One of many reasons I love my customers!

[Rick P]

I got this note from my long time freind and client Bill. He has been buying art from me since my art school days! And he shows them off! This is an exert from a note I received referring a friend to me. He is talking about a mammoth, whale bone and moose antler pen I made for him. Bill recently celebrated his 90th birthday.

"I use the bone pen all the time, but have trouble remembering what the various animal components are. As best I can recall, it is made from the tooth of a beast uncouth, that lived when Adam was a youth, and is topped by a bit of horn that did adorn the classic brow of a unicorn..........Bill"

Bills personal symbol is a skull in a top hat. He sent me a very official looking note from the IRS when I was still in school, I got suspicious when the wording seemed a bit off. So I looked at the signature a bit closer and the dot on the "i" was in fact a tiny itty bitty skull in a top hat! He still has not told me how the hell he did it!

 

[AKPenTurner]

"I use the bone pen all the time, but have trouble remembering what the various animal components are. As best I can recall, it is made from the tooth of a beast uncouth, that lived when Adam was a youth, and is topped by a bit of horn that did adorn the classic brow of a unicorn..........Bill"

That's what I need to start telling people when they ask me about all my different bone and antler pens. Love it. :biggrin:

 

[alamocdc]

I can relate, Rick. I had one like that back when I repaired/upgraded PCs on the side. He was a retired full colonel in his mid 80's. I fixed a few things he unintentionally screwed up several times, but to hear him tell it, I built him a new system from the ground up nearly every time. LOL! He was a great guy! I won't say I had to help him often, but I knew his password by heart!

 

[Rick P]

Billy

He is sorta a serigate grand father too me. He is largely responsible for the hunting ethics aply to all of my life and sence of humor I try to view the world with. He was there at some tuff times in my life and I am a much less angry person for knowing him.

He is also one tuff old SOB! Still heats with wood and cuts/hauls it myself and I dont think he has missed an opening day for ducks or white tail in 50 years.

 

[alamocdc]

Oh, I know that type too! You just reminded me of an old rancher I met during my oil field days. We drilled about 10 oil wells on his ranch and he would come to my trailer every morning for coffee. He was in his 90s. Andy was his name. He hadn't gotten too old to heard his cattle (only had about 100 head by then) on horse back. His kids sold his horses because he fell one too many times. He tended to fall getting off for some reason. Anyway, he was relegated to hearding on foot. And I absolutely LOVED talkking to him! He had some stories for sure! Was was a true west Texas cowboy and they just don't make 'em like ol' Andy anymore! When someone would ask me why I let him come around so much, I'd tell them it was because he deserved to. I mean, he lived things that folks today couldn't even dream of! Especially the younger generation. So I know what you mean about the serogate thing. My grandfather had died a few years before I met Andy and he reminded me of him. I still miss both today! And the truly sad part about Andy is that he had a really nice ranch, and neither of his two sons or daughter gave a damn about the place. But they sure liked that oil money coming in! Sigh!

 

[edicehouse]

You know I love the jokes old people play. When I graduated from high school, I got a letter stating I was being drafted. I was raised by my grandparents and things seemed to be off. Well my grandfather seemed interested in it, and I was trying to figure out who was playing the joke. He called after "checking" the phone book. Come to find out he had half a dozen people at Planters Peanuts (where he worked) in on it.

I had not thought about that in years, thanks for that pleasant memory!

 

[Rick P]

"...neither of his two sons or daughter gave a damn about the place. But they sure liked that oil money coming in! Sigh! "

Some of the young folks in the far north are like that too, really sad to see Eskimos treating there own heritage poorly but there are some bad apples in every part of the population.