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4. EBOLA: It’s Not The Zombie Apocalypse You’ve Been Waiting For. Yes, there’s reason for concern.

No, we won’t all die.

11. KEEPING THE SPACE Raised on the wild side, Sandy reminds us why it’s important to be “a - part.” THE SCENIC ROUTE

6. DELTA RESTORATION Get in on making history by volunteering in the work to restore the Clark Fork River Delta

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7. GORGEOUS GARLIC It’s not to late to plant next year’s bounty. GET GROWING 8. CANADA GOOSE REDUX If you didn’t know - there’s more than one kind of honker and Mike gives tips to tell them apart.

A BIRD IN HAND

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EBOLA: It’s not the Zombie Apocalypse You’ve been Waiting For I have an Ebola headache as I sit down to write this even though I’ve not been anywhere near an Ebola patient. I have been on social media, though, and even in the comment sections of news sites and blogs, since the news broke that a person who contracted Ebola in Africa wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he had become infectious in Dallas, Texas.

When it comes to this virus, we seem to be swallowing the camel while choking on the gnat.

So let’s talk about those gnats that are choking us; that is, let’s talk about what we don’t have to worry about. First, we’re not all going to die. I would have thought that was somewhat obvious.

Even in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, where the virus has been allowed to burn through communities with only a fraction of the needed response, there’s around 3,500 confirmed dead, and maybe a few thousand more dead who haven’t been tracked. Liberia has an estimated current population of 4.2 million people.

So many people are dying there because what Liberia, for an example, doesn’t have is a sufficient number of hospitals or medical personnel or even basic supplies like gloves and bleach, to deal with this disease - despite the frantic pleadings of the World Health Organization over the last few months. In Liberia there are only 8 hospital beds and 3 medical personnel per 10,000 people; compare that with the U.S., with around 26 beds and 94 medical personnel for the same 10,000 people and you can see why it’s not likely we would see an outbreak of Ebola like has been seen in Liberia.

Disease outbreaks are not new.

Particularly in poverty-stricken areas of the globe, they are a fact of life, and over the years public health experts have learned how to contain them when they occur. That Ebola is raging unchecked right now in three West African countries isn’t due to a lack of knowledge of how to stop it - it’s about a lack of will (also known as a lack of money) from those who do have it to provide an end to the misery and suffering this is causing for people “over there.” Now that Ebola has spread beyond those borders and into our own, America has pledged to help. But that help is going to take time to provide, and an epidemic that’s been brewing

since Spring is not going to be ended any time soon.

What that means is that it’s very much likely we will see more cases of Ebola in the United States, as well as in other areas around the globe. Statistics tells us its inevitable. It was possible that the very first patient who developed Ebola this spring could have gotten on a plane and flown anywhere—even here—and gone through the course of his disease outside of West Africa. It just wasn’t likely. But the more people who become infected “over there,” the more likely some will show up “over here;” it’s a numbers game that we’ve been losing, in part because we simply hate to provide aid to other people who might need it, failing to recognize that enlightened self-interest is reason in itself to do so, in addition to simple humanity.

Hindsight is so nicely 20/20, isn’t it?

So what do we do now that the pigeons have come home to roost? In part, we do what we should have done months ago—we work to stop the outbreaks in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, so that the odds once again fall in our favor. If we don’t do that, then all other efforts will fail; Ebola will become endemic in West Africa, and with our global community, it may well earn itself its own section on the CDC’s regular mortality reports for the United States.

If that were to happen, though, we still wouldn’t all die, because there’s a magic bullet for containing Ebola that has worked in every outbreak so far —containment. While it’s likely we will have more Ebola cases in the U.S., it’s not likely we will have an outbreak.

That’s an important distinction, because it seems that many believe if an American contracts Ebola here in the U.S., “the system,” has failed. But the system isn’t designed to ensure that doesn’t happen—it can’t ensure that doesn’t happen. What it’s designed to do is make sure that people infected with Ebola (or West Nile Virus, or Hanta Virus, or Lassa Hemorraghic Fever) don’t go on to further infect entire communities.

In fact, we’re lucky that it’s just Ebola that’s come home to roost, because Ebola, scary as it is, simply isn’t that contagious.

First, people with Ebola cannot infect you unless they’re experiencing

symptoms. Once the virus has replicated enough in their system, they get sick and become infectious. That means you can’t “catch” the virus from someone who appears perfectly healthy—you can only get it from someone who’s sick. If you’re really scared, avoid sick people.

Second, Ebola is transmitted through body fluids. This means vomit, urine, shit, blood, tears, semen, saliva, sweat, and even the very large droplets in a sneeze. (It’s the one-meter rule. While Ebola can’t travel through the air, it can live in sneeze droplets that generally land within a one-meter (around 3 feet) space.

Luckily, sneezing is not a typical symptom with Ebola.) Oh, and semen. How often do you come into contact with other people’s body fluids? Because that’s about how often you might be exposed to Ebola if you’re around someone who has it. (Maybe Ebola will finally convince men to quit peeing on the seat?) Note that these body fluids don’t have to be coming out of the sick patient in order for you to become infected. Sleep in a bed contaminated with sweat, blood, urine, etc., walk through a puddle of vomit, wash the dirty underwear—these are all additional ways you can contract the virus. This, by the way, is called fomite transmission. There’s a word you can save up for trivia night.

Third, Ebola makes you sick. It doesn’t make you oh-I’ve-got-a-cold-and-feellike-crap sick—it makes you oh-my-godthere’s-really-something-wrong-and-Imight-die sick. And it happens pretty fast.

So there’s generally a fairly small window while someone who is symptomatic might be walking around taking care of business as usual.

Fourth: the Ebola virus isn’t that small in the virus world. It can’t make its way through gloves, rubber gowns, plastic eyewear, etc. And it doesn’t live for long outside of those body fluids. Heat can kill it. So can bleach. And so can time.

While Ebola isn’t that contagious for most people, the above should demonstrate that there are certain groups of people who are at much higher risk, and who should be meticulous about taking precautions. This obviously includes medical personnel, but also includes other first responders (fire, police, EMTs), funeral home workers and, think about it... janitors. Someone’s gotta

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clean up that vomit, after all.

What other gnats are we freaking about? Well, there’s the call to close our borders, which anyone with a lick of sense ought to recognize is darn near impossible. Almost 90,000 people fly into the U.S. every single day (32.6 million per year). And any one of them could be infected with Ebola. The virus doesn’t limit itself outside our borders to only those arriving from an infected country; it can come in on anyone who has had close contact with another infected person, period. The current procedure of measuring for temperatures of any patient leaving an infected area, regardless of where they’re going, and of airline personnel reporting any patient who develops symptoms while on a plane, is the best we can do at border control.

About that fever, by the way.

“Invariably,” reads one journal article on Ebola, someone infected will “present with fever.” That makes sense; fever is our body’s natural response to a viral infection. But invariably is not always.

