[TheForge] The mind 1st to go

[Marrin Fleet]

No, you've got it all wrong ... The mind is the SECOND thing to go,
and you can't remember what went first!  ;-})>

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:34 PM, peter fels & phoebe palmer
<artgawk at thegrid.net> wrote:
>  You inspire me to take a careful tour through my annealing ash bucket.
> There are probably stamps and chisels buried there like fossils in repose.
>
> On 10/9/2010 10:23 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
>> I needed to texture some stock yesterday so I went to put the texturing dies
>> on the power hammer.  They weren't by the hammer so I looked by the treadle
>> hammer, not there either.  By the welding table? no. In the grinding room?,
>> no.  Under the bench?, no. I was starting to get concerned and a little
>> frustrated.  It was almost noon so I found some busy work, and broke for
>> lunch.
>>
>> Arter lunch I took another look in all the places where they mught have,
>> should have, been. No luck.
>>
>> I decided to proceed with the texturing using the fullering dies which are a
>> bit too agrassive so I have to be real careful to use a light touch.  When
>> texturing my second piece it hit me, they were in the vermiculite barrel.
>> The last time I used them, about a month ago, one of them chipped.  I had
>> made them from sucker rod and had just normalized them. So this time after
>> fixind the chip I heated them up and stuck them in the vermiculite. And
>> there they were, waiting for me to put them back into use.  I knew when I
>> couldn't find them, that when they showed up it would make sense, and it
>> did.
>>
>> Robert Ehrenberger
>> Shelbyville, Mo.
>> eforge at centurytel.net
>>
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