"The Debatable Inflatable Moosehead"

My daughter has a moose head hanging over her fireplace…it ain’t a real moose head, of course, my daughter being a longtime vegetarian…I’ve seen cartoon moose that look realer than the inflatable head staring down from above where there ought’a be a mantel but she finds it amusing so there y’are….

I’ve known people who have real heads stuffed ’n mounted ’n hung artistically from their walls…I asked m’buddy Victor why he had a deer head on his wall ’n he said ‘cuz it’s pretty.”  I told him that his Mama wuz pretty but he only had a photograph of her….I tho’t I wuz being funny but he didn’t laugh….

Contraty to what sum might think, we do NOT have a pet deer residing in our south forty…we DO have an 8 point Buck with possibly a broken leg who has taken up residence in our neighborhood, grazing back ’n forth from the property acros’t the street to the wayback of what I customarily refer to as our ‘south forty’…with the exception of the limp, he is an outstanding example of his specie….

We also have approximately 20 bee hives out there (courtesy of a Ukranian bee-keeper acquaintance) altho they don’t seem the least bit innarested in our sorry-looking tomatoes…the neighbors tomatoes look so good while mine (thanks prob’ly to my black thumb) resemble a Charly Brown Xmas tree…..ah well, my geraniums are still grimly hanging on ’n the Chinese Stink Trees are thriving….wish the darn deer’ud eat them but he don’t seem to like either them or the geraniums…..