Michigan Slim

You may or may not recall a distant entry involving that big broad shouldered Irish fire chief Sean, and him laughing with his young when they discovered a copper .22 Short would just fit between the floor boards in their back room ... and when smacked with a hammer would go BLAP and make a gratifying curl of smoke ... Daisy came all bristled up like a Banty hen and demanded Sean DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR BOYS, and Sean did ... he had them show him what they were doing, then he sat down on the floor with them, and father and ornery red headed Irish sons sat on the back room floor, smacking .22 Shorts stuck between the floor boards with a hammer, and laughing.

That was written from one that really happened.

I wasn't the one who did it, but I personally knew the ones who did.

The exploding outhouse was also based on an actual.

It wasn't in Firelands, Colorado, it was in a small Ohio hill country ex-coal-mining village; it wasn't blasting POWDER, but it was a fused stick, and it did enough damage the old man ended up burning it rather than trying to demolish and rebuild it -- by then he had indoor plumbing and I think he was looking for an excuse to get rid of it.

Delighted you got a tickle out of Annette's unintended incineration, and even happier you and your bride got a grin out of it!

Linn