There are some Ebola patients who develop other symptoms before they develop fever, which is why travel history is so important to consider when someone is sick. If you are a person who might do so, then don’t let the lack of a fever mislead you. Anyone who has been in an area where the virus is circulating, or has associated with someone infected, who exhibits any of the symptoms, should be isolated and a test ordered.

With the gnats taken care of, what are the camels we’re ignoring?

The first is the weaknesses in the system that are particular to the United States. It should be said, by the way, that the system doesn’t have to be perfect to work. But now I’d like to look more at individual cases than at outbreaks.

An important part of the system is that those who are ill be identified as soon as possible. This is why the failure of the hospital in Texas to identify the patient there as a possible Ebola patient is so important. The longer a person is ill, the more virus there is in his or her body fluids, making it more likely that those body fluids will infect someone else.

Dallas gave this man another two days to share his virus.

But go back to that first part: someone sick has to seek treatment in order to be identified as having Ebola, and the earlier they do so, the better. Does that happen in the U.S.? Not if we use influenza to judge by. When people get sick with the flu, they generally wait to get treatment until they’re really sick. Until then, they

go about their business, going to work, going to school, shopping for groceries. In part this is because many people cannot afford to go to the doctor. That would include the poor, with no insurance coverage, who in this area were not covered by an expansion in Medicaid; those whose insurance coverage requires a co-pay they cannot manage; and those who feel they simply cannot afford to take time off work. Luckily, those who know they’ve been exposed to Ebola will likely seek treatment immediately if they begin to feel sick. But for those who might, eventually, not know they’ve been exposed; well, this might be a pretty big wake-up call about the inadequacies in our system of health care and why a little bit of aid to those who need it is an important tool of prevention.

Dallas also failed once they knew they had an Ebola patient, by confining the family within an apartment where Ebola virus was present on contaminated items, and by failing to provide accurate information in a timely manner to those who might have been impacted.

I find myself somewhat haunted by images of janitors power-washing the sidewalks outside the apartment where the patient had been staying. If he did, as reported, vomit outside, one can only hope that enough time had passed that viable Ebola virus wasn’t being sprayed everywhere, by people in t-shirts and tennis shoes. These were people who knew they might be dealing with Ebola virus, but who nonetheless failed to take any precautions. This clean-up, if necessary, should have been undertaken by the Texas Health Department, and not workers hired by the apartment management. Perhaps it’s just coincidence that public health in Texas is not a budget priority. They spend only $56 per capital, with over 70 percent of those dollars coming from the federal government. The good news? Montana does better, at $104.03 per capita (with about 72 percent paid by the feds) and Idaho is better yet, at $139.68 (with only 36% paid by the federal government).

Texas undoubtedly benefits from some economies of scale, but I have to say I am more comfortable relying on our public health departments here.

Another uniquely American issue with Ebola is the fact that Americans like animals—62 percent of households include at least one pet. I heard a reporter on CNN blithely reassure a caller that household pets cannot be infected with Ebola, but there’s at least one study that would beg to differ with her.

A 2005 CDC report, “Ebola Virus Antibody Prevalence in Dogs and Human Risk,” reported that a study undertaken during one Ebola outbreak “suggests that dogs can be infected by Ebola virus and that the putative infection is asymptomatic.” This means dogs can be infected and have no symptoms. While these dogs might have become infected by eating dead, infected animals, the study noted that dogs potentially became infected by “licking the vomit from infected patients.” It was suggested that though the dogs had no symptoms, they might be able to excrete virus in urine, feces and saliva. It concluded, “Given the frequency of contact between humans and domestic dogs, canine Ebola infection must be considered as a potential risk factor for human infection and virus spread.” Veterinarians might want to look into this further.

The biggest ‘camel’ we’re swallowing, however, is a failure to recognize that today’s Ebola might not be tomorrow’s Ebola. Viruses are evolutionary factories.

You can become infected by one virus, and when it takes over your cells and begins pumping out copies of itself, those copies are never quite the same. Most of the changes that are made to a virus inside a human body are failures, but every now and then, a modification is made that sticks. (It’s that numbers game again.) Viruses generally change in ways that makes it easier for them to infect new hosts; fortunately, those changes seem to go hand in hand with a lessening in virulence. The easier it is to catch, that is, the less it’s likely to kill you.

That doesn’t mean, however, that a virus won’t emerge that’s both lethal and easier to catch, though if it does it will likely burn itself out quickly, leaving a wake of misery in its path.

Given the situation in West Africa, Ebola is not going to go away soon.

Although it hasn’t happened as we go to press, here’s a bet: another person will be diagnosed with Ebola soon. And that would be the girlfriend/partner/wife of the current patient, given that sleeping in the same bed as someone infected with Ebola has been shown to be high-risk behavior.

Will it stop there? It would surprise me if it does. We may see several more people identified with Ebola infection in the U.S., and maybe even quite a few more. What we’re not likely to see, unless we panic and go into full Zombie Apocalypse mode, is anything like what has been seen in Africa.

-Trish Gannon

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Groups Converge to Save the Clark Fork Delta Near the Northwest corner of Lake Pend Oreille, where Highway 200 leaves the water and winds its way along the mountains going east to Clark Fork, lies the Clark Fork Delta.

Marking the point where the Clark Fork River, the lake’s largest source of water, dumps its burden into Lake Pend Oreille, its immediately recognizable by the piles of driftwood that collect behind a series of booms, convenient roosts to water birds of all sorts. The booms were put in place and maintained by Albeni Falls Dam, and serve to collect, on average, ten acres of drift that would otherwise enter the lake.

Because of this collection, you might know the Delta by one of its other names: the Drift yard, the Bone yard, or if you read nautical maps much, you might know it as the Clark Fork Flats. Or you might even know it from a time further back in time, as the place where the ancestors of the Kalispel tribe, according to their own oral histories, came out of the Delta and into history. Some who know that history call it Indian Meadows, although much of what was Indian Meadows was drowned when the dam was built at Albeni Falls. Before then, it was a popular gathering place for tribes to pitch their teepes, and dry what had been gathered to be saved for the winter.

Today, the area has been deemed to be one of the ten most important wetlands in the state, but the dam at Albeni is

continually eroding the shoreline and damaging the area due to the fluctuations in lake level demanded by the dam. It’s been argued that almost 15 acres of land are lost every year to this action, along with other impacts from the Cabinet Gorge Dam just a few miles upstream.

Now, a series of partners, including Avista, Bonneville Power, Ducks Unlimited, Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, Idaho Master Naturalist Program, the Kalispel Tribe, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are implementing a $6 billion program to restore the wetlands - and they invite you to help.

The project has two goals: To protect existing areas within the delta from further erosion using environmentally compatible stabilization methods, and,

(2) To restore and enhance the edge and interior areas. Phase I has now begun, and will continue through March of next year. It will involve “The placement of large woody debris (that) will add habitat complexity and promote the growth of diverse native riparian vegetation. Native species such as black cottonwood, dogwood and willow will benefit,” writes Kathy Cousins of Idaho Fish and Game.

