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   "max.it"  wrote in message   
   news:54f0e881.50870187@news.aioe.org...   
   > On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:47:48 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
      
   >>"max.it"  wrote in message   
   >>news:54f0dcb6.47851015@news.aioe.org...   
   >>> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:05:34 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>I wanted to see if this got posted. I haven't seen any posts on any of   
   >>>>the   
   >>>>newsgroups I usually check for the last 3 days.   
   >>>>Is this the end?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Mary   
   >>   
   >>> I've been sick, but lurking on the ng. It's a bit slow.   
   >>   
   >>Not just slow in my case - but non existent for the past few days on the   
   >>several active groups I still check.   
   >>I hope you soon recover from your illness. Spring will soon be here :<)   
   >>   
   >>Mary   
      
   > Spring has hit Co Armagh already, the tits are collecting nesting   
   > stuff, and the song birds are making a racket and courting. This is   
   > the tough time for the birds, the food stores are gone and the new   
   > source of food is only just beginning.   
      
   Birds always seem to manage to get food somewhere and start new generations.   
      
   I've never been to Ireland. Where is Co Armagh? My grandfather (mother's   
   father) was born in Ballymena, N. Ireland and moved to Scotland as a young   
   man and married my Scottish grandmother. I never knew him as he died before   
   I was born. He was our only relative not born in Scotland. My mother and   
   father's side were Scottish and went back many generations to the 1700's and   
   probably beyond. My father was born in Argyll. I did some genealogy a while   
   ago to see how far back my Irish grandfather's ancestry went in Ireland, and   
   found out the name of his mother and father, both born in Ballymena but   
   that's as far as I got.   
      
   In Toronto, spring won't be here for a while. Feb. is always a cold month   
   but this year, its been freezing every day and only one more day to go   
   before Feb. ends. Maybe it will be spring after that. In the summer here,   
   its very hot, so I don't mind the winter though it gets tedious. Not a lot   
   of snow so far, but extremely cold winds.   
      
      
      
      
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