I usually give my books to the VA hospital in Temple ...

[marble falls]

but occasionally I read ones that I really don't think might find an audience there, so I pass them out to fellow DUers.

I just finished Emmett Grogan's auto-biography, 'Ringovelio'.

If someone here in the lounge might like it, please let me know.

I will send it at my cost.

Like Emmett used to say, "its free if you want it."

Maybe there is an interest in setting up a book exchange?

[Brother Buzz]

1. We used to have a DUer named Emmett Grogan....

but the sock puppet got tossed onto the dung heap.

It's free if you want it, and we're all rich if we believe we are.

[marble falls]

3. A hell of a nice guy cut short by technicalities!

[Brother Buzz]

4. In the spirit of you thread, I'll propose a trade

I'll trade you an old paperback copy of Long Walk to Mulegé: A True Story of Adventure and Survival in Baja California by Howard Hale for Ringovelio.

And speaking of technicalities, oysters DO grow on trees in Mulegé.

[flotsam]

5. I have to ask what the hell that means

about oysters growing on trees?

[marble falls]

7. Ya had to be there.

[flotsam]

8. I guess so since I don't get it

But I think we're ok. Where I live we don't find oysters on trees, we drudge them. But the world is diverse...

[Brother Buzz]

9. That's the rumor Howard Hale heard back in 1923. He walked, like, a thousand miles to find out

Baja, California is mostly a desert, but Mulegé has a estuary that supports a small mangrove population, and small oysters grow on the mangrove roots.

Technicalities aside, oysters DO grow on trees in Mulegé.

[flotsam]

10. Wow

I'm into aquaculture and know they need a clean environment and controlled temp and salinity. Growing on tree roots is amazing!

[Brother Buzz]

12. Even more amazing is how the isolated native mangroves even ended up there.

One of my pops partners grew oysters under his house on the San Francisco Bay; a testament to our successful ecological efforts over the last couple of decades. Oysters are not unlike the canary in the coal mine.

[marble falls]

6. Lets do it!

[Brother Buzz]

11. Shoot me a PM with the information....

and I can have it in the post before the holiday thingy. It should prove to be a good read during the winter; hot climate books are best enjoyed during cold seasons.