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Re: ChiffChaff
Crikey Wiley when we had our well dug a man walked over with a twig so my Dad said and he dug down about twelve feet and there it was lovely water probably came straight down through the cemetary. Well I have not learned to tweet.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 23, 2012 at 11:54 AM
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ChiffChaff
We are having rain thank goodness because we have a warning in the paper that we have been in a drought for months and the water table is low so the wells may dry up. I'd hate to have to drill a new well, very costly as this one we have is nearly 200' deep. You'll be a fine looking canary Bro.
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WileyJohn
on November 23, 2012 at 10:35 AM
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Re: Marrise
Thank you Marrise, we don't celebrate but the shops try to get in on the act of Black Friday. Hope your dinner was cooked, I once tried to make a slow cooker out of a hay box it was not very successful
posted by
C_C_T
on November 22, 2012 at 11:39 PM
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Re: adnohr
Same old prob with the roads today Adnohr, no money to spare, the unmarried mums need it these days. Can't wonder though the pension was five shillings in those days. The 
government gives everyone a fuel allowance over 65 even if they are retired Bank managers. ( have not given up quite these steroids make me feel like a fifty year old.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 22, 2012 at 11:36 PM
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Re:Jay
WE all have them Jay, have a nice day. Thank you. 
posted by
C_C_T
on November 22, 2012 at 11:20 PM
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Re: Taps
I guess work was ingrained from childhood Taps well most left school at eleven. I love canaries, but don't like to see them caged
posted by
C_C_T
on November 22, 2012 at 11:18 PM
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You have so many picturesque memories and stories. It can be good to have memories come back in any sequence they arrive. And good to have a green thumb such as you have. Happy Thanksgiving if you celebrate it , have a great day otherwise.
posted by
mariss9
on November 22, 2012 at 4:00 PM
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i love violets!
posted by
Annicita
on November 22, 2012 at 4:55 AM
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Beautiful flowers, CCT. The story about your Dad and the horses does remind us how much easier we have it today. I doubt that your Dad wrote a complaint to the government minister responsable for the roads in his area. Your poem makes me think of someone who has given up.
posted by
adnohr
on November 22, 2012 at 12:25 AM
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"Cardboard piles of stiff brown days" Genius.
posted by
UtahJay
on November 21, 2012 at 11:42 PM
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You'd make a good canary.
I love the beautiful flowers, and your poem had a lot of good stuff in it that I enjoyed.
Our parents were really hard workers weren't they.
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TAPS.
on November 21, 2012 at 11:11 PM
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Thank you FS. One thing the rain washes the car, although we did have a shower that left a red deposit. I must asked your Dad how he makes that happen. 
posted by
C_C_T
on November 21, 2012 at 10:54 PM
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Re: Pat
We soon forget Pat, but it was a different community spirit. I still see one or two old men who we met coming home as they cycled up the hills towards their country sweethearts.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM
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Re: CCT
Well Naut there were not many decent roads until the old horse was put back in the stable. Remarkable change in one's life time. Thank you.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 21, 2012 at 10:48 PM
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Re: you may have missed the fact that we have a new permanent resident here
Yes, thank you dear, I tried to get a squirrel . I saw a housekeeper chopping some up once, I expect they are tasty living on nuts and veggies, little buggers eat the flowers in the cemetery, but I don't think they like chrysanthemums or geraniums.
posted by
C_C_T
on November 21, 2012 at 10:45 PM
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you may have missed the fact that we have a new permanent resident here
he doesn't talk much but he does say welcome and he's friends with a cute squirrel!!! we are already good friends!
posted by
Kabu
on November 21, 2012 at 5:32 PM
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CCT
Your Dad's travelling adventures with horse and van sound as if they could have played themselves out in the early days of a barely settled and unpaved Ontario, not in the long-since inhabited and tamed countryside of Merry Old England...
And I spent some time lingering over your poem...
posted by
Nautikos
on November 21, 2012 at 4:15 PM
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Such a business, life. It should be dull after awhile, and we should
be content to have survived so many things. And yet...
posted by
Pat_B
on November 21, 2012 at 1:31 PM
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Rain, Rain go away as they say...I love the way in which the poem flows from image to image.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on November 21, 2012 at 9:29 AM
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