Gregory Morrow wrote:
>Sheldon wrote:
>> Gregory Morrow wrote:
>> >> Jill "The Bitter Old Spinster" McQuown wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Sure. Did the Irish neighbor with all the children and grands tell you
>> >>> they needed oats? I cannot think of any reason why you would buy 50 lb.
>> >>> sacks of steel cut oats. Perhaps you're feeling a tad irregular...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> At least Sheldon is on "neighborly" terms with his neighbors...howzabout
>> >> you...???
>>
>> I've met most of my neighbors, which with such large properties there
>> aren't a great many... but we are mostly neighborly in rural places,
>> not so much best buds, we don't socialize but we all get along just
>> fine, and we'll all stop to chat for a few minutes if we happen to see
>> each other outside, usually in the driveway. I met that Irish family
>> because two of their teenage sons will do chores and I pay them...
>> btw, for $10/hr they'll work a lot harder than cleaning houses. And I
>> already posted all about the Honeyville steel cut oats several times,
>> and that I buy them in 50 lb sacks because they cost a whole lot less
>> per pound than buying them in those fancy schmancy tins imported from
>> Ireland. Those from Honeyville are grown in Canada, they are
>> excellent quality, but they come in a heavy paper sack like a C-menta
>> bag. I must have made a dozen posts about how I cook them in a slow
>> cooker to save all that stirring... steel cut oats are the only thing
>> I found a slow cooker good for.
>
>
>Yup...anyone claiming to be a "regular" would *know* that...
>
>
> About two years ago I lost my
>> interest in eating oatmeal every day so I gave my slow cooker away. I
>> still had about ten pounds of steel cut oats left, I mixed it in with
>> my bird seed... at that time Honeyville steel cut oats cost the same
>> as I paid for bird seed, less than a dollar a pound.
>
>
>Methinks you are a fine neighbor - both to people *and* to the animal/wildlife around you...
>
>What it comes down to is that you've had a successful life, and you continue to enjoy that life...some peeps here are simply jealous of that, a not - so - good reflection on *them"...sad and twisted they are!
>
>A Happy - and prosperous! - New Year to you, Sheldon. You are one of a small handful of posters that keeps me reading this group ;-)

You have a Happy & Healthy New Year too, Greg Morrow, I consider you a
true blue friend.
A couple of days ago there were horrific winds here and a Norway
spruce was blown down in front by my creek, called my tree guy and he
arrived yesterday and removed it, saved me a job in the spring. While
I had him here he removed two more Norway Spruce that were about dead
and ground a huge stump. Looyd was a tree guy for the local power
company but decided to go out on his own, no one else I've ever seen
is better at climbing trees with a chain saw. He's done many jobs for
me, always a fair price. Lloyd dispatched that tree in under an hour,
would have taken me two full days, maybe three
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