Volunteers are still needed in a couple of project areas.

The Willow and Dogwood Collection Team “is responsible for gathering all of the willow and dogwood whips and poles for the construction phase of the restoration project.”

The Weed Team will work on the elimination “of aquatic and terrestrial noxious and invasive weeds. Controlling noxious weeds and undesirable vegetation is critical for the successful re-establishment of desirable native vegetation and delta wetland habitats on the project sites. It will be important to map out current weed locations...”

The Vegetation Team will work on “planning and coordinating the reseeding and planting of herbaceous and woody plants in the construction areas.”

Further, an Outreach Team will work on raising awareness of the project, and an Education Team will work to develop outreach and education opportunities for area students. Currently, volunteer support is still needed in other areas as well, including monitoring of small mammals in the area, monitoring vegetation, providing photographs of the area, including photos at specific time frames, conducting surveys of wildlife and micro-climates, and inventorying and monitoring avian species including birds, bats and pollinators, A website has been developed for the project and can be found at www. clarkforkdelta.org. Those interested in volunteering can choose their “team” of interest, and sign up to volunteer online.

This is a location important to the history of the area and important throughout that history. Volunteering to keep it safe and to rebuild its diversity will allow that history to continue into the future, for our children and our grandchildren’s grandchildren.

Photo above courtesy Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game.

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Get Growing!

Nancy Hastings

When that first hard frost comes through the area, it seemingly marks the end to garden season. Now is the time to clean out the garden beds, build up the compost pile, roll up the garden hoses and clean off your tools for winter storage.

But not so fast! It’s also time to “do the groundwork” for next summer’s favorite seasoning base: it’s time to plant garlic!

There are three types of garlic that can find a home in your garden bed: hardneck, softneck, and elephant garlic.

The hardneck garlics produce a scape, a long, flowering stem, that provides a mild, garlicy boost in salads and pestos in late spring, or can be left to form bulbils, a form of garlic ‘seed’ that can be planted to produce more garlic - though generally that can take two years or more.

Softneck garlics produce no scape, though they generally grow a larger bulb

Gorgeous Garlic Begins! and produce more individual cloves than a hardneck variety.

Elephant garlic, as you might guess, is large - individual bulbs can sometimes weigh almost a pound! But while the garlic itself is huge, the flavor is not - this is a very mild garlic flavored much like a leek.

Some have said it’s grown for people who can’t take the heat of traditional garlic.

All three varieties can be planted now that the soil is cool, for harvest next season. Loosen the soil to about a foot depth, and plant individual cloves about 4 inches deep, leaving 6 to 8 inches between each planting. After you get your holes ready for planting, hold the whole bulb in one hand with roots down on the palm of your hand and gently break off its small cloves, keeping the skins on the clove as much as possible and keeping the pointy end UP as you cover them. After planting, rake up some of those leaves in the yard

and pile them on top of your garlic bed - think of it as giving your garlic a warm, winter comforter. Come spring, as you anxiously await the arrival of those first crocuses, you can also anticipate watching for those slim, green shoots to begin poking their way toward the sun.

Garlic is harvested when 2 or 3 of the outer leaves become limp and yellow.

Garlic offers a number of health benefits, as well as a kick of distinct flavor to almost any dish. And, as a just in case, it’s the only plant in your garden that can ward off vampires!

Nancy Hastings grew up on a 300+-acre farm and now is co-owner of All Seasons Garden and Floral in Sandpoint. She and her husband John have been cultivating community gardens and growing for 16 years in North Idaho. You can reach them with garden questions or sign up for classes at allseasonsgardenandfloral (at)gmail.com.

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A Bird in Hand Michael Turnlund

I’ve written about the Canada goose before (or Canadian goose, as most of us call the species, incorrectly), describing it as the avian equivalent of a cow. Which it is, in a way – a cow that flies, leaving in the grass, and on the walkways, and everywhere else it goes, little reminders of its presence. But that is not the whole picture. No, there’s much more to the story.

What we call the Canada goose is actually a genus composed of many different species or subspecies, depending on the authority. They just happen to look the same. That is, they look the same until you learn the field marks that help you to tell one from the other. Kind of…

About a decade ago the American Ornithologists’ Union (AOU) determined that the Canada goose is more than a bunch of different races, but actual species or subspecies. Lately we’ve been seeing a lot of this sort of thing, bird species and their relationship to other species being constantly revisited and revised. Why? Because of the advances in chromosomal studies, the genetic relationships between bird species – and often within presumed species – can be better understood.

Subsequently, what was once a single species – the Canada goose (genus Branta) – has now been broken up by the AOU into two species, perhaps super-species is a better term, which encompasses nine or ten (or eleven!) subspecies. One of the species is Branta canadensis, the Canada geese with six subspecies; and the other is Branta hutchinsii with four (possibly five) subspecies. Oy, it gets confusing and not all experts are convinced by this rearrangement. But time will tell. Expect updates.

So what does all of this mean for you, the local birder? How can a person make heads or tails of all of this, when even the experts don’t agree? For me, it just adds spice to the game! I have encountered many of these “new species” and subspecies and they are subtly dissimilar.

But instead of exploring the minutia of

Canada Goose: Redux each of these species and subspecies, let’s concentrate on what we might actually expect to encounter in our area.

The Canada goose that you’ll find most commonly around here is most probably the Moffit’s Canada Geese (also called the Great Basin or the Western Canada goose). On the scale of the largest to the smallest subspecies, the Moffit’s is one of the bigger ones, though not the biggest. These birds measure between 8-12 pounds. That’s a good-sized bird!

Many of these birds have adopted a more leisurely lifestyle and no longer migrate, but become resident nuisances in their year-round communities of choice. That being said, you are unlikely to be able to separate the resident, non-migrating birds with the migrants that come to spend the winter here or pass through to points further south or west. Migratory birds breed during the summer in Alaska and northwestern Canada. Compared to the other subspecies, the Moffit’s has a very long neck and tends to be lighter colored. It also sometimes sports a white neck ring (partial, or complete) at the base of the black neck.

Another Canada goose you might encounter is the Lesser Canada goose (though, interestingly some authorities do not recognize this subspecies). This one is the smallest of the Canada geese. Though size is surprisingly a difficult gauge out in the field for identifying bird species – as you really need some point of reference – this bird is a bit smaller than the more common Moffit’s. And that might be your only way to differentiate this bird from its larger cousin. Look for the Lesser in a mixed flock of Canada geese and if you can clearly see a size difference, the smaller of the two large geese might very well be a Lesser. I say “might” for a reason. Continue reading…

The other “Canada” geese you’ll see here are technically Cackling geese, the other species of Branta. We are concerned with only two of them, one of which should be easy to identify and the other, not so much. You will most likely only encounter these birds during spring or fall migration.

