Yes I was referring to you, so glad you are OK and you know what, I guess it doesn't take but a word and we recall something connected with it, way back in our lifetime. They are indeed such pleasant memories, I try not to remember some of the more trying ones. Too many good memories to look back on. One of the privileges we have being in the senior division!! Pat -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 266.5.0 - Release Date: 2/25/2005

Hi Chas, Pat, and folks... This reminds me of my "olden days"... My grandfather had a hired hand who used bailing twine like people use duct tape today. He (the hired hand) would start his day sometimes as early as 3-3:30am... Anyway, he could actually hold the bonnet of a tractor down with bailing twine, probably use the twine to hold a house together instead of nails, fix fence with it, make gate hinges with it, and yes... he even used it to hold stanchions together... Bailing twine was the miracle cure for everything. As I said a little earlier ago - he got up really early in the morning, and the curiosity got to be too much for my grandfather, so he decided to get up really early, go out to the barn, and see just exactly what the attraction was... (I was about 7 or so) We got to the barn and peeked in... there he was, sitting on a bail of hay, reading a comic book, milk can top upside down with milk in it, and about a thousand cats at his feet (ok I lied - it was more like 30 or 40 cats...) My grandfather, being the gentleman he was, decided to see what would happen (I remind you, this is at about 3am...) if he slammed a piece of wood against the barn door... The hired hand jumped off that bail of hay and picked up a hammer and started acting like he was working on something (furiously, that is...) - the cats went in all directions - and I thought my grandfather was going to laugh himself to death... Good thing the cows weren't in the barn at the time ;-) Such was life on the farm... John...