<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:21 PM, 2Dave wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Hey, I’ve been there!</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yeah, you have!</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">As I scan the picture for what is different since I was there I notice a few things.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I don't recall giving out noticin' licenses to other folks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">First, that is some mystic pole the van is parked next too. Tell us about it</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">.</div><p></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Well, the pipe came from my mall - I brought it to the shop and placed it into long-term storage on the ground next to the blue shop where it would await its special purpose.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Six years pass until one day I'm walking by and notice one pipe was a just right fit inside the other - its special purpose had arrived, I was going to make a flagpole!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I know that you are quite the neatnik</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I wouldn't perzackly say "neatnik"<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"> although</div> I do enjoy organization<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">. Ok, ok...you beat it outta me, I do like things clean but that's b'cuz a clean work position is a happy work position and a happy work position is a productive work position.</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"> so how is it there is gravel all over the concrete approach?</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline">B'cuz that is outside and I learned a LOOOOOONNNNGGGG time ago not to mess with Mother Nature - if she wants the gravel there then she can have it.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">The van has an interesting dent, there has to be a story there.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Yeah, prolly so but you'll have to get that story from my mother - see, two years ago she got a newer model and gave me that one - it came equipped with that dent but didn't ask.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Meanwhile the siding and the roof over the porch appear to be completed it looks good.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks. It was finished the same year Lauri died. Earlier that January, after much browbeating and haranguing from her, I promised I would finish the facade by fall and with the help of Bob and Jeff it was done with a day to spare.</div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">John’s right you need a sign, unless of course you are trying to stay low key and work by word of mouth.</span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">About changing my mind to have a sign...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Half-mile north of the TKW, along the Highway 93 Frontage Road, sits a building that was turned into a cabinet shop - prior to it being a cabinet shop it was a restaurant. It failed and sat there, empty, for twelve years or so. In 2009 the new TKW officially opens the doors. Late spring 2010 arrives and I'm driving by and see activity going on there. Shortly thereafter I find out some annoying little man decides to open a cabinet shop.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">In my travels past the place I see where the annoying little man is out there putting a fancy facade on his shop...no doubt having seen mine he decides he needs one, too. Only his is curved at the top...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><img src="cid:ii_ihrtr44b0_1516d9a593928211" width="562" height="245"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Well, laa-dee-daa! Good for him. But, you see that sign there? He didn't put that sign up until 3 years after he opened his cabinet shop with the curved facade.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See those buildings to the left? They're filled with _low income_ tenants...mostly indians. To the right, out of picture view, is a trailer park and next to that is another _low income_ housing project, which is directly north of the TKW - again, the vast majority of them are indians.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Guess what happened almost the very minute he hung that shingle up there? His shop was broken into and lots of things stolen.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">That was the precise moment when I decided I didn't need to advertise with a sign basically saying, FREE TOOLS!.</div></div><div> </div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Joe,<br></div><div>The Twisted Knot Woodshop, "There's never been a classier joint"</div><div>Visit the Twisted Knot Woodshop - <a href="http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com" target="_blank">http://www.twistedknotwoodshop.com</a></div></div></div>
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