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[keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net>]

While shooting rats at the chicken coop this morning my neighbor's boy 
(20-something still at home) walked over through the woods. For years 
I'd been trying to get him interested in hunting without success. He 
took to rat hunting though, saying he just don't like the skinning and 
such that goes with deer hunting. Anyways, I told him to enjoy and left 
him with my .22 pistol while I forked the garden and spread compost. I 
would take a break every half-hour or so and we would sit at my fire pit 
and talk. One of the things we discussed was my long list of to do's, 
rat-proof the coop, plant the agrden, build a greenhouse addition, 
remodel my sister's bathroom ...

He said he had a list of the things he wanted to do before he died. 
"Take a trip to Amsterdam and then to California."

Is that all, I asked.

"Pretty much," he said.

> --- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
> > It could be judged self-serving or deluded, but it
> > seems to me that  
> > the elderly must, yes, must, pass on to the
> > youngsters what they have  
> > learned through experience and thinking--if the
> > human condition is to  
> > be improved.
> >