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Skriven 2006-09-06 07:39:00 av MIMI GALLANDT (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av ED HULETT
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Ed Hulett wrote:

EH>On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:06:00 -0400
EH>"MIMI GALLANDT -> ED HULETT" <1:275/311> wrote:

EH> MG> Ed Hulett wrote:

EH> EH>> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:43:00 -0400
EH> EH>> "MIMI GALLANDT -> ED HULETT" <1:275/311> wrote:

EH> MG>>> Ed Hulett wrote:

EH> EH>>>> On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 08:01:00 -0400
EH> EH>>>> "VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT" <1:123/140> wrote:

EH> EH>>>>>>>> And here DR claims their trimmer-mowers are the answer to
EH> EH>>>>>>>> everything.

EH> VH>>>>>>> I'll neve buy another one.

EH> EH>>>>>> I take it you'll not be buying a DR chipper shredder
EH> EH>>>>>> either.

EH> VH>>>>> Nope -- not on your nellie.  I've had enough of their
EH> VH>>>>> products.

EH> EH>>>> Heh heh...

EH> EH>>>>>>>> It turned out that he had turned away just enough that
EH> EH>>>>>>>> the tree didn't hit him square on. If he had been a bit
EH> EH>>>>>>>> closer he'd have lost his head. Literally. My dad said
EH> EH>>>>>>>> that was as close as he wanted to get to seeing someone
EH> EH>>>>>>>> getting killed by a widow-maker.

EH> VH>>>>>>> Next ice storm, I'll remember that story.

EH> EH>>>>>> A healthy respect for the tree is a good thing.

EH> VH>>>>> You bet -- a chain saw is an awesome thing.  Use only when
EH> VH>>>>> thinking straight.

EH> EH>>>> Exactly. A good friend of mine was trimming the trees in his
EH> EH>>>> yard with his chainsaw. He was on a ladder and cutting a limb
EH> EH>>>> above him. His saw caught and came off the limb and he hit
EH> EH>>>> his leg just above the knee. Fortunately, all it did was rip
EH> EH>>>> his pant leg. He now wears a pair of kevlar chaps just in
EH> EH>>>> case that happens again.

EH> MG>>> Wouldn't it be safer just to hire a professional to do it?

EH> EH>> Now he does, but back then he wanted to save money.


EH> MG> Well, you know what they say; you get what you pay for.
EH> MG> Seriously I'm glad he's alright.

EH>Oh yeah, he's doing fine. He's teaching over in China at the moment.

Glad to hear it. China? cool. I just finished listening to this book 
called The Chinese in America. It's really good, I knew most of the 
stuff about the Chinese in CA, but was really surprised about them in 
the rest of the country. For example in the south during the Jim Crow 
days the only repercussions they had were self imposed. By that I mean 
that one guy's diary talked about how he was surprised and confused by 
"Whites only" drinking fountains and restaurants, because he wasn't sure 
if he was White or not. BTW up there I said "listening to a book", ever 
since I had the stroke reading the printed page is difficult because I'm 
easily distracted and end up reading the same thing over and over again, 
but for some reason (related to the short term memory damage) I can 
listen to audio books and stay with them with no problem. Fortunately 
San Diego's public library has tons of them and the Chula Vista library 
is affiliated with "net library where I can down load them for free and 
legally I think I "read" more now than I did before the stroke and I 
read a lot then. :)

L'Chaim

Mimi

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the Word already was.

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