10-02-2013, 08:52 AM
Thanks all for the crits, greatly appreciated. I completely missed the double reference with "peckers". It's only shortened because I have woodpeckers three times: most likely I should just nix one of them. Same goes for the myriad of colons and semicolons. I liked the vernacular line as a sort of western "he don't come round these parts no more", but if it's distracting I'll think of replacing it or using quotes.

