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Got my Atkinson packed too. And 3 small aluminum panels. And a few other fun things too. Here's a link to check out airport delays. http://www.fly.faa.gov Hopefully there won't be any! See yins soon! love JILL
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We are going into a heat spell today. Last night was 15 and is supposed to get up into the low 30's today. I haven't seen this much snow since the 70's. Back then when the snow plows would go thru, all you could see is the top of the street signs sticking out. We have many back roads that are almost blown shut.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Get on with your bad self Mike!! Right ON!! thats cool man, you is the man!!
-------------------- 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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It's 2:30am early Tuesday morning, but we're still determined to be up and on the road to Mazeppa by 10am. Hoping to get thru Chicago tomorrow before finding a room for the night.
Our 24 year old son Adam will be coming along. He's all excited about becoming a PinHead these days. Nothing better than a Letterhead meet to give him the chance to get more info firsthand.
Find me a nice, comfy spot in Ores Mike! Looking forward to meeting lots of new people this trip.
-------------------- Steve Shortreed 144 Hill St., E. Fergus, Ontario Canada N1M 1G9 519-787-2673
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Hey Steve...... Are ya bringin yet git, man? I hope so cuz I am bringing June! She got time off from the kindergarten for good behaviour. We can have a sing along with our fave tunes! Love ya Jill
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We were supposed to get freezing rain last night but I just woke up and looked outside and there is ....
I had to edit this as I must have been sleep walking when I looked otuside and thought I saw snow. Actually its real hazy, warm, and everything looks like it could be melting and leaving ice underneath everything. Sure glad I'll be leaving for the Muster tomorrow. Its got to be warmer. Hehehe
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-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Having a hard time keeping my mind on what has to be finished up at the shop, and what I need to fill the fellas in on before I go......oh well, they like surprises.
-------------------- Joe Endicott NEXCOM (Navy Exchange Service Command) Signing Programs Specialist Virginia Beach, VA jeendicott@msn.com
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With a post like this, how can anyone say no??? Can't wait to get out of here tomorrow. Just make sure that snow is off the roads, I don't want to spend time plowing, I want to have fun, fun, fun.
So, how much snow did Mazeppa get? Here we got about 10". Had to drive the bad boy truck the last to days to the shop. Only had it sideways a couple of times. (Ha Ha - Hubby don't know that...)
Well, I will be hopping in the car and leaving in about 24 hrs. Yippie.
See Ya.
-------------------- 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, Are we going to be able to buy some glass there. I'd hate to taek some in my luggage on the plane. Might turn into smalts by the time I get there.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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The Official Letterhead Barbershop cleaned up a number of Letterhead Scraglers... Thanks to my Dad George Meyer former owner and operator of George's Barber Shop Mazeppa, Mn 1965-1981!
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Have a blast Mike - be sure to take time to have some fun too. Wish I could be there. - My Loss
-------------------- “Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” -Winnie the Pooh & A.A. Milne
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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Mike, it's killin' me that I can't make it! Missin' out on meeting those other Canucks too & Murray is soo close - 6 hrs NE from me, probably the closest Canadian Letterhead! Have a blast (I know you will) & hope to see you somewhere soon!
-------------------- Colleen Henderson Signs Now, Thunder Bay, ON signsnow@tbaytel.net Posts: 140 | From: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 1999
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Got my murrican $$..got my gittar...got the best wife in the world...and I'm on the road in the AM... Colleen, if you can make it to Ft. Frances by 11 AM tomorrow, I've got lotsa room...this one is gonna be a blast, if Mike can stay awake after all the HARD WORK he's put into this...tho' he may have a new career as a TV poisonality, or at least his mustache might!
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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Thanks for offer Murray, sure wish I could. Have to take a rain check for next time. Mike is pretty amazing, definitely the ultimate Letterhead! Have a safe trip & have one for me eh?
-------------------- Colleen Henderson Signs Now, Thunder Bay, ON signsnow@tbaytel.net Posts: 140 | From: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 1999
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Your wish is my command Monsieur! (if I can get him to remove his mucklucks) Hope this is as much fun as FKAB! Love ya.....JILL
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Hi All, I am custom painting some panels for the auction and am makin' a few other goodies for all. This will be me and my wife's first meet and I just can't wait to get there and meet some of the fine people on this board. We'll be leaving Wed. eve after I close shop (maybe early).All have a safe trip and we'll see you there.
-------------------- Andrew Skic Skic's Refinishing and Graphics 1842 Miner St. #4 Des Plaines, Il. 60016 847-824-9363 www.skics.com Hdpntr@aol.com skics@sbcglobal.net Posts: 12 | From: Des Plaines, Il. | Registered: May 2003
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Out and about with the lads today...We saw some fun stuff......We also scouted out our food...the goats look tasty don't they? yummy! Kinny's Dad, Tony, was wanting to rope one of the Long Horns but too much snow.
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Mike, are you going to have a hockey game? I hate watching sports on TV but I love live sports.
Maris and I want to bring our cross country skis. Is there a trail or 2 around Mazeppa?
We'll leave Thursday AM right after my networking meeting. Should make it by noon. I'm looking forward to tackling that gold leaf project on your window! Got all my gear ready to go. Bringin a little sandblasted cedar residential sign to sell at the auction.
