2021 Winter Pen Blank Swap
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Nice! My motto has always been the worst they can say is no!
And for me - they usually did!
I think Lil Mikey's forehead was stamped in ink - SNUBBED
The box showed up today but it is 9:16 here and I came straight from work to buy a SUV for my wife, sorry guys! I'll get it out ASAP.
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C'mon you need to get your priorities straight
Well the box appeared in San Antonio without narry a mention of it's disappearance. We also don't know what @Tony 's concept of ASAP is so we will wait for the next update as to when it has departed for Cameron, IL where we found it was mentioned in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). Don't know why it was mentioned but it was! (Cameron, IL that is and not the box 
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1895 was probably the last year that Cameron had any businesses. It was most likely a railroad depot. As long as I've been alive the only commerce taking place was at the grain elevator. It does have 4 railroad tracks (BNSF) through town, and a spur for the elevator. Two of those lines are surface tracks and the other two go over an underpass that has only 11'6" of clearance. In spite of signs clearly stating that, it is routine (weekly and sometimes daily) that tall trucks get stuck there.
Just this spring, a new sign was added stating that "Your GPS is WRONG!" Turn around now. I should also mention that should a truck go speeding past the sign and manage to stop before getting stuck, they are rewarded by having to back the semi up a half mile on a two lane blacktop with only two foot wide gravel shoulders. Nothing but deep ditches and corn fields on either side.
Cameron does have a post office, but it is only open 3 hrs a day. I don't actually live in Cameron, but rather 4 miles south and my nearest neighbor is a half mile away as the crow flies.
The only exciting thing that I can think of that happened in Cameron is that a tornado went through town 6 years ago and blew over many trees and the largest grain bin at the elevator which spilled 100,000 + bu of corn right on the middle of the train tracks. BNSF wasn't pleased as traffic on that line was shut down for a week.
BTW, the population of Cameron is a little over 600 people, with probably a couple hundred more who have a Cameron mailing address. Our entire county only has 17,146 people.
Yeah, it's quite a struggle coming up with something interesting about Cameron, just another tiny town in the middle of farm country.
Just this spring, a new sign was added stating that "Your GPS is WRONG!" Turn around now. I should also mention that should a truck go speeding past the sign and manage to stop before getting stuck, they are rewarded by having to back the semi up a half mile on a two lane blacktop with only two foot wide gravel shoulders. Nothing but deep ditches and corn fields on either side.
Cameron does have a post office, but it is only open 3 hrs a day. I don't actually live in Cameron, but rather 4 miles south and my nearest neighbor is a half mile away as the crow flies.
The only exciting thing that I can think of that happened in Cameron is that a tornado went through town 6 years ago and blew over many trees and the largest grain bin at the elevator which spilled 100,000 + bu of corn right on the middle of the train tracks. BNSF wasn't pleased as traffic on that line was shut down for a week.
BTW, the population of Cameron is a little over 600 people, with probably a couple hundred more who have a Cameron mailing address. Our entire county only has 17,146 people.
Yeah, it's quite a struggle coming up with something interesting about Cameron, just another tiny town in the middle of farm country.
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Ahhhhh the only way to live!!!
Ours is a little over 1/4 mile.There are 2houses on our mile of road. Mmmmmm now this is living in paradise!!
Much apologies guys for holding up the process! Finally got a vehicle last night after a second trip up there, I had a great time with the Finance guy when he decided to treat me like I was stupid, got him royally pissed but I won! Here is what I got, I will get it sent out to Tim today!
I can only take credit for the argyle pattern (which every diamond and the veneer are all different species). The checkerboard one I had received thru a different trade some years ago.
Uuuhhh you put it in the box....You great credit for it!!
Here's what arrived today in the mail, so many choices! I'll get it off to Roger tomorrow. Back to Texas it goes....
Well the box survived another leg of the journey and is in the home stretch as it, yet again, travels to Texas. We learned earlier in the thread that it was illegal to flirt with ones' hands and eyes whilist in San Antonio, TX but did you know that in Texas you can be considered legally married by publicly announcing a person as your wife / husband by saying it 3 times. Beetlejuice would be proud. There’s also a proxy marriage law that doesn’t require either the groom or bride to be present during the wedding ceremony....That certainly sounds like a reasonable solution to being left at the altar 
Here's your map.
Here's your map.
Got it today. I’ll get it shipped on Tuesday.
Wow, Post Office is going above and beyond. Two stops in less than a week!
Well, they are getting a raise! Guess they felt guilty!