[Harold Pickens]

Just finished reading the PP this morning, sitting on the front porch of our vacation rental home, down here in the Carolina Low Country of Hilton Head-an appropriate place to read the articles of Mills Morrison and others. Dean's article his restored gun and the Kings Mills powder company interesting, as I was just in Kings Mills a couple of weeks ago and didn't know its history as a gun powder manufacturing center.
I am not a beach person, and had thought about throwing in a gun and case of shells, and getting ahold of Mills, or Tom Pelligrino, or David Dwyer, fine gentlemen I have shot with at Drakes before, but the cap of the truck was loaded to the gills. I will catch up on my reading this week, as I spend as much time outdoors as I can in the summer, and the magazines just pile up. I have been running my 2 setters in the hayfields in back of our house each morning to get them in shape for our upcoming UP trip in October. I will no doubt see Rich,aka COB, Eric Eise, and maybe even Mike Smith as my cabin is just a few miles from Rich's. Young Fancy Girl is doing wonderfully well at the trainers, he likes her so much, she gets to stay in the house with him.
Well, time for another cup of coffee, strum a tune or two on the guitar, and go for a morning run, and dream of soon being in the woods with my Parkers.