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Kabu
LOL! Delightful, and I understand completely! But I do have a question: granted that the weather may no longer affect you (other than giving you the odd frostbite between say, October and April), but how do you manage to avoid the hairy, grubby hand of the taxman in your part of Ontario, pray tell?
posted by
Nautikos
on August 13, 2010 at 6:00 PM
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I'm glad you got your shoes
I love shoes too. So does Rosie except she won't wear them. She just chews them even when I have explained to her that they are not HERS. I gave her Richard's tennis shoes that he had partially cut trying to get them off when I was asleep one afternoon. She should be happy enough. I mean with his size 13's Rosie could set up house in them.
posted by
skye08
on August 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM
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KABU, Life is the same for the kids of an honest small town lawyer,
posted by
dsm_tchr
on August 12, 2010 at 5:31 PM
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kabu
Dang!!! I would say that you deserve those shoes!!!
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on August 12, 2010 at 1:32 PM
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I live
in the heart of England's East Anglia region which is the arable heartland of our country and it fills me with pain to see crops either bleached white with lack of rain or flattened by it. I think it must be one of the most rewarding and heart-breaking occupations through every season. Good about the shoes that were meant for walking...
posted by
malcolm
on August 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM
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Finally spare cash for shoes
posted by
Lanetay
on August 12, 2010 at 9:03 AM
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so, growing up on a farm, have you learned how to walk aroiund barefoot?
becauset that would be an entire new skill, and a story for another day. But as you know the grass is always greener on the other side, growing up in the city, and moving from city to city, I always wanted to live in the farm. I guess I would have quickly learned the price on the farm is to learn to walk barefoot. In the city barefoot is just dangerous.
posted by
Tzippy
on August 12, 2010 at 12:46 AM
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Kabu..you have written your excuse extremely well..and thank goodness now you have the money for those shoes!! LOL /LBJ
posted by
MsJudy
on August 12, 2010 at 12:12 AM
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Kabu
m The lawns are brown. I hope that you get to buy your shoes love. BC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on August 11, 2010 at 9:47 PM
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LOL, how beautifully you summarised.. Well go on..get as many shoes that you may want dear Kabu - you have earned it for sure. Thank you darling for the visit and hope the check up with the doctor goes ok for Wiley John - Thursday right?
posted by
shobana
on August 11, 2010 at 7:16 PM
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Kabu, sounds like perfectly reasonable thinking to me.....
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:)..
posted by
Rumor
on August 11, 2010 at 5:43 PM
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Kabu, I must've been a dust-bowl farmer, in a former life! That's MY LIFE!
In my area of north-central Lower Peninsula Michigan this year, the corn had grown to be face high, by the 4th of July! Rain has been falling dependably and moderately, a couple of times weekly most weeks, warm humid days, followed by cool,breezy nights and, by the END of July, it had attained or surpassed a height generally higher than a 5' 10"+ man (Me) can reach. When I remarked about this, to one of my meal recipients, (a 90+year-old, lifelong, very comfortable, farmer,) after having noticed these things during the early part of this year's growing season, he enthusiastically and wholeheartedly agreed with my observations, saying that a bumper crop was becoming more and more likely, with the passing of each additional near-tropical day. He then predicted exactly what your blog did, a plunging price of corn, on worldwide commodities markets, due to poor drying conditions, storage-silo space shortages, supply/demand and shipping catastrophes, unfair foreign government subsidized competition, etc. The farmer-guy confessed that he was very surprised that a non-farmer, city boy like me, even noticed such things, at all. If Andy were ever to learn that you, a mere slip of an old-time flower-wearing hippy girl-child, also notices such things, he'd probably attempt to woo you away from Wiley! He's in his nineties, wealthy, ..........Hell I might just date him, myself!
ANYWAY, In the event that your head might become turned, I'd CERTAINLY rat you both out, to my ole buddy, Wiley. Sorry Kabu, we men just have to stick together!
Oh yeah, just knowing this fact, also ought to help you to be able to resist temptation, by predatory, smooth-talking, scheming, pretty-boys, (NO not me!) much more easily, too!