Let’s start with the easiest one: the Cackling goose, which retained its name with the shake up of the genus. You cannot miss this bird, because it looks like a miniature Canada goose. It is the size of a duck; say, a large Mallard drake. But it has the coloration of a Canada goose.

So if you see what appears to be a pygmy honker, chances are it is a Cackling goose.

Again, this will probably be in a mixed flock of other Branta subspecies. The Cackling goose gets its name from its call, which sounds like a high-pitched squeaky version of a “regular” Canada goose.

The other subspecies of Cackling goose you might chance upon is the Richardson’s goose. This one is larger than the Cackling goose, but obviously smaller than the Moffit’s (“obvious” in that you spot it in a mixed-flock of Canada goose species and subspecies, where the size difference can be most apparent).

But it might be as large as the Lesser! Its contrasting light colors on the breast and elsewhere are often paler than those of the other related geese, and the neck is shorter. It also has what appears to be an undersized bill – relative to the size of the bird when compared to other related Canada geese. But beyond that, it looks like a…Canada goose! But its not.

Good luck with the above information!

I encourage you to conduct your own research and then you can become as confused as I am. For that matter, as confused as the experts who are still in disagreement of how these geese – Canada and Cackling – are all related. Sort of like figuring out the pedigree of the modern American family.

However it pans out, these birds bear watching. They are big, and small, beautiful birds and it is always an adventure to discover what each flock of migrating “Canada” geese brings us each spring and fall. Happy birding!

Mike Turnlund is the author of Bird Musings, as well as other books.

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The Game Trail

Matt Haag

Fall is definitely creeping into the air; the nights are a bit cooler and it just feels like the grip of our glorious Indian Summer is loosening. My tomatoes are not happy with that situation, but I always look forward to the fall despite it being the busiest time for game wardens.

Things seem to slow down for most folks a bit in the fall. Summer used to be a time of being lazy but it seems like everyone is rushing around more and more each year. What is it with Albertans? Can they not convert miles per hour to kilometers per hour, or do they think speed limits are just for people from the States? Oh well, they’ll be headed north for a while until Schweitzer opens. Also look for the wake board boats and jet skis fading away and the rise of fisherman on the lake. Oh, and is anyone going to miss the highway construction? I didn’t think so. Bring on fall.

With fall knocking on the door it means back to school and hunting seasons. I always like to remind folks of season dates and regulation related matter to reduce the unintentional violation. People often ask if the majority of poachers do it intentionally. Hardly, the majority of wildlife related violations are committed by those not paying attention or by the uniformed. During our Hunter Education courses we really harp on the idea that every hunter has the ethical and legal obligation to educate themselves and be responsible for understanding the rules.

As I write this article the temperatures have dipped a little but there’s no doubt hotter temperatures will follow us well into the archery season. Heat and game meat don’t mix too well, so have a plan to take care of your meat before you head into the woods. Every year I see people make mistakes that can be avoided. Learn to properly dress your animal. With an elk, remove the entire hide, especially the thicker hair that covers the brisket and neck. Also, get the windpipe out. Have some coolers with ice to put the meat on as soon as you get back to the truck.

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Unfortunately, with the anticipation of hunting season arriving some degenerates think that they should illegally shoot big game, stealing our resources. A lot of this monkey business happens at night with a spotlight. Fish and Game officers will be deploying their robotic decoys in record numbers this late summer and early fall. This is not a threat, but more of a warning to those who think illegally shooting animals is fun. It may prove to be the most expensive fun you’ve had.

We set the decoys to catch folks hunting at night, out of season, or on private property without permission. If you are a landowner who has experienced problems with trespass, spotlighting issues, and are interested in having a decoy operation on your property, please call me, or your local officer.

Financial woes are not an excuse to steal game from the people of Idaho. If you need meat please call me and we’ll do our best to put some meat on your table, legally. Every year I have some poacher tell me they were just trying to feed their family. And in most cases they have a fresh box of beer on the seat, and a pack of smokes, and the latest cell phone attached to their belt. Pretty lame excuse if you ask me. For those folks who can spare a little meat this year, please consider taking your extras to the food bank or call me and I’ll find a family that needs the meat. Please remember to attach a proxy statement to the meat when you give it to someone else. Proxy statements can be found in the hunting regulations.

Mistakes happen to even the best hunters. The difference between an ethical hunter and a careless hunter is honesty. Every hunter knows somebody

or has been in a situation himself or herself that resulted in an honest mistake.

It doesn’t matter if it was accidentally taking two turkeys with one shot, or killing a bull trout because it was hooked badly, call your local conservation officer and explain what happened. We can make things right if you make the effort to contact us. However, if we have to contact you, do not expect leniency.

For those hunters who intentionally violate the law, you are jeopardizing the privilege to hunt, and you are stealing from your own community. Before you go spotlighting, hunt over salt, or party hunt ask yourself, is it worth it? Will I be in hot water with my family, friends, or even lose my job? Don’t fuel the anti-hunter sediment and ruin the hunting privilege for the honest sportsmen.

I’ll leave you with a few important reminders. There is NO general cow elk season this year, all cow hunts have become controlled hunts in the Panhandle zones. In addition, doe season runs the length of the deer season instead of the historical November 1st opener.

IDFG is also offering discounted prices on unsold nonresident deer and elk tags as second tags for a limited time. The discounts are available to resident and nonresident hunters purchasing second tags in 2014. Deer tags are $199 and elk tags are $299, so if you are interested in shooting a second animal and have some cash in your pocket, get down to a license vendor and purchase your tags before they run out.

I look forward to seeing you all in the woods this fall, whether you’re hiking, woodcutting, or hunting! Please have a safe, ethical, and legal hunt.

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“Those freaks was right when they said you were dead!” (John Lennon, from How Do You Sleep) In honor of Paul McCartney’s recent concert in Missoula last month, I thought I’d remind some of our older readers of a strange interlude in Sir Paul’s journey that younger TRJ readers might not be aware of.

The bizarre rumor, started in 1969 soon after the release of Abbey Road, said that Paul had actually died in a car accident in 1966 and had been replaced by a look-alike. The other Beatles, so it was said, were faced with the loss of millions, as well as the collapse of a cottage industry now worth billions should Paul have died. The former Beatle was known to have been in a car accident in 1966 (Wednesday morning at 5 am) and it was soon after that the group quit performing live.

Clues abounded in the band’s lyrics: from Sgt Pepper there was “he blew his mind out in a car, didn’t notice that the lights had changed, a crowd of people stood and stared, they’d seen his face before... etc” Then there’s the outro to I am the Walrus in which John appears to state quite clearly “I Buried Paul” and from Revolution # 9 (played backwards) comes the spectral phrase “turn me on dead man.”

Then there’s Paul’s photo on the back of Sgt Pepper, only he is shown in reverse while the other three face the camera.

