thanks for restoring the balance, Mick.  Good Ol McMyrddin and the fam have gone back into the meadow to toss lures towards deep bass on a pond fed by a cold mountain pounce,

a regular relaxed state of late evening wine drinking on weekends and contemplating why the freaking-fackers brought the Chinese beetles here to these MW states to proliferate here without the effects of an existing predatory enemy & who live indoors (in human dwellings) during the winter months.  I saw the Dalai Llama give an address the other night (on LinkTV); great guy, even better in person than in the written word.  Wrote about it some in a blurb…that tramped & turned into a long-winded micro-rant…so….

Anyway, thanks for the kindly enmity ~ you had me freaked-out for a second there. hehe

P.S.  The scrap of said rant concerning the Dalai Llama address:

I watched the Dalai Llama give an address the other night.  He has a peculiar laugh, yet I’d be more confident about the Western World & all it’s neighbors, friend or foe, if he were President of the United States & carried the great berserker sword of mad-mad-mad  abomination in a sheath at his side, as if it were Excalibur or The Holy Grail & a gifted Hattori Hanzo Swordsman’s hand.  Something tells me he’d maintain his composure

and allow for the proliferation of benevolent ideas.  …G’nite….