Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
WaltA wrote:
[...]
your granpappy had just driven across the high plains on his way
to
the gold fields of California

How did you guess his occupation? :-)

Utterly OT, but maybe somebody else also likes squirrelling away bits
of irrelevantiana about people they sort-of know. One of my
great-grandfathers _was_ a gold-prospector in Oz: never made a
fortune, but survived, and fathered nine children on his occasional
visits home.

--
Mike.