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Just in case anyone is wondering what my present Avatar is - and maybe no one is - well I'll let you know.

This is a photo I took of Tobacco Kilns which I pass on my way to and from work.

So all you smokers out there now know where your tobacco leaves are 'cured' if you didn't already know.

Lady Godiva

if anybody really wanted to know, they would probably ask.

or maybe look on the other thread that you so kindly told us all about your avatar on.

maybe you ought to write a story about it.

and a magazine article, just to be on the safe side.

yes i know i know i haven't capitalised anything, i can't be arsed.............

LG

Looks like a sewage lift station on the way to Cobourg.

Vic

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Quote: Lady Godiva

Just in case anyone is wondering what my present Avatar is - and maybe no one is - well I'll let you know.

This is a photo I took of Tobacco Kilns which I pass on my way to and from work.

So all you smokers out there now know where your tobacco leaves are 'cured' if you didn't already know.

Lady Godiva

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It might as well be for what comes OUT of it!

LG

Still a big industry in Southern Ontario?

It certainly IS but some farmers who SAY they got out of the tobacco growing business are back in, under the names of their daughters, aunts etc. It's like the Southern Ontario Tobacco Mafia.

Don't tell anyone though because it is supposed to be a BIG secret.

I work in the tobacco growing belt, hence the avatar of the old-fashioned tobacco kilns. Also, the 'inside knowledge' I get from other disgruntled farmers who are dairy and beef farmers, cash crops etc.

Obviously they are really 'pissed off'.

LG

I once had a tobacco-growing belt.

I inherited it from a Canadian Uncle.

It didn't really work - it kept me keks up all right, but was barren as far as tobacco-growth goes.

He wasn't really my Uncle. I don't know whose Uncle has was, if anybody's.

I'm not even sure he was Canadian.

Slippery customer, knowledge.

PS Yes, Lynton, I might put it in the curry, sorry, a mag article.

I know a man from Scarborough (Ontario) who told me he built an intricate wood glider model and when completed he launched it in a tobacco field, it took flight and he never saw it again.

This might mean something but probably not.

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Quote: victor nicholas

I know a man from Scarborough (Ontario) who told me he built an intricate wood glider model and when completed he launched it in a tobacco field, it took flight and he never saw it again.

This might mean something but probably not.

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....ahaaaa! Found that glider in my back field in Maine...wife loves it, placed it on the porch ..she loves the motion...lovely workmanship, that...dove tail joints and all....I've put it in me will for Fergus...along with the car and my tool belt...

squeaked a bit at first, but a bit of lard on the joints fixed it all right....

...do you still have the matching end table and recliner???

Morse

I no longer have the end table, though it was a lovely piece of furniture I kept the one in the middle instead.

As for the recliner it was more properly a sofa, I purchased it from Sofa King, their jingle is Sofa-King-Good.

Sorry Doc

Just off to beddy byes, but:

To the tune of "I Wanna Go Home" -

"You're sofa-king-good

you're sofa-king-goo-oo-ood

You knacked me rocker

You're sofa king good."

G'night and God bless

Regards

Skoob.

For great deals on furniture go to BIG BOYS

LG

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Quote: Lady Godiva

For great deals on furniture go to BIG BOYS

LG

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And I always thought Tepperman's was the place to go. Maybe that was a Windsor / London thing.

Not too sure! Actually I think the ad. on t.v. said BAD BOYS! anyway. Not that it is important.

We have new furtniture which is still, after 15 months of being in our home...covered in its 'bubble wrap'.

I am living in a contstruction zone.

I'll have a housewarming party when the house is 'finished' inside and out. Been here in the same house since 1982.

Wouldn't that just be hilarious if we ALL ACTUALLY MET?

I do know that a few of you have met and DO meet.

That 'party' would definitely go viral on Youtube IF TAPED (hope I used the correct terminology...if I didn't...you bloody well know what I mean) x o x o x o

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Quote: Lady Godiva

I do know that a few of you have met and DO meet.

That 'party' would definitely go viral on Youtube IF TAPED (hope I used the correct terminology...if I didn't...you bloody well know what I mean) x o x o x o

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I missed out on the opportunity to head to London last year, but I'm still dishing out funds to three kids who ALL will be at University this fall. Disposable income = NO.

BUT... I head back to the "D" by car quite often and a trip up through South Western Ontario is completely do-able if planned in advance. You could grab Doc, a couple of Detroit folks and perhaps a few others. I could even pick up a couple of Chicagoans on the way around the lake. If they aren't in prison or wearing ankle bracelets, that is.

Great idea!

LG