I love the smell of two cycle in the morning. It smells like, Victory.
Let’s just change the name of this web site to Freepmopolitan!
Women moreso, but young male hipster/slacker dooshes seem to all be reading the same Cosmo-for-men magazine.
Thus, all of a sudden it is hip to have a big fat beard, as if to distreact from the otherwise stunning lack of masculinity.
It is an overeaction.
In the past people were judged by their deeds and morals.
Kids today think they will be judged solely by their facial hair.
A real lumberman’s barber chair is a Peterbilt.
Heating with firewood all winter for 42 years, missed my mark felling large hardwood trees only once.
Heating with firewood warms you 6 times: felling & bucking the tree, hauling the wood to the house, splitting it, stacking it, bringing it in the house, and when its burning.
When it’s 9 degrees out, ain’t nothing like a hot fire in the fireplace furnace that heats the whole house........
I would have been very disappointed if I opened this thread and didn’t see any references to “The Lumberjack Song.”
Easy test: shake their hand. If their hand feels like 80 grit, then they are the real deal. Soft, lotiony hands? well ...
I lament I have pretty much lost my man hands to the hours of my real (read paying) job.
A decade plus ago when we constructed our house I didn’t need gloves to ward off splinters and blisters.
Good article. Fun read.
It is the 70’s all over again.
NYC women came up to the northern New England and snagged themselves a woods men and brought them back to the city. Happened all over.
Lisa Alther documented it in her book Kinflicks.
My kids are cutting bottles into glasses, terrariums are in style and all the twenty year olds want to be organic farmers. Seventies retro furniture is in style too.
I have nightmares of being chased by an orange shag rug.
I am reliving my teens!
Duck Dynasty had the look down first. Real trendsetters, that.
I stopped growing a beard in the winter a couple years ago, as I thought it made me look older than I was.
But it seems I should have grown one this year - it would probably make me look younger than I am if I copied the unique and individual look of the hipsters - all missing the irony of looking unique and individual in exactly the same way as everyone else.