On The Fly

Podcast - Christmas-Eve with Dad . . . We all have special memories with our Dad at Christmas. Here’s one of mine. While preparing Podcasts for this Holiday season I was reminded of this treasured memory - Enjoy! As I entered Joe’s Hardware in Fallbrook California I was surprised to see a W. R. Case and Sons Cutlery Co. Knife display. This transported me back to Marshall’s TrueValue Hardware store, on the square in Cuba, Illinois . . .   You see, just inside the front door, to your left was a special display of Case knives. I always had to stop and look at the wide selection thinking - Someday I’ll be old enough to buy myself one . Why Case? Well, because that’s what Dad always carried. You see, my Dad was a traditional outdoorsman. A hunter. He loved to hunt; rabbits, squirrels, pheasant, raccoons (coons), whatever was in season. His spare time was spent in the woods hunting or on a river fishing with his children. No, not just for sport. It supplemented his income. As a boy it was my