorite knife.

What I really love about this place is my home. It's the only place I have lived that really feels like home since I left my parents house.



The back is basically just woods with wildlife visiting us constantly. I wish I had pics of all of them. The most notable being a groundhog my son has named Henry. Although Henry has had two sets of babies since we have lived here the name has stuck. What's great is that it's right in the middle of town! It's like it has its own little ecosystem. On one side it's nature and the other it's any old house in town.

But you always get gorgeous sky's. Taken from my front yard.


The dogwoods around this town are gorgeous too.



It's a great place to live and has been very pleasant. My family will only be here for another year or two. Then off to wherever my wive gets her doctoral candidacy. It will be an adventure I'm sure!

 

[Macchina]

What an awsome thread!
Thank you Primble for letting me submit my home away from home, this place is important to me. We were given a lot of inaccurate information by my employer (bumped the leave date 6 times) which resulted in many sacrifices this year. My wife quit a great job and we sold a car based on the original leave date... This caused a lot of stress and spent a lot of savings but I believe it brought me closer to my wife in ways I didn't know were possible. When we got here, were met with a foreign place, a strange language, and lots of work. We decided to make this place our home or we would fail. We made it our home and found the mountains to be a place we feel we belong. My wife has a sign on our little refrigerator that says "Home is where your Husband is", and I feel the same about about her. Once we achieved this point in our marriage (8 years and counting) we almost became invincible to many things the world can throw at us (burn our house, but you can't touch our home).

Not an entry, but a taste of our other home (cabin in Northern Michigan):

There's lots of snow and sometimes we get the Jeep stuck:

The Liberty is a beast in the snow (heaviest Jeep made), but this is a problem when you build up hard snow under the chassis... It takes about 3-4 hours to dig/chop the snow away laying on your side in 15° snow. It's not all bad: I get to really use an axe in the winter and I look cool when I come inside caked in a layer of snowballs.

Sometimes we just build tunnels under the snow and sleep in it:

I wouldn't know what I would do without my Xtratufs...:

Trout/Salmon/Steelhead fishing are a passion of mine:

So are my dear and the deer:

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Cool photos. Thanks all for the effort.

Mike

 

[Primble]

Anticipating the race to the finish line:

Spring is a Thoroughbred and he always come running to see me when I stop by his place on the farm - and once again on this foggy morning.

Mystery clue # 2: Grease

 

[Primble]

You guessed it a literal round rock that was a landmark on the Chisholm Trail. There are actually wagon tracks worn in the stone by the creek.

Very interesting and will be considered for show (3rd place) only, due to post totals.

 

[glassjaw]

Very interesting and will be considered for show (3rd place) only, due to post totals.

Thanks Primble. I had a lot of fun putting that together.

 

[Primble]

Thinking about one of these for the 3rd place show prize - which one do you think is the best choice ??

I won't tell you till the end because it is a mystery, but, maybe you can tell me.

 

[glassjaw]

Oh that center one is gorgeous!

 

[esnyx]

Oh that center one is gorgeous!

Agreed!!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

 

[Markesharp]

The GREEN one!

 

[black mamba]

Aren't ribbons usually gold for 1st prize, blue for 2nd and red for 3rd? I say the red one!

 

[ISKski]

Well - somehow I refreshed the page before I posted, lost everything, so I'll make this one shorter.

Since I don't quite have 200 posts in the sub forum (though I consider myself a regular) I'm just posting for fun so I'll talk about where I was born and raised, not where I live now since I have no connection to my current location. I hail from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Born right outside the amazing city of Philadelphia in the ideal American Sub-urban landscape of Lower Merion (literally on the boarder of the city my family home a few hundred yards from "city line"). Philadelphia is rich in early Americana, by 1750 is had passed Boston as the largest city and port, second only to London in the British empire. Philadelphia was the seat of power in the beginning of the American Revolution. At 5th and Market St. the Second Continental Congress met at Independence Hall to sign the Declaration of Independence in 1776, ratify the Constitution in 1787, and it's where the Liberty Bell rang.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.



(Independence Hall)

Philadelphia is often overlooked as it is less than two hours travel to NYC to the north - 2 Hours to DC to the south - but it is an amazing city. Philadelphia is most known for its arts and culture. Considered America's the most walkable city, it has some of the nations best restaurants, beautiful homes, Internationally recognized museums - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, The Mutter, The Franklin Institute to name a few. if you haven't you owe it to yourself to visit my favorite city in the world.



I grew up in Lower Merion, along Pennsylvania's Historic "main line". The main line, was the main train line headed west from the city of Philadelphia along the famed Pennsylvania Railroad which was the largest in the first half of the 20th century. First stop outside the city, home, Merion Pennsylvania USA - Earth. I grew up playing along the train tracks and the faint sound of a train whistle will always remind me of home. A mere 5 miles from the exact center of Philadelphia, Merion became home to large summer mansions built by executives of the PRR. Beautiful estates dot the landscape and were some of the first of their kind in the new Empire. Its a beautiful Neighborhood, with some of the best public schools in the country, beautiful homes, close proximity an international city with wonderful public trans (you can still take the train from Merion station into town or out into the country). There is great early american history including native villages and early settlers; the Merion Meeting House, a quaker establishment built in 1694 still stands a couple miles from my house.


