Happy Birthday!

Dear folks, I'd like to give a huge shout and a big Happy Birthday to our entire Patriot Woodworker Community. Today, April 3rd, 2020. We are 10 years old.

 

 

Thank you!

I want to thank all the members here who make this community what it is, and I especially want to thank our Administrators Ron Dudelston and John Moody and our Forum Hosts, Lew Kauffman, Gene Howe, and Larry Buskirk for keeping this community organized and tidy, and for being helpful to the members who frequent these pages and forums.

 

Your support

We also need to thank our community of woodworkers, for coming to the aid of the causes we support, from our annual fundraisers to help The Patriot Woodworker Forums stay live to the most important thing we do, supporting our veterans in need.

When called upon, you all have stepped up to the plate, and participated in our fundraising events to help our veterans and their families to have a Wonderful Christmas in our annual Adopt a Wounded Warrior Family for the Holidays event, where you all step up and donate funds in order to provide a wonderful Christmas for a veteran family.

We cannot thank you enough!

 

My thanks to you

This has been a journey for me personally, starting a community based on a duty to help those who serve our nation, and our love of everything woodworking. I have met many wonderful people here, and many have become friends. I have grown because of this group, I have matured in ways I never thought existed, I have rejoiced with your wins in your woodworking journey and life events, and I have felt sadness with you in some not so pleasant life events, we have lost a few Patriots on the way, and they'll be remembered always. I am a better person because of my experience here, with you. I owe all of you that.

 

And, to my family, especially my wife for putting up with countless hours of looking at the back of my head while I sit here maintaining our community, interacting with you all, and also while having fun in my own online woodworking endeavors, thank you Wife!

 

If anyone would like to read how we started out as a community, feel free to read the long boring story that can be found at:

 

And we cannot say enough thanks to the folks who support our community and keep us live, by their incredible generosity in sponsorship. To the fine folks at Woodcraft, Easy Wood Tools, and Laguna Tools, we thank you. You have been with us nearly since our inception, and each year you step up to the plate, and help us pay our fees and dues and you contribute product for our raffles and other community events that help support the men and women who wear the uniform of our American Armed Forces, and the Veterans who come out of it all.

Thank you!

 

Wow it's been ten years already!!!
Happy Birthday 

Ten years....wow, the memories.  On one hand it seems like yesterday but on the other it was a lifetime ago when I joined.  The site has become a major player but our roots are pretty humble.  I love our activity today but the memories of the “old timers” are still pretty vivid.  We’ve lost some good folks over the past ten years.  Happy Birthday TPW!

April 3. What an auspicious date. Happy 10th, TPWW. 

Ten years ...

...Could be, it seems like it only takes six months for a year to go by. 

Great milestone!  Congrats!!

Happy Birthday 🎂.

 

Only been here since August 2018 but really enjoy this site.

Holy Cow! That went fast!!!

Happy birthday to TPW.  Thanks John and all others who make this site possible and thank you all who participate, sharing and caring, informing and walking us through stuff.  It is difficult to conceive that I've been here almost 4 years.  

Happy Birthday to The Patriot Woodworker. I’m glad your standards were low enough, to let me in  

Well, guess I'm a youngster here ! I've only been around for a third of the trip. It's been a great ride and I hope to continue. Thanks John.

I was around at the start up of this....came and went, too.  

Still don't recall what prompted me to join on that date back in 2016, but it's been a good ride and I hope i can stay on until the end. 

 

I thank you all. 

Hi John1..  Larry Jenkins here.  If my old memory is any good, I think I was one of the first dozen or so to sign up.

 

Had many good years learning things, offering some techniques and project images and just had a ball with everyone that accumulated on your site.

 

Out of woodworking now due to my wife's COPD which is sensitive to the inherent woodworking "smells."  Doing a lot of home designing now on my old XP confuser.

 

You are maintaining the right way to run a very successful and interesting woodworking site.  No other like it  The Gang is just awesome.  Let's go for another 10!

 

Larry

Happy Birthday PWW. I got here after the first cake was decorated but the last 4 years have been phenomenal. There is not a friendlier , more knowledgeable and accommodating place on the web . And we just keep getting more great guys and gals.

 

So lets go for 20 more at least. @John Morris are you up for it ,, or maybe we should say is the wife up for it?

My age says that I am an adult, my wife says I ought to act like it!  That means I can go to any site on the inter-tubes I want, as long as she agrees...

Anyhow, I choose TPWW.  This is the only ww site I visit (or try) on a daily basis.

Happy Birthday TPWW, and thank you John for the whole package!

12 hours ago, steven newman said:

I was around at the start up of this....came and went, too.  

I wasn't here at the very start, but like Steve came, left for awhile, and came back home.

13 hours ago, Gerald said:

So lets go for 20 more at least. @John Morris are you up for it ,, or maybe we should say is the wife up for it?

Heck ya!!!!

Sure wish Keedy was here to see this.....he'd throw a Royal Party....

34 minutes ago, steven newman said:

Sure wish Keedy was here to see this.....he'd throw a Royal Party....

I miss Keedy, I still visit his Facebook page now and then and leave a "miss ya" comment around his birthday time.