> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deb Bledsoe [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 9:37 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [BP] Coon huntin'
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> 
> meanwhile, the dogs are baying off over the hill in the dark
> it is a sweet sound, when they aren't too close, 

When I was living in Lockington, Ohio (betwixt Sidney and Piqua), they
were too close. Next door. They expressed their desire to be out of
their pen running the woods by baying relentlessly. 

To the other side of me was Lock number 1 of an impressive series of 5
locks that stepped the Miami Erie Canal down 67 feet in a half mile from
the 24-mile long Loramie Summit (fed by Grand Lake St. Mary's, the
largest man-made lake in the world when built) into the Great Miami
River basin. Across the street was the Sidney Feeder Canal, bringing
additional flow of the Great Miami down from its head at Port Jefferson.

There were nights when I wished the canals were not dry beds so I could
go run into them and drown myself.

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Dan Becker,  Exec. Dir.,   "Help me, Mr. Wizard!  I don't 
Raleigh Historic            want to be here anymore!"
Districts Commission                 - Tooter the Turtle
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