"The construction of the elaborate 32-room, three-story Woodmont began in 1891, took almost three years to complete and cost $1 million. Architect William Price combined the academic detailing of pinnacles, crocketed dormers, gargoyles and buttresses with a tall red pyramidal roof over a great hall, according to “The First 300: The Amazing and Rich History of Lower Merion Township.” -- Photo by Pete Bannan


Man do I miss home.....(my girlfriend pictured)

...and of course, my favorite knife - a Ken Erickson EDC trapper in Ats 34 and black n blue G10. Picked it up on the Xchange here for a screaming deal! Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the sale price! Its been in my pocket ever since...


*gardening is a lot easier in Pennsylvania than in Georgia, had my least successful garden this year

 

[Primble]

Since I don't quite have 200 posts in the sub forum (though I consider myself a regular) I'm just posting for fun so I'll talk about where I was born and raised, not where I live now since I have no connection to my current location. I hail from the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(Independence Hall)

Philadelphia is often overlooked as it is less than two hours travel to NYC to the north - 2 Hours to DC to the south - but it is an amazing city. Philadelphia is most known for its arts and culture. Considered America's the most walkable city, it has some of the nations best restaurants, beautiful homes, Internationally recognized museums - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Rodin Museum, Academy of Natural Sciences, The Mutter, The Franklin Institute to name a few. if you haven't you owe it to yourself to visit my favorite city in the world.



I grew up in Lower Merion, along Pennsylvania's Historic "main line". The main line, was the main train line headed west from the city of Philadelphia along the famed Pennsylvania Railroad which was the largest in the first half of the 20th century. First stop outside the city, home, Merion Pennsylvania USA - Earth. I grew up playing along the train tracks and the faint sound of a train whistle will always remind me of home. A mere 5 miles from the exact center of Philadelphia, Merion became home to large summer mansions built by executives of the PRR. Beautiful estates dot the landscape and were some of the first of their kind in the new Empire. Its a beautiful Neighborhood, with some of the best public schools in the country, beautiful homes, close proximity an international city with wonderful public trans (you can still take the train from Merion station into town or out into the country). There is great early american history including native villages and early settlers; the Merion Meeting House, a quaker establishment built in 1694 still stands a couple miles from my house.


"The construction of the elaborate 32-room, three-story Woodmont began in 1891, took almost three years to complete and cost $1 million.

You are close enough to be considered for third place only, but, you are not too far away from 200. You could always try to make some nice comments to the other forum members through the weekend and get your count up to the magic number, then you could be considered for the other places.

I enjoyed your post and I wonder how much to build that place today? I don't think I would want to know!

P.S. - your girlfriend looks like she could be the "mystery girl" with the scarf and all.

 

[Old & In The Way]

Mystery Solved: (tongue planted firmly in cheek)

Since no one has ventured a chance at solving the mystery yet, I'll offer up the following guess based upon the two hints to date (three and grease) along with the allusions to races and finish lines.

Dale Earnhardt

 

[mley1]

I only have 115 posts in the traditional forum. But, I wanted to share some pics of my most favorite place in the whole wide world, and my favorite knives.

This first pic is my favorite place in the whole wide world. It's a ledge on some caprock south of Post, TX. I've sat here many times, and just watched the wildlife. It's a mystical place, a place where animals just appear from what seems like nowhere. I've taken many Aoudad sheep from this very ledge.

In this part of my state, the Great State of Texas, distances can be vast. But, the country is rugged and beautiful. Under that far ledge are some Aoudad sheep, who are perfectly safe. There is no physical way to get there from where I'm at on the caprock. And, they know they're safe.

See them up under the ledge?

And, these are the knives that I take on my hunts. The animals are tough, terrain is tough, and I have to have tough knives with me out there. These all fit the bill, and have served me well for several years.

Very nice give away. And, while I don't qualify, I wanted to share some pics of my state and my favorite place in the whole wide world. I hope you enjoyed the pics.

 

[Primble]

Mystery Solved: (tongue planted firmly in cheek)

Since no one has ventured a chance at solving the mystery yet, I'll offer up the following guess based upon the two hints to date (three and grease) along with the allusions to races and finish lines.

Dale Earnhardt

I see you are CLEARLY paying attention and based on the GIVEN hints, you seem to have a fine guess - but - based on the better hidden hints - you sir - ARE WAYYYY OFF !!



That guess might, however, win a Kentucy GAW sponsored by Clutch Carter.

Where are you Clutch - I thought you were going to enter?

Think horse racing - No Nascar.

Did you see my animal friend - maybe there is another hint there??

 

[glassjaw]

Triple crown! Queen, Sheffield anything monarch related?

 

[gunstockjack]

A three spring harness jack! Rusty, so needed elbow GREASE.

 

[Sonnemann]

Appaloosa bone? I know you are a Case fiend after all! Or maybe a GEC, horsecut bone?
I can't imagine it's a GEC 72 with the hoof pick

 

[Will Power]

A Sheffield Three Thick Equestrian Knife whose scales have been mellowed by generations of greasy palms:thumbup:

Not an entry thanks

Nice to see all the pix, but here's my dilemma: nearly ALL my pix are of knives not landscapes so how am I going to choose a favourite from that? Might spark off a mutiny in the knife-cabinet

Best of luck to the participants and to Primble for hosting all this, regards Will