Thank You Fellas...
I Hear Ya...
On Friday of the First Week, after Labor Day...
Once I knew he was Stable, I had to come home and wash cloths, refuel (Spiritually) and check in with my Immediate Family... So I drove the Route of the Crash Site, Trash Bag, Surgical Gloves and a Sharp Blade in hand, looking for the Hog... Planning to at least take the Head and Leg Bones.
My plan was to do a European Mount with the head and incorporate the other Bones into several other projects for Uncle Bryan, Walking Stick-Cane and a Bow...
I also have this Thing, I Need to Walk the Accident Site, to piece together the Crash for myself...
I've done this since I was a kid... You might be surprised what can be learned by doing this...
And I've lost count of the Crash Sites I've walked, Family, Friends and Mine...
In any event, I found the site, but the Hog was Nowhere to be seen.
Though I did see Photos of the Dead Hog.
In walking the Site, it was clear he Never Saw the Hog.
No Rubber Skid Marks we're in evidence, only long Scrape Marks of a Sliding Motorcycle.
Blood Trail where the Hog was Hit, and where it came to rest.
And a good distance down the skid path of the Bike, a Blood Trail where Uncle Bryan came to rest against a barbedwire fence and had begun to move back towards where the Bike stopped.
Even though my walk of the site was four days after the crash, the lack of Rain and Lay of The Land made it pretty easy to read what went down.
In the end the Bike was Totaled and the Hog was Gone who knows where...
And Aunt Teresa, Bryan's Wife and Tenacious Advocate, is still working up the Total Cost of the Accident... Looking like it will be close to, or just Over, One Million Dollars... Which I do not doubt.
Thank The Maker, Bryan has Good Insurance through the Railroad(BNSF) where he works.
I'm Finishing Up a New Bodark Walking Cane for him for Christmas.
He'll need it for a While... But soon enough he should be able to hang it on the wall as Art...
I'll start on a Bodark Bow for him after New Years...
I have some Hog Bone from a nice size Piggy that Mr George shot at the Burlington Knapp In last year to add as Accents.
I'm with You Fellas...
In Hoping-Praying that 2015 brings a Less Eventful Year...
Don't want to do another 2014...
Wishing You All a Very Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Yule and a Happy, Healthy Prosperous New Year!!!
-gus
