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From: "Louise Valine" <>
Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:32:59 -0800
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That just could be. Living in the country and horses next door I notice in
the winter we don't have the flies. I have been putting out things for them
in the summer any way, but winter it is just great no more flies. Then
comes spring and we start getting them. Oh well, such is the circle of life.
Louise
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From: "Neysa Johnson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 7:51 AM
Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter


> My grandfather used to say that snow and the ground freezing kills a lot
> of
> the "bugs" that make us sick. If he was right, we are off to a healthy
> 2009!!
>
> Neysa
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Roses
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 1:50 AM
> To: memory-lane
> Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter
>
>
> I did pretty much the same thing as Elaine has done. During this snow
> period we just had, yes I ran out of fresh vegetables and fruit, but I had
> plenty of canned and frozen vegetables and fruit to eat so I could still
> maintain a healthy diet. I didn't leave the apt building for two weeks so
> you can see that I had quite a storehouse of food.
>
> I don't like the winter, fall and spring are my favorite seasons. My
> daughter just called and said they were predicting snow again for me on
> Saturday and maybe Sunday but not to the depths that we just went through.
> But if something did happen, I just stocked up on fresh vegetables so I
> could make it through another seige if I had to.
>
> The only good thing about winter is that it brings Thanksgiving and
> Christmas and it helps all the flowery bulbs to get the strength they need
> to blossom in the spring and be so pretty.
> Emma
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 22:59:24 -0500> From: > To:
> > Subject: Re: [ML] THE SUBJECT IS Winter> > I
> love
> the cold though I admit that I completely> prepare for it. I still
> maintain
> a pantry system> similar to my parents and that was in Wisconsin> before
> global warming when children wore snowsuits> and days and nights were
> bright
> with sunshine on> mounds of fresh new snow.> > I have lived in Virginia
> for
> 50+ years and> suffered through the miserable summers in the> hopes that
> there would be a beautiful winter and> most often I have been denied and
> disappointed.> > I'm stuck now, old age, family firmly planted> here, I'll
> be buried here, always kind of thought> I could escape Virginia but never
> succeeded and> son and grandsons are too great a draw to consider> leaving
> at this stage in my life. So the winters I> love are a memory from my
> distant past. Why on> earth did I, then, order in all that canned and> dry
> food to tide me over in !
> the event I was snowed> in? Snow? What's snow?> > Elaine> > >
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