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Issue #1019
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From Nova Scotia Sus

From Russ

The Ontarion

Hi All,

Based on the participation results from our little ‘sayings’ contest that we started a few weeks ago, I’m starting to think that there are not all that many readers out there anymore. It sure has been quiet lately. We (Greg, Russ, and I) were all hoping to drum up a bit more involvement by asking various questions. To those who did come up with a ‘saying’, I thank you. Here are the results, and I’m going to try one more time to get some interest happening by letting you guys, the readers, vote on which ‘saying’ wins the contest, the prize being a token free whole full year subscription to this letter, or until it’s demise, whichever comes first. So, let us know which saying you like best.

Russ:
Dodge life's 'bullets' - dig deeper fox-holes.
Closing one's mouth improves one's hearing.
A stitch in time saves mine.

Gary:
"I know I'm alive when I wake up in the morning because if I was dead I wouldn't ache so much "

Carol:
“Listen to what I mean, not what I say”

Sus:
“The fun part is stroking off”

Brian:
“The older I get the sooner it gets late”

Greg:
“you couldn’t hit a cow’s ass with a banjo!”

And now for those of you who requested a CD, they will be going out in the mail shortly, assuming that the mail can even get out of south western BC given that there are no serviceable highways left for the mail to travel on. And as a way of sending them, we found a pile of old unused Christmas cards in a drawer so I’ll be using those as a way of packaging my CDs. I haven’t bothered sending out Christmas cards in years but given that I need some sort of envelope for sending the CDs, it seems like a good way to do both.

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This week’s music is another double-header, like it or not. It will be the last double-header for a while as I’ve run out of material. I’ve got both an audio and a video of this song for you. So, this will be the last audio recording for a while at least, and while I’ve got a couple of videos in the que for the next couple of weeks, well, that will be it for them. Like I said, I’ve run out of material but hey, I’ve been including a musical interlude in these letters for close to a year and a half now so no one can complain. This week’s song is a very old cowboy tune that was done by many of the old groups in the hay day of early cowboy music, and was done by Gene Autry in a movie called ‘Tumbling Tumble Weeds’ (I think). The movie was a typical ‘B’ grade Saturday matinee flick. The song is called ‘Riding Down The Canyon’. I have childhood memories of my mother’s long-gone brother, uncle Carman, playing this song on Saturday evenings up on the farm. He played it in G, I play it in D, for what thats worth. He probably gave it a more authentic sound than I do but thats ok. So, pull on your Stetson hat and round up your pony and take a ride on down the canyon to watch the sun go down.

Riding Down The Canyon

Audio

Video

doug

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From Nova Scotia Sus

I just went on a trip of a lifetime and I mean a trip in the sense of falling. We have in our living room a very comfortable loveseat with 2 foot rests that go up and down with the use of a lever for each seat. As I walked by, the one foot rest suddenly popped up and took my feet out from under me. Next thing I knew my legs were in the air and the rest of my body hit the floor. I just had enough time to put my arms out to brace myself and keep my face from smacking the hardwood floor. I couldn't believe what had just happened. It could have been worse, but I came out of it with a slightly sprained wrist and a sore nose. Over the next few days I had some bruising on one side of my nose. Thank goodness for mask wearing no one noticed. So I was wondering if there should be warnings on this type of couches. If I was a small child or had health issues it could have been very serious. I can't be the only person this has happened to or am I! Now when I pass by the couch I take a very wide berth.

Yes Doug I love tractors too. We have two John Deere, one for mowing lawns and the other full size with a bucket for moving soil etc., snow blowing, forks and a bush hog. We couldn't do without it! We are thinking about moving up to a larger tractor with a cab. It's pretty cold sitting on a tractor moving snow around even with all our winter gear and goggles.

Sus

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From Russ

Dark & dreary.

No birds, no Bees, no Flowers, no Leaves on the trees - November!

The roads are all muck, and I'm out of luck to ride my bike - can't even hike!

Lake Huron is roaring, the Seagulls are soaring, and searching for shelter - to escape the pelter!

I don't believe it, it's only four, yet outside my door it's dark as inside a mitt! 

The wind's in the north, and soon will bring forth the lake effect snow we all love, you know!

We've had buckets of rain, but we have it easy, compared to farmers in the Province of BC

Please accept our thoughts, and our praise, while we ask God to bring you brighter days. Amen.

PS I couldn't think of anything interesting to report. Sorry

Russ.

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THE ONTARION REPORT

Hello everyone!

Here I sit frustrated due to two different happenings this evening! Number one was the disturbing email mix up that is caused by none other than Rogers themselves! As it turned out, after Adam was kind enough to sort out the problem for me, Rogers just won’t allow their system to retain two different email addresses with their own password in their automatic memory bank! Carole and I have our own email addresses each with it’s own password. Now under normal circumstances, this isn’t a problem but for who knows why, Rogers has decided to stop their system from allowing this to continue. Tonight I wanted to check my email before writing my column and Rogers wouldn’t allow it to happen. It kept wanting to open Carole’s email with my password. So, since I’m not very computer literate, Adam spent almost an hour sorting out the problem for me! He finally had to put in a new password for my account and make sure it didn’t open Carole’s email when trying to open mine. He finally got things sorted out but, if I had tried to sort out the problem, I’d have still been at the computer tomorrow morning! Who knows why this happens so I guess I’ll just have to keep an eye on things each time I use the computer to make sure It’s opening the correct email! Rogers can be a pain in the butt when it comes to keeping things the same from week to week! They seem to change things quite often and for no good reason!

The second annoying thing is the inconsideration of people when purchasing items over the internet! We’ve put several items up for sale on the net lately and when would be buyers make arrangements to come to our house to pick up something they say they want to purchase they don’t seem to give a hoot whether or not they arrive at the agreed upon time! It’s happened a few times now where someone has arranged to come by at an agreed upon time to pick up the object and then they leave us sitting for well past the time! The latest situation of this type happened just tonight when Adam had a woman agree to drop over tonight after her work was finished at 5pm. She said she’d be here at 5:30pm! Adam sat by the front window watching for her arrival but 5:30pm came and went and she was a “no show”! He finally sent her an email at 6pm to ask when she would be here and she immediately replied that she was just leaving work in Waterloo and was on her way here. As it happened, Carole had postponed supper in anticipation of her arrival at 5:30pm so with her new arrival time of shortly after 6pm we continued to wait to eat supper until her next arrival time. This time of shortly after 6pm came and went once more and by 7pm she still hadn’t arrived! This event of inconsideration is to say the least, very frustrating and served no other purpose than to tick everyone in the household off while waiting not only for her arrival but also for settling down to a lovely meal at this time of day! After talking things over, Adam finally sent her a note stating that he had another appointment that he had to keep and would no longer be able to wait for her arrival to pick up the item at the time she had stated after all the changes! I would have been tempted to be less courteous to her after her inconsiderate manner! Oh well, lesson learned! I said to Adam that the next time someone arranges an allotted time of arrival, he should say of example, “OK, 5pm it is but if you’re any later than 5:30pm, I won’t be here!” People have to learn that they aren’t the only ones whose time is valuable!

I guess that’s about all the ranting I have for this week folks!

Thanks for tuning in and I’ll look forward to talking to you all again net time in The Ontarion Report!

Take care and be safe everyone!

Bye for now… Greg.

Something to Think About>

Santa’s on his way!

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Take Care And Be Safe
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