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76 years, less than month and a half away

Still kicking and grinning,

Much has gone on for me in the last couple of yrs. I recently had cataract eye surgery on both eyes. I knew I had cataracts 6 or 7 yrs ago but they were not bad or so I thought. It was pretty much the right eye. I was more concerned with being diganosed with Glacoma and so I worked with that issue. when I moved to AR. it was new Eye Dr and he told me I had cataracts and should consider having them removed. I of course decided at that time they were not that bad.

4 Yrs later. its getting dark outside during the day. I have the brightness on my computer monitors turned up pretty high. Driving at night is to be avoided as I am blinded by oncoming cars. playing my favorite car race game. crashing into walls, my eye hand cordination is way off and its getting very had to see the different shades of colors.

A consolation with my eye Dr and over to eye surgen to get me evaluated before the surgery. I am very happy to say all went very well. Both eyes are done and I can see and that in it self is a gift I will not waste. The first thing I noticed was how bright my monitors/TV were. And I was very surprised to see how much I had the brightness turned up. on all of them.. My hand eye cordnation has gotten much better when playing my car race game :)

everything else is as it should be. I've been looking at a few knives made locally and they are very nice. Health wise I'm still good. been thinking about doing a bit of fishing :). I need to get out of the house. go to the lake pretty early and fish until about noon or so and go look at those knives one more time. there is one I really keep thinking about and how good it will look added to my collection. Knife addiction? Why of course. I would not have it any other way. Until the next blog post Wally G.

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Comment by Wally Guittard 2 hours ago: Another year almost gone by and it seems to be happen quicker every that goes by. Let's see my last post here I was getting close to 76 yrs... Now I'm getting close to 77yrs A bit over 5 months, yet not so far away. Have I added to my knife collection... No.. I'm still looking for that one knife I just gotta have.. :).

Life has been its usual adventure... always an unexpected surprise when you least expect it. I recently took my collection out just to look at them again and yes I enjoy doing that. There are a few that I've had for well over 25 plus yrs. A couple as gifts that were every day carry's and a few that were finds. One from under a house I was doing some work on. Another one I found stuck in the ground blade first at a favored fishing spot.

These were both Buck knives. One a 317 and the other a 110 lock blade. both abused. the 110, the blade had taken to a grinding wheel and yes I know I could have sent it back to Buck and had the blade/knife replaced, I just repurposed it as a fishing knife, Blade shorter but very sharp. The 317, main blade tip broken and one scale missing. blade retipped and used with one scale missing for many years.

I did contact Buck about it and as the 317 was/is no longer in production a different knife was offered. I kept the 317 and its been rescaled since then.

So life goes on and so do I. Lets see what Adventure 2025 holds for us..... More knives!

Wally G.