chou chope

i live in a ranch area...hunting is an industry here...thank goodness...do you like to hunt? do you like hanging out in beautiful settings for hours on end with nothing to do but stalk exotic game in their backyard? i love it..ranching is interesting business...it creates the beautiful landscapes that i call home and appears to attract some characters..

my main friend is pretty much the ringleader of the hunter's lunch..you have on average 8-9 regulars and then whoever the hell is in town hunting that weekend.. interesting...this monday, sounds like minnesota, next monday maybe joisey...it's very diverse in that way..

recently, my friend had a hunter in town from colorado...he was trying hard to fix us up but it was all wrong from the get go..besides working with the dead (taxidermist) he was half hitched, or half ditched, i can't remember...but he was already in the purgatory stage of a relationship with someone else, so i never really took the whole fix up thing seriously...

so we have our usual chatter over chips and salsa, and my friend is trying too hard the whole time.. it is all kinds of awkward...our food arrives and my friend starts telling me this story...

seems he and the taxidermist were speaking of me the previous weekend...and being that they were working on mounts all weekend and speaking of me, they put their heads together and made me a gift..and wah-lah...here's your gift we made you...

it was a nameplate that said "Chou Chope, Femme Extraordinaire"..

i looked at the taxidermist in disbelief and asked, "you want to mount me?"