Thanks Groucho - my WC year (long)
Mike Hamilton
>I�m fortunate to start the year with a week off and even more fortunate to have arranged play time with some WC�ers to kick-start the year right. Yesterday I spent the afternoon with Duane Leach turning. Today it was making hook tools and eating patty melts with Al Crandall and Ray Thompson.
I stopped for just a moment to consider a few (only a few) of my WC contacts in 2006:
Turning lesson with Jennifer Shirley
Bill Grumbine agreeing to be an emergency contact for my away-from-home daughter
Sharpening a saw with Moses Yoder�s tools and tutelage and Warren-in-Lancaster�s oversight
Sharpening plane blades with Bob ??? (crs sets in here)
The whole 5-Barns experience
Sharing dining tables with Bill Turpin, Mark Mandell and Ed Moore at various times in Louisville
Watching turning by Terry Quillam, Keith Zimmerman, Jim Shaver,�.
Selling a plane to Dan Donaldson
Listening to Dan and Ellis play around the campfire at Indyfest
The whole Indyfest experience
With the exception of Jen, this quick list is entirely folks I�d never met before. They were trusting, helpful, and friendly immediately � partly by nature, partly due to the common bond.
You build family here Ellis, and I couldn�t be happier to belong.
Thanks,
Mike Hamilton
Plainfield, IN
