Cold Feet
Glen and his buddy Thom had talked of staying the winter in Idaho, thinking there would be little competition for food, but as the snow began, Glen got cold feet . . .
Twins
Willi Jo had thought having twins would be easier; they would play with each other, taking some of the load off, but the reality was they were three times the work . . .
No Illegals
Hearing about the influx of unaccompanied children coming across the Rio Grande River into Texas gave Ike, who lives in Northern Idaho next to the Canadian border, reason for concern. He was pretty sure the thought of swimming across the glacier-fed lake would act as a deterrent for the pesky Canadian kids, but nonetheless, he spent most of his daylight hours in his pickup, watching. Just in case . . .
Wired for Sound
Enrique, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, had been told by his friends that if he wrapped his antlers in aluminum foil he could pick up AM radio and that way not miss Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity every day, and he might be able to get some of the AM oldies stations. He had two concerns: Would he miss NPR on FM, and would the foil make him an ungulate lightning rod in a thunder storm . . . ?
Tough Sledding
Kenny was often puzzled by his girlfriend Ginnie’s literal mind. When he told her that their canoe trip down the Kootenai river that spring was going to be “tough sledding,” her response was, “What happened to the canoes?” and “Do sleds float well enough . . . ?”
Anchor Babies
Elaine had been born in Canada, near Revelstoke, B.C., but had spent her first winter in Mexico, in the Gulf of California. Now here she was two years later in Northern Idaho with a bunch of ducklings who were clearly U. S. citizens. She was having an uphill battle trying to convince her friends the little ones weren’t just anchor babies, after all, they didn’t get free school lunches or have medicaid cards. Should she, though, be worried that ICE would come checking passports?. . . . . David, Sf.G.