Hey Folks,
We’ve decided to set the date for this year’s NW Woodfest/Pig Roast to the Sunday, May 27th. That’s the Sunday before Memorial Day.
Thanks to everyone that helped to decide the date. I hope that you all can make it out to the Great Pacific Northwest to join us for some woodworking and roast pig.
Another Seattle event that weekend is the annual NW Folklife Festival http://www.nwfolklife.org/P_F/festival.html . The festival is a venue for all forms of folk art from music and dance to basketmaking and woodworking. If you’re stopping in town for Folklife, perhaps you’ll take a break, and join us for an afternoon as well.
Jamie (forestgirl) is helping me with the promotion and planning of the event, just as she did the first time. Thanks to her efforts our last pig roast was a great success. If you attended last time, you can expect an email from her soon.
We’re hoping to include some interesting talks and demonstrations, and maybe even some prizes from sponsors. So watch this space for more info!
Tom
Edited 3/20/2007 12:35 pm ET by tms
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Holy Smokes, so-to-speak. No way to know if there's a preference for Nick and me -- at 102 years old, his dad's health calls the shots, LOL. But you let me know what I can do to help.
For anyone who didn't make it to the last one, Tom really knows how to entertain the woodworking crowd. It was an absolute blast!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I would love to visit the great PNW, But LOML says a 4-5 day drive is over the top. And that I would be a Many Knothead if I asked again.
Work Safe, Count to 10 when your done for the day !!
Bruce S.
IMO. a cheap plane ticket is way better than a 4-5 day drive. The first day after the drive is a waste and then you need another day to recover from the trip home.
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Wow!
I must have worded the title too strangely, or sumpthn'. Last time I did this, folks jumped all over it. Maybe I should have just said,
Free Food!!
I'm still trying to pin down a date. Memorial Day weekend works for me, and gives everyone an extra day to travel, etc. There's also a huge urban folk festival (Folklife) in Seattle that weekend, that visitors might like to attend.
The other side, is that folks may want to save their holiday for things other than travel. Somebody get back to me on this, okay?
Edited 3/5/2007 2:27 pm ET by tms
Edited 3/5/2007 2:30 pm ET by tms
My guess is (a) they don't get the "Cuban pig" thing, and (b) they're interpreting "pckin'" to mean Bluegrass. ROFL.
I'll get the pics from 2005 back onto FTP and post a link to that party.
Guys n' gals: this isn't just a sit-around-and-eat party, it's a woodworkers' fest! Tom shows off his shop, complete with Mini-Max combo, big bandsaw, and his bow-making stuff, demos are done, and unbeLIEVEably good food.
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Click here for pictures from 2005 and a little intro.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Tom,
I didn't reply because I'm on the other side of the country. Sounds like a blast, but I could never talk the wife into going to the west coast for a woodworking get together. Hope it turns out well.
Lee
Tom, I'd love to come, and I'm local. Let me know how to make it happen.
Jeff
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Hey Jamie,Thanks for pulling up the photos of the last bash. When we get a date nailed down, I'll be asking folks to bring along a favorite side dish. Last time, we roasted a 60# pig, but we had so much left over that I think this time we'll do a 40-50# porker.I'm still hoping for suggestions as to which weekend.Tom
I have the mailing list for 2005 on our other computer. Will pull it up later tonight and get a canned message out. Any chance Admin over at WWA would make a "Sticky" out of the invite, and put it in Infeed/Outfeed?? forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
I would love to come and my schedule is flexible! Let me know when and what to bring.------------------------------------
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Dang, wrong continent, not even the same hemisphere....will it be a WILD pig?
Hey Philip,"...will it be a WILD pig?"Not likely. Although I've tried twice in the past year to bag one, this year's pork will come from the butcher at my local Asian market.Tom
Phillip,
Last time I bagged a wild pig it was with a mad kiwi in the snowy mountains. Some tourists had it bailed up in a small thicket and our young farrier was trying to stare it down from the front. The kiwi and I tackled it from behind.
