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Posted on 08/24/2005 9:50:25 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
New verse:
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Nite nite...
Tomorrow I'm hoping to spend the day driving around sightseeing. Will try to come back with some interesting pictures. I hear that there some famous bridge around here somewhere. Maybe I can find it. :-)
There's a pretty cool prison there too.... you should go to that :~D
The whole sheath knife thing was like a Cinderella story. It came out of nowhere, and went a long way. Now it has to wind down, but not before making lots of troops happy. And hopefully educating others to buy a quality knife before you step out into the sandbox.
So now we are back to basics, our bread-and-butter: folding knives. But folding knives far different from our first attempt. We're a "factory team" now, and get fabulous support from Camillus Cutlery. I can't say enough good about them.
As of today, we have two different Camillus knives for two very different purposes.
We still have the 904S folding knife with Hobbit Hole logo. That's our standard. But also, the new Camillus Rescue, which is designed for a much different role.
The Rescue is made in Taiwan on their "Heat" design, and both use high-quality AUS8A steel. It's a slick one-hand-opening design, and a great bargain for the money. The main difference, aside from handle color, is the blade shape, and the tungsten carbide stud for scoring/breaking glass.
The Rescue has already been "blessed" by an Army aviation unit heading out for Afghanistan shortly. It's intended to cut aircraft harness for emergency egress, and will do a fine job of something we hope never needs to be done. We'll be supplying them at least 40.
And we'll still be doing "specials" when financial lightning strikes, and great deals pop up. Here's our Hobbit Hole tomahawk. We only have six, but they'll go to the troops that can justify in an email receiving one. We have dwarves and Marines on our "advisory board", so nobody can pull a fast one on us.
And finally, our Hobbit Hole "super special". In this case, an Extrema Ratio fighting knife going to a Marine with a plate in his arm, hand bones fused together, and 40% disability from an IED attack on his humvee. Whether he makes it back into uniform or not, he wanted to make the Corps his life, and this is our way of thanking him:
The whole sheath knife thing was like a Cinderella story. It came out of nowhere, and went a long way. Now it has to wind down, but not before making lots of troops happy. And hopefully educating others to buy a quality knife before you step out into the sandbox.
So now we are back to basics, our bread-and-butter: folding knives. But folding knives far different from our first attempt. We're a "factory team" now, and get fabulous support from Camillus Cutlery. I can't say enough good about them.
As of today, we have two different Camillus knives for two every different purposes.
We still have the 904S folding knife with Hobbit Hole logo. That's our standard. But also, the new Camillus Rescue, which is designed for a much different role.
The Rescue is made in Taiwan on their "Heat" design, and both use high-quality AUS8A steel. It's a slick one-hand-opening design, and a great bargain for the money. The main difference, aside from handle color, is the blade shape, and the tungsten carbide stud for scoring/breaking glass.
The Rescue has already been "blessed" by an Army aviation unit heading out for Afghanistan shortly. It's intended to cut aircraft harness for emergency egress, and will do a fine job of something we hope never needs to be done. We'll be supplying them at least 40.
And we'll still be doing "specials" when financial lightning strikes, and great deals pop up. Here's our Hobbit Hole tomahawk. We only have six, but they'll go to the troops that can justify in an email receiving one. We have dwarves and Marines on our "advisory board", so nobody can pull a fast one on us.
And finally, our Hobbit Hole "super special". In this case, an Extrema Ratio fighting knife going to a Marine with a plate in his arm, hand bones fused together, and 40% disability from an IED attack on his humvee. Whether he makes it back into uniform or not, he wanted to make the Corps his life, and this is our way of thanking him:
Wow, Mister Mag... beautiful stuff.
That tomahawk is just too cool for words.
Your backstory on the Marine getting the fighting knife is heartrending. Worthy and then some.
Carry on. :-)
If they had stuck with all women's names, I coulda had two in a row named after me; R and S! Crikey!
You're gonna LOVE it!! Clare and I went to see the Hartford Symphony do it this time last year.
Wasn't it great? You'll definitely have to watch the DVDs in the correct order!
See y'all later on tomorrow afternoon! I'm gonna funkle on outta here!
...a quiet morning, a cuppa joe, a lttle freep, Charles Trenet in the background (right now the song is "Verlaine", the first two lines of which
Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne
Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone
(The long sobs of the violins of autumn
Wound my heart with monotonous languor)
were used as a signal to the French Resistance that Overlord would commence in 24 hours.
Later, breakfast with friends, and then ?
Color reproduction can be tricky. It's really a dull orange color.
ping to 6084
Greetings from beautiful 
Today is open house day at the Trinity site, where the first nuclear weapon was test detonated. I'm gonna go look around. ;)
Morning!
~sip~
Having a leisurly cup of coffee...will make the moringing rounds in a few minutes.
Today the plan is to make a trip to Home Depot. Which project should I tackle first? I've got: 1) paint the fence (but it's supposed to rain today), 2) plant daffodil bulbs, 3) make screens for some windows 4) ammend soil in the planter boxes 5) I should cut the grass, but it's supposed to rain today. :)
~sip~
Daffodil bulbs sounds like the most fun, IMO.
I wonder if daffodils or other bulb plants would grow in pots.
Heh....ended up buying more frap than I intended.
got some primer and a scraper so I can start with the paint....when I don't have to worry about the rain. :)
Got stuff to make a window screen. Picked up the daffodil bulbs and some crocus. Also bought some pansies to plant on top of the bulbs.
Dug up the rosemary bush to overwinter indoors. I want to do the same for some of the impatiens and my alyssum. Then I should clean out the raised bed (take THAT, you danged squirrels!)
I'd give growing daffodils in pots a shot. Ive seen little gift pots of tulips and other bulb plants before.
Next year I'm hoping I can do something on the balcony...herbs and flowers, mainly. I'd try for tomatoes, but I think they'd likely not work that well.
Though we do have plenty o' heat and sun here.
Come to think of it, the peppers I grew in pots back home didn't do horribly. They didn't get enough sun, and therefore some peppers didn't mature, but...I'd think that wouldn't be a problem here. True, we don't get as much afternoon sun, but even so...
I mean, now that was science fiction. I can't think of higher praise for it. It had sensawunda... not to mention little things like real characters and a really cool spaceship.
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