OT But Deja Vu ( ish )

Is Grand Marais still as - well odd, as it was 40 years ago? Nobody seemed employed. All the males had a three day growth of beard - no more, no less - and hung out at the gas station all day. Like something out of X-Files!

But they are native American, right? Article I read said the possum and coyote are the only animals to extend their range since Columbus.

My dog figures anything in the yard belongs there and is part of our menagerie. Until she got bit by a possum. We had some development going on west of us and a lot of the displaced critters migrated across our property. Few years back I trapped and hauled off about five possum who decided to take up residence.

Yep, at the Sheriff department we referred to the annual Bluegrass Festival as the "Smoke Grass Festival." A lot of unreconstructed hippies moving in as they retire. Quality weed growing in the National Lakeshore. Helps with the isolation, I guess.

Since the locals are largely retired or employed in the tourist "industry," they tend to hang around where the tourists collect. The overnight for the

200 mile sled dog race is out there, so you can bet on some prodigious drinking and use of other chemicals by the non-mushers....

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Lobby, The armadillo has extended it's range quite a bit just over the past few years. Their habitat, where ever they are, is "dead on the side of the road" :-) !! Of course, armadillos are known here as "Possum on the half shell" {:-) !!

Ken Moon Webberville, TX.

So Ken and Arch, whereabouts in Maine were you. On the mid-coast here.

Lenny

A few Thanksgivings ago our small town had quite a commotion. Everyone in the small grocery store was talking about the Coyote that was roaming the town in broad daylight. The gung-ho fire chief had it all under control though. With the use of their radios they had managed to follow it as it raced to and fro around town until they pretty much cornered it in the Dentist's backyard. Now, the town Dentist is my best friend. He didn't know anything about this event other than relating to me later that day how the fire chief's mouth dropped about six inches when he scooped up my dog and put her in the pen with his till he could call me a let me know she had gotten loose. He said "he looked like he was going to shoot her"

We had been busy getting dinner together and hadn't realized she had gotten out. She did look like a coyote. Lived to be 17 years old. =0 )

Lenny

Nice to know some things never change! :o) Say, what do hippies do when they retire and how would you know one Was retired?

ROTFL!!