{"id":5198,"date":"2013-07-03T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T18:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allandouglas.com\/blog\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:40","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:40","slug":"happy-day-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/happy-day-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"A Happy Day On the Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back Irwin Tools sent me a boxed set of three utility knives to test out and review.\u00a0 One of these quickly became my de facto favorite knife and I carried it with me everywhere but to church.\u00a0 For church I have a slim, 2\u201d folder that fits discretely in the pocket of dress slacks.\u00a0 About a week ago, my favorite knife came up missing: I had it earlier in the day, then it was gone.\u00a0 I looked everywhere.\u00a0 Marie looked everywhere.\u00a0\u00a0We looked everywhere again.\u00a0 Finally I decided it was just gone and I\u2019d have to buy a replacement.\u00a0 Not just because I liked the knife, but I needed it for a photo shoot for a magazine article I\u2019m writing on knives.<\/p>\n

But I procrastinated.<\/p>\n

\"Knife<\/a>Then yesterday I was up in the play yard mowing.\u00a0 I was running along the critter fence and had to push the fencing out a little with one hand to keep it from snagging on protuberances from the mower handle.\u00a0 And there it was: hanging by its clip on the fence, about half way up.\u00a0 Waiting patiently for me.<\/p>\n

“Thank you Lord!”<\/p>\n

On that fateful day I had been up here planting some packing grass because Marie thinks it will make an efficient ground cover to prevent erosion.\u00a0 I must have brushed against the fence, along which I was planting the plugs, snagged the clip and lifted the knife right out of my side pocket. A pick-pocket fence!<\/p>\n

When I came up to look (Marie too for that matter), we were looking at the ground.\u00a0 Even moved the grass clumps around, but didn\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n

After hanging in a weeks\u2019 worth of rain, the blade is badly rusted, but being a utility knife, the blade it is easily replaced\u00a0\u2013 it has spares inside that did not get wet (even if I didn\u2019t have 100,000 knife blades in a dispenser on the wall).\u00a0 There is a little rust inside where steel bolts pass through the body, but some light oil and steel wool cleaned them up nicely.\u00a0 Even the screwdriver tips escaped rusting.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s another happy day here on the mountain!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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