Once again, my daughter Kim was treated wonderfully at Blade. This is one of the few places I will let her roam at will with her wheelchair, unsupervised. (She is 25 years old and survivor of a massive head injury in a hit and run.) I advised her that if anyone had evil intentions toward her, there were a few thousand of her friends there with the means and the will to cut his throat.
(There has to be lesson somewhere in the fact that the only places I will let her roam unattended are gun and knife shows, the places from which some would have us believe that all evil springs.)
The Busse people were all great toward her, as always.
We made our planned stops to see Bobby Branton (but he was away from his table. I think that she made it back to see him later), John Greco, Chris Reeve (whom we missed, but Kim had a good visit with his wife.) Mark Sentz had left before we could see him on Sunday.
She made lots of new friends as well. As she emptied her pockets on Friday night at the hotel, she came out with an Al Mar VG-10 Nomad. Seems she disclosed to the guys at the booth that her Birthday was the 19th of June, and they handed it to her as a gift. Later in the show, they approached me about an acquaintance that arranges hunting trips for the handicapped, and at their suggestion I will be contacting him.
Sunday morning I saw her talking to a guy who turned out to be Steve Davis. Seems that he met her at the 2005 show and went home and made a knife for her, but he did not see her in 2006. The knife was a beautiful little damascus neck knife with a leather sheath he also made.
In three Blade shows she has accumulated a Busse, a Branton/Brend, a Greco, the Al Mar, the Davis, and numerous caps and tee-shirts. She also has stuff show up in the mail: a Marine Corps cap, an Okuden sheath for her Busse, and a Busse three-finger knife from someone who remains anonymous.
I have to pay for my Blade loot. She just cruises around, makes friends and accumulates it.
Oh, she also bought me three Frost folders for my birthday (today) with her lunch money. Naturally I raved over them, too.
(There has to be lesson somewhere in the fact that the only places I will let her roam unattended are gun and knife shows, the places from which some would have us believe that all evil springs.)The Busse people were all great toward her, as always.
We made our planned stops to see Bobby Branton (but he was away from his table. I think that she made it back to see him later), John Greco, Chris Reeve (whom we missed, but Kim had a good visit with his wife.) Mark Sentz had left before we could see him on Sunday.
She made lots of new friends as well. As she emptied her pockets on Friday night at the hotel, she came out with an Al Mar VG-10 Nomad. Seems she disclosed to the guys at the booth that her Birthday was the 19th of June, and they handed it to her as a gift. Later in the show, they approached me about an acquaintance that arranges hunting trips for the handicapped, and at their suggestion I will be contacting him.
Sunday morning I saw her talking to a guy who turned out to be Steve Davis. Seems that he met her at the 2005 show and went home and made a knife for her, but he did not see her in 2006. The knife was a beautiful little damascus neck knife with a leather sheath he also made.
In three Blade shows she has accumulated a Busse, a Branton/Brend, a Greco, the Al Mar, the Davis, and numerous caps and tee-shirts. She also has stuff show up in the mail: a Marine Corps cap, an Okuden sheath for her Busse, and a Busse three-finger knife from someone who remains anonymous.
I have to pay for my Blade loot. She just cruises around, makes friends and accumulates it.
Oh, she also bought me three Frost folders for my birthday (today) with her lunch money. Naturally I raved over them, too.
