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

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> -----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
>