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And what a ride it’s been. Been really busy standing up a dozen or so websites, moving my blog off of blogger and onto wordpress, and in general, making ahuge mess of everything that’s supposed to come out looking like a beautifully manicured garden of web goodness :=)
Keep codin, keep codin.. It starts here: Natural Horse Training Methods
Best wishes to everyone in the new year!
… to anyone I missed on this morning’s frenzy of phone calls…
Abundant blessings in the new year 🙂
Mark
Today’s pictures came to me of wrapping the wire bundles in nickel:
And into the fire she goes…
Until she becomes a solidly welded piece of steel!
Antsy antsy :=)
So,
For the last 20 or so years, if I ever wanted to really work out, or have a formal garb occasion, or in any size, way, shape or form hold in my hands a real sword… I’ve had to borrow one.
This, soon, will no longer be the case. I have, based on lots of first-hand experience with them, decided that the time has finally come for me to commission a blade made by the Master Bladesmith, Jim Hrisoulas… Atar, the blacksmith of legend at Faire…
I have commissioned a cable sword, first of it’s kind to come out of his shop, after many, many daggers. 🙂
Today I recieved the first in a series of pictures as my blade is forged. Today’s task was to remove the protective coating on the cable strands prepatory to the welding of the cable:
which must first be done by disassembling and then heating and scrubbing the bundled cables. It is from these humbling beginnings:
That will issue forth one of the finest swords a man could hope for.
Part two, coming soon!
Best,
Mark
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And the Wolf gets his obscure heraldic title!
It’s kind of funny the combinations of reactions and lack thereof amongst the various groups of people I know and have known over the years to the news of my engagement.
Lots of congrats from unlikely places, less than what I thought from some liekly ones, and a bit of shock and amazement from those who know me best.
I love being unpredictable.
Can I go play with my Horses now?
Thanks,
Mark
Need to make sure things like this:
http://www.pheonix.org/category/horses/feed
Are itnegrated in using steps like this:?
http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/11/20/add-rss-feed-link-icons/
Nothing to report. Absolutely Nothing!
Not at all!
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Well, here’s a couple posts I never thought I’d be making….
I’m engaged! Like, the going-to-get-married engaged engaged.
For real.
Oh, and I actually have a horse to ride.
For real.
First, a picture of my sweety, Kirsten, and her engagement ring, an 18 month old Friesian filly known as Tessie (Testimony) on the right (Tessie’s momma is on the left):
Then a picture of me and my new DM…. a 17-hand Belgian draft horse (for non-horsey folks, 17 hands means FOOKIN HUGE) by the name of Dolly Madison. And boy is she huge… if you fall off, you can bounce 3 times and still be on her back:
Amazing, wot?
For a bit more thorough rundown on How It All Transpired, check A Laughing Gypsy 🙂
Be well, all…