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From: "Don & Jean Paulsen" <>
Subject: Re: [OHCLER] White Christmas.
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:44:51 -0600
References: <20031223.164842.3320.0.hermfagley@juno.com>


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From: "Hermon B Fagley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: [OHCLER] White Christmas.


> The narrow leaf evergreen tree native to Clermont Co is the red
> cedar. Smells better than most others. Pines,fir,hemlock,etc
> must be planted here to grow here. But red cedar grow wild,from seed,but
> as a forest matures,
> the cedar are out grown and shaded out. . I had no other species than a
> red cedar my 1st 20 years. It became my
> job,as a teen ager,to hunt a proper cedar tree,and cut it,from our farm.
> Then,for 20+ years,we bought wholesale,
> and resold Christmas trees. Often 600,and once 800. Scotch pine, Frazier
> fir, Balsum fir,White pine,
> Norway spruce,and Colorado blue spruce.
> We have snows,and sometimes snow at Christmas. We've just been thru a
> common snow. Snow
> fell all day,totaling 4-5 inches,and then melted off the next day. 3-4
> times in my life have we had blizzards,and
> deep snows that lasted a month or more. We often have a few sub-zero
> nights. The Ohio River rarely freezes over
> any more. I guess about 1977-78 was the last time. But,in pioneer
> times,it froze more often,and the Ohio
> River flooded more often in the past.
> Santa Claus actually came Christmas Eve. [Drove a Model A Ford just
> like old Anna Williams,who lived a mile east].
> There was a Christmas when I was 10-12 when we neighborhood boys got some
> baseball gear,and we played baseball
> til a front passed ,and by evening,we had a sledding snow.
> I've got a one horse sleigh in my garage. My wife's
> grandfather,James Allen Ashton took his
> future bride,Myrtle Mahaffey,for a sleigh ride,about 1905,and up-set the
> sleigh. N E Williamsburg,Ohio.
> Dad always went shopping Dec 24th afternoon. It did no good to
> hunt,because he had not bought anything yet.
> He bought me a .22 single shot Winchester rifle when I was 10. Or, I had
> a rifle before I was allowed to
> ride a bike. Usually sports,for he'd been a coach. Basketball,or
> baseball glove,or sled,or similar.
> We had a 1\2 acre pond to skate on on times the ice froze deep enough,but
> when I was in the 7th,or
> 8th grade, 2 cousins,from my school bus,and a Catholic school boy ,died
> breaKING thru the ice on
> a pond a mile away. Dugie and Cacker Moore,and a [?] Sluter boy. That
> ended playing on pond ice in my
> neighborhood. Harry and Alice Ely Moore's boys,from Bantam.
>
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