[TR] Trophys & TRs

[Blake J. Discher]

On Jul 29, 2008, at 2:05 PM, Steven Newell wrote:
> Please share with me your ideas for most authentic barn find  
> details...


I think a very authentic touch that would wow the judges would be a  
(fake of course) stuffed, decomposing (somewhat bloated), possum in  
the boot.  These guys apparently go somewhere deserted and isolated  
when they know they're about to leave this green earth.  How do I know?

About three years ago, one decided a good place to die would be in our  
home's craw space, at the point farthest from the access door.  Mid  
summer.  Hot.  Humid.  Stink.  The entire house, stink.  We're looking  
for a small mouse INSIDE the house.  Come up with nothing.  Then it  
hits us.  Something in the crawl.

We grab the Maglite, spy him in that far corner, bloated to twice the  
size he was when he was living his happy life.  I don't fit under the  
crawl.  My dad doesn't fit.  Wife does.  Wife is shrewd negotiator.   
She dons my coveralls, grabs a shovel, struggles and crawls on her  
stomach to get to the now very dead, very fly covered, very smelly  
critter.  Shouting expletives I didn't know she knew with each foot of  
progress.  After what seemed an eternity, success.  It's extricated.

Her negotiated reward?  A pair of diamond earrings.  Wears them  
everyday.  Hopes for more dead possums.  I've sealed the one tiny  
entry point it must have used.