Thank you all so much for the welcome you have given me on my return. Through E-mails directly from Stan, I was told that being as I was out of Province, it was going against group rules, and I was terminated. I'm sorry to say, it left a bad taste in my mouth, and I just figured that it would be wasting my time to question why. I thought before this happened, that I was trying my best to fit in, but I wasn't going to cry over spilt milk. At the time, I was led to believe that this was a decision of the entire group, and who was I to go against the rules. Since then, and quite recently I might add, I've found out this was decided by "Cock of the Walk" and that it had nothing to do with the rest of you. This was painful at the time, because I had gone out of my way to send butternut slabs to Stan, because at the time I was wanting to do whatever I could to help on the RCMP project. I paid for the material, and the postage, only to be told that he thought that butternut was a waste of time to cut, and a waste of my money to buy in the first place. Needless to say, the message I was getting, was that the wood and I, was not good enough for his standards. I've been crapped on before and I was always able to wash the stink off, so I just wrote it down as another one of those times. Last night I read a few lines from Darryl's Rantings, and Lo and Behold, what showed up, but a part where the cuttings where made from Butternut. Hmmm ! Whats wrong with this picture? All I can add is that I appologize to everyone for thinking that you had taken a vote to terminate my membership. I now know what happened, and the offer still stands. If I can help in any way on the cuttings Darryl mentioned to me, I'm here. It will have to be cutting because if it comes to making patterns,I'm the worst.

 

          A Fellow Scroller                             Ross