And on the left shoulder of his uniform are the letters OPD, London Morgue shorthand for “Officially Pronounced Dead.” The Sgt Pepper cover further shows the four Beatles attending a funeral and on the ground where a body would lie is a left-handed guitar, Paul’s chosen instrument. In the crowded background of mourners and wax figures surrounding the Fab 4 a disembodied hand hovers over Paul’s head, sandwiched between the heads of Black magician Aleister Crowley and the Poet of Death, Edgar Allan Poe. But wait, there’s more! From John’s Glass Onion are the lyrics: “the Walrus is Paul” and “walrus” is Norwegian for Death. But the coup de gras was surely

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the Abbey Road album cover itself, a virtual portrait of the Dance of Death, with a white garbed, bearded John leading the way as the Angel of Death, followed by a well suited Ringo as the Minister presiding, and then Paul, barefooted (symbolizing the afterlife), and last, the scruffy, denim-wearing George representing the common man gravedigger.

The car in the background has a license plate that reads 28 IF, reminding us he would have then been 28 only IF he had lived!

Remember the Beatles dancing down stairs in unison in Magical Mystery Tour?

All the others wore white carnations, symbolizing Life, in their lapels, only Paul’s was black!

His replacement in the group was reportedly one Michael Campbell, the winner of a Paul McCartney look-alike contest in ‘66, a contest in which it was rumored Paul himself entered as a lark but came in a surprising second. Mr. Campbell’s impersonation was supposed to have been temporary but it was such a strange success and he turned out to be a quick learner and a passable composer of simple pop songs that the masquerade was extended indefinitely.

When Paul later met and married his first wife, Linda Eastman, Paul’s closest friends were heard to tell him after the ceremony, “Good Luck, whoever you are!” By the way, Mr. Campbell, the Paul lookalike winner, vanished in 1966 as well, supposedly drowned in the Thames but his body was never found!

There’s a few websites, mostly devoted to countless other conspiracy theories, that talk about the “death” of Paul, so a few of them should pop up with a basic Google search if you’re interested in wasting a few moments of your time (like you’ve just done). ‘til next time; With the vermouth-lipped duck of doubt slowly roasting in my oven of truth, I bid you adieu.

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The Scenic Route Sandy Compton

I’m a homeboy, as if most of you don’t know that; dragged here against my will as a helpless babe by my mother — as was my father, also. He was considerably older than I, but helpless also, because my mother was coming home. She was coming home like a salmon, bringing a young egg and an older egg with her to be planted in this soil, in the Clark’s Fork of the Columbia River drainage.

My maternal grandparents came here early and lived in humility in the shadow of the Cabinets. They got their asses kicked some years. In 1934, Grandpa planted 4 acres of potatoes, harvested them by hand and got 2 cents a pound for his effort. He was a farmer, a man of the earth.

As children of the youngest children of my paternal and maternal grandchildren, my sibs and I grew up wild; a wonderful way to grow up. It taught us things we could never learn any other way, sensitivity to things the world is made of — trees, water, land, rocks and animals — and that we are not apart from them, but a part of them.

Where I live, spiritually, emotionally and physically, there is a space between “a” and “part,” and that space is filled

Keeping the Space with wilderness. We must learn to take advantage of that space — as it is — and not to fill it with arbitrary constructions called “safety” or “security” or “economic well-being.” As long as we have that space, we are a part of the planet. When we remove places we can wander for hours and days without running into another soul, we remove that space between the “a” and “part.”

We cannot afford to do that.

Remove the space; we become “apart,” disconnected from the planet. We become orphans with no home to care about and no home to care about us. We must keep the space between “a” and “part.”

I’ve worked in sawmills. I’ve been a logger, and better than some, because I care about my trees and the land upon which they grow, which I learned from my grandpa and my dad. My old man was a hard-rock miner. He loved what he did, chasing riches through the dark earth. He never caught it, but he loved the idea of riches; like many of us do and so chase it across the face of the planet, working for “the man.”

What do we often end up with?

Broken backs, broken spirits, broken homes, broken dreams, broken mortgages —often because the companies we trust,

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are loyal to, and defend to the death almost because they gave us a pay check — decide that it is time to leave town or the county or the state. That decision is made by people who don’t live here.

They live in Dallas and Houston and San Francisco and New York. They can’t see Bonner, Lincoln or Sanders Counties from their house. They decide because the profit level has fallen below a certain point that they don’t need to be here any more, and they leave.

Corporations, though ruled recently by the Supreme Court to be individuals, do not have feelings. And they do not have a conscious. They have a charter making them responsible to their shareholders to make money. When that responsibility begins to be marginalized by low prices, high wages or some other “adverse” condition, they say, “we’re done here.” Which creates other, more truly adverse conditions.

Where does that leave us left behind?

That leaves us with this country, the mountains and the space between “a” and “part,” which might well make us better off than many others.

We need jobs, we need food, we need to be able to take care of our children.

We need to be able to continue to live here if we so choose. We have to depend on each other. To start little businesses.

To sell each other things. To buy locally.

To quit giving Walmart our money to be shipped out of state — and country. Pay 25 cents more a pound and buy it from your neighbor. Buy lumber that was sawn here instead of the lumber that was sawn someplace else and shipped here on a truck. We need to be our own economy.

We need to talk to visitors and say, “Hi, what are you interested in? Oh, let me help you with that.” Instead of turning our back on them and saying “Get out of here. You don’t belong here.” But we also need to tell them we aren’t for sale. It’s when we take that very attractive offer that there goes the neighborhood.

What’s my point? My point is that it’s vital to keep that space between “a” and “part.” It’s where we live and how we live here. There’s no substitute for that space.

Once it closes, it will be gone forever.

Sandy Compton messes around with words a lot. He is publisher at bluecreekpress. com, and he does his best to live in the space between “a” and “part.”

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Of all the many volunteers who helped Michael nominated Erzsebet Cloud as being especially helpful. Erzebet gave unstintingly of her time and energy throughout the set-up and sale. This community should be proud to have people like Erzebet in it.

Recently I’ve heard rumblings that all the money raised here is not staying here.

I’ve been told that a 501c3 out of Coeur d’Alene named the Guardian Foundation has convinced some donors that they are worthy of receiving a slice of the pie.

I’m looking into the bona fides of this organization for many reasons.

I’m leery of some 501c3’s based on past experience. Some years back I learned about an organization operating in Southern California that was raising scads of money ostensibly for paralyzed veterans. The only problem was that somewhere around 85 percent of all the monies raised went to administrative costs. A big chunk of those administrative costs went into the pockets of the CEO and treasurer, who just happened to be husband and wife. Between them they received over $1.3 million per year for their ‘charitable activities.’ I haven’t seen any mailing from that organization for a few years now. Maybe they are serving

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time for fraud. One can but hope.

