Liland, Touché! Aren't you lucky I stumbled onto that so quickly, so you could spring your trap and not agonize that no one got the hyphen! ;-D I am going by the postmark (I lived out at Lake Whatcom for years, and was served by the Sedro Woolley post office).

Mark, yes, that's the tune I had going in my head. I knew it was a parody of the sod shanty song, just hadn't taken the time to mull over the correct full name of it. In a similar vein, I love the transformation that Beulah Land makes when it arrives in the Northwest. I have a tape of Barre Tolken singing a version of it in a concert many years ago.

Maggie