TWISTEDWILLOW

Thomas, all the bad ones shipped out an the good ones delivered us a good time! Frazer, yes and they will need their signature upon receiving the job, also we will be tracking their progress!

Yes but they will have to follow their instructions to the letter!

Toss non poisonous bug in the air Fryer with some rice or noodles for 30 minutes let stand for one minute and serve hot with soy sauce

I know it was 34 years ago but Maybe you could try an track down one of the quilt makers an see if they have any information or pictures of it?

Lol I’m sure there’s plenty of work to be had up there! it’s nice to have two or three snows a year that melt off in a few days here I just don’t think I’d care for 2 or 3 feet of snow that hangs out for a month or two! Lol

Thanks John! Just make sure you don’t stamp your foot accidentally!

I wonder how much mula you could make minting bulla?

Your a little late on that one Thomas, John done covered that bucket of bulla

That’s an awesome idea George! I hadn’t thought of that! Thank you! John, my hands are the kinda the same, I can do it but only for a few seconds

I had to run back down to the post office because I forgot something I needed to ship out, while I was there I bought some international mailing stamps they run a $1.30 a stamp, I inquired about using wax seals on international letters, they didn’t know right off hand but they looked it up for me, an what they found was the charge for a non machinable letter going internationally is .30 cents, an they said if I add a postcard stamp with an international stamp it should be okay

Lol, I’d like to visit sometime but I don’t know if I’d open up shop there, The cooler weather would be nice but y’all get way to much snow for me!

Well now I’m having second thoughts about visiting Alaska now!

Nice score!

An Alaskan mallet for Klondike croquet!

Looks nice Gandalfgreen! Is that a little hand I see holding it down towards the bottom?

Wow that’s pretty awesome John, thanks for sharing that, I might give that I try sometime just for fun! I’ve already spent way more time then I outta on the usps website reading around as well as a bunch of wiki pages lol, on a side note I found that the North Pole postmark postmaster is located in anchorage Alaska if anyone needs to get a letter from Santa Clause,…. Jerry you got something you wanna share with the rest of us?

I’ve seen another one from townsends that John posted awhile back about building a bellows, they really make a good video!

That’s pretty awesome Das!! I didn’t know people used to fold their letter into an envelope! also I didn’t know the wax was made from shellac, that makes sense because I was thinking these candles were acting really weird acting when I lit them, almost like melting plastic, but I just figured they were some kinda weird wax, thank your for sharing that video!

I only got to go on two operations with seals when I was in the navy, i didn’t get to know them very closely but from my short time I spent with them I can say they are a pretty cool bunch of guys, we hauled some of them around during operation unified response in Haiti back in 09 after the quake, and those dudes are pretty awesome to work with,

Mail finally ran a little over an hour ago, just got the new stuff in, I practiced twice on another envelope before sealing my first letter, It’s gonna take a little more practice with the candle, judging how Much wax to use, it burns really slow an I was afraid of the wax cooling before I stamped it, but I’d like to see a ring all around the stamp, Other then that I thing stamp works really well!

Hmm I don’t think the lady at the post office would appreciate me bringing a seal into the post office, she’d probably charge me extra postage for the bucket of fish too… Lol i just looked up the study of postage stamps, according to wiki it’s called Philately… seen any good stamps philately?

That’s pretty cool John! I’ve never heard of that before, correction on my previous statement, the post card stamps are $.40 cents not $.20 cents, Scott, I saw a remake of those on the usps site, but they are really expensive,

So I went to the post office to mail some packages today and buy some stamps for my stationary that’s supposed to be here sometime today I asked the lady at the post office if the wax stamp would ad enough weight that I would need an additional stamp, she told me that a single stamp covers a one ounce letter and that a wax stamp more then likely would not get anywhere close to going over weight, but for every ounce over one ounce a $.20cents would be required the $.20 cent stamp is the one you use for postcards normally Then she said that sometimes the wax stamps won’t go through the sorting machines and they gotta sort em by hand, in that case it would be a $.20 cent charge so she advised me to get both a sheet of the regular stamps as well as a sheet of the $.20 cent stamps so I got both just to be safe, that way I don’t have to worry about the postal service returning letters I tried to send, On the USPS website I saw even cheaper stamps for just a few cents a piece, Its my understanding they are for adding additional post freight charges to stamps that predate the forever stamps so there y’all go! everything boring that y’all never needed to know about stamps on letters! Lol

That’s terrible news Das, I really hate to hear that, it seems like it was just yesterday you showed us your cute little candy eaters in their wagon on Halloween havin a good time It’s very painful when work gets in the way of spending time with your little ones, I let my shop consume me an caused friction here until I had the epiphany that the customers don’t care and it won’t kill ‘em for me to shut down on weekends an holidays, so I could spend more family time goin an doin things I wish I had some sagely advice that could help you feel better right now, All I can think of is do what you can in your power to lesson the impact on the girls make sure your spending what time you can spare with them so you can build a strong relationship Your a smart an strong guy! Your gonna make it through this! Also make sure you get another wagon for all those awesome adventures you an the girls will be taking! If there’s anything i could do to help lemme know, im sending you a trainload good vibes!

That’s sad to hear, I’ll ring my anvil an toast a cold one to him after work today