My 98

The newest member of the clan...a masterful work of art and engineering sixty two years young, one hundred and four years since its families inception. It is beautiful in its simplicity, and efficient in its purposes. From time to time I just hold it. I feel how smooth it is on my rough hands, I can smell the wood, the oils, the metal...It is uplifting. To think of it as an instrument of facism brings me back to earth, but just enough so to remember that the deer in the woods is aware...and cautious...