I got up and looked around to realise that every competent rider in the group was aronund the clearing, and when we got back to the track the tourist party was out of sight. Took 10 minutes to catch up - all the horses had stopped at one of the alpine huts and the tourists decided it must be lunch (sometimes you get away with it).
Not a particularly efficient way to catch pigs or to get rid of ferral animals out of the park. Was good fun though.
Think it was near this hut:
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Snowy Mountains? The ones in U.S.A?
Actually I was thinking of the African wild pig (not feral). This is a tough beast, short and stocky (not bacon porky type) and you would not dream of "tackling it from behind". They have evil tusks which have disposed of many a Ridgeback. But they make good eating.
Are there wild pigs in Australia?Philip Marcou
Hi Philip,We have a very large population of these wild pigs in the Galilee. They are quite fearless sometimes and come into people's gardens on summer nights looking for water. The grown ones are huge and scare even a good guard dog half to death.They do make good eating, but since they're forbidden to both Moslems and Jews they don't get hunted that much. Maybe I should send one to the Northwest Pig Roast as token attendance?regards,David Ring
http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e
Yah David, sounds like those may be distant cousins - leaves me wandering on how they got across the Red Sea (,)
If you were to send one I'm sure it would be highly appreciated....Philip Marcou
Phillip,
If you were to send one I'm sure it would be highly appreciated....
Get an overnight shipping quote from the US to New Zealand and I'll get one of these right off to ya!
Lee
Nah, Lee, I have a genyouine African Wild Pig in mind- you could get one from Zimbabwe.
Then ofcourse there is the River Pig, otherwise known as Hippopotamus, which has excellent teeth for the making of plane handles, makes good eating and stock whips.It would require ####very big party.Philip Marcou
Hey philip,If you clean it, I'll cook it!Tom
Hi everyone,I'm a newbie to this board from the Portland area.
I'd love to have a chance to meet you all, eat some pig and talk shop!
My calander is open, but the weekend of Folklife would be nice.Thanks,Matt
I just dropped you an email via Knots. Hope you can make it!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Hi Tom,
Many thanks for the invite. If there's anyway we can show up, we will. And if so, I don't know if it will be just me, my wife too, and/or one or both boys.
If the boys show up, the bigger pig might be needed <g>.
Again, thanks. Mike
Philip , Me thinks you speak of the Oinker we call Wild Boar , big tusks and agressive when cornered ( kind of like wwers can get ) .
I understand the finest hand made hand planes in the world use some Boar tusk as an inlay into the knobs and such . Be careful .
dusty
Edited 3/7/2007 11:11 am ET by oldusty
Phillip,
The misnamed small hills south of Canberra that provide some of the best horse ridung country I have experienced. The pigs are feral domestic pigs - dark grey with coarse bristle coat and the older ones grow tusks. They are a real conservation problem because of the way they turnover large areas of soil in fairly delicate locations.
This one didn't have tusks - I'm not that silly.
Dave
I don't know if you read my post about our possibly moving to the Seattle area, but we definitely have to move there now. Free food? Can't pass that up.
Alan
http://www.alancarterstudio.com
I'm down in Portland, so a few hours drive wouldn't be out of the question for me. It all depends on the date. Put me on a mailing list if you send out an invite!
Laura
Laura, I have the email list in the works. Click on my name and you can send me an email, I'll put you in!
forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
Hey Folks,
Just a bump to let you know that we decided on a weekend for the NW Woodfest/Pig Roast. I've edited the first post to add date and some more information about the weekend.
Tom
Hello, I would like to be added to the list. I sent ForestGirl an email through the FWW system, but don't know whether it got through her anti-spam defenses.
Thanks.
Bob
anti-spam defenses.....ROFL.....Earthlink ain't doin' so good on that these days!
I've set up a new address to handle the Fest, so everything's cool.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)
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