This is the logging truck with the wireline leading from the

This is the logging truck with the wireline leading from the cable bay of the truck to the top of the drilling rig.

The drilling crew is relatively idle at this point. This particular drilling crew was from Michigan of all places. There had been a ‘toad strangler’ the previous night and the prairie had crawdad chimneys in abundance.

The drilling crew asked what they were and Louis explained that they were produced by crawdads’ digging and damming their hole. They asked what a crawdad was and Louis explained that they looked like a miniature lobster. The next question was about their edibility and Louis raved about boiled crawdads. Clearly, the next question was how to catch them.