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To: Dayuhan who wrote (44)	1/3/1999 8:27:00 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 325

Steve, It's interesting that you mentioned the cracking of ice. The most eerie sound that I've ever heard was right here on our farm last January. We are in the area of Canada which was hit by an ice storm of rather mammoth proportions. The trees were coated with ice which was so thick that they would bend right over with their crowns against the ground...it they were supple enough. The birch trees here looked like great icy archways in the bush. However, the less supple trees just bent so far and then snapped with a huge crack. It's interesting, but the trees didn't break during the cold days of the storm, but as the temperature rose and the ice started to melt, the trees started to break all at once. If you stood outside at any time of the day for about a 24 hour period of time, all you heard was the crashing of trees as they broke and fell in the forests. Everyone around here talked about it for days... it was a terrible sound. The forests are still terribly damaged from the ice. To give you an idea of the damage this icestorm did, it toppled hydro towers and in our own area, every hydro pole on our road was snapped off for a distance of over a mile. Our hydro was off for 10 days in 0 F. weather. Regarding the sugar maple forests. There are a lot of them in my area of Ontario (eastern part). I have very fond memories of visiting with an old farmer in my area who used to have a sheep farm and also tap trees. Some of the trees were absolutely massive and had 3 or 4 buckets on them. This man spoke about each of the "old trees" as if they were old friends. I would often drop by for "a minute" and end up staying for hours... (-: It's good to hear that the Aeta peoples are passing on their language. So much of the survival of a culture is dependent on preservation of its language. Also, in the stories which make sense out of the world. Regarding the farm, I worked part of it for a number of years (hay and grain) and had a mixed livestock operation. Things are geared down now and about one-third of the land is mixed forest, while another third has 3-5 year old tree seedlings, and the final third is in livestock pasture. Lots of wildlife here... just the way I like it..(-: Later, Croc