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[Phil Norris <cousinphil@acadia.net>]

Tom,

So where do you live anyway?  Here in Maine we are having an old 
fashioned winter,  cold and windy with plenty of snow.  If it keeps up 
like this I predict a white Christmas.  Then the weather will probably 
change around mid-January and it'll warm up and we'll get rain.  Almost 
always do.

My favorite apple for eating out of hand is the Chestnut.  Small but 
ever so satifying.  Not a keeper though.  Right now we've got several 
bushels of Liberty in the cellar and some Spigold and Keepsake.  We 
just finished all the Macs.  What a fine apple is McIntosh!  They were 
so tart a while back but they just got sweeter and sweeter in the 
cellar till each apple was an olfactory nirvana.  Needless to say we 
polished off that bushel pretty quick.

Phil
Clayfield Farm
Blue Hill ME


On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 03:50  PM, Thomas Olenio wrote:

> LONGDISTSHTR wrote:
>
> >  compare it to the better apples in colder and more miserable areas.
>
> Hi,
>
> Hey!  Hey! Hey!  Who's miserable?
>
> As the glaciers receded, along their march northward, they left the 
> best soil in upper north
> America.  We can grow anything with it!
>
> Now, North Carolina's red clay soil, that is miserable.  Just standing 
> next to a dirt road you
> will accumulate stains in your clothes that are never coming out. 
> (smile)
>
> My sister lived in NC for a while, and I have never seen soil like it, 
> or so much of it.
>
> I like my brand of miserable.  (smile)
>
> Later,
> Tom
>
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