One of the enduring things about my Grandpa, who passed several years ago, were his many aphorisms. He remains probably the greatest character I have ever known, always cracking off about “keeping the car rubber side down”, or him “going to pour the water off the potatoes”. While those quotes run through my head frequently, I’m just as much reminded of him by seeing his custom monogram on the many things he left our family. He at some point had come up with a clever way to write his initials “E.D.” on seemingly every single thing he owned– apparently these leather shop gloves as well. It was his inspiration that lead me to create my own monogram some years ago, which I use to sign off on all of my work & journal entries. But this week I decided to take it a step further and have a stamp made (rubberstamps.com) to mark my shop tools and camera equipment. I used this stamp with some archival waterproof ink and tagged everything in my shop. It was probably the most satisfying afternoon I’ve had in quite a while. I’ll have to thank Gramps, until he’s better paid.