From: max.it@teatime.net   
      
   On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:28:30 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
      
   >"max.it"  wrote in message   
   >news:54f0f873.54951890@news.aioe.org...   
   >> On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:55:44 -0500, "Mary"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>"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.   
   >   
   >> Armagh is a border county (uk side), the orange county, the orchard of   
   >> Ireland. It is where the orange order was formed, and for good measure   
   >> orange is also the county colour for gaelic games and other not so uk   
   >> activities.> Ballymena is the big Presbyterian stronghold, they speak with   
   >> a kind   
   >> of Scottish accent. Anywhere in the north east of Ireland is just like   
   >> Scotland.   
   >   
   >I can believe that. Many people from North east Ireland came from Scotland   
   >during the Highland Clearances according to history. I suspect the ancestors   
   >of my Irish grandfather could have migrated to N. Ireland from Scotland a   
   >long time ago and still be in Ireland. My grandfathers last name was quite a   
   >common Scottish name and his mother's name is not that common in Scotland   
   >but originally said to come from Strathclyde,Glasgow and Renfrewshire areas   
   >but their ancestors could have lived in Ireland for many years many years   
   >ago. I only know about my grandfather and his parents that they were all   
   >born in N. Ireland.   
   >   
   >>>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.   
   >   
   >> I always remember February being cold and horrible, but spring is   
   >> arriving earlier, and it only takes a bit of sunshine to get the   
   >> insects and birds going, and the wives with their grand plans for the   
   >> garden that they expect the cripple to accomplish ;) As a new over 50   
   >> year old customer I get 10% discount from the diy store - they are   
   >> trying to kill me!!   
   >   
   >haha.Surely you are not a cripple. If you are just 50 you should still be in   
   >good shape to get your garden planted with spring flowers and after that,   
   >plant summer flowers.   
   >We are supposed to be getting better weather next week.Hopefully we will get   
   >out of the deep freeze. It has been the coldest winter for many years. the   
   >sun has been out a lot of days, and makes you think its warm outside till   
   >you go out.   
      
   I'm a cripple, heavy engineering and motorcycles and no sense for a   
   long time made sure of that I got plenty of knocks and broken   
   things.My back and hips are on the way out.   
   Funny enough just last year I had an accident where I was briefly   
   exposed to some nasty chemicals in unmarked bottles and one got broke.   
   I wasn't too worried because I felt pretty fine, but the stuff burnt   
   my mouth and that was a big red flag.   
   Doc sat me down and told me this type of exposure usually ends badly   
   no matter how you feel now, he said within two or three weeks I could   
   be toast, dead and buried. I'm still kicking, I was frightened for a   
   bit, but I'm fine now. Never went for a follow up, never told my   
   family - I reckoned I was gonna have to but I kept on living.   
      
   If anything the whole scare has made me more active.   
      
   max.it (the orange cage)   
      
      
   >   
   >I am trying to guess what diy means. Discount something? We don't usually   
   >get discounts here till we are 60 at the earliest, usually 65.   
   >   
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