No need for you to thank me, Kabu. We FRIENDS have to stick together, too!
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on August 11, 2010 at 4:13 PM
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Makes sense to me, Dear Kabu and I'm no financial wizard, lol..
I love our Shoe Carnival here; lots of good deals on name brand styles. End of season bargains line my closet too; reminds me that I've got a couple of pair of brand new sandals still in the box - I better hurry up and trot 'em out, haha..
Interesting post, great writing as always..
posted by
Katray2
on August 11, 2010 at 3:06 PM
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Great post, Kabu, and so true. And our politicians work much less for a better dollar (ours), but if they buy shoes, it will be all over the media the next day. Never can win! LOL @ Wiley's comment. I dont think he has to worry about your running anywhere, does he? Liked Pat B's little poem too!
posted by
adnohr
on August 11, 2010 at 2:11 PM
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It's more truth than poetry, all the way through,
the farmer's life story is all too true.
Since truth be told, we give you your due,
you've rhyme & reason to shop for a shoe.
posted by
Pat_B
on August 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM
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Very interesting, Kabu.
I'd never make it as a farmer, that's for sure. I give them a lot of credit.
posted by
SpitFire70
on August 11, 2010 at 1:19 PM
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I agree Kabu you need shoes, you must keep spending money to keep the economy going.
I wish I had bought a few more acres of land 40 years ago, but one never has the money.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 11, 2010 at 12:54 PM
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that's as good an excuse to spend as any I've ever heard Grandmummy
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on August 11, 2010 at 12:48 PM
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Kabu
This may be your best. It is profound. Here in America it equates to the small business owner too. We always have some new or unexpected, unplanned expense that eats our cash flow. I am there now but I am looking for that perfect crop this year. I do so understand this as so many do. This is why I am so hurt when people who do not deserve a free life on our tax dollars get it because it was so hard and took so many generations to pay for the shoes we deserve now, and it is hard to get them because they are being pulled out of our hands by those who did not pay taxes. God bless you dear lady. It is a lot that way in Australia and Canada too now. People are coming from everywhere.
posted by
Justi
on August 11, 2010 at 12:25 PM
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Re: Kabuiepie-;)
Ah lak dat theory, wileymon.
posted by
benzinha
on August 11, 2010 at 11:51 AM
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Our family was suupported by Dad;s journalism job. It was never ever
enough for six children and their varied needs, let alone enough for Mom and Dad. We had one pair of shoes for school and church adn had to remove them the minute we hit the house. Barefoot was the life on our street, hot boiling desert surfaces. I could walk slowly upon egg frying sidewalks. So, I feel your pain.
The farmer's life is too dependent upon too many things and that would scare me to death. Your list was very scary. So true.
I did go crazy at one point with money in my pocket, ended up with 85 pairs of shoes after about five years of shopping. IN my 20s then, I now have about ten pairs and most are Converse high or low tops. I buy them at the second hand store or on eBay, especially the Justin Ropers. Yum.
Like over eating when we first had all the food that we could eat in Brasil. There was never enough in my childhood. I stole potatoes and peeled them with my teeth and ate them raw, hiding on the roof. Mom would get sad at dinner time when there weren't enough to extend the stew far enough for 8 people. I was hungry, tho'.
posted by
benzinha
on August 11, 2010 at 11:49 AM
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The farmers should have better lives and incomes. Life isn't always right. Glad you got some shoes. 
posted by
mariss9
on August 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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So many conditions need to be right in order for a farmer to have a great harvest...Amazing it is the farmer can afford anything at all...Since you are no longer a farm girl I say buy all of the shoes you want!
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 11, 2010 at 11:32 AM
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Kabuiepie-;)
Wonderful keeping you barefoot, especially in winter. ya can't run away. Lovely post darlin'
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 11, 2010 at 11:06 AM
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Wonderful writing, Dear Lady K!
posted by
teddypoet_TheGoodByeFade
on August 11, 2010 at 11:03 AM
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