<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Not sure who may still be on this list but I'll go on with this anyway....</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: #4040ff; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Yesterday was our annual show and so I brought along my short dowel display of the round robin carvings from 1998-99. I do this every couple of years or so. Yesterday, the round robin caused more interest in a single item on the table than I have seen in awhile. I must have told the story of those segments 100 times during the day. (Do you think that meant the rest of my table was boring???) I sure hope not. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Anyway just wanted to say that reliving the nerves, excitement and just plain fun that those segments brought to me was a very cool thing. Thanks to Len Dillon, Bill Russell and Loren Woodward for some history that still brings smiles to many and great memories to me.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>For those who may not know....The Round Robin Segments were regular (typical) cane segments divided into four areas using the corners. A theme is decided, we did Santas first, I think. so each of the carvers (4) carves a Santa on one corner of the segment and then mails it off to the second person on the list, shortly in the mail, carver number one receives a segment with a Santa already carved on the corner, at this time carver number one carvers a Santa on the next available corner and mails it off to the second person on the list. When the segment arrives with three Santas completed on the segment, carver number one carves the last corner and that is the segment carver number one gets to keep. So each carver ends up carving 4 Santas on 4 different segments resulting in 4 completed segments one for each participant. Not as confusing as I make it sound, I'm
sure, cause I got it figured out. Anyway we ended up doing Santas, Native Americans, Pretty Women (Ha Ha Ha) and Caraicature (sp?). So my dowel has 4 segments with 16 carvings...quite unique and fun to look at and certainly interesting to talk about. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Hope this hasn't been too boring to the masses but wanted to tell those who may still be on the list that they were stars of the show yesterday. A few took pictures so who knows, a whole new round robin may start up somewhere out there....I can almost promise it will be fun.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Patti Landmann <BR><A href="mailto:lowvillecarver@yahoo.com " rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:lowvillecarver@yahoo.com ">lowvillecarver@yahoo.com </A><BR></DIV>
<DIV id=RTEContent>
<DIV id=RTEContent>
<DIV id=RTEContent>
<DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>http://www.picturetrail.com/lowvillecarver.............for carvings, family and more <BR>http://lagrandmama.blogspot.com/...........for my Grandma experiences <BR>http://picasaweb.google.com/lowvillecarver...........for Bird, Deer & Flower Photos from our house<BR>http://www.centuryinter.net/treasures/.........for my old dated web site,still good stuff:<BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
<DIV></DIV></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></div><br>
</body></html>