X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 16:58:18 -0500 From: "J.A. Drew Diaz" <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: BP - \"where heavy conservationists hang out\" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: MACHETES References: <[log in to unmask]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Met History wrote: > In a message of love and tolerance for our plant brothers and sisters, > [log in to unmask] writes: > > > Nevertheless, I think a trellis frame constructed away from the wall and > > regularly chopped out with a long machete or similar must have some pretty > > good possibilities for giving us ivy on buildings without all of the > problems. > > > > > What a small(ish) world! 24 hours ago I was standing next to my uncle > (in-law) at his cliff-top manse in Martha's Vineyard overlooking Vineyard > sound. Indeed, David, he was USING A MACHETE Apropos of nothing- A few years ago I'm reading an article " What tools would you take to a desert island" sort of thing- The final word came from someone who pointed out that there are a lot of people in this world with only one tool & that is a machete. DD -- We have enough laws on the book, already, to confound us well into the 21st Century. What we lack is enough L.A.W.S. for the next century