Band catch-up: summer gigs, deer, and a bird funeral

Tim Cooper reports a busy summer of outdoor gigs, a worship set at the State Fair's Riley stage where the heat defeated the keyboards, and a fourth CD ('Venice Stew') three years in the making. He tells how he prayed for the two thousand dollars he needed for the CD and then totaled his car on a deer, pocketing the insurance payout -- joking that 'the cattle on a thousand hills' near Des Moines volunteered. The hosts and band trade animal stories, correct Pants's chat claim that they held a funeral for a whole flock of birds (it was one bird that hit a window at the oil-change shop where he worked), and debate the best way to hunt deer: camouflage and silence versus a pickup truck with the radio blaring.