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Well to begain.
The drive there was great. As I walked in the motel Larry was there asking if they had heard from me
Several hugs later I was in his room looking at his and Allens toys!!
Got some of my stuff in and halled out my toys
Two hrs later I rembered to call the wife and let her know I got there OK
The next day we went to the hall to set up
It was the 3 H's HOT Humid and Hazzy!!!!!
On finding a space to park, I went in to meet every one.
Larry was there and showed me were my table was!
Some of the other guys and gals were there and hugs around then I was showed my table.
I felt like the lost Collector coming home the way they were so glad to see me!
Goose I made a scimitar from foam, located Joe's table, laid it there, and then went to get other stuff
And you should have seen his look as he got there to put his stuff!!!
Then you could see the light come on and he looked around to see who was close with a grin!!!
Some how I think he was looking for a bike also !!!!
More hand shakes and more club members arriving !!!!
I was amazed at how quickly some of the most completed displays went up so fast!
Then I was having to be careful to not drool over the glass!
Some time later, I was drawn back to setting up mine again
I was so excited I felt like I was on a sugar rush!
Unhappy was the word when discovered I had lost a page of labels!
Printed the wrong page and I started sweating it for two days!
I got much help in setting up and getting information on how things would happen and when.
Every ONE was so helpful!!! - but I Must beg forgiveness on not being able to put names on who helped me with what
I was shocked as that all of them wanted to see the chestnut all put together!!!
Seems all had been following the postings! And they all knew more of me then I knew of them!!! Truly, with my bad memory I felt like at a family reunion and not remembering my aunts and uncles and other relatives names!!!
So embarrassing still!
And FAMILY REUNION is the best term to describe my feelings of the relation ship the club members have with each other!!!!
They all wanted to know more details of how I did what and all thought the cases were great.
I chatted knives and collecting so much I was always behind were I wanted to be in setting up!
The hall was Hot and I was so glad I had brought lots of extra water as every one else hand thought the air would be on as it was in the past so I felt good I could contribute to others also as they helped me.
Later my brother showed up and all was well for Thursday with the opening of the show coming the next day
More on Friday later!!
But some bad news I was down loading the 560 pictures and a power outage caused me to loose all but 200 of them It also burned up my 2 gig memory card I would gladly sacrifice two cards to have the picts back but so it goes ...
The drive there was great. As I walked in the motel Larry was there asking if they had heard from me
Several hugs later I was in his room looking at his and Allens toys!!
Got some of my stuff in and halled out my toys
Two hrs later I rembered to call the wife and let her know I got there OK
The next day we went to the hall to set up
It was the 3 H's HOT Humid and Hazzy!!!!!
On finding a space to park, I went in to meet every one.
Larry was there and showed me were my table was!
Some of the other guys and gals were there and hugs around then I was showed my table.
I felt like the lost Collector coming home the way they were so glad to see me!
Goose I made a scimitar from foam, located Joe's table, laid it there, and then went to get other stuff
And you should have seen his look as he got there to put his stuff!!!
Then you could see the light come on and he looked around to see who was close with a grin!!!
Some how I think he was looking for a bike also !!!!
More hand shakes and more club members arriving !!!!
I was amazed at how quickly some of the most completed displays went up so fast!
Then I was having to be careful to not drool over the glass!
Some time later, I was drawn back to setting up mine again
I was so excited I felt like I was on a sugar rush!
Unhappy was the word when discovered I had lost a page of labels!
Printed the wrong page and I started sweating it for two days!
I got much help in setting up and getting information on how things would happen and when.
Every ONE was so helpful!!! - but I Must beg forgiveness on not being able to put names on who helped me with what
I was shocked as that all of them wanted to see the chestnut all put together!!!
Seems all had been following the postings! And they all knew more of me then I knew of them!!! Truly, with my bad memory I felt like at a family reunion and not remembering my aunts and uncles and other relatives names!!!
So embarrassing still!
And FAMILY REUNION is the best term to describe my feelings of the relation ship the club members have with each other!!!!
They all wanted to know more details of how I did what and all thought the cases were great.
I chatted knives and collecting so much I was always behind were I wanted to be in setting up!
The hall was Hot and I was so glad I had brought lots of extra water as every one else hand thought the air would be on as it was in the past so I felt good I could contribute to others also as they helped me.
Later my brother showed up and all was well for Thursday with the opening of the show coming the next day
More on Friday later!!
But some bad news I was down loading the 560 pictures and a power outage caused me to loose all but 200 of them It also burned up my 2 gig memory card I would gladly sacrifice two cards to have the picts back but so it goes ...
. Sorry to hear you lost most of your photos (ever hear of a surge protector?); I count 19 photo's posted.....so that makes 181 more to post....LOL. Glad you had a wonderful time......maybe I can make it next year.
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...Dave...I'm having the chairs that you and Clint sat on