Thursday, October 16, 2008

If you are a big tree...

We're a small axe. (Bob Marley)

This little chopper is a hand-forged hatchet/axe that I found in a little antique store in Chesapeake City, Maryland. Less a weapon and more a tool, I just had to purchase this to provide plausible cover for yet another simultaneous purchase. See, the missus and I had been doing holiday shopping in this store, and she had seen these antique miniature oil lamps that she liked. Knowing I'd never get back to the store before Christmas, I ducked back in while she was in the dress shop. I bought the lamp, then bought the axe so as to explain the package I was carrying when she got out of the dress shop. Everybody won!

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