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Most of what I've written has been published as e-books and is available at Amazon. Match Play is a golf/suspense novel. Dust of Autumn is a bloody one set in upstate New York. Prairie View is set in South Dakota, with a final scene atop Rattlesnake Butte. Life in the Arbor is a children's book about Rollie Rabbit and his friends (on about a fourth grade level). The Black Widow involves an elaborate extortion scheme. Happy Valley is set in a retirement community. Doggy-Dog World is my memoir. And ES3 is a description of my method for examining English sentence structure.
In case anyone is interested in any of my past posts, an archive list can be found at the bottom of this page. I'd appreciate any feedback you may have by sending me an e-mail note--jertrav33@aol.com. Thanks for your interest.

Sunday, January 1

Quail Block

It takes all kinds. My wife works at Ace Hardware and she comes home with some of the strangest stories about customers. Yesterday, a woman brought a quail block to the checkout. A quail block is a 15-pound block of bird seed and binder.

She plopped it on the counter and told my wife she just couldn’t stand all those dirty little birds that paraded through her yard. Now, quail as we know them in Sun City West are some of the funniest, most charming little birds we’ve ever seen.
They scurry along the ground, taking to the air only when they have to. And every spring, we see families go by, mom and dad and up to twenty tiny little walnuts following along. And this woman wanted to keep them out of her yard. So she thought buying a quail block and putting it where the birds entered her yard would keep them out . . . block them, that is. Like I said, it takes all kinds.
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Jeri Travis said...

ROTGLOL-Super funny, I wish they made stupid people blocks. They could never keep up with the demand. :)

January 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM

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