As a result of that experience I am very suspicious of ANY 501c3 whose administrative costs nears or exceeds 50 percent of donations received. In the current environment most Americans are bending over backwards to support veterans – mostly because of rampant guilt (IMHO). This leaves the field rife with scam artists who prey on the gullible and guilt-ridden. All this leads me to believe that the phrase caveat emptor - buyer beware - is better used when making donations to ‘charitable’ organizations than some other places.

Lastly, the 2014 election is coming up fast. I’m asking everyone – veterans or not – to become informed voters and vote in your own best interests. Veterans especially should look at the party they support. The GOP has toted itself as strong supporters of a ‘strong defense.”

I’ve looked at their track record and I find it wanting when it comes to veterans.

None of Idaho’s federal elected officials have ever enthusiastically supported veterans. Two of them – Senator Risch and Representative Labrador - have consistently done their best to stop or reduce funding for veterans benefits.

Voters have some very big decisions to make. I encourage everyone to become informed voters. We must stop simply voting for a party and look closely at the individual candidate. Above all else, vote in your own best interests.

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A Seat in the House

Rep. George Eskridge

The Idaho Legislature begins its annual session in January of each year and attempts to end each session around the end of March. During the session General Fund appropriations governing the expenditures of the individual agencies are approved for the upcoming fiscal year that begins on July 1 of each year and ends June 30 the following year.

The legislature is providing estimates of General Fund revenues for the upcoming fiscal year to use in developing the appropriations for the agencies.

Because spending is based on estimated revenues, the Division of Financial Management issues monthly reports that indicate how well the estimated revenues are tracking the actual revenues received each month. The legislature does have savings accounts (rainy day funds) in the event that revenues don’t meet the appropriations to help prevent agencies having to make cuts in spending during the fiscal year if revenues fall below the estimates, thus providing more certainty for the agencies in meeting the spending needs of the state.

Given this, the Division of Financial Management’s July report was favorable in terms of the end of fiscal year 2014 (FY 2014) that ended this last June.

June’s General Fund collections of $294.4 million brought the total FY 2014 to $2,815.4 million, $7.2 million more than

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The $7.2 million dollar increase was primarily from higher than expected receipts in individual income tax receipts that were $9.5 million higher than anticipated and miscellaneous revenue that was $108.3 million more than was anticipated. These two categories helped offset lower than anticipated revenues in the corporate tax, sales tax and product tax categories.

Fiscal year 15 (FY15) began July 1 and Financial Management is now tracking the actual receipts with the estimated General Fund receipts that the legislature based the FY 15 appropriations in this year’s session that ended March 20.

This report is especially significant as we follow how close the actual revenues are to the estimated revenues that we based appropriations on this last session.

Although still very positive the July numbers are not as great as forecast; however July is only the first month of FY15.

In January of this year the Division of Financial Management projected FY15 General Fund receipts would be $2,9987.8 million, representing a 6.1 percent increase over FY14. The January forecast has since been revised to $2,070.6 million representing an increase of 5.5 percent instead of the original 6.1 percent increase.

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Even though the Division of Financial Management estimated a growth of 6.1 percent, the legislature was more conservative in setting appropriations and used a 5.6 percent growth rate, a wise decision given the July report. However, July is only the first month of FY15 and the following months will be interesting to follow. In any event, because of the fiscally conservative leadership of Governor Otter supported by our fiscally conservative legislature, Idaho remains in good fiscal condition. Our revenue estimates used to set the FY15 budget and the increase in the savings accounts that the legislature and Governor authorized will continue to keep our fiscal condition sound over the next year.

The November General Election is getting close and as voters consider whom to support, one might consider the leadership of Governor Otter, Senator Keough and others that have acted fiscally responsible and at the same time continued to financially support essential services for the people of Idaho. (Just a friendly political statement from a legislator whose tenure ends the end of November!!).

Thanks for reading and as always feel free to contact me with your concerns during the time I have left as your member of the Idaho House of Representatives, District 1-B. My home phone is (208) 265-0123, my mailing address is P.O. Box 112, Dover, Idaho 83825 and my e mail is: geskridge@ coldreams.com. George

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SAVE THE DATE! On October 11, the Sandpoint Farmer’s Market will close out the season with Harvestfest. With entertainment, activities, food booths and display, don’t miss this traditional close to the season!

Also on October 11, check out the Oktoberfest and International Chef Competition at the Old Granary on 5th and Oak in Sandpoint from noon to 5 pm. Beer, events, and activities, plus an international chef cook-off competition between Eichardt’s own Reese Warren and All Seasons Cafe’s Amanda Skidmore from our sister city of Nelson, B.C. $5 or $3 if you bring a donation for the food bank.

The Panida Theater hosts an Indian Film Festival, on October 11, with doors open at 5 pm for a four-movie extravaganza.

On October 18, check out the Halloween Drag Party.

Queen B.’s two year anniversary party in the Eagles Lodge. Compete for the cash prize with your best costume, enjoy fabulous drag performances from sizzling queens and kings, and dance the night away. $6 admission. Doors open at 8 pm. 208-610-6527 The area’s traditional nod to the upcoming winter, the Warren Miller Ski Film, will air at the Panida on October 25. ‘No Turning Back’ begins at 7 pm. 208-

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For two weekends, October 24-25 and 30-31, Sandpoint Onstage will present a special performance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Tickets are $12/$10 seniors and the show starts at 7:30 pm. 513 Oak in Sandpoint.

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The Hawk’s Nest Back Home in Imnaha Country Ernie Hawks

“Chukars run up hill and fly down.” That is what my dad always said when we were hunting them. “Chukars always run up hill and fly down.”

So it was my job as a preteen hunter to climb to the top of the ridges along the Imnaha River and scare up the birds to fly down to Dad. It is a typical task for the youngest hunter in the party.

In truth, I wasn’t really the youngest, but my brother had become an avid and successful fisherman by the age of about eight or so which meant I climbed the couple thousand feet to ridge walk and look for game. Little bro got to fish because it would be dinner around the camp fire that night. I loved his fresh catch but was never much of a fisherman myself.

I did discover on those forays, however, the wonders, beauty and adventure of ridge walking.

The Imnaha, in the very northeast corner of Oregon, is part of the Wallowa Mountains. The river begins in the upper reaches of the Eagle Cap Wilderness, and the valley runs parallel (geologically speaking) and about 15 miles west of Hells Canyon.

For many years each fall, dad, little bro and I would head into the arid trough for fish and chukars. Little bro did very well but I don’t think we ever brought down a bird. That was not a big deal, as I remember; since dad was glad to get away and let his two young adventurers hone their skills while he relaxed. Oops that isn’t quite right, it should read; while he waited, anticipating flocks of incoming game birds, flush out and terrified, flying down hill due, of course, to the excellent hunting by the hunter up beyond the rim rocks that lined the hills above camp.

What really happened up on those hills, it turned out, was a discovery of an ailment that still afflicts me today— Overthe-hillitis. It is a wonderful, fun and exciting ailment. I would hike to the top, shotgun in hand, intending to be the outstanding huntsman. But, as soon as I was on top, there was the discovery of The Other Side. The Other Side; it is a very real place even more real then Never Never Land, especially when you are about eleven years old – or sixty-six years old. The Other Side is also what entraps those afflicted with over-thehillitis.