Can't believe all the hype this meet is creating on the bb. What fun!!!!
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Barb and Maris it will be great to see you guys again...glad you can make it...Mikey the BOX is packed, now just me left to get ready...Out of here first thing in the AM and will be there tommorow late afternoon...Mur Drive safe eh...Jill YAH excited....lots of folks to see that we haven't seen in a year and catch up on all the blarney....See ya all in the morrow...Pat and Ruth
-------------------- Pat Welter Masterhand Signs and Designs Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada Posts: 1304 | From: Unity, Saskatchewan.Canada | Registered: May 1999
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12 hrs from now, I'll be sitting at the airport waiting for my flight. Got all the bills paid and still had money left for panel saw. Can't wait to win it.
I need this meet and time away. I have been telling customers that I am on the verge (from all the stress) of spontaneous combustion. So if I don't make it, every will know that I combusted.
ps. I have learned from the few other letterhead meets that I have been to that everyone wears name tags the first day and then name tags of old-time members seem to get lost the second day. I hope that I can persuade some of the regulars to wear theirs a bit longer for all us newbies.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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I am starting to soooooo regret entering the paid workforce in January. This meet is sounding like it is going to be wonderful - and I'm staying home. Mur is busily packing & finishing up the last few jobs - and I'm staying home. I know he (and everyone else) will have a great time - and did I mention that I'm staying home - but I'm not pouting. But I will be by Saturday.
Have a great meet everyone, Debbie
-------------------- 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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We're getting closer! Decided to use the camper van at the last moment so that I could lay down. My leg and butt muscles are still killing from that fall a couple weeks back.
We've just checked into a Comfort Inn in Michigan City, just East of Chicago. Hoped to get furthur, but I'm beat. Our son Adam is bouncing off the walls in anticipation of his first Letterhead Meet.
The phone number here is 219-879-9190 Room #112 if someone really needs to contact us. Looking forward to seeing Mike, Ayleen and all the rest of you.
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It is 1 in the morning and I want to call Steves and Barbs room so bad!!!! In my most seductive voice I ask "what are you wearing?" HAHAHAHA I kill me! But I guess I will leave them alone. Im runing out of time to get things done before I leave looks like I will not be able to prepaint some panels before I leave. Dang!!!
-------------------- Ryan Young Indocil Art & Design indocil@comporium.net 803-980-6765
I highjacked Letterville!! Winter Muster 2004 Posts: 904 | From: Rock Hill, SC | Registered: Sep 2001
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Blimey, look at that gang in the last pic - the last time Great Britain exported that many delinquents, we ended up with Australia! And I see they're all getting their official Mazeppa haircuts as well....
Really sorry I have to miss this trip. All of you there, have a Grain Belt for me.
-------------------- "A wise man concerns himself with the truth, not with what people believe." - Aristotle
Cam Bortz Finest Kind Signs Pondside Iron works 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988" Posts: 3051 | From: Pawcatuck,Connecticut USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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Hello Folks...well she's a balmy -15 below but we kinda figured it would be this way, I'm surley not complaining, I love it! (Poor Don Coplan, down in that nasty 78 degrees hahah!) A word to the wise to the attendees, the penalty box is in full effect, so watch any stupid moves coming out of your mouth!
haha
Please don't all and tell me your coming, or ask if Mazeppa has running water, or if the houses have windows.....yes, Donald, we have heat INSIDE but only from a heat lamp when goats are giving birth!
Oh Pierre you are ALWAYS welcome in Mazeppa!
-------------------- 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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If there were any... Leinenkeugle, handy I could consider venturing out in the cold.
Well maybe not? Have fun,learn stuff, make music and welcome the spirit of spring.
CrazyJack
-------------------- Jack Wills Studio Design Works 1465 E.Hidalgo Circle Nye Beach / Newport, OR Posts: 2914 | From: Rocklin, CA. USA | Registered: Dec 1998
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Jillbeans is on her way,she is so nervous and excited. she is not a veteran flyer. i told her to sip a drink, she said she needed to be in control of her senses. imagine that.... frightening thought..ewww!i pity yunz guys..she's all yours. hahahahaha. fiddles.(hey mikey,take care of jilly.)
-------------------- Faye Welsh (fiddles) 4848 cherry street allison park, pa. 15101 fiddles51@yahoo.com Posts: 259 | From: 4848 Cherry St. Allison Park,Pa. 15101 | Registered: Dec 2001
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Just a short note to tell you all to have a blast! We were hoping to pull off a miracle and show up at the last minute, but I've developed broncitis this week, and just can't get there.
I'll be thinking of you all weekend. I hope whomever wins my panelsaw will appreciate it like I would have! I wish I could bid on some of the panels too. My new shop walls are begging for some cool stuff.
Everybody give Mike a hug for me please.
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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Finally got here. Mike picked Jeff Ogden and myself up at the airport. Jillbeans hasn't arrived yet. Steve and Barb showed up in shorts and cut-off t-shirts. They must have thought it was summer with the warm spell they are having here now. I think it got up to 17 degrees today.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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