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Thanks, fish. Same to you! :)

(why is this in the chainsaw forum? I figured this would be in 'off the topic' forum :confused: )
 
Merry Christmas all!

For once i can agree with fish!:p Stick to the premium antifreeze! Happy holidays to all - and i guess this could be in the 'off the topic' - but its christmas and were only interested in saws.
 
My Friends

The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief;
And I lay there in the bunk between, ailing beyond belief;
A weary armful of skin and bone, wasted with pain and grief.

My feet were froze, and the lifeless toes were purple and green and gray;
The little flesh that clung to my bones, you could punch it in holes like clay;
The skin on my gums was a sullen black, and slowly peeling away.

I was sure enough in a direful fix, and often I wondered why
They did not take the chance that was left and leave me alone to die,
Or finish me off with a dose of dope--so utterly lost was I.

But no; they brewed me the green-spruce tea, and nursed me there like a child;
And the homicide he was good to me, and bathed my sores and smiled;
And the thief he starved that I might be fed, and his eyes were kind and mild.

Yet they were woefully wicked men, and often at night in pain
I heard the murderer speak of his deed and dream it over again;
I heard the poor thief sorrowing for the dead self he had slain.

I'll never forget that bitter dawn, so evil, askew and gray,
When they wrapped me round in the skins of beasts and they bore me to a sleigh,
And we started out to the nearest post a hundred miles away.

I'll never forget the trail they broke, with its tense, unuttered woe;
And the crunch, crunch, crunch as their snowshoes sank through the crust of the hollow snow;
And my breath would fail, and every beat of my heart was like a blow.

And oftentimes I would die the death, yet wake up to life anew;
The sun would be all ablaze on the waste, and the sky a blighting blue,
And the tears would rise in my snow-blind eyes and furrow my cheeks like dew.

And the camps we made when their strength outplayed and the day was pinched and wan;
And oh, the joy of that blessed halt, and how I did dread the dawn;
And how I hated the weary men who rose and dragged me on.

And oh, how I begged to rest, to rest--the snow was so sweet a shroud;
And oh, how I cried when they urged me on, cried and cursed them aloud;
Yet on they strained, all racked and pained, and sorely their backs were bowed.

And then it was all like a lurid dream, and I prayed for a swift release
From the ruthless ones who would not leave me to die alone in peace;
Till I wakened up and I found myself at the post of the Mounted Police.

And there was my friend the murderer, and there was my friend the thief,
With bracelets of steel around their wrists, and wicked beyond belief:
But when they come to God's judgment seat--may I be allowed the brief.




--- Robert Service
 
Hi There, got a nice present today, yup, I get to go to work! yippy! I have to clearcut 4 arcres of Hawthorn, Ash and apple trees, about 100,000 in all. At 25 cents a stem, I,m gonna go like bat out of hell. Will take pictures and post them tonight.
John
 
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Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. I rec'd my Jonsered last night and slept with it until it cut my wife's leg, then me and the saw were on the couch. Thanks Dan for sharpening the chain.
 
Just so I stay on topic I was enjoying copious amounts of a fine canadian blend mixed at 50:1 ratio....oh yeah and merry christmas and a happy 2002
 
That must be like the cheap fertilizer on the grass. You put it on, a week later you have the greenest, lushest grass that grows like mad, and then two weeks later its all died off and used up. He must have used up all his hair at once. Cource that creates the question of where he was puttin it...?
 

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