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Posting here because it's such a great gift:
Got an axe handle from my buddy (known each other since kindergarten times). One of 4 he got from his mother. She got them from her uncle before he passed who hand made them, and had passed them on to her because he didn't trust them to anyone else. Now I have one.
Anyone have any recommendations for a quality are head to put on it?
(I believe it's ash wood)
Got an axe handle from my buddy (known each other since kindergarten times). One of 4 he got from his mother. She got them from her uncle before he passed who hand made them, and had passed them on to her because he didn't trust them to anyone else. Now I have one.
Anyone have any recommendations for a quality are head to put on it?
(I believe it's ash wood)
Looks good, hardware store axe handles aren’t going to have a nice profile on them like that. That’s a serious handle, maybe the guy who made them spent a lot of time with an axe in his hands.
You’re in Canada right? These guys sell hand made axe heads that would probably top that off nicely - depending on the size of that handle. I think all these heads are mid sized.
Excellent, thanks for the reference bro.
I would find a blacksmith who can make a handmade high carbon folded steel head. Might as well go all out!
When someone sneezes or coughs, instead of, "bless you"... say, "God Bless you."
God Bless you
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I have given and received God Bless You's from strangers in the past week. Not all sneezes. It's definitely happening!
God Bless You!
God Bless You!
So I lost a business a little over a year ago due to a catastrophe. It was a business that I had pretty much dropped and or neglected all my other businesses to build and it was even a little out of my comfort zone but I saw the massive potential, I partnered with my cousin and took over the ecommerce/retail of his already booming wholesale business. We were full partners but I was a separate entity which i did to protect myself but still when he lost everything I lost everything too, a year later we're still fighting with insurance. The business had just started to boom, I had just finished cleaning it all up and when I say "just" I mean it had probably only been a couple weeks where I could have said "okay I'm happy now we're rolling". I had been working my tail off driving nearly an hour away stressing myself out to hell and back trying to get this business where it needed to be and it was just coming around, it was starting to take off and it was turning into quite the venture very quickly from there and I was getting to the point where I could just put my feet up and enjoy it, even move on to the next venture. Then boom all gone.
Well since then in between fighting with insurance for all these months I've been looking for the next business but it wasn't going very well. I was searching far and wide and wasn't coming up with much. I was looking to diversify from ecommerce just because of what happened, I figured let me take on different things this time. Don't get me wrong I still had my other ecommerce businesses and I had more than a sustainable income but in order to take over the business I lost I had structured things to where I didn't have much responsibility at my old businesses, I took on hand shake working partners so I wasn't pulling the income I was before from them and I wasn't going to just toss them out. I've been really frustrated and stressed the past year dealing with all of this and coming up empty in my search for the next venture while feeling like a failure.
Well during this I had done some small things in relation to my existing ecommerce business, took on some new product lines, took over the ecommerce of my uncles salon products, optimized some things in my existing business and small thing like that etc etc....or at least what I thought were small things. Well it looks like in the process of doing those things which I thought were minor I have actually stumbled on to an exponential expansion of my current business, something I was not anticipating at all. The new product lines I took on one of them has exploded which I was not expecting at all, exploded bigger than anything I've ever done before and the salon products line seems to be following suit right behind it.
Today I'm sitting here in my warehouse office making calls trying to figure out who I can hire just to package orders, the amount of orders I have today I can't even handle with how I'm currently configured. I honestly don't even know what to say about this, I can only thank God for his blessing. It almost seems as if I was being tested, I was being put through the ringer to see how I would come out the other side and now God is rewarding me for my trials. Money obviously is not all that matters in life but it does allow you to better care for the ones you love and success does matter to a man, to me it does at least. I'm infinitely grateful and right now I'm thinking I need to find ways to do good things to repay what I've been given by God.
Another thing, I've been putting off marriage using the excuse that my life isn't "settled" yet, criticize that mentality and I won't argue but now with these things happening I think it's time to stop putting it off. My father is suffering a severe health issue at the moment but we're going to get him through it fine God willing and after that I think I'm going to stop resisting all my families attempts to hook me up with nice girls for marriage and start a family, it's time.
God Bless all my brothers and even Sisters here, I pray for greater blessings for all of you just as God has blessed me.
Well since then in between fighting with insurance for all these months I've been looking for the next business but it wasn't going very well. I was searching far and wide and wasn't coming up with much. I was looking to diversify from ecommerce just because of what happened, I figured let me take on different things this time. Don't get me wrong I still had my other ecommerce businesses and I had more than a sustainable income but in order to take over the business I lost I had structured things to where I didn't have much responsibility at my old businesses, I took on hand shake working partners so I wasn't pulling the income I was before from them and I wasn't going to just toss them out. I've been really frustrated and stressed the past year dealing with all of this and coming up empty in my search for the next venture while feeling like a failure.
Well during this I had done some small things in relation to my existing ecommerce business, took on some new product lines, took over the ecommerce of my uncles salon products, optimized some things in my existing business and small thing like that etc etc....or at least what I thought were small things. Well it looks like in the process of doing those things which I thought were minor I have actually stumbled on to an exponential expansion of my current business, something I was not anticipating at all. The new product lines I took on one of them has exploded which I was not expecting at all, exploded bigger than anything I've ever done before and the salon products line seems to be following suit right behind it.
Today I'm sitting here in my warehouse office making calls trying to figure out who I can hire just to package orders, the amount of orders I have today I can't even handle with how I'm currently configured. I honestly don't even know what to say about this, I can only thank God for his blessing. It almost seems as if I was being tested, I was being put through the ringer to see how I would come out the other side and now God is rewarding me for my trials. Money obviously is not all that matters in life but it does allow you to better care for the ones you love and success does matter to a man, to me it does at least. I'm infinitely grateful and right now I'm thinking I need to find ways to do good things to repay what I've been given by God.
