Kristen's post opened a flood of old memories... I grew up in a VERY rural area, some of my neighbors, whose homes you couldn't see from the road, had no indoor plumbing, but they compensated by having lots of dogs and guns (YeeeeHaw!). Anyway, I spent a lot of my time riding the bus to and from school, at one time it took one hour each way, so when I got home I would be in a rather claustrophobic state and head straight for the woods. The squirrels liked to throw things at me from their nests but the fox (B&S content?) seemed to tolerate me. My woods were great, lots of trees of course, a creek (or crick), a small cliff for climbing on, and cows that liked to gang up on me. Actually the cows kept to the pastures surrounding the woods so the only part that felt like school was the walk from the house to the trees (stupid bully cows). When I was smallest I would keep to the close-to-home bits of the forest. When I got bigger and didn't like playing war anymore I would walk about with my walkman, listening to Morrissey moan my moans and Robert Smith wail my wails, I moved beyond my woods through farther fields to other woods. I found an animal graveyard with lots of bones scattered about. Once in winter I tracked a fox tracking a rabbit (I asked him where he was going and he said he was finding something to eat so I left him to it.) Turns out I was being tracked too, three hip-high calves were following me. They got really close up but were too skittish to make proper introductions. Anyway two years ago they started putting houses in, and my trees are fewer now. The cows are gone replaced with aluminum siding. The fox is still there, for now. -kirk +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ "sick posse of f**ked in the head psycho-fans" - NME June 2001 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+