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To: Clappy who wrote (52096)	6/4/2006 9:03:34 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

I certainly do enjoy reading the chit-chat as well. me too! i usually miss out on joining in becuz i've already crashed for the night. and i also enjoy everyone's stories too, just as you have described. i do seem to need my cage rattled from time to time to get me to write about what i've been up to tho', so it's good that you do that. Just heading out to do some hiking today. Who knows.. maybe there will be a story after. (o: ~croc

To: Clappy who wrote (52096)	6/6/2006 2:41:04 AM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

I.N.I./Clapperdude, I'm as guilty as anyone here of taking more than I give when it comes to prose. Frankly, I'm fascinated by the personalities on this thread, love the banter, and often just get drawn into a trance reading the stories and barbs posted by others. I also fall into the "I don't have as many interesting things to say" mode that others have mentioned. Finally, sometimes life gets so busy that there is little time to type something witty, particularly when I'm at my wit's end. <G?> I guess what I'm trying to say is, I had something written to share, but my dog ate it. <G> Don't get down; these things ebb and flow, and you may be caught in the ebb while others are flowing for a while. I always enjoy reading what you have to say, identify with much of it, learn from the rest of it, and find your writing style refreshing. Keep sharing that gift, and it'll come back to you in spades. John

To: Clappy who wrote (52096)	6/11/2006 11:57:21 AM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 104155

clappylay- i’m not sure where I left off with my update on the woodshed. here’s a picture of the finished product. did i post this already? still to be added to it, is the old fashioned saw – hung up top – and a sign that reads – Horny Harold’s Woodshed. the no trespassing sign was one I picked up from the side of the road. the fed’s have a lot of land up here - they still maintain a base here and i just happened to see this one lying on the side of the road – h-man tells me it’s a federal offense to have picked it up. ha! phuck’em i say! but, if you don’t hear from me for a while, you’ll know i’m in the slammer. we got a phone call from the village municipal office asking us about the “construction” going on at our place. i said we were building a woodshed. she said we need a work permit. i said, you’ve got to be kidding???? she said, no. long and short of it, h-man went in to see them and said, “what-the-phuck you tocking about willis? next thing you’ll be saying is we need a permit to build a dogphuckinghouse!!” we did not pay to get a work permit for the woodshed – nor for the outdoor kitty sandbox so then we started closing in the back half of the carport to build a workshop come mudroom come catch all for miscellaneous and sundry items. you know, a catch all for all the crap you’ve got stored in the garage and the non-wood stuff you want to get out of the woodshed. and its coming along pretty good. he’s got the strapping up on two walls ready for the tar paper and cedar shingles and the sliding glass door is installed. we were lucky and scored big time before moving up here. a neighbour in the old hood was renovating and we got all their old windows/sliding doors gratis. most of it will go into the greenhouse but that’s another story for another time. so, while h-man has been working on the workshop area, i finally built the three-sided lattice screen to hide the ugly oil tank. he screwed the panels together making it was a joint effort (as most things are) and a lot of fun. I enjoyed building it immensely and it even earned me my very own carpenter’s apron and tools. ha!! i’ve arrived. but, that’s not to say that its all work and no play up here. we took Louise out to east beach friday and she did good for the most part. she’s not quite high enough to clear some of the stuff we needed to clear though – like deep loose sand – and on our way home we got stuck. but, not to worry . we were above the tide line and had shovel, rake, heavy duty chicken wire on hand for emergencies such as this and twenty minutes later were on our way. its part and parcel of driving on the beach – our booty was good -no glass balls though. i’m not sure what we’re going to do with it. yesterday was a glorious day. h-man went fishing with a buddy who is starting up his fishing charter business for the season and needed to do a trial run with his boat to make sure all was in running order. he caught a 15 pound spring salmon (see the workshop in the background) we’re going to barbecue some of the fish for dinner today and the rest he took over to a friend's place in town, who smokes and flash freezes fish for the tourist industry. maybe someday we’ll smoke our own but you really need to have a pretty good smoke house going to end up with a good product. oh, and here you can see a couple of swallows being interested in timmy’s birdhouse – but they never did move in. they were just looking. so, that pretty much brings you up to date on what’s happening in massetlan where the women are cool, the guys necessary, and the children redundant. -hoser p.s. last night at eleven o’clock tonight, the street lights were just turning on and i could see the full moon rising – and ohmygod, she was a beauty. within moments it was dark and she was there - in all her glory. big and bright and bold (the way I’d like to be) - absolutely magnificent. if only i were a wordsmith. p.p.s. i decided to copy the pictures onto silverbeaver over night and woke up this morning to find a message on my screen saying that number such and such already exists and did i want to replace it. 2 hours and 10 minutes left to copy. hate it when that happens.