Replying to a message of Roger Nelson to Cindy Haglund:

 RN> [...]
 RN> Wow!  Is this a long message!  (-:

 CH>> What is there to keep up with :)... sorry. The traffic is kinda you
 CH>> know like out in the country. Every now and then a tractor totters
 CH>> by and then some days a fleet of merry motorcyclists.

 RN> But in the country, everyone knows everyone else.

Boy is that ever true around here.  Everyone who's lived out here for years
knows everybody else for 20 miles around.

I've heard that the fellow who sold me my acreage has been in poor health of
late.  He now lives in Red Oak, which is about 12 miles east of here.  I heard
the news of his health from someone who lives in Strahan, about 8 miles southwest
of me.

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