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Murray left this morning, and arrived safely this afternoon. I did my best good wife thing, and was very warm & supportive - but I'm really pouting 'cause I had to stay home and work!!! It was really stupid to start a new job in January. Anyone else following the postings & wishing they were there? 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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BUT,,I wish everyone that is at the meet..HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!!!!!!!!
-------------------- Dave Grundy retired in Chelem,Yucatan,Mexico/Hensall,Ontario,Canada 1-519-262-3651 Canada 011-52-1-999-102-2923 Mexico cell 1-226-785-8957 Canada/Mexico home
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Great minds think .......... Check your email Deb Honestly that was sent before I came here.
-------------------- “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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Hi Deb... although it'll be a lovely time,, i wont be missing it,, with any luck at all i'll be able to go back to Alberta this weekend havent seen the little ones since before christmas...
are you too lovebirds coming back to Unity or did our prairie storms due ya in..hehehehhehhe
nice seeing you post around here.!
-------------------- Del Badry philmdesign Sylvan Lake, Alberta Posts: 636 | From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta | Registered: Nov 1998
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Even if i cant go back to Alberta,, i'll be able to enjoy a beautiful island weekend.. today it was +12 when i was workin on a dealers lot in my tshirt.... ahhhh to live in the banana belt of canada....
-------------------- Del Badry philmdesign Sylvan Lake, Alberta Posts: 636 | From: Sylvan Lake, Alberta | Registered: Nov 1998
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You bet I'm pouting! I just have too much going on right now. Getting ready to sell the house and this is the bizy season for my other gig. I sure wish I could have gone!
-------------------- Mike Pulskamp Pulskamp Arts Sacramento, CA mpulskamp@earthlink.net Posts: 165 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Dec 2002
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I wanna do it all! But reality says I have to make choices constantly. This time the choice was to be elsewhere. Maybe next time!
I hope all there have a great time!
-dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
Being a grampa is one of the the most wonderful things in the world!!! Posts: 8738 | From: Yarrow, B.C. Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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i would like to go one year..WHEN IT AINT FREEZIN!!!! us southen boys cant do that snow and manly stuff!!!
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-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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Yeah...I really hate missing a really great meet!
But my mom just passed away and I have a lot of things to take care of right now. And with not being able to work much the last two months there just isn't the money for it.
Besides...I don't own any really cold weather gear, in fact I've never been in anyplace that cold in my life, it's frankly rather intimidating.
I'll just have to stay in and watch HEAD TV from my dad's heated office.
I'll open a can of One Shot for the 'smell effect'! A
Been following Mike's post and, with all the great folks planning on going, I sure wish I could have freed up the time for it. Maybe next year (geez...spoken like a true Red Sox fan).
Rapid
-------------------- Ray Rheaume Rapidfire Design 543 Brushwood Road North Haverhill, NH 03774 rapidfiredesign@hotmail.com 603-787-6803
I like my paint shaken, not stirred. Posts: 5648 | From: North Haverhill, New Hampshire | Registered: Apr 2003
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Yeah, bummed I'll miss it ... as I am when I miss most of them. Once my kids get a bit older and I get more time for me you guys will get sick of seeing me but for now I hit them all in spirit. Maybe I'll go into the cold garage, put on some polka music and pretend this weekend.
-------------------- Compulsive, Neurotic, Anti-social and Paranoid ... but basically Happy Posts: 2677 | From: Rochester, NY, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I really wish I were going. I still hear people talking about how great the last meet in Mazeppa was. I've promised myself I'll be there for the 2005 meet though!
-------------------- Bob Darnell London, Ontario, Canada
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I'm saving my pennies for the 2005 meet too. After seeing all Mike is doing for the Winter Muster, there is no way I'm missing the international meet!
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Ya, I'm pouting too but for sure will be there in 2005. Mike sure knows how to put on a good time, the last one was a blast. Hope to see all you guys there in '05
-------------------- Colleen Henderson Signs Now, Thunder Bay, ON signsnow@tbaytel.net Posts: 140 | From: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada | Registered: Jun 1999
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We're missing all you guys and gals too! Just got back from lunch across the street at WDs. Fried chicken, pork chops, mashed potatos. What a feast!
