> Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "Eyeglasses
 > darken in lig" on 06-26-05
 > 11:55

 >> Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "Eyeglasses
 >> darken in lig" on 06-25-05
 >> 10:18

 >>> Barbara McNay wrote to James Bradley, "Eyeglasses
 >>> darken in lig" on 06-23-05
 >>> 20:24

 >>>> Cindy Haglund wrote to George Pope, "Eyeglasses darken
 >>>> in ligh" on 06-20-05
 >>>> 10:45

 >>>>  CH> 0n (16 Jun 05) George Pope wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 >>>>  CH>  Hmm well one of my brothers-in-law has  his
birthday on December
 >>>>  CH> 25th. A friend's daughter's bday is Dec 4. Our
son's was Dec 18th...
 >>>>  CH> so yeah there's others' I know of born in December. Yep.

 >>>> All six of my fathers family were born in mid-
 >>>> December. Comes a time when the
 >>>> crop's in...

 >>>  BM> I suppose you mean planted, not harvested ... [g]

 >>> Granny would be shuckin' and cookin'... Just when
 >>> winter is the bleakest, plop!

 >>  BM> But that was the end of the runs, when the babies left the
 >>  BM> assembly line, so to speak.  What event encouraged the
 >>  BM> clockwork initiation of them?

 >> You know, I never did the math before! 

 >> March, it would be, where we can still have snow on
 >> the ground, or at
 >> least it can be too early to sow. I guess there was
 >> nothing to do
 >> until the fields dried out. ROTF... Or somewhere
 >> else... 

 >  BM> And coupled with spring fever ... [g]

 > Well, hormones and all... You pent those up for long
 > enough...

Mmm.  They had it down to a fine science, didn't they?  Farming all summer
and fall, advanced pregnancy and new baby in the winter  Then comes March,
and Opportunity! :)

 >> ... "Not tonight honey...  I have a modem."

 >  BM> You *know* they didn't have a modem. [g]

 > I can almost guarantee they didn't have a phone
 > either!

 > I'll bet my generation will be the last to ever use a
 > community
 > line. Who needed phone sex, when you can hear your
 > neighbours dirt?

Who had time to listen to the neighbors, when there was farming to be done?



 > ... The moon isn't waxing, it's dusting and vacuuming.

And washing dishes.

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