new carver

[Donna_T]

Hello Mary_Jo,
I'm from your neck of the woods too--just about 40 miles away at Nevada. We have a club here that dwindles down in attendance during winter as many of our 'senior' carvers head south. We meet on Tuesday nights from 6:45 to 8:45 at the YMCA. There is a very active club in Bolivar and one in Springfield and one in Camdenton. All of them have carving lessons and seminars and tools for sale (or someone inthe club who sells them.) I'm going to be gone to Vermont for the next couple of weeks, but holler after the first of the year and maybe we can get together and share carving info.

The Rendezvous was the first carving workshop I attended about 10 years ago. I went to the fall one last year and took David Sabol, but unless there's a particular instructor there that I want to take, I don't go. Wish I'd have known you were there then and we could have met then. It's a great way to start since you can get caricature, animals, relief, realistic people, etc. on a rotating basis.

So...welcome to carving and this website. You'll find lots of help here...and you've got lots of soon-to-be-carving friends all around you in Missouri that will help anytime you need it. Feel free to contact me directly at dcthomas@hotmail.com

Donna T

[mikeg]

Donna,

Pack your long-johns!! Up here in Milton, VT it started out the morning about 30 degrees and it's dropping through the 20's already this morning! It's supposed to be -7F tonight. I'd move someplace warmer but I can't convince my sister and her family or my wife's sisters and their families to move too! :P

mikeg

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Hey Mike..that's bad? just kidding....close families are a great blessing.

and we had a cold day here in Texas yesterday

about 68 degrees

[mikeg]

Wayne,

I was stationed in El Paso for 18 months. I missed the change of seasons. I just wish winter was shorter up here!! :-/

mikeg

[BobD]

I grew up in Bradford, PA, which usually makes the weather maps for comic relief...thanks to the lake effect snow and the way the mountians and valleys are, it's usually at least 10-20 degrees colder than other parts of the state!!!

Bob

[big_Wayne_P]

extremely cold here the other morning
30 degrees
next day low around 40 and in mid 60's by afternoon

Texas has 3 seasons
Mild or Confortable
Hot
Unbearably Hot (Hot as Hades) [JULY AND Aug upper 90's and 100s and that high humidity}

[jamesfa]

well folks you should be in my neck of the woods.
today is -10 winds gusts up to 50kph.
oh well only 4 months till spring.
Frank

[AlArchie]

-28 degrees in Duluth last night...not quite that cold here, got all the way up to +1 today! The snow is SQUEEKY! that's how we know it's cold! If ya can't fight it, ya might as well BRAG about it!

Al

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Al...saw a site about a new process to photograph snowflakes...they are absolutely beautiful!...now! that "squeeky" you hear is the snowflakes being mashed when you step on them.....are't you ashamed? LOL