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Thanks, Stanley, for adding me as a friend. Yes, I have a few GEC knives. You may wish to add your name--if you haven't already--to the list for this year's Community knife? It's going to be a Geppetto Whittler done in jigged Pioneer bone and made especially for iKnife Collector by GEC. If you're interested, contact either Steve or Jan and let them know. If you haven't seen it yet, here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/2012-iKC-Community-Knife

Cheers, my friend!

Welcome to iKC!

Thanks, Stanley. My wife and I are raising 3 grandkids. So much for rest. Glad to be your friend.

Stanley!

Congratulations on being a "Featured Member!"

Well, thank you kindly for asking, Stanley. I actually just now returned home after having dinner at a local restaurant with a good friend and his son. The son just starting working at Santa Anita Racetrack, here in Southern California, yesterday as an armed security guard. I was anxious to hear how he liked it since I had worked there for nearly 30 years right up until my retirement in '97. Not in security but in the Operations Dept. I worked with the people and not the horses.

Aside from that it's been a pretty lazy Sunday afternoon. Not much more to tell about me, really. Two grown daughters (38 & 44) and one teenaged granddaughter, 16. My youngest daughter will be giving me a grandson here in about a week or two. I'll keep y'all posted on that.

We lost my wife and the girls mom to lung cancer several years back. 22 to be exact. I re-married and was with that lady for 11 years. But I've been single now for a while and have really settled into liking it that way -- single, that is. No more flaming hoops to jump through. Just enjoying them "Golden Years," ya know.

I live in a great little town nestled at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains -- Sierra Madre. A real sense of community here. Everyone knows everyone. And, heck! We even talk to one another! Rare in this day and age. All in all life is good!

I was working for a little Flower Shop here in town for a number of years after retiring from the horse racing industry. But a couple years back I had some surgery on my back and decided to just take it easy and focus on what I enjoy. Which is, of course, collecting knives and looking at pretty girls. That recipe seems to be working just fine for now.

Okay! There, I went and got long winded again. But...since you asked. ahem!

Cheers, my friend. I hope you have a great evening!

Thank you Stanley for the friend request, I truly enjoy a fine knife as does everyone on this site. Welcome aboard.

Thank you Stanley, Proud to call you my friend.

Happy Birthday Stanley!

Well Stanley, I guess you should change your ABOUT ME section to your correct age! LOL!

The big 6-0 is something! Congrats!!

LOL, no man you don't have ta change your profile! LOL!

Stan,

Welcome to the Sexagenarian Club! Yep, you can look it up. That's what they call us old codgers who have reached that distinguished plateau: Sexagenarians!

I can't help but shake my head. What a waste of a really good word. I mean, don't ya think it would have been more appropriate to call us that when we were in our 20's? Now, to be called that, it just seems like a very cruel joke!

Welcome to the club, my friend!

greetings...so you want some...well when you get them in your hand...they are hard to let go...Held a Loveless....try a dozier...my goodness..the feel is very simular and hard to tell the difference....and they cut like no other...truly awesome knives...

Sure if I was still in Manitoba ...but they are only memories now....but they were sure good at the time...delicious...does that help...lol

lol...thanks stanley for those wonderful words of wisdom...now my day is complete...Love you Man

Well thanks Stanley...aren't you just the Sweetest Fella I know...touching my heart you know!

thankyou sir,..the pleasure is mine!  very nice pics there! that mammoth {both} are {knock your socks off} material !!! very nice!

Some habits are hard to break..:)  thanks stan.

Stanley, I gladly accept you as a friend.  It hadn't come to my atttention yet that we weren't friends either.

I agree Stanley. Thanks for the add.

Stanley, I know exactly where that Church is. I doubt Sardinia has changed much. God Bless my brother. Ken

Stanley, I got the knife today.  You shouldn't have done it, but I love it.  When someone does something for you that they didn't have to, that is when it means a lot.  Thank you, I really appreciate it.  I have already posted pics of the knife.  That is a great fishing scene on it.  The knife is now in my collection and it will stay there as long as it is my collection.

Happy Birthday.

Hope you have a fantastic birthday, Stanley!! Hope you get a knife!

well a GREAT BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you Stanley...and many more...all the best to you on this day and the days to follow....

Happy Birthday!

Wishing you the best of days for today and always my friend!

Happy Birthday my friend , hope its a great day for you !!

Happy Birthday Stanley!

Happy Birthday Stanley!

Happy Birthday Stanley!