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To: Crocodile who wrote (62681)	5/20/2002 6:17:43 PM
From: Ish	Respond to of 71178

We have several swallows nest in the barn every year and they are really tame. Pretty too. I'm getting itchy, have been for weeks, to get the boat out. Not much canoeing water around here so I do the fishing boat thing. It is amazing what you can see from a bass boat if you park in a cove. 2 years ago I stopped in a cove and there were 3 families of Giant Canadian Geese fighting over the area for nesting. A 15 pound goose missing you by 2' is an experience.

To: Crocodile who wrote (62681)	5/20/2002 11:21:53 PM
From: Justin C	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

All that activity that you and Ish are about with the birds in the great outdoors sounds wonderful, but no swallowing, so to speak, for this city dweller. But I did go to the nursery .. one of those large old-fashioned kind with gravel pathways and so forth .. and got two more crape myrtles for the back yard. On the way home, I stopped at the laundry-and-dry-cleaning establishment that I've used for nearly 25 years. It's been in the same family all that time and is now being operated by the surviving elderly widow. I noticed that her car, a barge-like '82 Oldsmobile Delta 88, was parked at the front door instead of the usual spot across the way. It's showing very badly its 20 years, and I asked the lady how many miles it had. She said, "The speedometer broke just under 200,000." Then she added, "I still like it. If someone hits me, I know I'll have plenty of steel around me. It looks bad, but I like it that way. I come here at 5:30 in the morning, and I figure no one will bother me if I'm driving an old car." After a little pause, she brightened up a little with, "But I have a new car at home. I call it my church car."