[Woodcarver] Re: Christmas List(John Bird)

[Terry]

At 12:50 PM 12/4/2004 -0800, you wrote:
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>  Good afternoon, Carvers
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>Christmas lists are all fine and dandy, and mine was overflowing the 
>morning after Thanksgiving when my Doctors office called with the news 
>that if I wish to continue to carve into retirement, I'm going to have to 
>have a heart valve replacement. A lifelong heart murmur has caught up with 
>me, and it's either that or congestive heart failure a few years down the road.
>
>So...... needless to say, my list has rapidly shrunk down to : The ability 
>to pick up a tool on Christmas morning with the intention of making a pile 
>of chips from a block of wood of my choice.
>
>No simpathy needed here, but if a few of you folks wish to cross your 
>fingers (and Toes) for me , Nancy and I would appriecate it
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> From the Prairie,
>
>       John


I know exactly how you're feeling.  I'm in line for a lung transplant so 
you know what is on my Christmas list.  Good luck.  Maybe we can make some 
chips together after we're both whole. TTYL

Terry
MSGT USMC (ret) 1961 - 1981
Semper Fi
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