Me and Mildlife and...III

[AndrewP]

I am me, the best I have, still not the best I will be.

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CT my dear friend I think you and I are in very similar places on a personal level. Thinking back on all you've written - and there's been a lot - I would like to believe that your W has been a part of your "you" for so long as you've been on and off over the years that she is still entangled with you like another tree next to yours. That entanglement will take a long time to grow out and will keep pulling at you. Will she take a leap of faith and leave OM and seek you out? No clue. That would require an act of courage on her part. Would you accept her back? Again, I believe in both of our cases the answer is "don't know". For both of us I believe that taking on the role of OM-OM is inherently distasteful.

I'm very glad to use my own words that you have discovered the man standing in your boots and that you quite like him. May you continue to stand tall and proud and if we don't correspond before, please have a great Thanksgiving and know that you have a lot to be thankful for.

On a completely unrelated topic I was looking for another book on my shelf and stumbled across this one that you might be interested in professionally/personally. I don't know if you are familiar with it. I have sitting next to me (you can find it via ABE Books which is where I got my copy) US Department of Agriculture Technical Bulliten #479 - September 1935 - Strength and related properties of woods grown in the United States by L.J Markwardt and TRC Wilson. I got a copy for myself and one for my younger brother who is trained as an arborist and worked as an urban logger for a long time. It was written in the Depression to give guidance into the usefulness of non-traditional wood species. Perhaps it might be of interest.

If we do every have our paths cross, I can manage without tea and cakes. A strong pot of good coffee and some biscuits and gravy is also high on my list of conversation aiding foods.

Take care.