Comments by "Jack Haveman" (@JackHaveman52) on "Townsends"
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I live at what the government says is below the poverty line, retired and living on a fixed income. Strangely though, I probably have a more comfortable life than that rich woman who wrote that travel journal in the early 18th century. Couldn't even imagine what it would have been like for the poor people of her time.
She travelled, on horseback, which must have been tough on the back, battling the weather and bugs. A rich woman. Here I am, a poor retired guy, and last year I flew to the Caribbean and then a couple of months later, to Europe. I complained about having to wait around the airport and how slow the lines were moving. 21st century complaints. Going to Cancun in January. I'm a poor guy, worked in construction, factories and tended bar all my life. I'm sitting here comfortably, just finishing a grilled cheese sandwich and watching the end of Monday Night Football on my 42 inch, flat screen TV.
I'm one lucky guy when you compare me to those that were living 200 years ago.
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Growing up on a farm in southern Ontario in the sixties, it seemed that there were growths of stinging nettles behind all the out sheds and chicken coups. Every farm seemed to have them. I've gotten into them lots of time and didn't like it. We had them in the woods, too, but they were a different variety and didn't grow as tall.
Eventually, I found out that the ones growing around the buildings were imported from Europe and that peaked my interest. Why would they import something that seemed to be good for nothing except to sting you? It seemed to bring our history closer, when I finally found out.
The farm I grew up on had so many things growing on it. A small apple orchard, pear trees, a plum orchard, currant bushes, raspberries and gooseberries, rhubarb....we were always picking them and my mom canned all summer. We never used the nettles, though, simply because we had no idea that they could be useful. At least it explained why every farm in the area had clusters of them growing around the place.
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