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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Being Dutch Elm It should
probably be… </span>Zegen u<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Charles<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu@lists.ansteorra.org] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>Hoffpauir, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:56 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Raven's Fort Barony of<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
Lord of the Manor would have me announce:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>We
had a huge Dutch Elm in the far-down yard covered with climbing fig. It had a
face <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>attached
to it made from bits of mortar formed into eyes and lids and a brow. It had a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>mouth,
with fleshy lips and a big toothy smile. It also had a nose, just like your
nose, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>only
bigger. Framed in the climbing fig, I'd often think of the Great Mythical
Hunter Herne, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>from
Celtic lore, or his more familiar incarnation, The Green Man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
other night, in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason at all, the
great <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>tree
broke off across the trunk about six feet up or four inches below Herne's
chin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>All
was quiet and still. One pop, and a pause... Then another "POP!" ...and
a long <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>pregnant
pause... Then with a crash that echoed out and down all this rolling valley's <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>miles,
the great tree fell. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>I
won't mention much on all the domestic frenzy which ensued from two adults and
two <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>dogs,
all lying in bed together, in the dead, pitch dark of a rural country night, as
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>all
scrambled for what each considered to be their own notion of
"safety." It was a <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>tangled
mess of carbon based life forms, to say the least, but the tree fell far enough
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>away
that none was harmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>The
next morning when we looked, Herne's eyes and mouth remained in place. His
toothy <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>smile
askew and now parallel with the ground. His eyes were a wee bit kilter, with a
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>crossed
look and crumpled brow like that of a goat that had eaten something bitter.
The <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>nose
was gone. It lay in the grass some distance away, nostrils up, and backwards, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>flared
and full of saw dust. We surmise, after eighty years of gnats and flies and
ant <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>trails,
of tickly squirrel tails and woodpecker pecks, dust and saw dust, and pollen <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>and
other things blown in on the air, that the great tree had simply sneezed...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Bless
you, Herne. Thanks for missing the house.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DSD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>David R.
Hoffpauir<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Program
Development Associate w/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Sam
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Huntsville
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>936-294-4995<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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