Thank you, Sharon (sbwertz) and some souvenirs from AZ!

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Last week I was on vacation in Phoenix, AZ when Sharon (sbwertz) posted some pictures of Desert Ironwood and Carob. Since she lives in Phoenix I jokingly posted about bring some wood home with me. Sharon responded and we ended up meeting up a few hours before my flight home to Minnesota. I ended up with some pieces of DIW and Carob along with a couple of Mulberry pen blanks. In return I will be sending her a nice piece of Boxelder and a few pen blanks.

While in AZ, I also picked up some figured Walnut, a few small pieces of DIW, some Mesquite from my sister in law and some cactus (Cholla and Prickly Pear) that I plan to experiment with casting my own blanks.

Thanks again, Sharon! I hope you enjoy the Boxelder!
 

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Nice score, Doug.
My wife & I will be in Mesa for our nephew's wedding next month & I'm hoping to pick up a little DIW and other local material while I'm there. At the very least, I'll be educating my nephew on things that he can send me from time to time. ;-)
 
Only question I have, Doug, is what did you do with your clothes LOL. Doesn't look like you had much room left in your suitcase.
 
Clothes are overrated anyway.:eek:

Actually we had 4 suitcases and 3 golf travel bags so I was able to divvy up the wood without much of a problem.

I did have a couple small pieces of wood in my carry-on. Evidently the wood shows up funny on the X-ray because the TSA made sure to check out my suitcase pretty thoroughly:eek:
 
alankulwicki7 said:
Clothes are overrated anyway.:eek:

Actually we had 4 suitcases and 3 golf travel bags so I was able to divvy up the wood without much of a problem.

I did have a couple small pieces of wood in my carry-on. Evidently the wood shows up funny on the X-ray because the TSA made sure to check out my suitcase pretty thoroughly:eek:
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You lucky "dog"...!:wink::biggrin:

I would come home/travelled naked if needed be, to get the treasures coming with me, after all, is nothing I have physically that others haven't seen before however, there are unique pieces of wood that no one as ever saw so, I reckon is a good compromise, huh...???:wink::biggrin:

Cheers
George
 
alankulwicki7 said:
Clothes are overrated anyway.:eek:

Actually we had 4 suitcases and 3 golf travel bags so I was able to divvy up the wood without much of a problem.

I did have a couple small pieces of wood in my carry-on. Evidently the wood shows up funny on the X-ray because the TSA made sure to check out my suitcase pretty thoroughly:eek:
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Several years ago when my father came to visit, I took him out to a big clock parts store here in AZ. His hobby was repairing old clocks. He needed some weights for an 8 day cuckoo clock. Weights for an 8 day clock are BIG. When he flew home, he had them in his carry on, and created quite a stir at TSA. Seems that on xray they looked like hand grenades!
 
edohmann said:
Nice score, Doug.
My wife & I will be in Mesa for our nephew's wedding next month & I'm hoping to pick up a little DIW and other local material while I'm there. At the very least, I'll be educating my nephew on things that he can send me from time to time. ;-)
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Let me know when you will be here. Maybe we can get together.
 
When my son asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told him a box of the cedar logs from his firewood stack. Most of that tree produces the "lavender" color red cedar and it is just beautiful. He sent me a LFRB of it for my birthday.
 
Good son.

Now that is a good son. Must of been broought up by a good mother.


sbwertz said:
When my son asked me what I wanted for my birthday, I told him a box of the cedar logs from his firewood stack. Most of that tree produces the "lavender" color red cedar and it is just beautiful. He sent me a LFRB of it for my birthday.
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I got the Box Elder today. You didn't say it was FLAME box elder!!! What a gorgeous piece of wood. I'm a little under the weather right now, but I'll get a picture of it up here soon.

Thank you so much
 
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