Still Making Money

Since I haven't always lived in a small town, everyday things still take me by surprise, and since I do live in a small town and people read my blog I have to change names and events, but this story was way to funny to just let it go to waste.

We have a dear friend in the OC whom we are going to call "Frank." Frank is the type of guy who would do anything for anyone. He spends his days trying to find things he can do for others, a true saint I tell you. Frank knows that I am not a country girl at heart and he has taken this opportunity to teach me the ways of life out here in the sticks.

One night I received a knock at my door, and to my surprise Frank was standing there, and in a very excited way he told me to get my shoes on and grab my kids because he had something so awesome to show us in his truck.

Boy, by his enthusiasm, I thought he had something pretty spectacular to show us and I wanted in on the prize, so I put on my shoes and shuffled Hallee and Kam out the door, and when we arrived, Frank was standing in the bed of his truck with a smile on his face that looked like he had just won the lottery.

The suspense was killing me, I couldn't wait to see what he had to share with us. My smile turned to pure disgust in about 2.5 seconds when he held up a dead porcupine. Hallee hid her eyes and stepped behind me, and Kam thought it was awesome. Frank just stood there with his goofy grin holding this poor animal by the scruff of its neck. Its head hung in death while its tongue flopped out of its mouth. Frank was so proud that his dog killed it in their yard because you know why don't you. Well, I am about to tell you why!

Did you know that the Native Americans will pay $35.00 for a porcupine pelt? Well, they will. They make their head dresses out of them, but you have to pull out the quills before you sell it, so as far as Frank was concerned, even if he bought a pair of $8.00 gloves to pull the quills out, he was still making money!

Although, I stood there is disbelief, shielding Hallee from future therapy, I thought to myself, well your are right Frank, you are still making money.