The South Has Indeed Risen Again!

[Keith_Hixson]

I went for a walk out in the country were in I was raised in Eastern Oregon this morning. This is the dry semi arid desert area. The low lands to have a few small spring creeks and the farmers water by wells and irrigation canals. But, its desert. However as I was taking my walk I came across a possum which had been run over. Shock of all Shocks, possum are not native to the Pacific Northwest. Back in the 1920's a group of Southerns from North Carolina [Tar Heels] moved into the town of Darrington to work in the logging camps. They brought possum with them and some escaped ( so the story goes ). Now Western Washington is plagued with Possum. The highways are littered with the flattened bodies of possum. All from a small bunch brought in by some Tar Heels nearly 90 years ago. But now my sacred home is also being plagued by this creature from the South. Those Rebels have found a way to bring us Yankees to our knees, send in the possum.

Keith

P.S. Do Southeners really eat those strange creatures?
They need to share recipes with their friends in the
Pacific Northwest.