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[keith bellinger <bartermn AT epix.net>]

It has been twenty-nine months since we sold the two milk cows and 
butchered the last calf. They will never be forgotten but springtime 
always refreshes the memories of what they gave us when I back the truck 
up to the big pile of compost between barn and coop to replenish the 
garden. Four half-ton truckloads or more each year give the garden beds 
two or three inches of topping after I fork and rake. I estimate thirty 
tons are left and so should last until I turn sixty-six. What will I do 
for the following forty years?