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Been a busy month!!

Well the last three weeks have been a roller coaster!  I had to make a no notice trip to Germany that took me out of town for a week, I had to  move my leave up a week and shorten for a week due to a some work requirements, I have been approved to host a booth for my wood working/pen making at the Embassy, we accepted a cash offer on the house in Texas and Chris has been here visiting!

The leave change is one of the biggest frustrations because I had already purchased tickets to New Orleans and of course now I will miss that time frame and they are non-refundable tickets!  Not to mention with only three weeks in the states rather then four when it was already planned to be a working vacation will not leave much time to reschedule not to mention the price of the tickets have doubled! So does not look like I will be able to make it to Louisiana this trip.  On the flip side if any of the family or friends in Louisiana want to come up to Minnesota and see what we are up to and what our plans are for retirement I would love to see you!

About two weeks ago we finally finished everything on the house in Texas to make it ready to sell and the next day we had a cash offer on it.  The price was lower then I wanted but it was set to close in two weeks, right before all of the insurances were due so we went ahead and accepted the offer. The contract had us closing on Friday but we were not tracking the title company would be closed for Good Friday so it looks like we will close this Monday instead.  Now I am just paying we do not have a windstorm in that time period as I am without windstorm coverage for the weekend!  I am happy to get that house sold but as the same time it was kind of bitter sweet because I did like Corpus Christi!

Chris has been visiting over the last month or so, and he has been doing alot of the tourist things!  I have not been able to participate as much as I would like due being under the weather a bit as well as having to build an inventory for my sale at the embassy which will hopefully help generate some money before leave!

The wood working has gone well, as I mention before I will have a two day sale at the Embassy on the 11th and 12th of April so I have been busy trying to build up my inventory, was kind of going backward for a bit because I was more worry about pushing out the numbers rather then the quality I wanted to be known for so ended up redoing alot of pens because I just did not like the way they came out.  Below is a picture of some of this weeks work!

I hope to be able to expand my work soon to some Olive Wood bowls, goblets and a tankard soon!  Let me know any questions!

Travis




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