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   From: jimled@bellsouth.net   
      
   Sharon B wrote:   
      
   > Jim Ledford wrote:   
   >   
   > [...]   
   > >girl, you do get around...  :)   
   >   
   > JIM!!!   
   >   
   > How are you?   
      
   doing very well.  good health.  good work to do.   
   good people around to enjoy life with.   kind of   
   you to ask and I do hope all is good in your world.   
      
      
   > How's the farm?   
      
   the soybean Farm is planted completely in group 5 beans.  trying   
   group 5 instead of group 7 this year to see if they well mature   
   any faster.   I hope it works out cause I'm tired of cutting beans   
   in December when November should have seen the completion of cutting.   
   I need to follow the beans with some wheat this year to work the soil   
   and kill nematodes.  no money in wheat but it sure is cheaper than 30   
   dollars an acre to kill nematodes.  if the wheat is not planted by the   
   third week of November then it just sits there and never really takes   
   off.  saying, hurry up beans and hoping for a November cut.   
      
      
   > How's the bicycle?   
      
   that thing is a load of fun and sure has conditioned my legs.   
   hehe, no more cars rammed and no more ruined bicycles.   
      
   > How's the DR chipper?   
      
   great investment.  much better than the bigger one I had, that's   
   right sold that monster I did.  anything over 4.5 inches is firewood   
   and I do hate being reminded of all the good limbs that never got a   
   chance to experience being firewood.  the DR chipper works well and   
   is one of the few things I've bought that works as the seller said   
   it would.   
      
      
   > How's the camping spot?   
      
   getting a lot more use by my city friends as a result of the new   
   and much improved entry trail.  we got 5.5 inches of rain last   
   Wednesday as a result of tropical storm alberto and the trail was   
   not washed out.  working with nature and mother earth kind of has   
   the result of making stuff last longer.   
      
      
   > Are you keeping That Cretin in line?   
      
   he's always good for a LOL.  in his last attempt to be cute he cited   
   an article stating how NC had voted for gwb.  the article went on to   
   explain how the demographics had changed severely in NC with hundreds   
   of thousands of people relocating to NC seeking or obtaining employment   
   in HIGH paying jobs at RTP [research triangle park].  as is most often   
   the case, people residing in the upper middle income cast will support   
   the conservative party while hoping for tax cuts.  anyhow, I did the   
   [cut & paste] of that portion of his cited article and thanked him for   
   finally gaining some insight into what I'd been telling him and dan   
   concerning how a large influx of new comers changes what was into what   
   is.  he's been quit now for awhile.  maybe he'll come out to play again   
   later.   
      
      
   > The alt.configgers here assure me that rumors on the death of   
   > alt.config have been greatly exaggerated.   
      
   ?   
   I just can't keep up with everything and ALL the places you go girl.   
   as a matter of fact I was surprised to run into you while reading   
   [misc.rural].  pleasantly surprised :)   
      
      
   >   
   > I was just thinking of you today while I was cutting grass (all day   
   > long)!  Camp ended yesterday (I was the Shooting Range Director this   
   > year),   
      
   oh oh!  we got a new toy at our shoot sports club.  one of those   
   little gas powered remote control cars.  we run it back and forth   
   along the bullet impact line with balloons tied to the bumper.   
   the blue balloon is the hostage person and the red balloon is the   
   hostage taker.  the object is to pop the red balloon without popping   
   the blue balloon.  loads of fun and the balloons, well depending on   
   who is there, last a long time too.  it's a 200 yard range.   
      
      
   > so of course the yard, house and garden are in a shambles--the   
   > yard especially cuz it took three weeks for the steering parts to come   
   > in, so 3 days before camp I start cutting the grass and the daggone   
   > v-belt breaks, so this is the first time the grass has been cut in a   
   > MONTH--so the grass was first priority cuz there are no words to   
   > describe how badly I hate fishing snakes outta the house.   
      
   snakes!  black, green or king are good and I step on past them.   
   snakes in the house has not yet been an issue however the barn   
   is another story for later.   
      
   >   
   > I was also thinking of you a few minutes ago while I was picking the   
   > raspberries--well, some of them.  They grow wild all over, but I was   
   > on the west 40 and after a dozen or so under and over trees (including   
   > locust) and dodging blackberry and wild rose brambles and getting   
   > scratched up, and forgetting to take my snippers out with me to cut   
   > back some of the udder thorny stuff, I decided to call it a night.   
      
   happened to notice the blackberries at the pond this afternoon.  they   
   are about 50% ripe. PIE!  COBBLER!  with the ones that make it back to   
   the house.   
      
   >   
   > GUESS what I found?  A six pack of bud bottles, smack in the middle of   
   > the woods.   
      
   an image of some trespassing pothead being spooked and running off   
   scared adding littering to their crime of trespassing.   LOL   
      
      
   > An hour in the freezer and a nice bonus at the end of a   
   > blistering hot day (the pot plants I usually find during wild   
   > blackberry season on the east 40, and have snagged me some nice   
   > planters that way--the plants I just toss in the middle of the wild   
   > rose forest, having no use for them).   
      
   as always be happy and take good care of Sharon.   
      
   Jim   
      
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