Well I got a reprieve from finishing supper, daughter is helping so I left her and Mom for some girl time...
Hopefully I will have a cool antique wooden cane tomorrow. Will probably have to refinish it....
I've always liked canes/walking sticks/shaylalees etc.
A few years ago, I went to the home of an elderly couple to fix their computer. They were both very nice folks and I very much enjoyed my time there.
As I was leaving, I commented on a rather ornate walking stick propped up in the corner. Mr. Mac said "Come on out to the shed son, I want to show you something." The inside of his shed was unfinished, no inside paneling or ceiling boards, and up in the rafters were
dozens, maybe more than a hundred "sticks" he had collected in the woods over the years while hunting and scouting. All of them were saplings with the same unique feature - they were "deformed" from having had vines grow around and around them in a spiral, kind of choking them off in places. He told me to pick out as many as I wanted!
I picked out 5 -and he wanted to to take more! - brought them home, finished stripping the bark off, and stained some, finished them with Spar varnish, and gave them to friends and family... but left my favorite one all natural, no stain.
I want to get a pic of it in the next day or so and show y'all what I'm talking about - a very unique one-of-a-kind walking stick... luv it.
BWAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAHAAAAAAAAA!
......you were looking pretty fine to me the morning you were in the HO....
