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<DIV>devin<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu, 9/24/09, James Northfolke <I><jamesnorthfolke@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: James Northfolke <jamesnorthfolke@gmail.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM<BR>To: "Epps, David" <ICC_DCE@SHSU.EDU><BR>Cc: "Raven's Fort Barony of" <ravensfort@lists.ansteorra.org><BR>Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:10 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?<BR>With his long tail hanging down.<BR>He sits quietly under every tree ---<BR>in the folds of his velvet gown.<BR>He drinks from the empty acorn cup<BR>the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.<BR>And taps his cane upon the ground ---<BR>signals the snowdrops it's time to grow.<BR><BR><BR>Epps, David wrote:<BR>> <BR>> Being Dutch Elm It should probably be… Zegen u<BR>> <BR>> Charles<BR>> <BR>> *From:* ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=<A href="http://us.mc566.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org" ymailto="mailto:shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org">shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org</A> [mailto:ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=<A href="http://us.mc566.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org" ymailto="mailto:shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org">shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org</A>] *On Behalf Of *Hoffpauir, David<BR>> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:56 AM<BR>> *To:*
Raven's Fort Barony of<BR>> *Subject:* [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM<BR>> <BR>> The Lord of the Manor would have me announce:<BR>> <BR>> We had a huge Dutch Elm in the far-down yard covered with climbing fig. It had a face<BR>> <BR>> attached to it made from bits of mortar formed into eyes and lids and a brow. It had a<BR>> <BR>> mouth, with fleshy lips and a big toothy smile. It also had a nose, just like your nose,<BR>> <BR>> only bigger. Framed in the climbing fig, I'd often think of the Great Mythical Hunter Herne,<BR>> <BR>> from Celtic lore, or his more familiar incarnation, The Green Man.<BR>> <BR>> The other night, in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason at all, the great<BR>> <BR>> tree broke off across the trunk about six feet up or four inches below Herne's chin.<BR>> <BR>> All was quiet and still. One pop, and a pause... Then another "POP!" ...and a long<BR>> <BR>> pregnant
pause... Then with a crash that echoed out and down all this rolling valley's<BR>> <BR>> miles, the great tree fell.<BR>> <BR>> I won't mention much on all the domestic frenzy which ensued from two adults and two<BR>> <BR>> dogs, all lying in bed together, in the dead, pitch dark of a rural country night, as<BR>> <BR>> all scrambled for what each considered to be their own notion of "safety." It was a<BR>> <BR>> tangled mess of carbon based life forms, to say the least, but the tree fell far enough<BR>> <BR>> away that none was harmed.<BR>> <BR>> The next morning when we looked, Herne's eyes and mouth remained in place. His toothy<BR>> <BR>> smile askew and now parallel with the ground. His eyes were a wee bit kilter, with a<BR>> <BR>> crossed look and crumpled brow like that of a goat that had eaten something bitter. The<BR>> <BR>> nose was gone. It lay in the grass some distance away,
nostrils up, and backwards,<BR>> <BR>> flared and full of saw dust. We surmise, after eighty years of gnats and flies and ant<BR>> <BR>> trails, of tickly squirrel tails and woodpecker pecks, dust and saw dust, and pollen<BR>> <BR>> and other things blown in on the air, that the great tree had simply sneezed...<BR>> <BR>> Bless you, Herne. Thanks for missing the house.<BR>> <BR>> Regards,<BR>> <BR>> DSD<BR>> <BR>> David R. Hoffpauir<BR>> <BR>> Program Development Associate w/<BR>> <BR>> ~Incident Command Simulation Training Center~<BR>> <BR>> ~LEMIT Technolgy Development Center~<BR>> <BR>> ~South Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility (STAFS)~<BR>> <BR>> Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas<BR>> <BR>> College of Criminal Justice<BR>> <BR>> Sam Houston State University<BR>> <BR>> Huntsville Tx 77341-3926<BR>> <BR>> 936-294-4995<BR>>
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