[Woodcarver] Just-For-Fun Carving(Chat)

[Mike Bloomquist]

You're very welcome Merrilee <G>.

I consider Elmer as one of my bonuses from volunteering at Honesdale.  He
had been to several of our MVAWA shows prior to that, but I hadn't gotten a
chance know or chat with him at the woodcarving shows like you could at the
NEWR.  He had an unscheduled class Tuesday night of the first Honesdale
Roundup and I was taking a teaching break (Lucky for me).  He was carving
a... well... um... it was more irreverent than a privy Christmas ornament,
and we'll leave it at that.  Anyway, there were only a couple of students,
so we had large amounts of conversation interrupted occasionally by
instruction when necessary.  I nice relaxed evening, and eventually the
conversation winds around to Elmer's experiences in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli a
woodcarving community in Quebec.   By the end of the evening, Elmer had
painted such a verbal image of this place that it was on the top of my list
of woodcarving experiences that needed done, and done soon. Yep, just a wee
bit of a contrast to our "project" ;-).

This year his projects were a clown and a caricature vulture... seems he
toned 'em down some.  I was busy with adventures in chip carving this year
and didn't get a chance to sit at his table, but the woodcarving clan he
travels with is parked right next to Harold's site so we still got a chance
to talk.

BTW, my personal NEWR "bonus" list is a very loooong one which includes "The
Hat Lady", and Sally & David, and Maura, and Chris Howard, and Hugh, and
Sandie, and Sandy, and............. well I'm way past my prolixity quotient,
so we can't do the whole list here <BG>.

Keep on Carvin'
-Mike Bloomquist->

Wooden Dreams Woodcarving
http://www.borg.com/~bloomqum



----- Original Message -----
From: "Merrilee Johnson" <merrihat at hotmail.com>
>
> Good Morning!
>    LOL!!!!  Thanks for the morning laugh Mike!  That looks just like
> something Elmer would do! For the carver that has done it all! <BG!>
> Later, Merrilee
>