When I looked at the Other Side I would gaze into ancient depressions, draws and basins, some with a few trees near small brooks or tarns never seen unless one makes the discovery by foot.

I would often wonder if anyone else had ever stepped on that exact spot of earth. I became an Indian guide, or a fur trapper, or a distant northern cousin of John Muir.

John Muir came closest to personifying the emotions that arose. I wanted to be there looking, feeling, smelling all that surrounded me for no reason, not to hunt, or guide, or trap; just to be there and breathe it in, maybe to absorb it through my pores until I became part of it.

The hills are not tree covered but only seem to nurture grasses, low scrub or sage. Only in the bottoms are there trees.

Many of those bottoms are around 1,500 feet elevation while the tops can be as much as 6,000 feet. That, and low rainfall, creates different ecosystems, adding to the mystique and invitation to wander and wonder solely for an aesthetic purpose.

That attitude, of course, does not bring in dinner; thank God little bro always came through for us. I also did not have to clean a bunch of fowl while sitting around wondering what was “over there.”

A month ago, my wife Linda and I were back in the Imnaha. Our intention was to drive to nearly 7,000 feet of elevation, over a vertical mile above the Snake River and Hells Canyon. Our destination, Hat Point, was not available to us on that trip.

Fires on the hills had closed the road, keeping us 20 miles from our objective.

We chose plan “B” of which there were several options. After camping on the upper river we headed up to Hells Canyon Overlook. Not quite as perfect as Hat Point but an excellent way to spend a day.

There I was once again 11 years old.

At that spot there are more trees but still countless arid acres of rolling slopes and gorges to take in. Hiking around a bit I was again filled with the wonder of the land. Back at the camper I told Linda I needed to just hang out for a while. She had already noticed I was quite moved by the experience.

Across the deepest gorge on the continent my view was of the Seven Devils Mountains. From their peaks of nearly 10,000 feet I let my view pan down to the bottom of the ravine at about 1,000 feet. In a glance and a slight nod of my

head practically two vertical miles were in my view. The tops were still holding snow while at the bottom I knew the temperature was nearly three digits.

It was hot where we sat, yet I felt a deeply penetrating and overwhelming sense of comfort. Not anything that replaced the euphoria of other places but a profound, deep peace within, a sensitivity that eclipsed calm. Linda asked if I could describe it and “familiar comfort” was the only way I could attempt to describe my feelings.

I have visited many beautiful spots on this earth; each one gave me a joy of being but those arid hills filled me with a well-being that surprised me. I wanted to be there looking, feeling, smelling all that surrounded me for no reason, not to guide, or hunt, or trap, just to be part of it, or just be.

I wasn’t carrying a shotgun this time and that was good because I still didn’t see any chukars to flush and make fly downhill. We did hear some, which is a common story for me as a hunter, my variation on the fisherman’s story of “The one that got away.”

I did, however, have a major relapse of over-the-hillitis, fed by the anticipation of that natural and intoxicating drug, The Other Side, which draws me back.

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Kathy’s Faith Walk Kathy Osborne

There is a beautiful chapter of the Bible in the Book of Psalms. It is chapter 46. Sometimes, the tendency in this fast-paced world is to simply pick a verse here or there to help get us through the day. But in doing that what we may miss is the scope of meaning to a verse. In this case, the verse is “Be still and know that I am God.” (46:10) Chapter 46 is so much more than this one verse.

The Psalms is a book of poetry set to music we are not familiar with in this culture. To the Jews, this song book is a reflection of their history and heritage in The LORD. It was written by Israel’s kings and her praise and worship leaders. The poetry within these pages is meant to inspire obedience, patience, fearlessness, forgiveness, joy, gladness, peace and resoluteness in the fact that God can be trusted.

Psalm 46 is a song about the character of God. “He is our refuge and our strength.” Think about that. He is both the

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protection around us and the source of all that allows us to keep fighting when life gets hard. “He is an ever present help in times of trouble.” He never leaves us. This is part of God’s character – His DNA if you will. Because of this we don’t need to fear anything we see, hear, or feel no matter how loud or rough it gets. If we choose to follow Him He takes us to places of peace and rest.

“There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God.” To believe in God is to know that when He says He lives in a city He means it. It is the holy place where the Most High dwells. Because God is there, the city will not fall and He rules the universe from there. He gives it purpose, meaning, and order no matter how man seeks to change it.

This Psalm also tells us of another side of God. “Nations are in an uproar and the kingdoms fall.” We see this everyday happening all around us. But “God lifts His voice and the earth melts.” He is more powerful than any earthly king or nation.

“He makes wars to cease and he both breaks the bow and shatters the spear.”

One day He will put an end to the violence and bloodshed on this earth and He tells us to trust in Him... to “Be still and know that He is God; that He will be exalted among the nations, and on the earth.” He is bigger than the Universe and He loves you. Just think about that... .

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Happy New Year! (or not) The frenzy, the chaotic personal pace, the festivals and fairs, the family vacations, the violent storms, even most of our huckleberry season – they are all over. Summer 2014 has passed. So, shouldn’t we consider September 1st to be the start of the new year?

New Year - it’s a flexible concept depending upon the culture. We swim in a culture dominated by the Gregorian calendar introduced in the 16th century, so January 1 in the midst of northern hemisphere winter marks the event.

In the Jewish tradition, Rosh Hashanah (the “head of the year”) falls in today’s September or October. Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year or Tet arrives in late January or February. In Iran and parts of Central Asia, Nowruz arrives with the spring equinox in March. Globally, the start of a new year is not absolutely fixed.

And, what about our North Country activities after September 1? Church

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programming is renewed. School starts or has started (public and college). “Summer toys” get put away – kayaks and river rafts return to the garage. Chain saws and splitters are fired up none too soon for cutting winter firewood. And, well, we might sleep more because there is just not so much living crammed into our summer days. So, shouldn’t we mark all this by shifting New Year to September 1?

Of course, I jest. Spiritual living is not about calendars or dates. These are human creations to help order the passage of time. Rather, the shift from summer offers an opportunity. We are given the chance, if we take it, to recalibrate our daily lives and alter our patterns. In my faith walk, the words of the Lord as shared by the prophet Isaiah have always urged me to turn. “Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43: 18-19) What does that “new thing” look like for me as the seasons change?

What better way of living do I perceive?

Relationships are the place to start. My relationship with the Divine ebbed in the summer. Too many days filled with the demands

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of being a grandparent for very active six- and three-year-old grandchildren.

Our time together was wonderful, but I neglected my prayer life with the requests for another puzzle, another Lego project, another story to read. And, my closest friends… it’s time for a shared cup of coffee or a quiet dinner or a too oft delayed camping trip before the snow flies.

