[Captain_Bandaid]

Well, I have moved from Longview, TX to Dyersburg, TN! The significance of that is that my website is no longer available since I have changed cable companies. No big deal. The good news is that we now live on 1.25 acres that are covered in hardwoods! I see more walking sticks in my future! If there are any carvers in the Dyersburg area, send me an email at quenchcrack at hotmail dot com. I'd love to get reconnected with a new club.

[Ric]

Well Captn hope you enjoy your new digs. Get your shop set up first...the rest can wait.

Ric

[mdallensr]

Well, you're getting closer to Ohio, but still a long drive. How long will it take to set up your forge? A great metallurgical project would be making your own charcoal from that hardwood. Sounds like more trouble than it's worth, huh? Good luck. We've move several times and it's always a struggle to get unpacked and settled in.

[Captain_Bandaid]

MD, I have a friend who is a blacksmith at a living museum in NY state. He makes his own charcoal, smelts his own iron ore in a bloomery, forges it to make wrought iron, and then makes authentic reproductions of 17th and 18th century items. He made me a beautiful hammer in exchange for a relief carving of his shop. I am just not that ambitious!

I am planning on moving hopefully by the end of this month. If not it might be sometime in March. Not looking forward to that moving.

[Captain_Bandaid]

I would rather be nibbled to death by ducks than move but we have done it 10 times in 35 years. It was only 3 years since our last move. It is always a pain in the patoot!

[Kenny_S]

An Old gentlemen told me once that a person needs to move every 10 years. That way, You can throw out stuff you don't use but keep. To bad my little bride don't take that advice as we moved after 24 years and she kept everything plus everything she accumulated in the past 8 years. Hope you set up your shop first.

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

ummm 'nibbled to death by ducks'! lol has to be a carving in there somewhere!

[Callynne]

From Texas to Tennesse, Captain Bandaid. You didn't settle where they got all the snow this week, did you? That would be quite the climate change!!
Wow, ten moves in thirty-six years!! We settled into this little valley in 1970 when hubby came home from Vietnam. Twenty years later we moved, catty cornered and across the road from our old farm house. We built a new home and number one son and family moved into the old one.
Moving was an experience, you just carried something or loaded the car up and brought it over a bit at a time. Definitely one easy way to move! Callynne

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

thats anti american cally....americans statistically move once in every five years! lol