| I don't know when the hunting season is in | | | | emergency.My hunting license leads me to the |
| your part of the country, but in my house it | | | | basement. I creep down the stairs, full of |
| is every school day from August through June. | | | | anxiety, looking to paper "bag" school books |
| Why else am I hunting through old purses at | | | | with serviceable covers. (I have three |
| 6:00 a.m. trying to stalk a quarter for my | | | | school-age kids). One year my daughter |
| son's milk money? The only thing I trap are | | | | covered her books with a roll of $10.50 |
| lint-covered lifesavers, an Eisenhower | | | | wallpaper. Our bathroom is the only one in |
| button, and a grocery list of strained | | | | the neighborhood with one bare wall.The White |
| vegetables (my youngest is eight years old). | | | | Huntress still has to enter three bedrooms |
| It is about as exciting as spending 12 hours | | | | (It's a jungle in there) to snare one overdue |
| in a duck blind.I must remember to give my | | | | library book, one glasses case, one raincoat, |
| child some dollar bills tomorrow so he can | | | | and two pairs of sneakers. (My experienced |
| purchase "The Lion And The Alligator" and | | | | nose led me to the last items quicker than a |
| "Mindy And the Moose" at the school book | | | | hound dog on a scent). I am surprised I don't |
| fair. Once the hunting season starts he | | | | get bagged for exceeding the legal limit.On |
| suddenly develops a serious case of buck | | | | the trail I am surprised to come upon a wild |
| fever.My next aim is to locate a black ink | | | | animal (my youngest son). And I wasn't even |
| pen to record the emergency information the | | | | dear hunting.Ms. Adams is a freelance writer |
| school requires. How are they to know what | | | | for newspapers, magazines, and books. She |
| doctor to call if he should have a sudden | | | | also wrote jokes for Phyllis Diller which she |
| attack of gout, or come down with velocipede | | | | told on tv. |
| of the chest? I am supposed to also list the | | | | |
| telephone number of a relative or neighbor | | | | You can see her own page at SQUIDOOand her |
| who sits by the phone eight hours a day | | | | blog at CAN WE WRITE? |
| waiting to be called in case of an | | | | |