At the store today things were moving very, very slow. Wayne (the owner) came in and we stood around talking for almost 30 minutes. He said something memorable, which he attributed to an old logger he used to know down in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. “Anybody can get old, but you have to be tough to stay old.”
Albert (an old Native American guy) came in at a different time and told some of his never-ending and entirely implausible stories about Sasquatches, the “Waterfall Mafia” (Waterfall is a major resort down the island a way), and the Murkoswki family’s criminal empire.
reminds me of what your mom told me. “Getting old isn’t for the faint of heart.”
sasquatch is said to live down here in SE Oklahoma also. had a bank customer who swore he had heard them in the woods at night and had pictures of “footprints”. His horses would get very upset if sasquatch was close by.
mafia organizations of Alaska – sounds like there is a real story there! maybe even a book.