Hi Fleet. No I was too cranky earlier to post about being cranky. And trying to cool me out would just make me crankier. Every few months I guess I have to have a fit then I'm good to go. Might be cabin fever. I've been here for two weeks and the one time I've left the neighborhood was to go to the town dump with my brother. I usually dig
through the recycled battery box when I'm there to look for rechargeables that people
throw out. Sometimes I get lucky.
When I was a kid I had a great uncle Howard. We lived in the Adirondacks and he would take us to the dump at night to see the black bears picking
through the stuff. He also took us out at night to steal stone from the county for fill in his driveway. He had big plastic buckets and we would fill them with stone and put them in the back of his car. That was very exciting for a 6, 7 year old. He was a cool guy. His wife, Roxie, she was a big woman. When we went to their camp she always had Nehi soda and Orange Crush for the kids. There were always candy dishes out too. Howard and Roxie never had kids of their own so they treated us well.
Howard worked as an electrician in a wood plant near Tupper Lake NY. They made popsicle sticks, wooden bowling pins and those flat wooden spoons you used to get in Dixie Cups. Remember those? Uncle Howard always had peanuts in a shell in his pockets. He would sit outside in an old chair and roll the peanut around between his fingers and thumb. This would make a crackling sound. Soon a chipmunk(s) would appear and he would drop the peanut in his shirt pocket. The chippy would climb up him and into his shirt pocket and run away with the peanut.
Here's pics of Haward and Roxie I made in 1984:
Roxie loved to fish and her pieces of pie were enormous.
(((Laurin))) 
