[Ansteorra-archery] Thank you all

Howard Featherling jfeatherling at austin.rr.com
Mon Oct 15 21:33:41 PDT 2001


Vivat and huzzah, my Lord.  For your accomplishment at the butts and taking
the time to care!
I look forward to the time we can shoot together again!
Ld. Alfred, Bryn Gwlad
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 7:07 PM
Subject: [Ansteorra-archery] Thank you all


> Greetings Fellow Archers,
>   I would like to take this opportunity to extend my most humble and
sincere
> thanks to all who had a part in my receiving the award of the King's
Archer.
> I cannot say thank you enough, I can only promise to strive my utmost to
be
> worthy of this honor.
>   Today I received a reward of quite a different sort.  My commander
decided
> he'd been working us too hard and gave us the day off.  Thus left to my
own
> devices, I decided t'was time to tackle the jungle that used to be my
yard.
> Pulling my equipment out of the garage, I glanced over at my neighbor's
yard.
> She works at a hospital that's been short staffed so she's been pulling
14-16
> hour shifts.  Needless to say, her yard's a mess too, I mean it was.
>   I set to work like a fiend, employing every weapon in my yard work
arsenal,
> including a Brazilian machete! By the time I'd finished her yard was
> transformed as if by some sorcerer's magic.  As she pulled up in the
driveway
> this evening, I was just getting a good handle on my own yard. I paused to
> watch her climb from her car and stand in her driveway, spinning about in
> astonishment.  My reward, perhaps intangible, but precious nonetheless,
was
> the look of gratitude on her face as she walked over to thank me.
>   "He serves himself best, who serves others", so today I gave myself a
wee
> gift and stood proof that here, in the land of the free and the home of
the
> brave, neighbors still look out for neighbors.
>
>         Cheers All,
>    Robert of Yorkshire
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