A little gift for a Very Speial Relative

[Greatgrandpawrichard]

I just finished a little gift for a very special relative that went out of his way to fix my GMC Yukon Trailer Towing vehicle when we broke down while we were on vacation and down in his neck of the woods visiting him and his wife. He is a Mechanic by trade and owns his own Business . He took my rig into his shop, diagnosed the problem, fixed it, plus he even topped off my Air Conditioning unit with Fluid. When I asked him what the charges were he said "Nothing"! He wouldn't let me pay him for his time and efforts nor for the use of his shop! He said "That's what Family does for Family!
He is a Native American and his spirit animal is a Bald Eagle, so when I saw this pattern on Steve Good's website I just knew immediately that I wanted to make it for such a special relative in thanks for his help!

Dick

[pet-design]

Impressive Story and fine Cut... Thank you for telling and showing!

[meflick]

Nice work. I’m sure he loved it. Good friends and relatives are a treasure for sure.

[Dak0ta52]

Great job on the piece and a great story. Glad it turned out good and you learned the morality of a family member.

[Denny Knappen]

A very good story and mighty fine gift.

[preprius]

Dick,

i agree stories and gifts are great. I must be getting of age. 

A maple leaf for a native american?  

Must be in maple sap area. Vermont?

But I do like maple leafs.

 

Me.

Mark Eason

[Joe W.]

I'm with the rest of the folks - good cutting & even better story.

[daveww1]

awesome story and job

[wombatie]

Lovely story.  I bet he was blown away by your gesture as you were his.

Marg

[spirithorse]

Great that people can help one another; family or otherwise.
Great cutting!
God Bless! Spirithorse
By the way, my Native American name is actually Horse With Spirit Heart, thus the Spirithorse user name.

[Phantom Scroller]

The contrasting woods make it pop. Great cut. Roly

[Greatgrandpawrichard]

On 3/25/2022 at 5:22 PM, preprius said:

Dick,

i agree stories and gifts are great. I must be getting of age. 

A maple leaf for a native american?  

Must be in maple sap area. Vermont?

But I do like maple leafs.

 

Me.

Mark Eason

Mark, Here in Western Washington we do have Maple Trees. We Have Vine Maple trees and Broad Leaf Maple trees. I think they are one of the Most Beautiful Trees alive. When our first Great Grandson was born I took a drive to find a bunch of Fall Maple Leaves, I gathered them up, dried them out and then used them for Background Portraits of him. The Leaves were almost as big as he was.

Dick

[Greatgrandpawrichard]

On 3/28/2022 at 6:07 PM, spirithorse said:

Great that people can help one another; family or otherwise.
Great cutting!
God Bless! Spirithorse
By the way, my Native American name is actually Horse With Spirit Heart, thus the Spirithorse user name.

I used to work for a small fledgling Archery Company Called Lakota Archery, I Field Tested their bows, gave them my ideas on making the bows better, plus I represented them at Major Trade Shows and on different Archery Sites on the Internet.
our goal was to build a Great Bow for a Reasonable Price and to Employ Native Americans on the Lakota Reservation to build the bows because there was an 85 % Unemployment Rate. Sadly, the company Failed due to One Greedy and Dishonest man that made off with all of the money, leaving the company without funds!
I was deemed by the Lakota Tribe to be an Honorary Member of the Lakota and giver the name Wahkia ( Speaks With Thunder) for my efforts to Help their members.  An Honor that I Proudly wear every day!

[spirithorse]

That is fantastic! (Except for the thief)
I wish I could find out how to say and print my name in Lakota or Algonquin.

God Bless! Spirithorse