Being present in the here and now needs to be a “new thing” for me. No matter how much I care, my ability to affect the Ukrainian-Russian crisis or the violence wrought by Islamists in northern Iraq is very, very limited. So, can I shift my worries to greater mindfulness in my daily living? Can I truly listen when engaged in a conversation with a friend?

Can I really live in the present and reduce my ongoing mental planning for the next task, the next project, the next activity?

And, isn’t a “new thing” also about discarding behaviors which get in the way of a sense of the holy and of being with others? Late night television, weekend football games on the television, and surfing the web come to mind immediately.

No, I don’t need a new year beginning on September 1. Rather, it’s about seizing the opportunities presented by the end of summer to live each day better, to live more fully, and to live in closer relationship with the Creator and with creation. I’ve already begun. How about you?

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Paperwork Counting full moons backward, a dozen short of 600 would put us in the middle of a small town complement of up-and-coming, All-American, midsixties kids mulling over the impending annual hiatus from common sense dubbed Halloween, all the mulling due primarily to popular myth, previous experience, rumor and/or misconception. Also present were the anticipatory endorphins that fuel all of it. Well, that and sugar.

Back then, the population was roughly half as dense as it is today, in more ways than one might be thinking, and the National Guard wasn’t called out for every silly disturbance to afflict a community trying to get along with itself. Otherwise, some of us wouldn’t have made it to November 1st.

The last day of October is, when you get to a certain age, like a day off from etiquette and the whole town knew this.

You could see it in the eyes of all the predecessors (who were once wearing the same little shoes), starting when they turned the calendar from September to October, not acknowledging as much the month, as the last day of it. In some, you could read understanding, even encouragement (with a wink, nod and a grin); in others, disdain, contempt and visible jitters, to the point it seemed as though half the town was afflicted with the Heebie Geebies! Even though property damage seldom went beyond the need to clean windows afterward, natural resource depletion did play a big roll, in more spellings than one.

To most kids, the term ‘natural resource’ refers to anything they can get their mitts on, naturally. This includes anything they don’t have to make themselves, such as allowance, electronics, food, transportation, clothing, soap, candles or toilet paper.

The last three also become ‘art supplies’ after sundown on October 31st. Here’s why.

Every kid loves ‘Art Class’ and what better time than when the teacher isn’t hovering overhead offering witty criticisms or a ruler across the knuckles?

Any glass pane, therefore and only for one night a year, suddenly becomes a chalkboard, somewhat clean and begging adornment. And when they beg newly christened teenagers, anything goes. And it usually goes a bit further than previous years. Here’s why.

All-American kids like to be

remembered for something, anything.

And so it goes, little minds finding their way in this world, in search of fame and glory, a higher benchmark being their only guide. If it weren’t for bragging rights, America wouldn’t get out of bed in the morning.

The passage of time has only deepened the textures, colors and melancholy of those childhood Halloweens. Here’s why.

In 7th grade Social Studies, Bill whispered over his shoulder, “How much toilet paper can you get yer hands on?”

“Bout a mile and a half, we have a motel, bar and restaurant, remember?

Crap happens!” I stated with authority and added, “More than you might expect!”

Bill: “All’s we need is a few hunerd yards.”

Me: “No sweat! What’s the plan?”

Bill: “Paperwork!”

Me: “More than normal?”

“We’ll be remembered for all time!” he promised, and optimistically added, “Even if we don’t live through it.”

After dinner and guarantees to be good little angels, a clutch of six lifelong friends gathered in a dark alley off the main drag to discuss the choreography of the evening. All were dressed in black or nearly so. A few wound tighter than chipmunks from anticipation, the rest were just self-winding by nature. The script being tentative but the ending imperative, improvisation was bound to come in handy if not life saving, at least for life as we were attempting to live it.

We did our warm-up exercises by sharing a filched, parental cigarette all around, which, by the third round, got so hot it burst into open flame, causing a small but rank brush fire in my fake beard.

My casual remark as I patted myself out, “Anybody seen Vern the co…” was cut short by the sudden appearance of headlights turning down the alley, causing a lively confusion of vernacular only early teens are capable of and a mad scramble for cover which cosmically happened to be the town’s old, abandoned cinder block jail cell!

The familiar cruiser rolled by, windows down; radio extolling Merle Haggard’s latest contribution to social consciousness.

“Here’s our chance,” I offered.

“None better! Who’s got the water balloons?” said Bill.

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acresnpains@dishmail.net “I do!” blurted Art as he held one up as proof.

Using his best hook shot, Bill lobbed it over the old jailhouse roof toward the sound of rubber on gravel. We six waited, breath held, listening to the tires crunching mixed with Vern’s and Merle’s voices, ”…a place where even squares can have a ba…HOLY HOGSNOT! CHEESE and CRACKERS!” “Doesn’t he know any better cuss words than that?” whiffed Dean with disgust.

“Let’s find out!” Bill said, and with that, Randy and Bob broke cover and a little wind as they ran tauntingly into the open, offered two full moons for the price of one and disappeared between a café and a gas station.

“HALT!” erupted Vern.

“Yer walkin’ on the fightin’ side of me,” offered Merle.

Vern popped out of his seat just in time to greet a second water balloon landing next to his now pulsating ‘bubble gum machine’. Not thinking clearly, he then tossed his dripping specs on the dashboard and his hat on the seat, slammed the door and bounded off in the direction of two little vapor trails.

“He bounds a lot better than he cusses!” whispered Dean.

“How long you think he’ll be gone?” wondered Art. “Long enough if he gets his hands on that box of doughnuts Bob was carryin’,” explained Bill.

With that, the four of us, along with three candles, a bar of soap and a large leaf bag of toilet paper rolls, advanced on Vern’s ride, still idling and blaring country virtues under a red orb that seemed to be in rhythm with the music.

I was not the only one to break out into dance because of it, either.

Thinking clearly for his years, Bill grabbed Vern’s Stetson off the seat and perched it over the beacon while the rest of us thoughtlessly whited out the windows and drained the tires. Using loogies for glue, we wrapped it up in somewhere between 45 and 50 rolls of TP, going over and under, back over, under, around and around, with empty cores scattered on the ground like spent cartridge casings at the Little Big Horn.

That’s when it began to rain, a cold rain, uninviting as a school nurse with the flu. What a weatherman would call

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sleet, we called a reason to vacate for warmer, safer places, so we made like little trees and “leafed”, our job for the evening well done.

Ten minutes later, the return of Vern. Staggering and reeking like a baker and holding an empty doughnut box, he gazed upon his trusty pale yellow Plymouth while crumbs, powdered sugar and rain mixed together and slumped from his gaping lips. Still a little hungry, he saw instead of his cruiser, a fourteen-foot banana split with a pulsating cherry on top, Merle inside, singing “…and some day we’ll look back and say it was fun.”

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Thus was set a higher, albeit temporary, benchmark of Halloween treats.

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