All Caught Up!

And now.....I'm officially caught up with what I've been doing since back in March.  Hopefully, in the future I'll be able to keep a little more current about what's been going on Out West!

I had Judy take my photo with all the carvings we plan on taking along with us to the Cody Old West show in Santa Fe.  I seriously doubt I'll ever have this many of my pieces in one place again.  It's really been a pleasure to go into the shop each morning and see these characters setting around the shop waiting to get boxed up and loaded for the trip out west.  People ask me if I'm sad to see my pieces go when someone else takes them home.  Well...Will Rogers asked the artist Charles Russell that same question and he had the best answer:  "I raise my children to leave home!"   I will always have the memory of creating them and their absence will leave a vacant spot that I always look forward to filling.