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  • HOW TO MAKE GUM…FIRST INVEST $200,000 IN A GOOD COMBINE HARVESTER

    RECIPE: HOW  TO MAKE  GUM

    (First, buy a  $200,000 combine harvester  then read my instructions below)
    alan skeoch
    August 2, 2018
    “Want of  make your own gum, Marjorie?”
    “Better things to do with my time…like  cleaning house.”
    “Sit down, I’ll show you how to make good gum.”
    “Sometimes I wonder about your  sanity,  Alan.”
    ‘Best gum is  home made gum.”
    “Gum?”
    “Just pay attention…this is a lost art…something that every farm girl  and boy new how to do  years ago….making their own Gum.  Do not lose this historic moment.

  • 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.”
    New Premium Economy seats go on Air Canada route from ...Air Canada 777 Interior Pictures to Pin on Pinterest ...
    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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.