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Offline mullet

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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2011, 08:14:58 pm »
I have to ask, Is Dick Bernier still up there with yall?
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2011, 08:36:20 pm »
Mullet looks like his last post on PP was 9/08 and he was 72 then i hope he is around somewere.....Curt
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2011, 11:18:30 pm »
Piper I missed the knap-in that you had this spring. I plan on coming if you have another one this fall. I hope we can have a knap-in somewhere in North Carolina this year. Tom
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« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2011, 10:14:32 am »
I've been holding off posting on this thread for a few reasons.

Like Joe said, losing Rob Hogan the way we did when all he was trying to do was make his farm ready for our knap-in was tough to take. I really hate that he wasn't able to see the knap-in on his own property.  Rob came to our first knap-in in Burlington and had such a great time that he agreed to allow us to do it on his land a few seconds after we asked. To lose such a good guy & friend is a difficult thing to get over.  The world is not a beter place without him.

Though this is hardly the place to discuss my personal life, my wife & I are going through a rough time in our relationship. If things keep going the way they are, I might become single again and may have more free time to devote to things like a knap-in in the future.  My work volume has also declined alarmingly, which doesn't give me as much free time or spare money to play with.

Arranging the knap-in takes more time & money than I ever imagined it would.  I have lost money on each one of these events.  I also have some catching up to do on my deer hunting.  Last Fall was the first year I was able to get back into the woods during archery season thanks to a crossbow permit.  As much as I love bowhunting, that part of my life had been on hold since the wreck I was in on 4-21-07.  I have been working at 3 different places in exchange for hunting rights because I can't afford to pay to lease them.  Getting to hunt sweet pieces of private land is worth the time & effort it takes to earn that right.

I approached Dick Bernier last year to see if he wanted to participate or visit the knap-in, but he was dealing with family matters out of state and couldn't make it.  I know that the first two knap-ins in Burlington cost him a lot of money too.

I hope you understand my position.  I haven't been spending nearly as much knapping or posting here lately, but my life has some seriously pressing needs right now.

Jim

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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2011, 02:21:48 pm »
Jim...I hate to here the bad news but it is GOOD to here from YOU.......I just got out of the Hosptile yesterday...(Good Mothers Day for the wife)But I think thing are going back my way now....I would love to have you at my First fall Knapp in/deer hunt..(you can use a crossbow)but don't tell nobody......I hope you get things work out for the better..........Your Friend Curt
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2011, 06:14:19 pm »
Hate to hear that, Jim. Y'all know I'm up for it wherever if nothing happens, haven't missed one yet. Curt, that sounds like a good idea and a good time. Eddie, Dick's still around, I talk to him every now and then, he's just been dealing with stuff.
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2011, 07:38:16 pm »
Jim, just letting you know that you helped me get some fundamentals of knapping down at the last NC knap in and I will be forever grateful for that. Hope things start getting better for you and will be keeping you in my prayers.
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #22 on: May 10, 2011, 12:24:46 am »
I'm glad Dick is still here with us. I guess dealing with "out of state" is maybe down here in Land Of Lakes, Fl., where his son lives, 40 miles from me.
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #23 on: May 12, 2011, 08:36:43 pm »
plowing one of the Deer plots for this fall.........................................Curt
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #24 on: May 12, 2011, 10:57:42 pm »
I hope I get drawn. Yall, Curt has a killer place up there.
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Re: North Carolina Knap-in
« Reply #25 on: May 14, 2011, 08:36:36 pm »
I would be interested in the info for that Pittsboro rock-swap. 

Hopefully I'll find the time and tools to start knapping some stuff before then, lol.  I've been lurking around here since before the last NC-Knapin and still haven't made the time to break some rock.  I do have a board-bow half finished at least.  Too many hobbies and not enough hours in the day...
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