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Demeter

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36. The only reason I have to complain about winter here is I go out to work in it

Wed May 1, 2013, 09:58 AM

May 2013

and it's not the work that's awful, it's the company....

But if I were retired, or an office worker, living in a community that plows itself at 5 AM, it's really not a hardship.

Now, the bugs CAN be a problem...last year's drought was enough to kill them off, though.

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