[TheForge] moving on

[Peter Hirst]

Terry:

Your story reaches me on a number of levels.  First, your legal medical 
nightmare.  I practiced law for 25 years and know 2 things:  one accident 
can ruin your life even without the physical complications, and  you are 
very wise not to rely on the doctors and lawyers to solve the problems you 
face.  I applaud your courage in the decision to move on.  Second, I live on 
Cape Cod, where winters are relativley mild but I have lived all over New 
ENglad and can tell you  that VErmont winter (which is to say late fall 
through early spring) can be brutal.  I would not want to take it on with 
any other kind of physical challenge facing me.  In fact I have recently met 
more than one family who have either retired to or winter over around 
Birmingham, just to avoid our winters.  Finally, I work at an historic 
general store and can tell you that things like your cookie cutters are 
hugely popular with our customers.  We sell about 20 patterns in tin.  We do 
not currently carry copper, but it sounds interesting, so keep me posted on 
how they go, and whether you would be interested in wholesaling them through 
us.  Candle lanterns, pie case panels, match box holders,  tin boxes, even 
larger copper lanterns,electric, candle or kerosene,  are popular around 
here, depending on what you mean by "small and simple".  I am looking for 
brass ferrules for some tools I make on wooden handles and wonder if you 
could do those.  Basically brass tube 1 1/2  to 3 inches in length, 3/4 to 1 
inch in diameter,  slightly flared at one end and rolled over inward at the 
inch at the other.  Sort of like a garden hose ferrule, but slightly 
heavier.  We smiths often use an iron ring to ferrule our wooden handled 
tools, chisels, garden tools atc, but I like the more refined brass for 
mine, and others might, too.

I wish you the best in moving on.

Peter Hirst

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "terry l. ridder" <terrylr at blauedonau.com>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: [TheForge] moving on


> hello;
>
> it is a new year and on 6 jan 2008 will be
> the 5 month anniversary of the head-on-collision.
> with now two legal nightmares with neither one
> looking like it will be resolved in short order,
> i have decided do get on with living.
>
> it is clear that i need to go back to college
> to update my education and to vocational rehabilitate
> myself. so far i have researched several colleges
> that are reasonablly handicapped friendly and that
> are willing to work with me.
>
> the colleges are located in birmingham, alabama,
> montpelier, vermont, and urbana-champaign, illinois.
>
> urbana-champaign, illinois, i am familar with. that
> is where i attended college originally many decades
> ago.
>
> birmingham, alabama and montpelier, vermont, i am
> not familar with. yes, i could google and find many
> interesting web pages about both locations but none
> of those would offer the first hand point-of-view
> of people on e-mail lists.
>
> i would like to hear from list members about the
> pros and cons of birmingham, alabama and montpelier,
> vermont.
>
> -- 
> terry l. ridder ><>
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