Someone said we might get 9 inches of snow tonight. Pat Neve's kid from Florida is havin' a ball playing in the white stuff!
-------------------- Steve Shortreed 144 Hill St., E. Fergus, Ontario Canada N1M 1G9 519-787-2673
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Steve, remember how much fun Pat's boys had playing in the puddles in Florida? The snow has got to be a real thrill for a southern lad. Take a fes pics, I am laughing trying to imagine them and the glow on their faces.
-------------------- 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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enjoy the warm weather out there. our temps are falling fast.. just got an 0/2 delivery , first venture out in a while. was in for 20days straight. jill has all the fun in our family!!! rock on!
-------------------- 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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No..! But I'm not in the Caymans yet either.
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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I DON'T CARE IF IT'S 20 BELOW... THIS WAS NOT A MEET TO MISS! The good folks in Mazappa, the memories, and the fun will keep you warm for a lifetime, not to mention a few good drinks!
No two meets are alike, and when you miss one, it's not like your going to get a chance to do it over. Its gone forever!
We have CNC Router training to prepare for, 600 miles in the opposite direction. We can't do both, and it really makes me grit my teeth!
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Perhaps this is a new twist, but no I'm not bummed,here's why:
I WOULD O.D. I'd be spinnin'. My jaw would probably fall off from nonstop gabbing. My throat would get hoarse, I'd forget to drink enough water, probably forget to eat, get ill from neglect, keep talking some more, try to put so much awesome info in my head in too short a time, get MAYBE 3 hours of sleep a night, etc.
I'd be like an alchoholic in a Scotch whisky distillery.It's bad enough when I'm talking to ONE other sign person, man, a whole meet?
This is no exageration.
-------------------- James Donahue Donahue Sign Arts 1851 E. Union Valley Rd. Seymour TN. (865) 577-3365 brushman@nxs.net
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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A few weeks ago, I was pouting and whining about not being able to go and my husband looked at me and said...SO GO!
I thought about it for about 3 minutes and then said, Minnesota in February!?!?!? Are you out of your mind??!?!?! It was about 55º in Los Angeles last night and I was shivering. (I'm NOT kidding.)
Hahahahahaha! But yes, I still wish I was there.
-------------------- Kimberly Zanetti Purcell www.amethystProductivity.com Folsom, CA email: Kimberly@AmethystProductivity.com
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” AA Milne Posts: 3722 | From: Folsom, CA | Registered: Dec 2001
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It isn't about the weather people.....it's the warmth of the people INSIDE. Ask Cisco, Joe Endicott, The Southern boys...and Yeah, ask Sonny from Georgia..He's hooked on Snowmobiling!!!!!!
Get over it people.....winter is a GREAT change of seasons.....Or stay home like Old Paint. na na na na na na na na!
-------------------- 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!!!!!!!
HAhahaha! You make me laugh Mike. Looks like you had another great meet. Seems there is no doubt you know how to through a party. Yep, I wish I could have been there, but I wish I could be at all of them. Maybe another time.
Question: Can you put the "na na na na na na na na" to music?
-------------------- Dave Parr Sign Painter USA Posts: 709 | From: USA | Registered: May 2003
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You know I know how some of you warm weathered people feel. It was 70 something degress when I left Los Angeles, and three hours later the pilot is saying when have to circle a couple of times around St Paul/Minneapolis because of the weather, and we are not that high up and I can see the lights on the ground and nothing but snow, and most of the streets look empty, but then again I am not sure exactly where we are. The twin cities are big. I am looking down thinking "what the hell did I get myself into this time, it's looks cold as hell down there!" I had all the right clothes, but I never really been to a "real cold region" so to me this was something totally different. But to teel you the truth, it ain't no big thing. That Mall of America, I never saw a mall that big, a huge carnival inside, snowing outside, the place was full of people. But it also reminding me of that joke of the snow, where the guy really trips out on the snow to later find out he has to shovel it and his vehicle gets stuck, and on and on. But for the few days I was there, it was Mike who made you feel like you was right at home, and also all the othere people there, painted and partied like there was no tomorrow. When they said it was 20 degress I thought I was surving a "heat wave" And to me that was well worth it! who said it..."I'll be bacccck"
-------------------- 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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