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To: Crocodile who wrote (55535)	9/6/2000 12:07:17 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

>>What can't be cured, must be endured...<< That sounds so . . . . Yankee. No offense, there is probably a word that I would know if I was Canadian, but that's the word I would use for someone who lives in New England, and in my mind's eye you are not so very far from there. I mean to say, you guys and gals in the frozen north are so much tougher than us southern gals and guys. Rock-ribbed, I think they call it. Made of sterner stuff. I am sitting here with the windows open, wearing a t-shirt and shorts. I put on sandals to go to the doctor this morning for my biennial health assessment, and I was in the elevator with a lady who was wearing not only long pants but a Polartec jacket. I looked at the jacket, and at my bare legs and sandaled feet, and remarked that we must feel the ambient temperature very differently. She agreed. I don't like winter here in Virginia, can't imagine what it would be like in Canada.

To: Crocodile who wrote (55535)	9/6/2000 1:19:36 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

<<A lot of people in a field naturalist group that I belong to up here are saying that the birds have begun marshalling and moving on south earlier than usual. >> The birds here are grouping now, flocks getting bigger. The hummingbirds are moving through on their migration. This little cool snap has moved the doves out and south and later on we'll be getting the northern doves that winter here. No matter what the weather the first geese start arriving at Crab Orchard Refuge in Southern Illinois on the 23 of September. Years ago we had a flock of woodcock come through in the evening. They were loosely spread over 5 acres and would take turns flapping 200 feet. Neat to hear their whistles.