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We drove by Como Bluff today...the building is still in its original location.

Very nice!!

Thank you fernwood , MsAli , and NDK .  Mr Taylor will appreciate the kind words. 

miket thanks!

but I knives are fun to make.  I say make, but assemble is probably a better term.

I just finished my 16th knife recently. 





Here are some from 2019





And here is my first one.  Its kinda big, folded length is 5 inches.






MsAli you are off to a great start!
hummingbirdstones come join the fun!

Have stopped at the rock shop in Moab a number of times. Good selection for a small shop. We usually pick up something found/mined in Utah. They have quite a few fossils and minerals as well as some lapidary materials. They also have finished jewelry. We usually stop at the Blue Pig for a rack of ribs.

Dunno if the Parks have opened yet. Arches is fabulous! Our first stop there yielded almost 600 pictures in about 4 1/2 hours. This is a good time of year for Canyonlands because the air is clear. Recently the wildfires have spoiled the visibility of late summer/fall visits.

Tommy's experience reminded me of some friends' experience with a Samsung refrigerator. Long story short, they bought one of the most expensive Samsungs about three years ago. Three service calls within the first 6 weeks to get it to work correctly (actually chill).

We bought a GE freezer on the bottom just over four years ago. Love it! I don't remember what the model is called but it has horizontal opening bars rather than the typical vertical ones. No water dispenser, no ice maker, no cameras, no voice recognition, no speakers, no USB ports, no coffee maker, no tv...just white with two doors. I like the glass shelves because they prevent anything from dropping onto stuff below. I also dislike wire shelves because small footprint items tend to tip easily. I chose the freezer without the dual drawer because I wanted to maximize my freezer space (didn't have an additional freezer, nearest grocery store 28 miles.) This freezer has a wire shelf and a wire basket below it. If you are not able to get down on your knees you might not like this configuration. I like the temperature controls--up front, easy to see, but not in the way. Plenty of light. Energy usage seems to be low. Last August without AC running in the house it used less than 60 kWh. I clean similarly to what lookatthat described. I only do it once a year, though, and just vacuum. In the case of this refrigerator it means removing 5 screws and a panel on the back. Well worth the effort in my opinion. You can hear it running from perhaps 12 feet away when there isn't any other sound, but nothing like rocks2dust described. Overall the refrigerator is doing a good job. Only downside I have discovered is that nothing must touch the sidewalls inside the refrigerator. If something touches a sidewall then it freezes the stuff in the meat and vegetable drawers.