Especially when we are distantly related to each other AND descended from the same pioneers of this state. I would defend the bagpipes with gunfire or firewater, whichever is most effective.
Perhaps we can take up a collection and get AP to refocus his banjo talents toward the pipes! Heck, I may hang up my drum sticks and find a set of pipes to buy.


And to me, now being recently relocated, anything north of Georgetown is yankeeland! Speaking of the north, I was up in Denton this weekend, reading about Cami and her crimefighting in the local news there. They're fighting those bonds getting lowered in Denton!