On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Steven Newell wrote:
> Please share with me your ideas for most authentic barn find
> details...
I think a very authentic touch that would wow the judges would be a
(fake of course) stuffed, decomposing (somewhat bloated), possum in
the boot. These guys apparently go somewhere deserted and isolated
when they know they're about to leave this green earth. How do I know?
About three years ago, one decided a good place to die would be in our
home's craw space, at the point farthest from the access door. Mid
summer. Hot. Humid. Stink. The entire house, stink. We're looking
for a small mouse INSIDE the house. Come up with nothing. Then it
hits us. Something in the crawl.
We grab the Maglite, spy him in that far corner, bloated to twice the
size he was when he was living his happy life. I don't fit under the
crawl. My dad doesn't fit. Wife does. Wife is shrewd negotiator.
She dons my coveralls, grabs a shovel, struggles and crawls on her
stomach to get to the now very dead, very fly covered, very smelly
critter. Shouting expletives I didn't know she knew with each foot of
progress. After what seemed an eternity, success. It's extricated.
Her negotiated reward? A pair of diamond earrings. Wears them
everyday. Hopes for more dead possums. I've sealed the one tiny
entry point it must have used.
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