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[Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>]

SISU! wrote:

> Bill Jones wrote:
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> > That would be just about the whole of the West.
> >
> > A typical farm here wouldn't even pass muster back east.
> >    
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> Bill, were you on the list when Tvo was alive??   He would have jumped
> all over those statements above, I think, always in a humorous yet point
> blank way.  God, I miss him.
>  
Oh, yes.

I don't think Easterners realize how dry it is out West.  I'm at a 
fairly northern latitude and the dryness is still devastating.  You have 
to travel 500 miles further north or east to have much chance of a 
summer shower.

Bill
S. Oregon coast