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Mike, seein'as how you're probably not too busy, seeif you can scare up a gittar for Pat...or a washtub bass, or a kazoo or whatever. deb can't make it she has taken a JOB, with,like, a reglar paycheck 'n benefits 'n like that... scary...but she gave me this trip for a Christmas present. Don't know what I did to deserve a wife like her' but if I ever find out, I'm gonna bottle it. MUR
-------------------- Murray MacDonald OldTime Signs 529 Third Ave S Kenora, ON. P9N 1Y3 oldtimesigns@gokenora.com Posts: 781 | From: Kenora, ON | Registered: Jan 2003
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Glad to see you know a good thing when you have it Murray that's sweet!
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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A very productive day yesterday......here are some pictures of the "Stage" for workshops, and just one of the walls in the panel jam area.
It snowed a wee bit, enuf to cover the ground and whitened things up. Still need more. We are suppose to go into the dep freeze this week, but after that the Letterheads come to town and it will be sunshine and a hot 30 degrees. (Makes you warm all over don't it CISCO?!)
I'm putting everything I got into this baby, I wanna make it fun and a great learning experience for all!
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-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
8a.m. check in at Ore's Idle Hour(South side of shop, look for signs that point to registration entrance). Yes, you can make dust in the "New Mazeppa Wood Shop". The best place to get breakfast is at the "Galley".
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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What a bummer...Sounds like you guys and gals are gonna have a BLAST! I'd love to come and play with you all...Cisco & Jill, you have some fun for me, okay?
Hey Mike, the 7th is my Dad's birthday - would have been the big 60!...sling some paint for him. He's probably gonna be there anyway watching over your shoulder. :-)
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
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All I can say is WOW! Mike, you are on a MISSION there, place looks Dynamite! I made some templates for the curved signs out of 18"x 24" metal or aluminum blanks, so I'll be sending them soon as I can can a jump start on my panel for the "Mazeppa Muster" I can finish it over there. Like Rich Stebbings told me "out of all the Letterheads meets he's been to Mazeppa topped them all!" Got my bag pretty much packed and found my gloves for that 30 degree hot beach weather Kimberly, I'll do my best to get you a picture of me side saddling the buffalo, and doing a head stand on his horns, while he's running Wish you could go...
-------------------- aka:Cisco the "Traveling Millennium Sign Artist" http://www.franciscovargas.com Fresno, CA 93703 559 252-0935 "to live life, is to love life, a sign of no life, is a sign of no love"...Cisco 12'98 Posts: 3576 | From: Fresno, Ca, the great USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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:clap:Thanks for the weather report, that was Letterhead Meterologitist Paul Peltier!
Here's today's creww...yeah, it's Sunday but we have the Polka going LOUD! (Walter Ostenick) Canada's Polka King. Thanks to today's Letterhead Help...Carole Bersin, Duane Michelson, my lovely wife Ayleen and Caleb was here to eat some of Duane's German Choc. Cake and take a picture.
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Mike We played ( the band and I )a polka party last night, didn't get home till 4:30am Folks had a blast...They'd dance all night if we'd kept play'n...but this old man needs some shuteye and that goes for the rest of the band whom are all in their 70's...Its the music it keeps ya young don't it...
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
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PS...looks like Ayleen and Ruth take lesson from the same paint instructor(ie paint on the cloths)and are those deer or moosehide gloves Dave's wear'n...Deer skins a bit lighter easier to twirl a brush with...and I'd bring the twins (hilda and Helga)but they'd freeze their a--'s in the baggage compartment and can't afford a first class seat for them too ride in...Good to see Duanes alive and kick too...See ya all soon...Spent most of the morning shoveling snow here after I got up from sleep'n in after last nights polka party...Hpoe ya get the dump your looking for...Pat
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
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What's the weather like INSIDE your shop ? Will us hot weather 'heads need some extra layers of clothes just to be inside, where all the paintin's going on ?
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Shouldn't be a problem Jeff, I have a brand new furnace for the computer lab going in tommorow, and the rest of the shop is very cozy..(Too warm for me) You'll be having so much fun , you'll forget the weather. Besides, our weather IS fun! We just need more snow to prove it!!
Another good day, lots of progress. Many more cool stuff to finish. I need a good nights sleep......more tommorow! Good Night John Boy.....
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Snow forecast for Ireland tonight with plunging temperatures over the next few days. (I hope to see some plunging necklines in Mazeppa) But not to worry, as I'll be in warm and cosy Minnesota on Thursday. For all you warm temperature people, remember..... "Warmth comes from within"...B O'Prey, 1992.
-------------------- Brian O'Prey Brian O'Prey, Artist and Designer 5 Old Movilla Road, Newtownards County Down Northern Ireland BT23 8HH Tel. 028 9181 3517 email-brianlionzion@hotmail.com Posts: 91 | From: Newtownards, County Down, Ireland | Registered: Aug 2003
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Seems that we are on stand by status at the moment. You may never know who may show up and what we will bring with us until Thursday. Still trying to make it, but only with the help of a few true letterheads.
