Woman Welder
“When I was just about to divorce my husband I’d wait until he was asleep and then quietly reach over and pluck one hair out of his beard. He’d wake up, think it was a mosquito and swat it. I could keep him half awake for hours. He’d always get a terrible sleep.”
You notice I didn’t say she was a nice woman welder.
Two trappers were talking …
“If you kill a magpie or two and leave them hanging by your kill the other animals won’t go near your kill.”
“Same as Crows or Ravens.”
“I guess the animals figure that if whatever killed those magpies and your animal is still around I’m sure as Hell not going to eat it.”
‘Three hots and a cot.’ Convict expression meaning three meals a day and a bed.
Or ‘Doing time.’
Ah, the priceless things you learn in a northern construction camp.
Rick Ranson 