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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 03 Mar 06 - 08:14 AM Tell me, if your house catches fire will you call the fire dept. in Calais? If you are robbed or mugged, will you call the Cops in Calais? Would you impoverish your own local services to save a few bucks in another country? That doesn't add up Mate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 03 Mar 06 - 07:26 AM Yup... Canuck dollar up again yesterday. Highest in 14 years. Batten down the hatches you Yanks. You are about to be invaded by busloads of shoppers. "See ya!" Stacey will soon be taking Canadian dollahs at pahh... SEE YA in Bangor. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 10:09 PM No ... not rich. Bought it cheap at Mardens in Calais. That place is bargain heaven across the border for us New Brunswickers. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 02 Mar 06 - 07:22 PM You own a sweater? Are you rich? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:34 PM 100 up above there ... sorry Leadfingers. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:31 PM Flannel shirts and a sweater for these last few days ... but I must say it has warmed up a balmy -5c in Saint John today. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Joe Offer Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:28 PM I woke up to snow this morning, three or four inches here in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Second snowstorm in two weeks - certainly is beautiful, but I'm glad I don't have to drive today. -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 02 Mar 06 - 04:07 PM It was -25 in Allagash Maine two nights ago. Time to put on the flannel shirts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 02 Mar 06 - 03:57 PM :::black cloud of foul language::: It begins. Again. This morning it was what some weirdos obscurely call "snizzle" (fo' shizzle). That is, a sprinkling of very fine ice, almost like dust. Now it's just ice and freezing rain. And by sundown (not to mention my evening commute) it'll be snow showers! JOyYeEeeee! Fortunately, I have four wheel drive. (Which basically means some aggressive tailgating f$%@!-wit is gonna slam into ME, instead of vice versa.) Enough. If those crocuses don't bloody sprout and put an end to this madness soon, I'm goin' in after 'em with an automatic and some high explosives. That'll wake 'em up. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 06:30 PM Yep - that sums up Maine in the winter. Lobsterrrrrr...... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 19 Feb 06 - 02:50 PM OK, you asked for it.. (Kendall, they don't mention the black flies, but the quip for your state is still pretty good...) Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir ------------------- STATE MOTTOS: Alabama: Yes, we have electricity Arizona: But It's a Dry Heat Arkansas: Litterasy Ain't Everthing California: As Seen on TV Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only Dirtier and With Less Character Delaware: We Really Do Like the Chemicals in our Water Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids Georgia: We Put the "Fun" in Fundamentalist Extremism Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death to Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money) Idaho: Potatoes and NeoNazis ... What More Could You Ask For? Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S" Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn Kansas: Where Science Don't Mean Shit Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names Louisiana: We're Not All Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster Maryland: A Thinking Man's Delaware Massachusetts: Our Taxes Are Lower Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets) Michigan: First Line of Defense From the Canadians Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes and 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes Mississippi: Come Feel Better About Your Own State Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars at Work Montana: Land of the Big Sky, the Unabomber, Right-Wing Crazies, and Very Little Else Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest Nevada: Whores and Poker! New Hampshire: Go Away and Leave Us Alone New Jersey: You Want a ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here! New Mexico: Lizards Make Excellent Pets New York: You Have the Right to Remain Silent, You Have the Right to an Attorney... North Carolina: Tobacco is a Vegetable North Dakota: We Really are One of the 50 States! Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan Oklahoma: Like the Play, only No Singing Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island South Carolina: Remember the Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota Tennessee: Educashun State Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les (Yes, I speak English) Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus Vermont: Yep Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs and Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix? Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds and Slackers! Washington, D.C.: Wanna Be Mayor? West Virginia: One Big Happy Family-Really! Wisconsin: Come Cut Our Cheese Wyoming: Where men are men and |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:31 PM I think it goes up to a million in trippah season, Skippah. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM Well hell, if we didn't have black flies and cold winters, this state would be over populated like many of the others. 1 million people in 33,000 square miles is tolerable distribution. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 19 Feb 06 - 12:00 PM Ahhhyup, they ahh thaht sIx. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:39 AM I'll go along with that 6. I have met some first class people since moving here in 2004. Amos - you're welcome here anytime you want to come. Actually, as long as we wrap up well and make sure the house is warm the winter ain't so bad, although I'm still adjusting to temperatures that can go for days below freezing. The more prevalent blue skies and sunshine make up for that and there are a lot less of the grey days that tend to signify an English winter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 19 Feb 06 - 11:18 AM Maine is a beautiful state and Mainers are the finest of people you can find in the U.S. sorry for the thread drift but I just had to throw that post in. