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rangerbluedog wrote: Tue Dec 29, 2020 3:27 am I'm taking a week off to "celebrate" the end of 2020, so I'm alternating between these top two. :)
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I just finished this "A Journey Through Texas", written in 1856. A New Yorker traveled to Louisiana, then on to Texas in 1856-57. He writes about the characters he meets, the cities as well as the wilderness. Interactions with the settlers, Germans, cowboys, indians, slavery, crops, farmland, prices, etc. A very detailed day to day experience. If you lived in Texas back then, you needed to be very fond of cornbread and pork, as that is what they subsisted on pretty much every day. :lol:

It's an interesting read.
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Unk wrote: Tue Dec 29, 2020 8:21 pm I just finished this "A Journey Through Texas", written in 1856. A New Yorker traveled to Louisiana, then on to Texas in 1856-57. He writes about the characters he meets, the cities as well as the wilderness. Interactions with the settlers, Germans, cowboys, indians, slavery, crops, farmland, prices, etc. A very detailed day to day experience. If you lived in Texas back then, you needed to be very fond of cornbread and pork, as that is what they subsisted on pretty much every day. :lol:

It's an interesting read.
Now that certainly does look like an interesting read.
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That looks like an interesting read. The author, Frederick Law Olmstead was a renowned landscape architect who designed New York City’s Central Park, Saint Louis’s Forest Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and numerous other large scale landscape projects. Besides being an author he was also at various times in his life a sailor, surveyor, conservationist (one of the early advocates of Yosemite being made a national park), and a pre-Civil War abolitionist among other things. Quite an interesting person.

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Well,
This all should keep me plenty busy for the next few weeks.
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Willy, I don't know how facetious you were being, if at all, about keeping you busy for a few weeks, but that lot would have me going for about 6-8 months! I'm not a fast reader, by any means.
::hmm:: Maybe if I spent less time on AAPK...



::rotflol:: ::rotflol:: HA! Like that's gonna happen!! ::rotflol:: ::rotflol::
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Got this one today. It should explain some basic steps and procedures I need to know
before jumping in the deep end of knife repairing. I know I'm going to have fun and I
know I'm going to make mistakes, but I want to try and limit them as much as possible.
One I know the rules and procedures on something, the best way I learn and develop
a skill is, just do it.
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Steve Warden wrote: Thu Dec 31, 2020 2:18 pm Willy, I don't know how facetious you were being, if at all, about keeping you busy for a few weeks, but that lot would have me going for about 6-8 months! I'm not a fast reader, by any means.
::hmm:: Maybe if I spent less time on AAPK...



::rotflol:: ::rotflol:: HA! Like that's gonna happen!! ::rotflol:: ::rotflol::
Ah, I'm thinking around 2, or less, at the rate I'm chewing (already 2/3 done on Holding Juno).
All you need to-do Steve, is completely set aside a whole day, and power read.
Common man, get it together!
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NEXT!
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Steve Warden wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:47 am NEXT!
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Looks interesting, can we have a review when you're finished. :)
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cudgee wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:35 am
Steve Warden wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 1:47 am NEXT!
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Looks interesting, can we have a review when you're finished. :)
Well, just finished it. This is a collection of short stories, all set in the old west of the late 1800s.
I read mostly for enjoyment, an escape from the day-to-day rat race. For that reason, I'm not very analytical of my reading. My Bible reading, on the other hand, is done with a desire to learn, grow, and allow the power of God through His Word change me. That I'm going to pay attention to and study for all I'm worth. The Westerns, not so much.

All that said, I really enjoy L'amour's work. It isn't overly descriptive, the stories move right along, they're not a heavy read demanding scrutiny and intense focus, and for me, they're entertaining. As I said, my little escape.
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Latest issue came in this week.
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Steve Warden wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:53 pm Latest issue came in this week.
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Nice looking knife, what is it? ::tu:: And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate. ::handshake::
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cudgee wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:20 pm
Steve Warden wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:53 pm Latest issue came in this week.
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Nice looking knife, what is it? ::tu:: And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate. ::handshake::
Thanks. It's a Marble's with bone to look like stag.

And I agree with you--sometimes you just want to be entertained. 👍👊
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Steve Warden wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:34 pm
cudgee wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:20 pm
Steve Warden wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:53 pm Latest issue came in this week.
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Nice looking knife, what is it? ::tu:: And regarding reading, sometimes you just want to read something that is not taxing and an easy read, similar to going to just a watchable movie without having to concentrate to much on the script and plot, you just want to be entertained. Have a good week mate. ::handshake::
Thanks. It's a Marble's with bone to look like stag.

And I agree with you--sometimes you just want to be entertained. 👍👊
I only have one Marbles, but it is a good quality knife, especially for the price. Yours look like a really nice little knife. ::tu::
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Welp, pretty much have all those reads wrapped up now. Made it about 50% through mao's bio, that's all I could stomach of it...
Now on to more enjoyable things, me thinks.
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WillyCamaro wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:53 am Welp, pretty much have all those reads wrapped up now. Made it about 50% through mao's bio, that's all I could stomach of it...
Now on to more enjoyable things, me thinks.
Looks like a good read. ::tu::
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Just finished "The High-Graders" by L'Amour.
Starting this one.
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Steve Warden wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:58 pm Just finished "The High-Graders" by L'Amour.
Starting this one.
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::tu:: ::tu:: ::tu:: :) ::handshake::
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cudgee wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 2:04 am
WillyCamaro wrote: Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:53 am Welp, pretty much have all those reads wrapped up now. Made it about 50% through mao's bio, that's all I could stomach of it...
Now on to more enjoyable things, me thinks.
Looks like a good read. ::tu::
Most excellent read mate. ::tu::
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The newest book of Clive Custer's Oregon series.
To be followed by book 3 of W.E.B. Griffin Clanestine Operations.
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I just started "Shattered Sword" by Parshall & Tully. Promises to be a different telling of the Battle of Midway story.
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Time for a history lesson.
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Book #3 of W.E.B Griffin Clandestine Operations "Curtain of Death"
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Rereading this for the I don’t know how many timeth. 👍😎👍
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