The Hatchet Diaries

Pat gave me this hatchet as a gift. I brought it all the way here with some other tools. I decided one restless day to start hacheting a large piece of oak to make some skis. After about fourty minutes of normal use, it broke in half. The blade stayed in the wood and the handle stayed in my hand. It was funny enough to keep me from being angry. I decided that such a practical gift and humorous tool deserved a second shot at life. I fixed it that day and by the next I was chopping away.