Originally Posted by
Standing Wolf
Your avatar photo reminded me - probably twenty-five years ago I was up visiting relatives in Tillamook Oregon, and they had a small museum there, crammed with lots of fascinating historical memorabilia. On one wall they had a large glassed-in display of pistols, mostly very old, and as I recall a sign mentioned that most of them had been dug up in the area...yet they mostly appeared to be in very nice condition, despite their age and the circumstances of their discovery. Why so many firearms ended up in the ground there is anybody's guess.
When I was a newlywed, living and stationed in San Diego in the early '70s, my wife and I were browsing around a small antique shop in Poway, and I spotted an old Mexican-made Bowie knife, with a hawks head design on the butt in a display case. The owner told me that it had been found behind the wall of an old house that was being demolished, and there were some stains on the blade that might have been blood...? They wanted sixteen dollars for it, which was more than I had to spend on myself at the time, but the wife went back later and bought it for my birthday.
Women. As Al Bundy said, "Can't live with 'em, can't herd 'em all into Canada"...but sometimes you get the feeling they almost come close to understanding us.