[Howard N]

Now all you got to do is not lose it.

That's my trouble. Bet I loose one better than once a year. Stiff, whippy, I don't care to much. Just so long as I have one at the exact moment I need it.

One year I lost one when I was in Niland. I cut a piece of salt cedar to replace it for that moment. I bought one from Jewell Easter that weekend and lost it within days. The piece of salt cedar I'd cut lasted me for a year.