Percy B. Hand is a redneck scribbler, but he's bright and entertaining. He's a fixture these days at Hiram's Cove, a small town in the brush country of south Texas created by developer Hiram Butts as a retirement village. Percy took of writing after many years of working as a mechanic and for the purpose of talking about his adventures with working at various causes. He's big into animal rescue, and he's an advocate for the homeless, among other things . . . and he's gone to jail several times due to his enthusiasm for his causes. A few years back, Percy went to jail for a while for assaulting some men involved in a dog fighting ring. He used an aluminum baseball bat in the attack and must've like that pinging sound 'cause he's used it several times since. A jury up in the hill country turned him loose, much to the local jailer's delight. It seems that Percy had been organizing prisoners in an effort to improve food and bedding at the jail.
Percy realized his shortcomings as a writer and took some courses at a local juco. He's been creating a site for blogging called Hiram's Cove over at Weebly. Check him out 'cause he's a hoot. He's just getting started at this blogging thing, so it might be a while before he gets much done there. He'll tell you all about one of his buddies, a Vietnamese cowboy named Chuckie Phat Nguyen, the owner of the town's most celebrated hang-out - Chuckie Phat's Rodehouse. And, oh yeah, he's not real, at least not in a literal sense. He's one of the voices that tells the story of Hiram's Cove, a book that will be out before long. This book will reveal something about older people most young people tend to overlook. There's lots of life left in people old enough to be retired from a job. Like Percy points out, "You cain't retire from life unless you die."
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