OMG....Patrick McManus is the best. When I went out to Utah and did the Green River for ten days, I took along "They shoot canoes, Don't they?" and read aloud to my two other fellow canoers in the evening with a great fire going. We looked forward to those stories so much, that now I recommend that book to anyone venturing out and wanting something to read. If you want to laugh out loud, all the deer hunters will appreciate his "Deer on a bicycle" story, in which he goes hunting as a kid, only has his bike, wings a deer, and thinking it's dead he straps himself to it to get it home. Halfway down a hill the deer wakes up and......well, you can pretty much guess the rest. I wish I had a friend like Retch Sweeney!

Sorry, I needed to panic tonight, I'm all done now, gotta get to bed.

I just HAD to chime in here. If you haven't read Pat McManus, you are truly missing out. I had loaned "A Fine and Pleasant Misery", "They Shoot Canoes, Don't They", and "Never Sniff A Gift Fish" to a friend who returned them just today ! Talk about timing. My favorite line came from the story "The Green Box" where Rancid Crabtree said "Ah ain't grinnin'. Ah thank I ruptured maw face pullin' thet dang slangshot!" (And yes, that's the way it was spelled.)

Cheers,
LW


"Any time a man ain't fishin', he's fritteren his life away." Rancid Crabtree

I'm actually on "standby" alert here in the city - Red Cross has plans to open shelters "if needed", so they put their folks, and us, on standby (yawn)

How on earth am I to learn how to panic properly without an example and guidance?

Send that rain out here, we haven't had any in months.