Yella peanut; lost and found.

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I'd been using my yella peanut around the house on my painting and revamping while Karen is with the new grandchild. The house is a work zone of course, drop cloths, tools, paint cans, rolls of tape, step ladder, all scattered around the rooms I'm redoing.

In the midst of all this choas, my yella peanut went AWOL on me. I looked around, not quite recalling where I'd set it down. That was a few days ago. Today, moving to yet another room, and sliding the furniture back where it belonged in the living room, I see a bright splotch of yellow on the oak medium stained hardwood floor.

My precious!

It's funny how we get attached to things. I did the Walter Houston jig there on the spot.

The peanut got a quick honing on the bottom of a coffee mug, and went back in my pocket.
 
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It's a good feeling finding a misplaced friend. I have been carrying my yellow peanut some lately and have become pretty attached to it.
Happiness can be a found peanut.;)
Jim
 
I'm glad you found it. I don't react well when I lose a knife. I have a "black box" winchester whittler missing right now and it is driving me quite crazy.
 
Foilist said:
I hope you took the coffee out of the mug first . . .
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Lol..

Glad ya found 'er jackknife!

I don't react well to loosing knives, or anything else for that matter.... everything has a place, and if I discover something is not in it, I turn the house/garage/yard/truck upside down until I find it... Unfortunately that tends to misplace other things.. :rolleyes:

G.
 
I still remember a couple of pocket knives I lost better then 25 years ago. I gotta say they're likely gone for good.

Congrats on finding yer yeller buddy Jackknife.
 
Glad you found it, jackknife.

You without your peanut is like King Arthur without Excalibur....you belong together.;)
 
Glad you found yer peanut jackknife! Earlier this year I lost a vintage Case XX 6214 jack and it was pretty heartbreaking knowing it was gone for good.
 
I just lost a SAK and its driving me crazy, I know they are kinda cheap, but it was my first one I bought so its kind've driving me crazy.
 
Lost my old JA Henckels Friodur pen knife a coupla weeks back. So I know how you felt....Hope I have a happy ending like you! don't know how to do a Walter Houston jig though lol. aloha, Mike
 
Just recently found a 20+ yr old Buck 301 and a Camillus EDC that had been misplaced for about 6 months. Found both within a week of each other.

Only prob is that I have two Camillus EDCs (cause I thought I had lost the original one for good a few years back) and now I have already misplaced the other EDC, again.

Also, a couple of months ago I came across a couple of little Case working small pen knives that I bought 30+ years ago to use when I was a pipefitter. I had altogether forgotten that I had them.

It's sure fun to "find" stuff you lost or forgot about.
 
nokia said:
I just lost a SAK and its driving me crazy, I know they are kinda cheap, but it was my first one I bought so its kind've driving me crazy.
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Yeah, I have to disagree when people say SAK's are easily replaced. They are very easy to get sentimentally attached to. I swear I have never spoken the words below.

"I don't want a new Swiss Army Knife! I want MY Swiss Army Knife! I'm going to tear this house apart!"
 
I HATE loosing knives. I've had guns and cash stolen, my shop emptied by thieves, and I got over it. But I still remember that SAK with camo handle scales that I lost twenty years ago (I was 6)!!

Luckily, it doesn't happen often. So far I've only lost four knives, two of which where stolen.
 
I can't stand that feeling of misplacing a knife. It just bugs me till I find it. Once spent over an hour searching high and low just to find a stainless Case Sodbuster Jr. The issue was that it had black handle scales. Now I really appreciate a good yellow-handle knife.

The thing is, though, that I only get that uneasy feeling when it comes to knives I've extensively used. I could care less about a knife I've picked up, even if it is expensive, if I don't use it.

I had a hat full of little pocket knives, all of which had been used at one point in time or another. However, many of these knives saw very little pocket time. I ended up giving away so many knives that I'm pretty much down to just a handful of users. Even though the collection's dwindling, I'm not the least bit upset because I know that the knives I've given away are going to people that will get some use out of them, and that makes a world of difference.

Then again, just because I'm down to a few knives doesn't mean that the collection ain't gonna grow again. Already got a couple coming along the way and once again, I'm excited and anxious to see the mailman. The cycle continues.
 
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