General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Chat with friends old/new, 3 by Bettypauze

Bettypauze wrote:
When I arrived at the show Paul showed me my gift, the peacock on the right, had a for sale sign on it..told me anything else I wanted to take it..well I ended up with a driftwood spirit..

I was asking questions about wood, there was a log sitting there with bark on it, we took bark off, wood quite wet but he said he would play with it if I chose something..to,d him an old crony would be nice using branch for nose..we had lots of laughs as the nose took on an appearance of something else..when came time for me to leave it wasn't finished re detail in the face but I said rather than pick it up another day I'd take it as is because of the fun day, it would be a reminder..said I could take it as long as I didn't say it came from him as he so wanted to put detail in the face..so just as we were packing up a lady came and fell in love with the peacock, she lives on peacock lake, her last name is Peacock and she said it was calling her name..she asked how much and Paul said $450, because of closing she would have to come back tomorrow..I had called Paul aside and said although I loved it if he could get that amt then he should do so..he fought me on that because he said he airbrushed it with irredescent paint and it was mine. I finally got him to compromise..if she did come back tomorrow he can sell it, I can pick up something different and if she doesn't come back I'll meet up with him and get it

Now he does have 2 or 3 large saws he wants painted, we came to a barter, he was selling these morels for $100 each, I'll do his saws and he will make me 4 morels so I can give them as Xmas gifts..good deal for both.