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Will carve
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Joined: Apr 06, 2011
Posts: 536
From: Ft. Lauderdale Fl.
|  Posted: 2012-07-21 4:30 pm Permalink
Wow,
sorry to see your set back.
Good start on that Tiki.
Lovin the crack.
Can't buy those.
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cy
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Joined: Mar 10, 2011
Posts: 819
From: Gresham, Oregon
| Posted: 2012-07-21 6:48 pm Permalink
My heart sank when I saw your situation Big T and am hoping for a quick recovery.
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AlohaStation
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
Posts: 2131
From: So FL
| Posted: 2012-07-22 10:01 am Permalink
Mother nature can be a bitch. Good luck with your recovery.
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VampiressRN
Grand Member (7 years) 
Joined: Nov 23, 2006
Posts: 5658
From: Sun City Lincoln Hills (NorCal)
| Posted: 2012-07-22 10:08 am Permalink
Oh my gosh...hope you have a speedy recovery from the flooding. Mother Nature can indeed be cruel. Sending good vibes your way and hope you are back to carving soon.
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amate
Tiki Socialite
Joined: Oct 03, 2009
Posts: 881 | Posted: 2012-07-22 10:17 am Permalink
Last year we couldn't buy a drop of rain! Texas weather: "drought interrupted by occasional flooding". We only got about 3 inches here. Speedy recovery my friend!
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Professor G
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Joined: Sep 03, 2011
Posts: 331
From: the Tiki Wastelands
| Posted: 2012-07-22 10:21 am Permalink
Wow. I grew up down the road from Houston in Victoria and I've had to do the clean-up when the home becomes a temporary swamp; best wishes for a speedy recovery and a quick return to your beautiful carving.
Greg
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1962
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2012-07-22 1:22 pm Permalink
Wow! I feel for you guys. I hope everything dries up quickly for you.
Nature can deal some hefty blows.
Let me know if there is anything I can provide to help out.
Mahalo for sharing
McTiki
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pjc5150
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Joined: Jun 01, 2009
Posts: 2219
From: Tampa, FL
| Posted: 2012-07-24 08:44 am Permalink
wow...damn bro.
Sorry about the flood. Hope everything is getting back to normal.
On a lighter note, great start on the new tiki!
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TheBigT
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1244
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2012-08-05 08:18 am Permalink
Thank you all for the encouraging words. No tiki carving going on here, but we are high and dry again. And we have a pineapple in the makings!
This plant started as the top cut off a pineapple from the grocery store. That was some 5 or 6 years ago. This year it decided to fruit! Don't laugh at the cage we have around it. The last time we bought a pineapple from the nursery, a raccoon or opossum took it one night! 
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Atomic Mess
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Joined: Apr 13, 2012
Posts: 283
From: Hack-Ah-Nee
| Posted: 2012-08-05 08:30 am Permalink
haha cool! glad you're no longer under water...
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TheBigT
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1244
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2013-05-07 5:08 pm Permalink
Whoa dang, it's been 8 months since I posted last! I guess it's time to blow the dust off this thread. There hadn't been much carving going on around here in those 8 months, but I finally started to get back in the groove a couple of weeks ago.
Way back in February or March I had started these two tikis:
I finished the one on the right last year and finally picked up on the other one. He looks like this now...
Somewhere along the way last fall I took the chain saw to a big pine log. Haven't done anything on him since then.
In fact, it's the very log pictured below that tried to escape during the food last year by floating away...
This dude is still sitting around too:
Will any of these get done any time soon? Heck, who knows!?
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1962
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-05-07 5:41 pm Permalink
That spalting really adds something vintage to that one! Hes gonna finish real nice!
Welcome back!
McTiki
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1962
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-05-07 5:44 pm Permalink
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McTiki
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Joined: Aug 22, 2004
Posts: 1962
From: Sunny Florida
| Posted: 2013-05-07 5:50 pm Permalink
arrrrg..... sorry!
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TheBigT
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Joined: Feb 27, 2006
Posts: 1244
From: Fabulous Houston
| Posted: 2013-05-07 7:09 pm Permalink
McTiki thanks, thanks, and thanks! haha. btw, love your latest. Love that vintage look you always get!
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