A Cribbage Game with Grampa

My Prized Possession is a burl cribbage table that was handcrafted by my Dad, Harry Peterson

A burl cribbage table that was handcrafted by my Dad, Harry Peterson. What is a burl? Burls yield a really peculiar and hugely figured wood, one prized for its attractiveness by many its rarity also adds to its cost. It is sought right after by people this kind of as furnishings makers, artists, and wood sculptors. Burl wood is quite tough to operate in a lathe or with hand resources since its grain is misshapen and not straight. My Dad identified a large burl in the early 1970’s when he was camping in the wilderness. Eventually he made the decision to see if it could be made into a significantly required cribbage table. My Grandpa loved to play crib but it is receiving difficult for him due to the fact the crib board was also little and so on. So Dad made the decision to make one that had only 1 leg so it could be moved closer to Grampa and then the Cribbage graphics had to be greater as well. Following several coats of varathane to defend it we have been taking part in crib on this table for nearly forty years. I have it by my chair in my livingroom.

Harry Peterson is listed in this Prince George, BC School information 1926 – Division five

A burl (British bur or burr) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is frequently located in the kind of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with little knots from dormant buds.

My Dad loved the outside but his interests didn’t stop there. He loved gardening and developing his personal vegetables due to the fact he had a passion for creating pickles from his property grown cucumbers, beets, onions and corn. The deal was at our house, my Mom canned the fruit and made all the jam but she left the pickle making for Dad to do.
When gardening and pickle producing was over for yet another yr you would locate him in his tool shed constantly generating or repairing anything for anyone who essential it accomplished.

My Dad, Harry Peterson, went to college in Prince George, BC, Canada. Each opportunity to had he was outside on fishing journeys to the various lakes in the area. If you lived in Prince George for the duration of the 1950’s or 60’s you will remember Harry Peterson the proprietor of Peterson’s Esso and Peterson Drive In (my Mom, Mamie, in the window) on Highway sixteen West.

Harry Peterson loved to talk about the days when he worked on the freight River Boats. His preferred story is told in his personal phrases —
Riffle Perform on the Crooked River, BC, Canada

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