I can't belive that I am the 99th post on this thread. I have never seen one above two pages.
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Donald, you must not remember the Odd Nordrum post awhile back! Hey! Maybe he will be at the Muster! It's getting hard to focus on the day-to-day here cuz I am so stoked! Look out, Elmer! Here I come! Luv JILL
-------------------- That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place. -Russ McMullin Posts: 8834 | From: Butler, PA, USA | Registered: Jan 2001
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Hello Folks! It's been a whirlwind of activity here...everyday a big box shows up from somewhere for door Prizes! Anyway, I've been hammering away on the main workshop area and here are a few pics of the progress..The Easel I like to call the "Forest Easel!" The gals on the other wall are out of the most recent "Magazine About Letterheads".
I hope you can make it Donald...we have one hum dinger of a show coming up!
We even got about 8 inches of snow a coupla days ago so it's looking like Winter SHOULD look!
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Mike, from all the preparation going on I can see why your meets are so talked about. You have the gift of hospitality for certain.
I am missing a real learning experience, not to mention a PARTY! That weekend I plan to sit here and moan and whine. Good side is...my tears won't freeze
Have the best meet ever.
-------------------- Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics 41628 River Road Ponchatoula, La.70454
Old enough to know better...Too young to resist. Posts: 1891 | From: Ponchatoula, LA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Nice painting of myself and my sister June, Mike! I just wanna know what's in her left hand? Love...Silly Jilly
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Hey Mike I also see some green indoor outdoor carpet in the pic...does that mean we're gonna see a miniture putting green for some R & R @ Ores???
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
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Bring yur Putter Pat, I'll put in a Putting green for ya! Pat's pathetic putting practice pad, please pretend placing a plastic ball in the hole!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Hi Mike, I can't believe the shop. Quite a change from November when I was there. Can't wait to see it in person. By the looks of this posting, this meet is sure to be one of the best in 2004. So glad to be a part of it. See you in one week.
Heidi
-------------------- Heidi Halmstad Sign Studio & Print Shop LLC. 156 S Lake Ave Phillips, WI 54555 hhalmstad30@hotmail.com Posts: 7 | From: Wisconsin | Registered: Oct 2003
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Mike, Thank you for taking the time to return my call. I can not wait to see your shop in person. I will be making the short drive to Mazeppa, MN from Winona, MN on Friday the 6th. Looking forward to meeting everyone!
Chuck Davis of Letterhead Fonts will be donating some CD's for Door prizes! Poor chuck, out there in that blazing hot California Heat.....he needs some Winter to Cool off from these HOT FONTS!! -15 below this morning.(Gonna break out gloves now.) haha
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The two girls with the funny hair...umm...I am seeing their left hands have thumbs on the wrong side, thus making their left hands right, or wrong, anatomically. Everything else is in the right place though . Do I have to go to the penalty box now?
-------------------- Jeff Ogden 8727 NE 68 Terr. Gainesville FL, 32609 Posts: 2138 | From: 8827 NE 68 Terr Gainesville Fl 32609 | Registered: Aug 2002
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Hi Mike -52 here today and the winds blow'n from the south east, I thought it was suposed to be all hot air comming from that direction!!!Had an industrial heater installed just to take the edge off in the shop here, looking forward to your -15...Table looks great keep it out of the wind though...and Jeff the twins are screaming foul and want a game misconduct cause thats there curled pinky you offended...heheh...have fun see ya soon...in the Dry cold Pat
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
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I am SOOOOOOOOOO psyched about this!!!!!! I gotta stop and get some warm long undies cuz I'm alot less insulated than when I lived in MN (actually... I looked alot like Helga, but lighter skin, darker hair and alot more lumpy-bumpies!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!)
Sure sounds like there's gonna be a ton of wonderful people there, and some I can't wait to see again!
I'm sorry I haven't sent ya a check for registration yet... too busy making sure the bills are up to date and covered while we're gone. Do you still want me to snail-mail one to you, or would you rather I hand you a check in person? Let me know!
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-------------------- Dana Ferry St Cloud, MN Posts: 1556 | From: St Cloud, MN | Registered: May 1999
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I just got back from the Twin Cities where I got TONS of door prizes and goodies to play with from Midwest and N. Glantz! -26 below! and the suns shining!
haha I love it! Let's throw water in the air and watch it freeze!
-------------------- Mike Meyer Sign Painter 189 1st Ave n P.O. Box 3 Mazeppa, Mn 55956
We are not selling, we are staying here in Mazeppa....we cannot re-create what we have here....not in another lifetime! SO Here we are!!!!!!!
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Hi Mlke...Looks like your all having a great time getting ready for the great event, nice work on the walls ,sounds like it going to be a big event . keep up the good posting, we love it . thanks.
-------------------- Brian Hansen Heritage Signs & Graphic Designs 6003 Route 495 St.Marie New Brunswick (506)955.8885 Posts: 315 | From: St. Marie , New Brunswick | Registered: May 2002
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