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digitS'
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Bosc pear and blue berry waffles — yes, I had 2 
. Up later today but suspect that I will feel the benefit through the day from not being up so dang early. Tasks (& completion) yesterday must have set me up for staying longer on the horizontal.
@Shades-of-Oregon , for a few months, I lived in the middle of a Bartlett pear orchard in the Rogue River Valley of your state. Rental houses built where a commercial orchard had been reduced in size. A neighbor had one of the original trees in their yard and the orchard continued both north and south. Important industry in that valley.
Thinking of @Zeedman 's comment about party lines on the "senior" thread. On the farm (with another pear orchard on the other side of the west fence) we had a Czech family down the road and one of the phone parties. Kid at home ... grown daughters talking in that language. I'd put the phone down while doing other things just so I could hear that interesting conversation. Whoa – one of them yelled at me to "hang up!" Shucks. I didn't even know what they saying. I think that they may have been more comfortable speaking English and here was that neighbor brat eavesdropping on them 
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One ring for us. Two rings, somebody else. Be in another part of the house, "was that 2 rings?" Some nighttime goin's-ons at the neighbor's house, Mom would put a pillow on top of the phone.
digitS'
. Up later today but suspect that I will feel the benefit through the day from not being up so dang early. Tasks (& completion) yesterday must have set me up for staying longer on the horizontal.@Shades-of-Oregon , for a few months, I lived in the middle of a Bartlett pear orchard in the Rogue River Valley of your state. Rental houses built where a commercial orchard had been reduced in size. A neighbor had one of the original trees in their yard and the orchard continued both north and south. Important industry in that valley.
Thinking of @Zeedman 's comment about party lines on the "senior" thread. On the farm (with another pear orchard on the other side of the west fence
) we had a Czech family down the road and one of the phone parties. Kid at home ... grown daughters talking in that language. I'd put the phone down while doing other things just so I could hear that interesting conversation. Whoa – one of them yelled at me to "hang up!" Shucks. I didn't even know what they saying. I think that they may have been more comfortable speaking English and here was that neighbor brat eavesdropping on them .One ring for us. Two rings, somebody else. Be in another part of the house, "was that 2 rings?" Some nighttime goin's-ons at the neighbor's house, Mom would put a pillow on top of the phone.
digitS'
. Electric kettle gave out. Pulled the new kettle out of the box, cleaned the interior, exterior – got it going. Dumped first water, refilled.
