June 14 2008
Well gang, there’s good news this week. The club’s benefit committee got together on Wednesday...or maybe it was Friday. Nobody remembers what day it was, but never the less, they got together and decided that we would indeed have a club cook-off and musical extravaganza again this year. As always, it will be to benefit kids who wish things were better.
According to tradition, it will be held on the last Saturday of day light savings time. Which will give us the most amount of daylight, with the coolest possible weather. This year that will be October 25^th. So mark it on your calendars, start looking through your recipes, and look around the house and garage for items to donate to the silent auction.
There’s some moderately not so good news also.
It has been reported that Martin Hapless, after drinking a six-pack or so of home brew, remembered suddenly that he had to repair the chicken coop. He grabbed an armload of boards and wire, walked out to the coop, and was about to commence repairing, when he discovered that he had forgotten the hammer.
He decided that this would pose no problem however, because he was wearing his old single action colt, and proceeded to use the hog leg as a hammer.
Now, if the hammer on the pistol had been dropped on an empty cylinder, this would have been an OK thing to do. But it wasn’t dropped on an empty cylinder. On the very first swing the gun discharged.
Martin dropped the gun and looked down to see something sticking out of the back of his hand. Knowing it to be the bullet, he bent his head down and grabbed it in his teeth, counted to three and quickly yanked with all of his might.
Imagine his embarrassment, when the object he removed from his mouth, turned out to be an inch and a half bone from the middle of his hand.
"Boy, did I feel silly!" says Martin.
Really.

Till next week
Helga Biermeister
Secretary