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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
On Dec 16, 8:21 am, John H. wrote:
leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Couldn't today John. My time to lead singing at church. |
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:54:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote: "John H." wrote in message .. . On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:37:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: On Dec 16, 7:41 am, Tim wrote: On Dec 15, 11:56 pm, Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:44:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! Drove from Edwardsville to a bit north of Chicago today, leaving at 2pm, arriving about 8pm, maybe an hour more than normal. Got my Ma from my sister, who lives there. It was snowing all the way, but the highway crews on 55 did a good job, and though it was a bit slow it was never really dicey. Would have been a real pain without those crews out there. --Vic Small world. My wife and her family is from Edwardsville. Most of her crew still lives there. anyhow, it snowed more last night but looks really good today. so far....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Eh, the more I think about it, the worse it looks, really. down the driveway, I see ice covering rock with snow on top. when I leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Luckily, we got no snow or ice in the DC area, but we did get rain, which brought down a lot of leaves. Yeah, we're still messing with leaves! I paid a guy $70 yesterday to get my leaves up, and this morning it looks like he never came by. Crap. HOW MUCH??? How big is your land? A third of an acre. But, there's a dozen good sized (12-30" diameter) trees dropping their damn leaves on it! It took two people, with blowers, and me raking under bushes, a little over two hours. Pansies. My son can do that much with a rake in an hour. Blowers are for wimps. Maybe a hay rake behind Eisboch's John Deere. |
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#23
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
"John H." wrote in message
... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:54:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message . .. On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:37:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message m... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: On Dec 16, 7:41 am, Tim wrote: On Dec 15, 11:56 pm, Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:44:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! Drove from Edwardsville to a bit north of Chicago today, leaving at 2pm, arriving about 8pm, maybe an hour more than normal. Got my Ma from my sister, who lives there. It was snowing all the way, but the highway crews on 55 did a good job, and though it was a bit slow it was never really dicey. Would have been a real pain without those crews out there. --Vic Small world. My wife and her family is from Edwardsville. Most of her crew still lives there. anyhow, it snowed more last night but looks really good today. so far....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Eh, the more I think about it, the worse it looks, really. down the driveway, I see ice covering rock with snow on top. when I leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Luckily, we got no snow or ice in the DC area, but we did get rain, which brought down a lot of leaves. Yeah, we're still messing with leaves! I paid a guy $70 yesterday to get my leaves up, and this morning it looks like he never came by. Crap. HOW MUCH??? How big is your land? A third of an acre. But, there's a dozen good sized (12-30" diameter) trees dropping their damn leaves on it! It took two people, with blowers, and me raking under bushes, a little over two hours. Pansies. My son can do that much with a rake in an hour. Blowers are for wimps. Maybe a hay rake behind Eisboch's John Deere. No. Regular leaf rake. I will admit that he does use a high tech tool sometimes: Gloves. |
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:04:58 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote: "John H." wrote in message .. . On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:54:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:37:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message om... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: On Dec 16, 7:41 am, Tim wrote: On Dec 15, 11:56 pm, Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:44:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! Drove from Edwardsville to a bit north of Chicago today, leaving at 2pm, arriving about 8pm, maybe an hour more than normal. Got my Ma from my sister, who lives there. It was snowing all the way, but the highway crews on 55 did a good job, and though it was a bit slow it was never really dicey. Would have been a real pain without those crews out there. --Vic Small world. My wife and her family is from Edwardsville. Most of her crew still lives there. anyhow, it snowed more last night but looks really good today. so far....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Eh, the more I think about it, the worse it looks, really. down the driveway, I see ice covering rock with snow on top. when I leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Luckily, we got no snow or ice in the DC area, but we did get rain, which brought down a lot of leaves. Yeah, we're still messing with leaves! I paid a guy $70 yesterday to get my leaves up, and this morning it looks like he never came by. Crap. HOW MUCH??? How big is your land? A third of an acre. But, there's a dozen good sized (12-30" diameter) trees dropping their damn leaves on it! It took two people, with blowers, and me raking under bushes, a little over two hours. Pansies. My son can do that much with a rake in an hour. Blowers are for wimps. Maybe a hay rake behind Eisboch's John Deere. No. Regular leaf rake. I will admit that he does use a high tech tool sometimes: Gloves. Never happen. -- John H |