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:48 AM My apologies. In Spring and Summer and early Fall, I would rather live on the Maine coast than anywhere. When the first ice forms on the puddles, I would be off for New Zealand, or the Caribbean or somat until the weather came to its senses again. But it is not to be, until perhaps retirement is...if it will even still be possible! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Stilly River Sage Date: 19 Feb 06 - 10:41 AM Kendall and Jacqui, you need to shut the door behind you! A little of your cold weather leaked out and reached us here in North Texas! I nearly slipped on the icy porch while out feeding the dogs this morning (they have their own heater out in the garage, because they're not the kind of dogs who would sit still for wearing doggie clothes). SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 09:14 AM Poor wretch! I'll make you a shawl. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: jacqui.c Date: 19 Feb 06 - 09:10 AM Amos - you can be aggravating at times! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Amos Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:57 AM Here is San Diego, we have our own weather miseries. It rained last night, and my car window was open. The dawn is quite cool and damp, but on the plus side everything looks clean. This morning it is only 55º F outside;brrr!!!-- of course the sun isn't up yet, so we might have a decent day at around 65 F or so. But right now I almost want to turn the heat on!! It's jes' orful, I tell ya! How I hate winter! A |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:30 AM I was driving my 33 foot motor home in that gale of wind. She required considerable weather helm to stay in the channel. Who said that only sailors get "blown offshore"? I'm glad I wasn't near the ocean, it could have happened to me. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:26 PM Kendall ... I was talking to a friend today who drove up through Maine last night ... her car was blown off the road jusr outside of Portland .. she's ok thank god and no damage to the car. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: kendall Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:11 PM Screw winter. That friggin' wind blew so hard my house almost got under weigh. It unravelled a crowbar and blew two rooster feathers right through a grindstone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: gnu Date: 18 Feb 06 - 12:55 PM Better than watching roof shingles falling to the ground!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 18 Feb 06 - 12:08 PM ACK!!! Spoke too soon. About 20 minutes ago, a few flakes started falling. Within 10 minutes it was so thick I could barely see out the window. Crap. Not again... Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST,number 6 Date: 17 Feb 06 - 12:25 PM The snow here is now turning into filthy, filthy slush ... with very high winds blowing in off of the Fundy. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 17 Feb 06 - 12:03 PM Blech. Snow is now mostly gone, under the onslaught of much filthy, filthy rain. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: GUEST Date: 15 Feb 06 - 03:52 PM Fortunately we have had a few sunny days since Sunday, it seems to be melting on its own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 15 Feb 06 - 07:21 AM Contemplating whether it's time to start shoveling off the patio roof, lest it collapse under the weight of the white stuff... Yuck. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:28 PM I do have cats Bobert ... thanks for the reminder .. I'll put that on my snow survival list. I do have a greyhound, Otis that hates the snow ... I have to literally drag him out the door to his 'toilette' ... stubborn as mule he can be. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:16 PM You obviously don't have cats, sIx.... Summer is one thing but in the winter, especially when there's 10 inches of snow on the ground, make Mr. Catbox a popular hangout fir the cat/s umtil it get too full and then it's yer danged shoe, ot worser... ...even a lot of beer don't fix that particular misunderstanding... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:10 PM Bobart ... "beer and cat litter" ok ... I can understand the beer, but the cat litter?? sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Bobert Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:41 PM Well, gol danged... First snowball fight of '06 and I got to it too late... (But, BObert, wasn't it you who satred a thread entitled "Iz Satrtin' to Hate Snow" a cou[ple years back???...) Yeah, okay, I mighta stared that thread but that was after it snowing every danged day for like 3 weeks, I couldn't get out and had run outta beer and cat litter... Now, then's is two things that I'll never run out of again if they so much call fir a dusting of snow... Heck no!!! Now, I'll be the first to admit that I'z changed my thinking about snow over the years and, might of fact, still changing... When I was a kid I'd pray fir snow so I wouldn't have to got to school.. Of course, kids don't actually get paid to go to school so... ... when I became a bigger kid and had to work for a living, I'd pray that it didn't snow so I wouldn't miss the hours (pay) but... ...now that I'm semi-retired and work when I want to, hey, a nice 8 t0 10 inches of the white fluff stuff now and then is nice... long as I have beer and cat litter, that is... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:40 PM Gosh, did I say !)? That should have read "Gosh, did I say 10"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:35 PM I know ... would like one to move some heavy rocks into my garden ... BTW Ranger ... Portland is a nice town, I love visiting there. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:34 PM Gosh, did I say !)