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1. Thanks for sharing. Reminds me of my being raised in the Ozarks (MO side), great grandma ...
Tue Mar 31, 2020, 10:38 AM
Mar 2020

and grandma had no running water (outhouses), bare essential of electricity, little gas stove and heater (propane) and wood burning furnace (getting up early a.m. to stoke the fire was a daily occurrence). We always would run and grab the 22 to shoot the groundhog that was raiding the garden (or other destructive critters that would raid the garden), never hit anything but it did scare the critters enough to stay away for that day. Ah, the days long gone...

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