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[tanis cuff <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

It's not a question of either politics or religion.  What did it is I got 
worried about the dry-ish weather up here, and left laundry on the line when 
the first storm was forecast.  I cannot apologize enough!


> From: hangermayer
> To: nafex
> Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 14:02:17 -0500
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Neil's note to me, ladders
>
> Donna ,
>
> I'd send you some rain if I could. Poured 9" out of the gauge inside of one
> week (And we fundamentalists voted for Bush too!) Lost two new peach trees
> and an apricot to drowning this year. Tomatoes flooded and dying. Other
> peach trees have a good crop but look water stressed. More thunderstorms in
> the forecast tonight. Who do I vote for to get this rain to stop :-)
>
> Mark
> KS
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donna &/or Kieran" 
>
>> I was very interested in the comments on professional pruners who don't
> use
>> ladders at all. I was also stunned by the hundreds of inches of snow you
>> all are dealing with. Here in Tenn we don't even get one good snowfall
> per
>> winter anymore. This list is very deceptive. If someone emails you
>> privately, it won't be obvious unless you actually look to see where your
>> response is going. I email some folks on the list privately, and am so
> used
>> to simply hitting reply that I forget sometimes and hit reply to emails
> they
>> have sent via the list. We all goof now and then. If we always keep our
>> remarks at least humorous, no matter how pointed, at least when we turn
>> around and discover the crowd reading them, we can feel better knowing
>> they've been entertained.
>> Personally, I have been wanting to chastise those who complain about
>> flooding, when we are already getting parched here. Maybe if some people
>> wouldn't put in orders to take all our rain... I mean, we'd have been
>> thrilled to take half of Indiana's recent 11 inches. A lot of it would
> have
>> soaked right in. Seriously, what have you midwesterners done, uncovered
>> some kind of ancient rain fetish? Or are we all just sinners here in the
>> southeast, and God is mad at us? (It's because the fundamentalists voted
>> for Bush, but here I am having to suffer for it too. ) Two of the last 3
>> years were serious droughts, and the one in between was merely adequate....
>
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