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

[Barney Elking]

If you can manage it, a visit to St Jean Port Joli is worth it.  I was there
some years ago and still revere a couple of carvings a couple of carvings I
purchased there.

Barney Elking
Fortuna, CA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Bloomquist" <m.bloomquist at verizon.net>
To: "[Woodcarver]" <woodcarver at six.pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Woodcarver] Just-For-Fun Carving(Chat)


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> 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->
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> ----- 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
> >
>
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