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#25
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
"John H." wrote in message
... On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:04:58 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message . .. On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:54:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message m... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:37:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message news:qucam318bfmfgi0nkbe44h37v36urfleev@4ax. com... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: On Dec 16, 7:41 am, Tim wrote: On Dec 15, 11:56 pm, Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:44:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! Drove from Edwardsville to a bit north of Chicago today, leaving at 2pm, arriving about 8pm, maybe an hour more than normal. Got my Ma from my sister, who lives there. It was snowing all the way, but the highway crews on 55 did a good job, and though it was a bit slow it was never really dicey. Would have been a real pain without those crews out there. --Vic Small world. My wife and her family is from Edwardsville. Most of her crew still lives there. anyhow, it snowed more last night but looks really good today. so far....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Eh, the more I think about it, the worse it looks, really. down the driveway, I see ice covering rock with snow on top. when I leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Luckily, we got no snow or ice in the DC area, but we did get rain, which brought down a lot of leaves. Yeah, we're still messing with leaves! I paid a guy $70 yesterday to get my leaves up, and this morning it looks like he never came by. Crap. HOW MUCH??? How big is your land? A third of an acre. But, there's a dozen good sized (12-30" diameter) trees dropping their damn leaves on it! It took two people, with blowers, and me raking under bushes, a little over two hours. Pansies. My son can do that much with a rake in an hour. Blowers are for wimps. Maybe a hay rake behind Eisboch's John Deere. No. Regular leaf rake. I will admit that he does use a high tech tool sometimes: Gloves. Never happen. -- John H OK. I'll tell my neighbors they were imagining things, and the money they pay him is fake. :-) |
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#26
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:33:46 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote: "John H." wrote in message .. . On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 13:04:58 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message ... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:54:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message om... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 19:37:33 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote: "John H." wrote in message news:qucam318bfmfgi0nkbe44h37v36urfleev@4ax .com... On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:51:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: On Dec 16, 7:41 am, Tim wrote: On Dec 15, 11:56 pm, Vic Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 04:44:28 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! Drove from Edwardsville to a bit north of Chicago today, leaving at 2pm, arriving about 8pm, maybe an hour more than normal. Got my Ma from my sister, who lives there. It was snowing all the way, but the highway crews on 55 did a good job, and though it was a bit slow it was never really dicey. Would have been a real pain without those crews out there. --Vic Small world. My wife and her family is from Edwardsville. Most of her crew still lives there. anyhow, it snowed more last night but looks really good today. so far....- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Eh, the more I think about it, the worse it looks, really. down the driveway, I see ice covering rock with snow on top. when I leave in a bit, maybe i can take out the neighbors mailbox. No, now that won't happen. I'll be in the Merc wagon, and it doesn't wreck. good I'm safe! STAY HOME! Luckily, we got no snow or ice in the DC area, but we did get rain, which brought down a lot of leaves. Yeah, we're still messing with leaves! I paid a guy $70 yesterday to get my leaves up, and this morning it looks like he never came by. Crap. HOW MUCH??? How big is your land? A third of an acre. But, there's a dozen good sized (12-30" diameter) trees dropping their damn leaves on it! It took two people, with blowers, and me raking under bushes, a little over two hours. Pansies. My son can do that much with a rake in an hour. Blowers are for wimps. Maybe a hay rake behind Eisboch's John Deere. No. Regular leaf rake. I will admit that he does use a high tech tool sometimes: Gloves. Never happen. -- John H OK. I'll tell my neighbors they were imagining things, and the money they pay him is fake. :-) I'm not saying he couldn't do it. I'm saying he could not have raked all those leaves from my yard, including the flower beds and under the bushes, in one hour. You're dreaming. Enough already. -- John H |
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#27
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Wel, looks like we here is S. ILL. got some nice fluffy snow!
On Dec 15, 7:44 am, Tim wrote:
Looks pretty outside. "It's begenning to look a lot like Christmas" Now I gotta get out in the crap and go to work! bah, humbug indeed! They were calling for up to 40 inches in some parts of mid-America. Fortunately we escaped with freezing rain, nothing a scraper couldn't fix.  Michael Taylor & Maggie Lalonde /|\ /__| ) /____| )) /______| ))) /________| ))) _|____)) \======| o o / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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