Welcome to Wisconsin Ken!  Hey, that's just down the street from the
penitentiary, no?    You're up in the neck of he woods where I
grew up .. my folks still live in the middle of a triangle drawn from
Berlin to Princeton to Green Lake, overlooking the White River marsh.

You're in pretty good rust hunting country up there ... especially on
the rural auction circuit..

Welcome topside!

cheers,

Jim E #2 in (Cedarburg) Wisconsin

On 6/5/07, Kenneth Stagg  wrote:
> 
> Gentle ones,
>
> Uh, I haven't been active around here for a long time - though I've
> done some lurking all along - but I'm hoping to change that Real Soon
> Now.  Life has been taking most of my time for several years but
> there's some hope that our new surroundings will help.
>
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> I'm a married, 46 year old computer programmer who has just moved into
> a gorgeous old house (1898 Queen Anne Victorian) in the midwest of the
> United States.  I got interested in handtools back in the mid-90's
> while living in Tacoma, Washington and found that I enjoyed working
> with them much more than I the tailed demons that I had sitting in my
> shop.  Since then I've used handtools when I could while doing some
> wood mangling and household repairs.
>
> A couple of years ago it struck me that my mood deteriorated markedly
> around late September when the sun went away for the next 9 months in
> Tacoma.  Hmmmm....  Maybe there's a correlation?  Last year I started
> scouring the internet for places that got more sun in the winter than
> Tacoma - turns out that virtually everywhere below the Arctic Circle
> qualified so we started adding other criteria to our searches and
> ended up concentrating on the midwest.  Eventually we found a place in
> Missouri that seemed promising but we didn't jump fast enough.  Turned
> out that was OK when this place came up in Waupun, Wisconsin:
> http://i9.tinypic.com/2j4c113.jpg
> http://i17.tinypic.com/2cxxq2v.jpg
> http://i18.tinypic.com/2r7byw9.jpg
>
> Since we moved in 3 weeks ago I've only had my handtools available and
> they've done just fine with everything that I've need to do around the
> house.  I do need to try out a Yankee drill some time - the eggbeater
> has been fine but I've heard so many good stories of the usefullness
> of the push drill that I know that I've got to give it a shot.
> ------------------------ End Updated Bio ------------------------
>
> Ken Stagg
> Waupun, WI
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