Every day Pete from Dunster sends out a community newsletter which tells readers, WHO is looking for WHAT. “I need a ride to Prince George,” “We have an old washing machine that still works, does anyone want it?” “Could someone pick up a parcel from Hinton for me?” etc. The other day I read that Keith, who makes internationally known French horns, was looking for an old pair of horse hoof nippers. He said he needs them to use as a tool in his manufacturing.
It set me wondering, “Don’t we have an old pair of hoof nippers in the barn?”
Next morning when I went out to the barn to get sunflower seeds for the bird feeder, I looked around and found them. I sent off an email to Keith telling I had a pair that he could have. Since he lives in Dunster, he asked if I could drop them off at the McBride Library, where his wife could pick them up. I replied that I would be at the library Tuesday night for our jam session and I would take the nippers to drop them off. As sort of a joke I wrote “If I don’t forget them.”
To make sure I didn’t forget them I put the nippers on top of the canvas shoulder bag I always take to the jam. There the nippers sat for a couple of days. Then last night as I was preparing to go to the jam, I carried my iPad (I use it to tune my mandolin and to find lyrics and chords) to the bag and there right on top of the bag sat the nippers. I picked them up and put them on the bed so I could put my iPad into the bag. This done I zipped the bag up, grabbed my instruments, and headed out the door.
When I got to the library, I opened my bag to get the nippers and take them to the librarian. Of course, the nippers weren’t there because they were still sitting on the bed where I put them.
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