Coho in hiding?

 

by Vern  Byers, Mugginsville

 

Klamath Courier

June 28, 2006

Letter to the Editor

 

Quite often I see articles in regard to the coho saying they need more water for their survival and they want it from the farmer.  I decided I should investigate such an important subject before forming an opinion so I ran to my freezers, the big one first and began taking inventory. 

 

I pulled out frozen tamales, tacos, beans, buncha chili sauce, enchiladas, tortillas, jalapeno chili's, (my wife Virginia is a Mexican).  Then I pulled out frozen steaks, a whole bunch I think Mean Gene had a sale or somethun?  Then six gals, of milk, gallons of ice cream, orange juice, cookies, cheese, bread, butter, walnuts, chocolate chips, chickens, bags of frozen vegetables and frozen bananas.

 

By now I am in a panic.  No coho??  Ah but the smaller freezer which I ran to.  It was packed.  Virginia likes to be prepared for a power outage? 

 

In this freezer I found 3 turkeys, 10 lbs of flour, pie shells (homemade), chimichangas (??), pig skins, pigs feet for menudo, and more nuts and orange juice.

 

I was about ready to call 911 but remembered the frig freezer so ran to it and when I opened it, dang, everything slid out on the floor.  2 cakes, bread, more Mean Gene steaks, corn meal, cheese, orange juice, coffee, left over Chinese dish; and in the frig, lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, carrots, potatoes, etc, etc, but still no coho.

 

Same in the stuffed cupboards.  I ran to the cabinet in the wash room.  It was jammed and a job to inventory.  Probably the coho are canned.  They gotta be here or there wouldn't be such a fuss.

 

A half hour later again no coho??  Can't survive without them it seems??

 

So I sat and pondered my investigation.  I have lived for 73 years now and can't remember eating a coho?

 

Sure hope I'm not getting sick.  I asked Virginia and she didn't know what a hoho, she called it, was??

 

I know I'm not very smart and must have missed it somewhere in my study but my pea brain concluded; I've lived off what the farmers and ranchers have produced for 73 years.  So if push comes to shove, I have to stand up and vote for our farmers and thank em for feeding us.

 

 

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