Alasgun
Loving the herd life
Back at Y2-k i built this wood stove, as a backup heat source. Well’ it’s been fired less than a dozen times since then but Hobo Night was momentous and worth re-telling.
Case makes a Hobo folding knife which breaks down into a knife, fork and a spoon! Cool, now all i gotta do is figure out how to “sell the idea” of providing each of my grandkids ages (at the time) of 4,6,9 &11 with they’re very own implement of distruction!
the youngest g.daughter was into American girl dolls and when she showed me her Kit Kittridge doll complete with the story about how Kit was the champion of the Hobo’s, standing up for them in the community etc, i knew i had a good angle! That’s left brain man thinking for, “i cant possible get in trouble for this”.
Now that stove is built to cook right on the top surface, perfectly smooth and polished to a pancake fryer’s delight! So we invited them all over to spend the night and spent the evening (without t.v or devices) cooking cakes etc. i purposely left silverware off the table and once we sat down one of them pointed this out to me. That was my Q to pass out the Case Hobos, one to each of them and knowing how kids can squabble about stuff, i had they’re names etched on each piece so they got they’re parts back after washing.
they were a huge hit as was pancakes on the wood stove! We settled into the evening with stories of our own poorer times and they got all wide eyed when i told them we use to cut the toe’s out of your Daddy’s shoes so his feet had room to grow.
pretty soon i gave one a violin one a tambourine one a guitar and one a harmonica then put on some Roger Miller and we all sang “King of the Road”!
Case makes a Hobo folding knife which breaks down into a knife, fork and a spoon! Cool, now all i gotta do is figure out how to “sell the idea” of providing each of my grandkids ages (at the time) of 4,6,9 &11 with they’re very own implement of distruction!
the youngest g.daughter was into American girl dolls and when she showed me her Kit Kittridge doll complete with the story about how Kit was the champion of the Hobo’s, standing up for them in the community etc, i knew i had a good angle! That’s left brain man thinking for, “i cant possible get in trouble for this”.
Now that stove is built to cook right on the top surface, perfectly smooth and polished to a pancake fryer’s delight! So we invited them all over to spend the night and spent the evening (without t.v or devices) cooking cakes etc. i purposely left silverware off the table and once we sat down one of them pointed this out to me. That was my Q to pass out the Case Hobos, one to each of them and knowing how kids can squabble about stuff, i had they’re names etched on each piece so they got they’re parts back after washing.
they were a huge hit as was pancakes on the wood stove! We settled into the evening with stories of our own poorer times and they got all wide eyed when i told them we use to cut the toe’s out of your Daddy’s shoes so his feet had room to grow.
pretty soon i gave one a violin one a tambourine one a guitar and one a harmonica then put on some Roger Miller and we all sang “King of the Road”!
