Incidentals

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Rip Snorter — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:34:48 GMT

This was his last hurrah. If those cannon can't be located from air photos they're just going to have to wait for someone else to find them. Marsh ain't a quitter, but he anticipates being the kind of man who knows when he's whupped, supposing it ever happens. But, on the other hand, he's got a friend who's a bullgoose when it comes to finding needles in haystacks studying air photos. Yers trooly. J... [ More ]

Comment #2

Rip Snorter — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 18:53:06 GMT

Thanks for the comment. I generally don't kill anything from spiders upward if I can avoid it. However, the word, 'avoid' is open to interpretation and covers a multitude of possible circumstances. I don't recognize any moral high ground existing in the equation, but I do relocate rattlers and anything else making a nuisance of itself or endangering itself by trying to mind its own affairs in close proximity to mankind when I can, as opposed to the alternatives. But if it needs killing I... [ More ]

Comment #1

cowgirlpoet — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 17:09:33 GMT

I keep a "have a heart" trap around for the rock squirrels at my place, then I "relocate" them to some land I have down along the river. They may die anyway, but it gives me the warm fuzzies thinking I've taken the moral high ground. I'm glad your buddy, Marsh, made it back in one piece. You guy's mentality reminds me of the helicopter pilots at the Grand Canyon, some of whom who delight in scaring the Be Jesus out of a certain cowgirl, who once thought she was so gung ho.... [ More ]

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