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Silent combat on a Boeing 777

SILENT COMBAT ON A  BOEING 777

alan skeoch
July 24, 2018
“Our seats  are in there?”
“Fine, let me get up.”
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Two matronly looking  British ladies would be my seat mates from  London, England  to Toronto, Ontario…a 7 hour flight.  Marjorie and  I had aisle seats. The plane was  packed, every seat taken…up to 400 people can be crammed into the Air Canada  Boeing 777.  Certainly  more than  300 on board today, Hence the term ‘flying  sardine can’ has been a popular moniker for the
Air Canada Boeing 777.  Would  our trip be crowded  but pleasant…or crowded and  living hell?
Certainly  crowded.
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EUREKA! ONE LONE LEOPARD FROG FOUND JULY 8, 2018

EUJREKA!  ONE LONE LEOPARD  FROG!   JLY  8, 2018,

(farm pond, fifth line, erin twp. wellington county)
VERY hot today.  Should be a good day  for frogs to get out of the farm pond
and  limber up there tongues  for fly catching.  That would assume  there are
any frogs left in our 9 acres  of ponds.  There were none visible last week
although there was thing of pollywog movement beneath the floating corpses
of last years bull rushes.
Not much sign of life as I circled  the pond, and  then there it was  … a quite
mature leopard front.  Not moving.  Watching  me with a single bulbous
eyes.  But alive and  healthy.
I hope he or she is not spotted  by the eagle eyes of blue heron whose stiletto beak spears frogs and fish  and anything that moves.
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HUGE WALNUT TREE: PLANTED BY ALAN SKEOCH (supposedly)

OUR GRAND  WALNUT TREE
LOCATION. location, location.  the driving force in real estate valuation. Location was  also  the  driving force in the success  of this walnut tree on fifth line of  Erin Two.

My grandmother, Louisa  Freeman,  always  said  that this  walnut tree was planted by me (alan  skeoch).  In terms of achievements

in life,  the walnut tree stands out.    It was  located  right beside the old farm back house and  about 30 feet from the hand dug well. You can  see  the well  pump handle just to the left of our truck.  The back house was  located  in the shadowy area and was quite a pleasant reading  room because grandma  decorated  it with old  calendars and news  clippings.
Granddad, Edward Freeman, had  a huge rhubarb patch exactly where the truck sits.  From that patch he made gallons and gallons  of rhubarb wine much to the chagrin of his Temperance neighbours.   After he died, Eric and I tried to replicate the wine but ended up with a  soupy mess of wormy barm which  when bottled took a few weeks  to gather enough pressure to detonate.
BAM! BAM! BAM!  Shards of glass and foam and  worms and goop all  over our cellar.
What an unholy mess that was.
The walnut tree now massively overshadows the rhubarb patch.
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MOCK WEDDING OF ALAN AND MARJORIE SKEOCH IN SUMMER OF 1963

OUR MOCK  WEDDING SUMMER 1963
(Fifth Line, Erin  Township,  Wellington  County)
alan skeoch
july 2018

This  may seem  like a strange  picture but it was one of the touching  events of our marriage.    Uncle  Frank Freeman dressed up as  the bride (i.e. Marjorie) and  it looks like young Christopher Peers was the groom.  (i.e. alan) Not sure about that as  the groom might have been  Aunt Lucinda Freeman.

All our kith and  kin on the Freeman side  were gathered at Uncle Frank and
Aunt Lucinda’s  farm  on the Fifth Line  of Erin Township and  the Mock Wedding proceeded.