-=> Richard Smith said this to Ray Ledford <=-
 RL> as I'm sure they've all left in a few weeks, I'll close
 RL> the hole up. Gotta wait for the little ones to leave the
 RL> nest.
 RS> I take it that you'll board over the hole too?  Nice of you
 RS> to wait.  I see too many people who can't abide wildlife
 RS> even so long as it takes them to call Animal Control.  I
 RS> fear a lot of our population are out of touch with our
 RS> fellow passengers on this planet . . .
I've known about the hole for some time.  I should've closed it up
before spring, but my wife and I were too excited over her
pregnancy, and then after we lost the baby last month, too upset to
really care about a lot of things.
I'm not going to kill a creature unless it's necessary.  My cats
usually think it's necessary, but after all, they're cats.  It's
what they do -- besides sleep all day.
 RL> He's posted here for some time, but that post just rubbed me
 RL> the wrong way.  Sometimes he's said some things here which I
 RL> felt pushed the envelope, but others, particularly Sondra,
 RL> would gently chide him.
 RS> I had automatically fallen into the habit of ignoring his
 RS> posts over there, it must have persisted over here as well.
What I find funny is that he'll eventually reach a point where he
will either claim that he's no longer going to respond to me, or
he's no longer going to post in this echo, then he'll turn around
before a week has passed and reverse his proclamation.  He told me
last week he wouldn't post here anymore, and then whoomp!  There he
was again! :-)
 RL> I've experienced that as well.
 RS> And, from what I see here, will continue to experience it.
Yep.  I'm afraid so.
 
 RS> the Jews.  Odd how he bragged that he was the son of
 RS> an `Elected' Cherokee Chief, even over there.
 RL> Yeah, he's told me that, too.
 RS> It's one thing to claim something, it's another thing
 RS> entirely to prove it.  I wouldn't take him at face value.
I don't.  It's rather ridiculous for white people to claim such a
thing.  Even though I'm a descendent of Cherokees, I'm also a
descendent of Europeans, too.  I wasn't raised within Cherokee
culture, so I'm not going to claim to be Cherokee.
 RS> Some things never change.
 RL> I wouldn't say that.  For instance, I change my socks
 RL> every now and then.  :-)
 RS>  Ah, but the socks have really got to
 RS> want to change . . . 
I'd be at a loss for words if my socks ever talked to me...!
 
Ray Ledford
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