pyschology

Please don’t repeat this to anyone. Last Friday, wife and I rode our bikes along the river to a brew pub for dinner. On way home via a different route just before dusk she (up ahead) exclaimed: “Is that what I think it is!? Let me have your knife!”

I did so and then watched as she cut the tail off of a dead black squirrel. Jeesh. Unfortunately I’ve many times found myself part of that peculiar sort of excision separating tail from torso of skunk, deer, raccoons, and more. All in service to art. She makes fine brushes with the hair.

At the behest of Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took their “Corps of Discovery” across the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. Leaving St. Louis on May 14, 1803 they made their way across the wilderness to the coast of what is now Oregon and arrived back in St. Louis on September 23, 1806.