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Posted by Pharmall on September 01, 2005 at 19:15:17 from (68.9.106.167):
In Reply to: stay home guys posted by Nebraska Cowman on September 01, 2005 at 10:29:24:
Haven't left the place for three days. Lots to do and the cool weather will be here sooner than we think. My grandfather grew grapes near Nauvoo, IL. I remember that he would stay on the place for weeks on end, except for Sundays. Church, meetings in town, dry goods, and a quick stop at the local tavern (Red Front Inn?) combined in one trip. Our habits sure changed the last forty years with decades of cheap energy. They had a big garden, canned for the winter, chickens, a dairy cow and a couple of hamburg cows, hand pump well, catfish pond, deer hunting, and a wood stove. Hardly used a drop of gas. Come to think of it he never even had a tractor - stuck with a pair of draft horses through the 1960's.
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