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== Field Notes Notebooks ==


'''Brad Dowdy:''' So I did, I made a little list last night. Um, I was getting ready to, I was wrapping up a single field notes notebook and starting a new one. And when I get down to like one or two pages left in a field notes notebook, I generally don't know what to write. I want to, if I'm going to write anything new or that I need to remember, I want it to go in a new one. So it's not stuck in a, in an old one that I'm going to go file away. So I decided, I don't know what made me think to do it. And I've kind of talked about it before, but I just made a big list of my, of all the colors, field notes, colors, additions. And I just went through the list and ordered them in my favorite, um, my favorite field notes, limited editions. I ranked them based on how much I enjoy looking at them, using them, the design of them. They're not ranked by, you know, rarity or collectability or anything like that. Just how much fun I've, or how much I've enjoyed those editions. I'm not going to go through the whole list. There's 19 of them so far, but just to, just to hit it. And we'll have a link to my list in the show notes. Cause I just did it. I wrote it in the last second to last page of my field notes, um, and just took a photo of it and put it up on Instagram. So we'll have the list, but number one, and it's really, it's number one. And then there's a huge gap to number two for me. And number one is grass stained green. And it's really not even close to what number two is. I liked that edition so much that it's, it's just far in a way beyond any other.

'''Myke Hurley:''' You sent me one.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I mean, I wanted you to have one. So, cause I, cause I like it that much. I want to share those things that, that I like that much and, you know, want to share it with other people.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It really surprises me that you put night sky so far down. Night sky is at number nine.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. I think just maybe cause it's fresh. And you know, when I look at all these other ones, how much I've enjoyed, like I've been able to spend time with a lot of these other editions, you know. Night sky is still fresh in my mind, I guess, if you will. So we'll, we'll do the top 10 real quick. So one is grass stained green. And that's really covers about the top five for me. Two is Raven's wing, which is just an all time classic. Three is butcher orange, just because I love the orange craft paper cover on that. I think it's really striking. And that was their first. So it's kind of got that, got that little extra cachet to it. Four is kind of a surprise, but it's one I've enjoyed using as much as any of them is the American tradesman edition.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Five is just below zero, which is an older edition. But that was, that was one of the, I don't think it was the first three color books they did. It might've been Mackinac Autumn, but where they did three individual colors in the three pack of the three individual color covers.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I'm going to, sorry, I'm going to include your field notes page on your site so people can follow along with the images.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' You can see pictures of them and stuff. Six is national crop. That one grows on me as the days go by. I think that's one of the best editions ever.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' It's got that history aspect. And I think the designs are killer. And I like the specificity, you know, where they made each, each book, you know, had its own name, like cotton and soybean. And corn and things like that. Seven is butcher blue. Again, that's just a classic, classic, simple design, but it's still one of the best. Eight is day game.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' We've talked about the white with red. This was one of the first dot editions.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Did I say that's what I'm using now after I finished my first night sky? Oh, no. I went on to a day game. That's what I've been using for my daily field notes. Do you know, I'm using two field notes books concurrently now. Okay, cool. So I'm working on a new project. So I broke out an XOXO. Cool. Which has not held up very well. No. The purple's just coming off, man. Yeah. They can tell that they, I mean, naturally, they don't put the same amount of effort into these ones as they do the ones that they sell. No doubt. But it's kind of got a bit beaten up on their back and it's like the purple's just wearing away. Yeah. Yeah. They get so beat up, field notes. I love it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' I know. It's cool.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Because I have them in my pocket, right? So I'm standing up, sitting down, fronting it around. And I love how they feel when they're beaten up.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yep. And they wear perfectly. I don't know. It's just put together properly. And when you're done with it, it looks as it should. And it's all together. And it looks like you have a piece of your little history there. So yeah, that's cool. Yeah. So Day Game's eight. Night Sky's nine. And Mackinac Autumn is 10. Again, I like the three different colored books, like Just Below Zero, Day Game, Mackinac Autumn, where you get three separate. But in the three pack, each cover's a different color. So I'm a big fan of those. And just to, I'm not going to read the whole list, but just the last one on the list is Balsam Fur.