? Meant to say 2. It dumped 2 mm on us. You can all stop worrying now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: ranger1 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:32 PM On the subject of Kubotas, they're really cool and you can move large, heavy objects with them. And they're bright orange, so you can't lose 'em in the snow. And just because I live in the city doesn't mean I work there. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 05:01 PM 10 mm? :::smolder::: Don't talk to me anymore, Peace. Slán, ~Fionn www.geocities.com/children_of_lir |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: number 6 Date: 14 Feb 06 - 04:29 PM Gee .... hope you can get out for some basic provisions there Peace. sIx |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Peace Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:48 PM It just snowed. Dropped about 10 mm on us. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 03:47 PM Well... For sort of read several halfhearted passes with the plow-blade and no salt, resulting in a densely packed sheet of ice with light powder on top, along which our Olympic team could happily practice the luge to their heart's content and which MIGHT disappear sometime around May, and that's us. The cat won't even venture outside for fear of disappearing into drifts five times bigger than he is. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:07 PM Thank you Windsinger. Life is too short, and I did not intend to be rude or antagonistic. I do respect your opinion and I am sure that you have experiences that formed them. I guess my tounge was planted too firmly in my cheek. I still blame it on the snow. Glad to hear the plow made it to your street. My town feels that running the plow once down the street and then putting thousands of pounds of salt down does the trick. My car is now a peculiar shade of gray. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 02:00 PM Alba and Amos, I really think you had the right of it on this thread. Ron, I accept the apology. I do have strong opinions, but don't tend to go on the offense with them unless it sounds like they're being disparaged without cause. I can agree to disagree on a lot of subjects, as long as respect is present. (One reason I don't go onto certain Mudcat threads. You know; the ones with subject-headings that might as well read "Trolls Welcome! Come as you are! Bring your flamethrower!" :::shudder:::) Getting back on topic, they finally plowed my street. Sort of. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:36 PM I'd like to add - I publicly apologize to Windsinger and anyone else who may have taken offense to my comments. They were not meant to incite anyone, merely my opinion on what I see as unfair stereotyping - although I am sure it was purely unintentional. I guess this snow has affected my common sense. I still hate snow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:25 PM Relax! You are taking it way out of context. I'm just having a little fun over a side topic and you are taking it too personally! And you say that tension is city problem? Sorry!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:16 PM Which translates as "your opinion", not fact. Excuse me. My word may not be the equivalent of Moses bearing tablets form Mount Sinai; but I did not hallucinate the encounters to which I refer. I can recite specifics in more depth to further illustrate my point; but frankly, you've already begun to take this thread of conversation down a very tiresome path. I don't owe you the pissing match you dseem to want. I created this thread for light conversation, so that folks could commiserate on a situation that (probably) affected a lot of the folks on the 'Cat. Frankly, until you arrived it's been quite nice. But I suppose nothing lasts forever. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 01:04 PM "This is not speculation, it is firsthand knowledge" Which translates as "your opinion", not fact. "But of the two cultural backgrounds, I'll give you three guesses which one I hear routinely bad-mouth the other more frequently" I don't know about you, but I always here "country" people bad-mouthing big city life. I do not hear it the other way around, in fact most "city" people seem to respect the country for the pleasures. It may be me, but I have never heard "Northerners" mock "southern" culture. Now, as for those lazy West Coast people... that is another story. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: Windsinger Date: 14 Feb 06 - 12:54 PM Typical stereotyping. Um...not really. This is not speculation, it is firsthand knowledge; I've lived and worked in both spheres. My remarks are based off of real interactions with real people. No, country work isn't easy. There's just generally less shoving and cursing. As for the "pace" clash, it works both ways. It is something, say, rural Appalachians in particular get mocked for by impatient Northerners---particularly urbanized ones, who continually (in some cases wilfully) mistake that culture's comparative mellowness for stupidity or laziness. The urbanites may not be in the "wrong," as you say. But of the two cultural backgrounds, I'll give you three guesses which one I hear routinely bad-mouth the other more frequently. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Buried by that @#$%!!ed nor'easter From: WFDU - Ron Olesko Date: 14 Feb 06 - 12:17 PM "The genre of music tends to attract a very laid-back breed of devotee; in fact, some lot of us are downright country-fried. " Typical stereotyping. There has always been an urban vs. rural element to the folk revival. Urbanites discovering their rural roots and assimilating assumed characteristics of the style. Most of it is bunk. The hard work of country living is probably something that would wear out most "city folk". Tension exists everywhere. If you really examine his work, you will find that even Thoreau kept an active schedule on the pond. People love to put down the frentic pace of the city, but in reality it is just a matter of choice. No one is right or wrong. Frankly, I'm not much of a city person either. I prefer the suburbs - sort of an in-between the best of both worlds. The only problem is, I have a 100 foot driveway to shovel. Again, snow sucks. |
