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Susquatch

Susquatch

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LenVW said:
Don’t forget the parking for your guests !!
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If you ever visit, you will find that parking is not a problem here. My driveway is 5 miles long and has 12ft wide grass shoulders on both sides for parking. All I have to do is mow it and add signs for speed limit, turtle crossing, bump warnings, poison control zone, no passing, no left turns, squeeze right, slow moving vehicles ahead, deer crossing, school zone, no alcohol, and mile markers.
 
Turtle & deer crossing ? When was the last time you saw deer out there ?

My father owned a tobacco farm near Port Burwell. It had a LOOK-OUT tower on it from WWII and longtime residents told him it was to keep an eye on the invaders from the South !!
 
LenVW said:
My father owned a tobacco farm near Port Burwell. It had a LOOK-OUT tower on it from WWII and longtime residents told him it was to keep an eye on the invaders from the South !!
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No need for a tower - based on the reception we received Northbound from Buffalo about 20 years ago the Border Patrol is doing their best to keep the riff-raff out (but then it may have been the H2 the rental company gave us at no up-charge: worst riding & underpowered vehicle I’ve ever driven).
 
ChazzC said:
No need for a tower - based on the reception we received Northbound from Buffalo about 20 years ago the Border Patrol is doing their best to keep the riff-raff out (but then it may have been the H2 the rental company gave us at no up-charge: worst riding & underpowered vehicle I’ve ever driven).
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When my cousins came over from the Netherlands in July, they requested a mid-sized vehicle to taxi his elderly mother and aunt around Ontario.
The car rental gave him a 2024 cadillac escalade. My cousin, who is used to European sports cars, said he had to take it easy the first few days because it was like driving a ‘cattle truck’.
 
LenVW said:
When my cousins came over from the Netherlands in July, they requested a mid-sized vehicle to taxi his elderly mother and aunt around Ontario.
The car rental gave him a 2024 cadillac escalade. My cousin, who is used to European sports cars, said he had to take it easy the first few days because it was like driving a ‘cattle truck’.
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Having driven in the UK and Italy I can understand his trepidation. However, I mis-spoke: it was an H3, the smaller version with a less powerful engine but still weighing in at over 2 tons.
 
LenVW said:
Luckily . . . Wildlife have ‘instinct’ to guide them.
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Not my experience Len....... Deer instincts are based on predator, food, water, & shelter encounters, and they have not yet evolved any instincts that can protect them from vehicles. We have had three collisions with deer in just my family so far and many dozens of close calls. Deer are stupid when it comes to dealing with vehicles.
 
LenVW said:
I meant when you compare them with the ‘dough-head’ on the radio ‘call-in’.
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Ah yes. Sorry I misunderstood. I agree with that.

I think the normal first reaction to that caller would be to think it's a deliberate joke.

Sadly, I don't think that it is.

Being on the shore of Lake Erie, we have a constant churn of new neighbours from the big city (Toronto, Ottawa, London, etc.). They don't understand animals or farming or even nature. They think Bambi & Thumper are buddies, talk to each other, read books, and die of old age. They don't like farmers using pesticides, fertilizer, or spreading manure. They drank Walt Disney's coolaide. They think farmers are all stupid and we all need to change all the rules to be more like the rules in Toronto. Very few come here wanting to become one of us and adopt a true country lifestyle. They want us to change to think and act like them instead.
 
Susquatch said:
Being on the shore of Lake Erie, we have a constant churn of new neighbours from the big city (Toronto, Ottawa, London, etc.). They don't understand animals or farming or even nature. They think Bambi & Thumper are buddies, talk to each other, read books, and die of old age. They don't like farmers using pesticides, fertilizer, or spreading manure. They drank Walt Disney's coolaide. They think farmers are all stupid and we all need to change all the rules to be more like the rules in Toronto. Very few come here wanting to become one of us and adopt a true country lifestyle. They want us to change to think and act like them instead.
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Don't get me started on how they are with animals in the city. As a boy who came off the farm, it strikes me as insane
 
Susquatch said:
Being on the shore of Lake Erie, we have a constant churn of new neighbours from the big city (Toronto, Ottawa, London, etc.). They don't understand animals or farming or even nature.. They think farmers are all stupid and we all need to change all the rules to be more like the rules in Toronto. Very few come here wanting to become one of us and adopt a true country lifestyle. They want us to change to think and act like them instead.
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The way I see it...
If $hit ever hits the fan, all those "stupid" farmers will be well prepared well fed and armed. More than likely half the "smart" population in Toronto will wipe each other out fitting over the last litre of milk in the superstore.
 
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