Another thing, I've been putting off marriage using the excuse that my life isn't "settled" yet, criticize that mentality and I won't argue but now with these things happening I think it's time to stop putting it off. My father is suffering a severe health issue at the moment but we're going to get him through it fine God willing and after that I think I'm going to stop resisting all my families attempts to hook me up with nice girls for marriage and start a family, it's time.
God Bless all my brothers and even Sisters here, I pray for greater blessings for all of you just as God has blessed me.
I just witnessed something that caught me off guard because it has been so long since I've seen such feminine behavior from women.
There is a homeless woman near one of the places where I work who has really been suffering as of late. She has a dog (pitbull) and she is always yelling at it and talking to it. I have never stopped to talk to her or try to help her in anyway even though I come within feet of her on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes I think "that poor dog," "someone should take that dog away from her and give it a good home" (the dog is small for the breed and super sweet and just sits there and takes her abuse with fearful, yet loving eyes). But then today, out of the blue like angels, three young mennonite women (dressed head to toe in traditional mennonite garb complete with head covering bonnets) spontaneously discovered this woman sitting there yelling at her dog and without hesitation, like moths drawn to flame, these three women approached the homeless woman and surrounded her. I could not hear exactly what was being said but the youngest woman (18 to 20 years old) in a warm, reasurring, non-vocal fry voice began inquiring into the homeless woman's well being as if her life depended on it. You could just for an instance, feel all the suffering in the vicinity cease. And I myself shed a tear as I drove away blasting Alice in Chains and wondering if Shiloh Hendrix will spend her million dollars in pursuit of helping others.
There is a homeless woman near one of the places where I work who has really been suffering as of late. She has a dog (pitbull) and she is always yelling at it and talking to it. I have never stopped to talk to her or try to help her in anyway even though I come within feet of her on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes I think "that poor dog," "someone should take that dog away from her and give it a good home" (the dog is small for the breed and super sweet and just sits there and takes her abuse with fearful, yet loving eyes). But then today, out of the blue like angels, three young mennonite women (dressed head to toe in traditional mennonite garb complete with head covering bonnets) spontaneously discovered this woman sitting there yelling at her dog and without hesitation, like moths drawn to flame, these three women approached the homeless woman and surrounded her. I could not hear exactly what was being said but the youngest woman (18 to 20 years old) in a warm, reasurring, non-vocal fry voice began inquiring into the homeless woman's well being as if her life depended on it. You could just for an instance, feel all the suffering in the vicinity cease. And I myself shed a tear as I drove away blasting Alice in Chains and wondering if Shiloh Hendrix will spend her million dollars in pursuit of helping others.
That's great, but why not take the initiative and help someone like her yourself, next time?
Yeah, that's what I was kinda getting at. I just don't have the time/energy for it right now. I see so many people in need nowadays that I'd get nothing done if I stopped and tried to help everyone and it's difficult to distinguish between who is doing drugs and drinking and destroying themselves intentionally and who is really just outright mentally ill. And as they say "No good deed goes unpunished." Like look at that Chris Kyle guy who was a sniper and tried to help a fellow soldier with PTSD and wound up getting killed by the guy. Also, I'm in a semi-fragile state of recovery from alcohol and cigarettes and from losing a woman I really loved a few years back and so it's all I can do to help myself most days. But once I get settled in the wilderness in 3 years (right before the next election) I'll definitely be doing some volunteering in a church organized charity effort on my monthly trip into town.
But, also, now that I'm really thinking about it, how much effort could it take to just drop some food for her and her dog off next week and keep on walking? So I'll give that a go.
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I generally offer protein bars to the homeless. If they refuse them, you know they just want money for drugs.
Has anyone tried the famous Dubai chocolate bar? I've been seeing it online for months, thought it looked yummy. @Servant of Christ and I were watching videos about it last night, and I said mmm I'd love to try that. I'm not normally enticed by viral food hits - but this looks really tasty. There's the OG bar, and then dozens of imitations, since the original one is hard to get.
He went out this morning and found one for me at a local bakery. Wow, I'm impressed! We haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be good. I'm a lucky lady
He went out this morning and found one for me at a local bakery. Wow, I'm impressed! We haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be good. I'm a lucky lady
Has anyone tried the famous Dubai chocolate bar? I've been seeing it online for months, thought it looked yummy. @Servant of Christ and I were watching videos about it last night, and I said mmm I'd love to try that. I'm not normally enticed by viral food hits - but this looks really tasty. There's the OG bar, and then dozens of imitations, since the original one is hard to get.
He went out this morning and found one for me at a local bakery. Wow, I'm impressed! We haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty sure it's gonna be good. I'm a lucky lady
What bar?
The original chocolate bar was created by a husband and wife team in Dubai. It's a thick chocolate bar with a filling of kadayif (a finely shredded filo dough) mixed with pistachio cream and sesame paste, a take on a Middle Eastern dessert. It's kind of like a chocolate bar filled with pistachio baklava. The concept was a viral sensation, and now companies and people around the world are creating imitations. The husband and wife team's company hand produces only a certain number of bars every day, and they sell out within minutes every time they take a new round of orders at specified times.
We tried it last night. It's definitely unique with the texture of the crispy filling, and the pistachio is a nice flavor with chocolate. It's basically good chocolate with a unique configuration of ingredients.
The best thing about it is that my husband went out and found it for me special, the next morning after I mentioned it. It sure is nice to have a handsome fella being so sweet to me
