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2024 has started great for us, we have a new granddaughter in law, and our other granddaughter in law will give us our first greatgrandchild in April. Life is good. Mike
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The very best for the New Year! Karl
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New Year's Eve oysters with champagne...gotta try that one sometime! Com'on Ted...average? Every year is a gift that needs to be lived to the fullest-extent possible. Fight all the battles that need to be fought and then... make the time to celebrate your life in your own way. Be it in the forests, fields & streams, or on on the lakes and oceans, get out there and drink in the sights and sounds. Heck, I still get a thrill rolling down a nice lonely stretch of road in my now-ancient muscle car, listening to the throaty roar of a big cubic-inch American V-8 coming up through the gears. The smile of a handsome woman, the laughter of a happy child, the wind through the trees above you, the waves on a shore, connect to these things and be part of the living world, and not just on it. Hunt & fish, break bread with your friends and family, drink good beers & fine wines with your meals, sit in front of fires and appreciate the heat and the light. Let the tempests blow around you and know that a new dawn will break for you the next day.
I would wish all of these things for everybody gathered here, people who appreciate beautiful things with a form that follows function. Tools with art and history and perhaps even a little magic folded into their making, that serve generations, faithfully and well, and that become heirlooms in their own right.
Make 2024 count
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New Year's Eve oysters with champagne...gotta try that one sometime! Com'on Ted...average? Every year is a gift that needs to be lived to the fullest-extent possible. Fight all the battles that need to be fought and then... make the time to celebrate your life in your own way. Be it in the forests, the streams, or on on the lakes and oceans, get out there and drink in the sights and sounds. Heck, I still get a thrill rolling down a nice lonely stretch of road on my old muscle car, listening to the throaty roar of a big cubic-inch American V-8 coming up through the gears. The smile of a handsome woman, the laughter of a happy child, the wind through the trees above you, the waves on a shore, connect to these things and be part of the living world, and not just on it. Hunt & fish, and break bread with your friends and family, drink good beers & fine wines with your meals, sit in front of fires and appreciate the heat and the light. Let the tempests blow around you and know that a new dawn will break for you the next day.
I would wish all of these things for everybody gathered here, people who appreciate beautiful things with a form that follows function. Tools with art and history and perhaps even a little magic folded into their making, that serve generations of people, faithfully and well, and that become heirlooms in their own right. Make 2024 count. You, sir, can write.May champagne and oysters rain upon you-- after you've cleaned and put the shotgun away, of course.
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Happy new year to everybody, and I like to thank everybody for all the help. They have given me over the years.
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New Year's Eve oysters with champagne...gotta try that one sometime! Com'on Ted...average? Every year is a gift that needs to be lived to the fullest-extent possible. Fight all the battles that need to be fought and then... make the time to celebrate your life in your own way. Be it in the forests, fields & streams, or on on the lakes and oceans, get out there and drink in the sights and sounds. Heck, I still get a thrill rolling down a nice lonely stretch of road in my now-ancient muscle car, listening to the throaty roar of a big cubic-inch American V-8 coming up through the gears. The smile of a handsome woman, the laughter of a happy child, the wind through the trees above you, the waves on a shore, connect to these things and be part of the living world, and not just on it. Hunt & fish, break bread with your friends and family, drink good beers & fine wines with your meals, sit in front of fires and appreciate the heat and the light. Let the tempests blow around you and know that a new dawn will break for you the next day.
I would wish all of these things for everybody gathered here, people who appreciate beautiful things with a form that follows function. Tools with art and history and perhaps even a little magic folded into their making, that serve generations, faithfully and well, and that become heirlooms in their own right.
Make 2024 count It is an old Soviet era joke among that citizenry, from that time. I figured somebody would spot it for what it was. But, we got it better than that. Best, Ted
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New Year's Eve oysters with champagne...gotta try that one sometime! Com'on Ted...average? Every year is a gift that needs to be lived to the fullest-extent possible. Fight all the battles that need to be fought and then... make the time to celebrate your life in your own way. Be it in the forests, fields & streams, or on on the lakes and oceans, get out there and drink in the sights and sounds. Heck, I still get a thrill rolling down a nice lonely stretch of road in my now-ancient muscle car, listening to the throaty roar of a big cubic-inch American V-8 coming up through the gears. The smile of a handsome woman, the laughter of a happy child, the wind through the trees above you, the waves on a shore, connect to these things and be part of the living world, and not just on it. Hunt & fish, break bread with your friends and family, drink good beers & fine wines with your meals, sit in front of fires and appreciate the heat and the light. Let the tempests blow around you and know that a new dawn will break for you the next day.
I would wish all of these things for everybody gathered here, people who appreciate beautiful things with a form that follows function. Tools with art and history and perhaps even a little magic folded into their making, that serve generations, faithfully and well, and that become heirlooms in their own right.
Make 2024 count I knew I liked Lloyd for a reason. What a great way to start the new year. Thanks Lloyd and thanks to all my other friends here. Happy New Year to you all.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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May God bless America and those who defend her.
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You're welcome James. I had to go back and re-read that to make sure my pain meds weren't making me too-loopy, but it seems to be ok.
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Just to finish the New Year at the usual haunt on Chincoteague. Here are two photos from January 1 of the beach and the wild horses. (there was a lady next to me getting out a yard long lens saying, "It's a Merlin, my life is complete." I can't identify that bird from this photo but it's surely there (there is a bird perched on the tip of the dead tree in the center but it looks too large to be a "Merlin").
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Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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