> 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... 

And coupled with spring fever ... [g]

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

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

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