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10. shack, shanty, (I'm a flatlander too) just been here for almost 40 years

Reply to Wilms (Reply #9)

Sun Aug 7, 2016, 07:22 AM

Aug 2016

And my son never lets me forget it. His dad's family are longtime Vermonters.

You have to be born here or you're a flatlander forever.

(I would never have visited a shanty that didn't have a woodstove, flatlander that I am)

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Great story! Wilms Aug 2016 #1

HAD an ABA Team cali Aug 2016 #2

I have peeps in Walden who have a moose like that! Wilms Aug 2016 #3

Wait what? lol. A moose like that?? cali Aug 2016 #4

Yep. And it looks as comical. Wilms Aug 2016 #5

OK, you must mean this: cali Aug 2016 #6

The moose was a little bit like this one... Wilms Aug 2016 #7

lol. cali Aug 2016 #8

Now hold on a sec. Wilms Aug 2016 #9

shack, shanty, (I'm a flatlander too) just been here for almost 40 years cali Aug 2016 #10

I can hold my own. Wilms Aug 2016 #11