| Eileen, Have a candle handy. Also lighter. Also orange peel. When indicated - light the candle. Hold the peel beside the flame. Twist the peel, which forces out a small spray of oil, which will light in the candle flame. May not cover as great a volume as your concept, though. I've recently talked to our provincial and federal members of legislative bodies, while we were discussing implementing the Kyoto environmental deal. Many here, especially business types and people in the province that produces most of our petroleum, are wailing because we passed it, the U.S., our biggest trader which accounts for over three-quarters of our exports, didn't. I asked the legislators which is smarter - a pig or a cow? They, lacking farm background, didn't know. When we were kids, farmhands gone to World War II, in spring 1940 (*) I was kept out of school at age 11 to drive steel-wheeled tractor to sow crops. Farming's close to our core as people - what we learn there isn't easily forgotten: I haven't lived on farm for about 55 years. I'm still at heart basically a farm kid, I think. Dad built wooden plank platform in our pigpens, we threw forkful of straw into them, pigs slept there. When we kids were running around playing, we could go into those platforms and lie down - they were clean. Pigs slept there, they all dirtied (both types) elsewhere, and ate at trough in a third location. A cow will **** (4-letter word for barnyard by-product) in its own manger. So - in my mind, pigs is smarter than cows. And people have more in common with cows than with pigs, it seems to me, for we are surely messing up the place where we live. End of today's sermon, all. ole joyful P.S. Does smoking in bathroom accomplish same end? Or does one's semi-anaesthetized smeller buds just notice the problem less? Of course - then one has the smoke smell plus residue with which to cope. A great place for addicts trying to quit smoking to find some good ideas, inspiration and empathetic friends and a lot of help with the Quit is at www.quitnet.com . oj (*) Yes, World War II had been going for half a year by the spring of 1940 - the U.S. didn't agree that Hitler and his cohorts were a nasty and dangerous lot for another year and a half -and only then when Hitler's buddy kicked them in the *** (rear end). |