[TheForge] Re: Thanks- Lufkin, TX

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> > I was once told that I could have a ca. 450# European-style anvil free
> > of charge.  But only if I would pick it up, carry it outside and put
> > it on the tailgate of my truck.  (I've met a couple of guys who could
> > have done that but I'm not one of them.)
>
> Mike- I don't know what you look like, but I bet they wouldn't have made
> that offer to a huge ape-shaped blacksmith!
> Andy
>

Well, I acquired one of my RR track anvils at a flea market. It had a $10
price tag on it, and the guy told my friend Andrew, who walks with two
canes, and usually rides around on a scooter, that he could have it for $1
if he could pick it up and take it to his truck.

He got off of his scooter, bent over, picked it up, put it on his scooter,
ran it over to the truck, came back, and paid the guy a dollar ;-)

Andrew can walk, but only a step or two without his canes, but he can stand
pretty well with something to brace him. As long as he doesn't hafta move
his feet and use both hands, he's pretty stable- his left leg has no feeling
(stroke) and he loses track of it- and, it won't hold his weight for long
without help.

But, disabled doesn't mean unable to do ANYTHING, it just means unable to do
some things the way most people can ;-)

Phlip, thinking about a very good one-armed smith...

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....