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The Pachelbel Canon
courtesy of Bob Rowe (I don't know anything about Pachelbel or Canons either. -sb) Turn on your
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Computer error
I was having trouble with my computer. So I called Eric, the 11 year old next
door, whose bedroom looks like Mission Control and asked him to come over.
Eric clicked a couple of buttons and
solved the problem. As he was walking away, I called after him, 'So, what was wrong? He replied, "It
was an ID ten T error."
I didn't want to appear stupid, but nonetheless
inquired,
"An, ID ten T error? What's that? In case I need to fix it again." Eric grinned.... "Haven't
you ever heard of an ID ten T error before?"
"No," I replied.
"Write it down," he
said, "and I think you'll figure it out." So I wrote down: I D 1 0 T
I used to like Eric.............
Wild Strawberries
"The ground on the hills (of New Netherland) is covered with bushes of bilberries or blueberries: the ground
in the flat land near the river is covered with strawberries, which grow so plentifully in the fields, that one can lie down
and eat them." -Dominie Johannes Megapolensis, minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherland.
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...no cultivated strawberry yet developed has the delicious
flavor that nature puts into small wild ones.
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When Governor Winthrop, founder of Boston and historian of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony, first arrived on these shores on June 12, 1630, his boat anchored near what is now Cape Ann.
In his journal the methodical leader penned these words: "Most of our people went ashore upon the land of Cape Ann, which
lay very near us, and gathered a store of fine strawberries." One doesn't need much imagination to appreciate how good
those berries tasted after the monotonous weeks on the ocean.
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There are those who consider a two-quart pailful a reasonable day's labor.
When a man starts forth in mid-forenoon, he should take a couple of slices of buttered home made bread in his pocket.
For lunch he can hull a generous handful of berries and squeeze them between the bread slices...
--E. C. Hayhow
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Webmaster's Note: I don't have any experience with strawberry sandwiches, but
if you've never tasted a wild strawberry, I recommend that you search out a patch of the kind that grow in the latitudes of
Boston, Albany, Toronto, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and locations farther west. Strawberry season in these parts
is in June. --Steve
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