All these new members we're suppose to gain on this thread is beginning to remind me of a "snipe hunt". The snipe only come out on a moonless night when it's black dark in the hinterlands beyond the edges of the woods.
My first time in the "country", Bill, Dave, and the fellows invited me to go on a "snipe hunt"; since they didn't invite just anybody to go on this hunt for the elusive snipe, I considered it an honor.
One dark night, they told me the snipe should be running on a night like this; we went out in the woods, way out in the woods. "Say guys, just how far do we have to walk to get to the snipe hunting ground"?
"we're almost there" Dave assured me. "Since you have been elected to be the one who bags the snipe, you take this "snipe bag", and hold it open when we tell you we done spotted one, and chasing him your way".
There I was, in a small clearing way out in the middle of the woods, when Dave yelled out "Snipe on the run".
I had the big bag open, just waiting for the snipe; I was listening too, because he had to make some kind of noise coming my way through the woods. That's when I remembered I forgot to ask how big the snipe was? "If he's too big, the fellows will come and help me", I told myself.
I waited, and waited without hearing a single sound; before I had heard them beating the bushes running the snipe out, but now there wasn't a single sound. After about a half an hour, I began to have serious doubts about the snipe. I know they wouldn't leave me out in the middle of the woods on a dark night holding a bag waiting for the snipe, or would they?
Now, those new members to this thread that Frogman assured me of, are beginning to remind me of the snipe; the only difference is, I'm not in the middle of the woods on a dark night.