Wednesday - April 27, 2005

Women and Guns …

.  A very long time ago, I lived in the mountains. Way up @ 7000’ in Idaho.

.  I lived there with my first wife. In a cabin. Water came from a diverted creek. You had to walk up the last 4 miles of my ‘driveway’. An old mining camp. I was the ‘caretaker’ and she was the cook.

.  The cabin we slept in was also the kitchen/larder/main cabin. The walls were made of ‘first cut’ slabs from timbers used in the hard rock mine.

.  It was a great existence for a returning ‘Nam Vet/newly married guy like me. Quiet. Serene. Hippy heaven.

.  Now, one night a rat got into the larder. A larder is a room where where you keep the vittles. THIS room had 2 layers of 1st cuts, soes to keep in the cool and was on the other side of our bedroom wall.

.  This was a mountain rat. Not your slinky little wharf rat. No, this critter was big enough to push things off of shelves so they’d break and then eat the spoils.

.  The first night it got in ... it sounded like Tarzan and who knows how many apes had moved next door. BAM!  BOOM!  CRASH! all night long.

.  Knockin’ stuff over to feast.

.  The second night ... well we HAD to do something. ‘We’ being me, the man of the house. The noise and disturbance would not allow sleep. BAM!  BOOM!  CRASH!

.  Soooo ... I got up and pulled my trusty revolver and a flashlight out and went to the larder.

.  Now, my ‘revolver’ was a Ruger 22 single action pistol. At close range ... okay. And this WAS ‘close range’.

.  I openened the larder door and snuck the light in and couldn’t see the critter. As I scanned ... up on a shelf, just about eye level were two VERY RED beady eyes just lookin’ back at me.

.  2 feet from my face. Just lookin’ at me. With about as menacing a look as can be imagined.

.  I shot. I saw the bullet crease that bastard’s hair across his back.

.  Now, you’d think that’d make a rat ... turn tail and run. You’d be wrong. This was a mountain rat. Had no fear of humans. And he took steps towards ME.

.  I slammed the larder door.

.  Went back to bed and my wife said ‘Did ya get ‘em’?

.  I related what had happened.  And the BAM!  BOOM!  CRASH! started up again.

.  She ripped the covers off her and said ... ‘ Let me try’.

.  And so she went with the pistol and the flashlight into the larder.

...  Now to get the end of this story you will have to visit me.

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/27/2005 at 01:19 AM   
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