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Hal: My gosh I feel for you taking old fence out of what is probably Carolinnian Forest and the thorns that go with it. That pains me just to think about you doing that task. We have those same species here. Coming from Nova Scotia and the Boreal Forest with it's spruce, fir, hemlock and pine, we were not familiar with those thorns. Last summer I helped an old guy near here take down some fence in amoung thorns. I started off by tearing my arm on some rusty old fence wire. Nothing doing the old guy rushed me off to his first aid room on his gator. Cleaned it up, put some antiseptic on, he found a gauze pad, but noting to hold it in place. Then it hit him, duct tape, round and round my arm over the gauze, he went with duct tape. Back to work we went, got tangled up in those thorns. After about an hour the two of us had dozens of prick marks with streams of blood coming from our arms all the way up to our tee shirt sleeves. Then a neighbor dropped in, looked at the both of us and said,"who won the fight, you two look like you were shot at with bird shot". He looked at my duct tape bandage, said, "that is the only place you don't have blood running." I suggested, "maybe we should have wraped our entire arms in duct tape, before we started". I wasn't really too awfully concerned, not hearing from you, although the thought had crossed my mind that you may not have received my e mail. I kind of figured you were probably busy. Little did I know you'd be spending your YT time patching up your wounds every night. You take care.Hugh
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