07-20-2004, 10:23 AM
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#89 (permalink)
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Tue, 20 Jul 2004 00:02:39 -0700, <f2gidc.lo7.ln@bud.garden.local>,
tomk2003@hotmail.com (Tom Keats) wrote:
>Zoot Katz <zootkatz@operamail.com> writes:
>> (Tom Keats) wrote:
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>>>Holy smokes! It's hailing out right now as I write this.
>>>And I've gotta go to the store ...
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>> I was at the store while you were writing that. Your hail was only
>> rain down here by the river.
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>Ah, good ol' Marpole. Lemme guess: the Husky? Or that little
>grocery on 70th between Oak & Granville?
Nope, 67th and Oak. There's a new Dan-Dee Market where Boomer's Drugs
once was. And the International (Russian) Deli where Boris the
shoemaker used to be.
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>My ride home from work today (and to the Money Mart at Knight
>& 41st to cash my subsequent cheque) was punctuated with in-the-
>kisser headwinds. Ugh! But it beats not riding at all. And
>it sure beats stantion-hanging on a crowded rush-hour bus. I retained
>my $4.oo carfare, anyway. I resorted to the 26" granny for a brief
>moment today, crawling up beside Clark Park.
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uggh, that's a slog after a rough day but it beats waiting for busses.
Riding them isn't as hard for me as conforming to their schedule. I
think of bus rides as a sort of immunisation booster.
>I recall how minutely discrete thunderstorms would crawl up
>the Fraser River, past Marpole, and up toward Port Coquitlam
>where they belong :-)
>
I'm cheered by any rain that intermittently graces us during summer.
It washes the air and perks up the plants.
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zk
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