Jimi, Its a day late, but happy birthday. Cant wait to get my flys.
Dick
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From: "Desert Eagle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] NOT whining - the BENCH swap
> I tried to get them out so more could enjoy my birthday with me. I
> turned 45 today and spent most of it puttering around the shop nursing a
> couple of broken ribs and a missing finger tip. At this rate I may make
100
> with "Most" of my "Parts". Glad you got them today, hoped more would. If
you
> check the updates they have the tiers and the flies listed, if you don't
> have them drop me a note and I will forward them to you.
> All in all it was a quiet birthday, daughter had a "Thing" after
school
> and Theresa is picking her up. Probably a quiet evening and early bed
time.
> Funny how as we grow older time passes faster, and aches and pains hurt
> more.
>
> Have a good one friends,
> Jimi
>
>
> Well, the last time I was in a swap I was whining because I was the last
> (except for poor Rene across the pond) to get my feathers. But I seem to
> be the first recipient of Jimi's Bench Swap flies.
>
> And I'm not whelmed. That doesn't start to do justice to it. Even
> OVERwhelmed does not express my feeling.
>
> Folks, we've got some GREAT tyers on this list. It's impossible to place
> them in any sort of order, so I'm going to describe them individually as I
> pick them out of the box.......
>
> I got about half-way through and ran out of superlatives. So I ersed the
> descriptions. Let me simply repeat - we've got a FINE group of fantastic
> fly tyers on this list.
>
> Thanks to Jimi, DonO, Rene, John Roth, Deb, Joe Leavitt, Mitch,
> John Roth, Dick Youll, "Pez", Mark, Soren Finne, and those whose flies
> weren't identified for participating in the swap. Other people have such
> great senses of proporting - I'm jealous.
>
> And MANY thanks to Jimi for hosting this swap.
>
> Allan
>
>
> Allan Fish
> Greenwood, IN
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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