Date:         Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:04:41 -0700
Reply-To:     Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: plumbing
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
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> :::
> :::If the pioneers of yore had to put up with today's restrictions,
> they'd
> :::still be in Missouri hiring lawyers and fixin' to get ready to
> hunker
> :::down
> :::and start findin' the handle to apply for permission to apply for a
> :::preliminary permit.
> :::
> :::The first fish is $41 all the rest are free for the year...
>
>
> The pioneers of yore lived in a world with very few people.  If
> they soiled
> the space around them with waste or depleted the fish by harvesting
> all they
> wanted, they could just move down the river and find more and let
> the first
> place recover through nature.
>
> There's too many of us for that now.  You wanna be the one to leave so
> others can live as the pioneers did?
>
> No, I thought not.
>
> So the only way to go is to share and not leave any mess, so the
> next person
> will be able to stay there and enjoy the fish when you've moved on.
>
> Unfortunately, that means rules. Otherwise you won't have anything
> to enjoy
> at all, because the person before you will have messed it all up.
>
>
>
> Joy

Well said!

& now back to our regularly scheduled banter about vanagons!

Tom B.-fish are toast