Lemmee see here........You're living in a beautiful, cultural, city and then you run off to the ass end of nowhere to commune with celibate guys in robes, tigers, and cobras..............Ya' know Moo, whatever is wrong with you is no little thing. Frankly I'm beginning to believe that your Family Tree is shaped like a wreath..........Keep us posted on your project and if you see a monk with a gas can, head the other way.

Thinking of that, I saw something yesterday that I should have both taken a picture of and called the cops about. We have quite a few Amish living around here and when I passed the gas station I saw an Amish guy with a 40 gallon, thin plastic barrel, rope-strapped on the back of his buggy. He was at the pumps and filling the barrel with gasoline!!! I don't know what they use the gas for, but this was obviously the Amish version of a "tanker" (the picture), and if I could think of anything less safe than this, it just didn't occur to me! Now I admit that a horse and buggy ain't got a lot of ignition sources, but somehow I can envision a stray spark getting to the considerable fumes that an open barrel of gas would be emanating. It was also a "Non Approved" container obviously(the police). Anyway there were no headlines today about "Amish Guy Blown to Kingdom Come...Horse Follows" or anything so I assume he got home safely somehow.

Spaw