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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: ber643 on July 22, 2010, 05:14:00 PM
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If you remember our late dear friend and member, Barb Dumas, you might enjoy looking at the classified ad for my 21st Century Bow (now sold).
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way to go uncle Bernie :clapper:
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Thanks, Jeff.
BTW, when we gonna see the "new-improved" hat? - LOL
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Well done, Bernie, Roger and Barb.
Roger, it probably likes red arrows.
Killdeer
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Killdeer/TG%20Uploads/Archery%20Equipment/Barbbowquiverarrows.jpg)
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wow!!! killie that is way cool i love the bead work :clapper: :clapper: oh uncle Bernie i will go and take a pic of it right now and post it on here.
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Now yer loggin, Jeff, LOL.
Thank you , Killie (love the pic).
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(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh305/jeffburg/hat2.jpg)
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Well, it certainly looks like a good start on a repectable hat, Jeff :D (Even though it is big enough to get itself pulled if you don't "shrink" it some - :saywhat:
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(http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh305/jeffburg/hat.jpg)
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Uh - you have to shrink them before you post them. If you upload them onto Photobucket they get shrunk automatically. Or you can shrink them with programs made for that purpose, before you post them or upload them. One FREE program of that type is Irfanview. Type in their name and dot com and I think it should take you to a site where you can download the program. Then if you can't figure out how to use it, I think I can talk you through it. For now, the pics you have posted now, only you or a moderator can change them - or I'd do it for you. However, You can delete them from the thread, then send (e-mail), me a copy and I'll shrink it for you and send it back to you. then you can repost it (if that will help you).
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well they come out that big even when i email em i have tried that as well but it takes to long to send em i will sort it out somehow. thanks uncle Bernie. jeff
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OK, buddy, glad to help if I can. Just delete the line(s) where the picture info is and leave your post and you can slip them in later. It does take a little longer to e-mail a full size one but just put one per e-mail and it's not too bad.
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How long has it been since Barb died in the car crash? I always enjoyed her posts, esp when she and Killie were on a thread together. Tradgang was so much smaller then and when Barb died, it seemed like everything stopped for a couple days as folks remembered her.
RIP Barb.
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Yep - That was one of the worst nights in my life when her boyfriend called to tell me, and asked me to break the news, and yet I was proud that she asked that I do it. I couldn't tell you for sure how long (without a little research) but I'd guess around 7 years now.
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Bernie-
Had to go and pull up and old thread. Sept 2004 is when you let us know that Barb had died. I remember trading some arrows with her once and she threw in several broadheads b/c she wanted me to give them a try. Generous and caring lady. I was just reading a few pages of the tribute thread, there were several Tradgangers that posted their regards to Barb that have moved on themselves in one way or another. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust for all...
http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=39;t=000063;p=1
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well uncle Bernie i have a lot of you on this fine hat as well as killie as she was the one that sent it to me. i will always wear it with pride. and its an Honour to have you as a freind. talk at ya later. jeff :wavey:
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You are right about the moving on, David. Folks and our loved ones come and go into our lives, leaving bright tracks, if we let them (a few leave muddy tracks, unfortunately). So about 6 years since Barb's passing - so long/fast, and yet it seems like yesterday at times. I think she and Roger would have hit it off too and she'll be pleased at his reaction to her handiwork on the bow cover - she liked her stuff to be used. I've got his bow all ready to mail to him this AM, BTW
Glad you "got-r-done" Jeff - looks good with the neat pins on it, and the pics look good resized. My pleasure too, BTW. We can never have too many worthwhile friends.
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Cool Bern...
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Thank you, Terry, that means a lot. It sort of turned into a "run-away" classified ad, didn't it? Sorry, it just sort of happened in my head and heart.
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No worries Bernie......none at all.... :campfire:
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Thank you - :archer:
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You're right Berni, it doesn't seem like it's been 6 years. :readit:
Reading from the old thread that David brought up, there's a lot of people that we don't hear from anymore...makes me wonder how many would still be here if Barb was still with us,...she was an inspiration.
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I happen to know she felt exactly that way about you too, Ron. Water will find it's own level - (sometimes when you are in a canoe and least expect it ;) ). Thanks for adding your comment, my friend.
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Always loved her wit... especially when she and Killie would "team up" as David said...
She always did some beautiful work with the beading on quivers... Man oh man, time sure flies by...
Thanks for the memories Bern...
Jonathan
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There never was before, had never been until that time, and will never be again, anyone that could make a quiver as beautiful. I didn't know Barb personally (and I feel a poorer person for that) but understand that her artwork couldn't hold a candle to her personality and soul.
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Lots of folks we know are a Hoot, Barb was a Hoot AND a Holler, (with a heart of gold).
