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["clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>]

> Things you wished you knew before---why James is so devoted to primitive 
> tools.  I sneaked up on his place when he and Denise went off to entwine 
> themselves in  a quilting bee---

"If I had a new made quilt, I'd fill it up with feathers
I'd take my Nisi by the hand, and we'd lay there together
Ah, the days when I was young, thoughts that keep returning
They drive the winter's chill away just like a log fire burning."


> marvelous opportunity that left him bereft of all firewood cutting  tools 
> except a jacknife and coping saw---his stout insistence that they are good 
> enough for cutting firewood is just sour grapes..

Ah.  That's what happened.  Haven't really missed them, just a tools of the 
Devil to weaken our spirites .... use it or lose it, don't you know.  I went 
up the mountain for firewood today and just snapped the logs over my knee.


> I've been keeping an eye on them., next to go is that old colonial fowling 
> piece.  However, being the compassionate neocon that I am, I will leave 
> him a copy of this e-mail, so he can cobble up a bow and some arrows to 
> take the place of his colonial shotgun.

Ah, Tvo, Tvo, how sad to see that your sleuthing skills are somewhat 
diminished of late.  Had you looked only a little further, you'd have found 
the REAL stash of hunting weapons.  It was right there beside the stash of 
the 'stuff'.

http://www.geocities.com/one7thfarmer/irons.jpg

>  There's a downside of course, we'll have to listen to some of his 
> raptures about his bow and arrow being better than an Uzi for deer 
> hunting.

We're having venison tonight.  What are you and the Uzi having?

James