Jeff Steele, Business Writer and Author

Just under a year ago I was tending a campfire.  A stacked pile of kindling  and wooden logs where within easy reach of the fire.  I opted not to use a flashlight when selecting log to place on the fire.

Earlier that same evening I had cooked a meal which also required some cutting of vegetables and summer sausage.  My cutlery of choice being the very first fix blade knife I had crafted. 

That very night the knife was lost. Until two weeks ago, when I found it again while preparing that campsite for the upcoming season.

Yes, the remains of that faithful blade was found. I had stuck the knife in one of the logs and forgotten to resheath it.  At some point that night I had thrown the log and my knife into the fire. 

A redo of that incident would have found me using my trusty flashlight, to save what’s now my rusty knife.