First, thanks to all for a very educational and entertaining list.

I was brought to woodworking by the love of split cane fly rods and a
desire to make them, and by the recent inheritance of a number of fine old
tools from my grandfather and the desire to keep him near through their
use. I'm having limited but promising results at both.
I raise field trial retrievers as a profession, so the majority of my wood
experience is in application rather than creation ;-).
We have been married for twenty five years, and we have a daughter about to
begin college.
While lurking on this list I have been fortunate to have private email
contact with a few of the higher profile posters, and I have been treated
with patience and extraordinary kindness.
This is a nice place to be.

Steve

Ok, I'll byte.      Is Absarokee in Japan, Australia or Ireland?

Welcome to the List!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe & Johanna Kern [SMTP:jkern@m...]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 9:50 PM
> To:   List for users and collectors of antique tools
> Subject:      Bio
>
> Hi:
> My name is Joe and I have lurked almost a year now.   SWMBO and I live on
> a
> small ranch near Absarokee.    We ranch, custom cut hay (in the summer),
> do
> some
> custom farming (spring and fall), and SWMBO teaches English riding.  Oh,
> and build
> the occasional piece of custom furniture.   We raise Australian Shepherd
> dogs,
> commercial cattle, commercial sheep, warmblood horses.
> I just turned 40 and have a little girl who is 20 months.  I have always
> liked using
> "old tools" and have learned a lot lurking, and been inspired to use more
> hand tools
> since lurking.   I have   started to accumulate a few more tools made
> before my time
> (I am not a collector tho).  I still like the other tools (the bigger the
> better) that use
> *l*ctr*ns, but promise not to discuss them in public.     I just recently
> restored a sheep wagon
> (to be used as a playhouse).
> Good to meet everyone here on the porch.
>
> joe
>

At 12:01 PM 12/10/98 -0600, Flowers, Curt wrote:
>Ok, I'll byte.      Is Absarokee in Japan, Australia or Ireland?
>
>Welcome to the List!
>
I thought everyone knew where  Absarokee is!  It is right next to Fishtail,
and Nye.
Ok, well everyone now knows that I am forgetful!!   It should have read
Absarokee, MT  USA.
The MT got lost in "cut and paste land" during editing. (grin)

joe

Curt asks,

>Ok, I'll byte.      Is Absarokee in Japan, Australia or Ireland?

Ohhh, Ohhh, Ohhh, I know this one.  It's in Montana, and man is it just
about the most beautiful place on earth!!!!!  I used to hail from
northwestern Wyoming, and I would go up to the country around there every
chance I got.

Welcome Joe. (<---Oldtools content)

Phil
Who wishes he were up there in the snow drifts rather than down here where
it hit 80 a few days ago.  Shoot, I'd even live in a renovated sheep wagon!

Department of Philosophy
Southwestern University
University at Maple
Georgetown, TX 78627
512-863-1882
hopkinsp@s...

GGG,

I, too wondered, and being far too worn out from fondling my tools (hey, cut
that out - you know what I mean) to roll my chair over to the shelf and get
one of my atlases (Brittanica, London Times, Associated Press Pocket, Rand
McNally, Rand McNally U.S. Travel, Roads of Texas, and a couple others I can't
see from here), I punched up www.mapblast.com, searched for Absarokee and not
only found out where it was, I got step-by-step directions on driving there
from my house. I'll call you from the gas station for directions to your house
from the main intersection, Joe! ;-)

All verbose silliness aside, there are several mapping sites of astounding
usefullness out there, with none of which I am affiliated.

Old Tools Content: Next to the atlases are The Complete Woodworker and a bound
volume of Carpentry and Building 1889-90.

Joe & Johanna Kern wrote:
>
> At 12:01 PM 12/10/98 -0600, Flowers, Curt wrote:
> >Ok, I'll byte.      Is Absarokee in Japan, Australia or Ireland?
> >
> >Welcome to the List!
> >
> I thought everyone knew where  Absarokee is!  It is right next to Fishtail,
> and Nye.
> Ok, well everyone now knows that I am forgetful!!   It should have read
> Absarokee, MT  USA.
> The MT got lost in "cut and paste land" during editing. (grin)
>
> joee