Drew, Dave: Very sorry to read of your losses. Sciatica has got me up with a scotch at 1:30 catching up on my DG reading. I sorely missed this past season for medical reasons (read the beginning again)and I've sorely missed the words of my electronic friends King Brown, Rockdoc, Stan, you two, et al...

I hear my 10 year old Brit Gabriel stirring, he no doubt wants to cash in on that "elimination ticket" he slept through earlier this evening. By the way, he's the best bird dog in history, but you no doubt have knowledge of this established fact. Somehow he's forgiven me for not letting him work slavishly for me routing out the impossibly hidden birds of the New England woodlands this past Autumn. Guess he knows there will be plenty more to come.

Lost my dad in 96, 80 year old WWll vet 71st battalion Seabees. It's true, not a day goes by I don't think of him. Oh boy, now my wife stirred, came down wondering what on earth the old man was doing up. Gotta do my best to run fellas. Godspeed.

EDIT: Had to squeeze in this praise for those knives, Stan. Yowza!

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