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The new home for Texas Slim. Killdeere notice all the red in the quiver.
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/Rkyle/IMG_0008.jpg)
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I love it, Roger, (Killie will too, I'm sure). Makes my heart smile, and really looks like a good home. I think "he" and his elkhide case will feel right at home.
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Barb was dear to my heart, good stuff!! Shawn
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Slim is gonna feel right at home there.
Killdeer :) :wavey:
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And another "Simply pretty" picture, huh, Killie. From our e-mails back and forth (a lot, this past week) I truly think Roger is a kindred spirit. I couldn't be happier about this "classified affair" - :archer:
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Oh, I've also done my best to set Roger on a collision course with our very special (nutty) friend, Dano (also in NV). :D
Just so folks know, Roger has "thrown in" a couple of very nice acts/"sweetners" for me also. :notworthy:
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Texas Slim is home. :bigsmyl: I could not be happier. :bigsmyl:
(http://i146.photobucket.com/albums/r259/Rkyle/IMG_0002-3.jpg)
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I missed this last picture, Roger. It looks great - and as we thought - right at home. Great pic, my friend. Thank youy for the "side-arm" (hand crafted, high quality slingshot, with wood burning of a jack rabbit on handle) that came with the shipping fees. I'm impressed with it.
(I think I'll put this pic on My Facebook, to follow up the FDs I used for the ad.)
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I traded a bow with Barb...still have it too. But the amazing thing is I bought a Black Bear hide quiver from her. Not sure if there is anything to this...but it seems I've had a good string of luck arrowing black bears ever since ;) Doc
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You're a lucky fella, Doc. Barb sure hated sewing fur! She would love all the red fletching that adorns Slim's new home, though.
I have an otter skin quiver that I bought from her, and her red arrows rest in that. I know that she must have cussed a storm putting that thing together. :D
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v249/Killdeer/TG%20Uploads/Archery%20Equipment/Barbsotterskinquiver.jpg)
Killdeer
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I remember that, Killie. Barb did one for me out of a all white Fallow Deer hide that I had traded some arrows with Country Girl (Dina) for. It was a beauty with some beautiful beadwork of Roses (because of my wife and my love of roses also) on the strap. The white really made it come out a tad "sporty" for me, though it was beautiful. Later on I gave it to a Lady named Ruthie who was just entering trad archery. She told me on My Facebook, just the other day, that it is still hanging on her wall, and she may yet get back into archery. BUT how Barb groused about making fur quivers. She had good reason - her arms would rash up every time she did, and she'd get the sneezies.
Here is a pic of that one, with some of her red feathers in it. They were just a little heavy for me so I passed them on to Killie, except one she gave back to me. (and some other quivers she made - for those who haven't seen them) :
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/fallowdeerqvr2.jpg)
This is The Lakota Plains style Barb made for me, as a surprise. (I still have it and have affixed the very special "Warrior Feather" to it that Killie made me for me, for my service to our country):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/courage2.jpg)
This is Barb's personal Back Quiver that I got from her boyfriend after she left us. (This one I use, and really like, at all the big shoots I go to - to take Barb along. I've added a Dinosaur pin that my wife gave me, and some other patriotic stuff now, that you see in more recent pictures):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/bkqvr1.jpg)
Barb hated to have her picture taken (like my Rose) but she got Rick to take this one for me, as a special favor:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v689/ber643/barbd.jpg)
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I remember her well. I really enjoyed here wit...she was quite a character. Many fond memories. The bow in her hand in the picture above was my hazelnut selfbow backed with python from Africa.
Terry
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Thanks, Terry - I knew that question was asked at the time the pic first showed but I couldn't remember now whose it was, or exactly what the exotic snakeskin was. It's a beauty and I know she was proud of it.
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Not only do I remember her but I miss seeing her unique creations and her zeal for trad archery
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I was stunned to read of Barb's tragic death. This thread and the other one brings back the memories, all of them good except for her passing. Yes, she had quite the sense of humor. She and Killie are on the same level when it comes to their wits, or is that wits end? :) I'll let Killie answer that one.
Bill
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LOL - are you sure you want to hear killie's answer, Bill?
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Never ask a question when you won't like the answer. :readit:
I sure do miss trading 'barbs'. I admit that I do go to the classics forum betimes, just to get a giggle.
Killdeer :campfire: :)
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Killie,
I never met an answer from either you or Barb that I didn't like. Sometimes I had to pick myself up off the floor and quite laughing before I could respond though!! :campfire: :coffee:
Bill
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Barb was a character, for sure. I sold her a bow once, wonder what ever happened to it? It was a 56" Pronghorn, with my name on it. Last I heard she had sold it to someone else, just before her untimely death.