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    Too early for Christmas?

    Does anyone know of a Christmas song or a hymn that says something about light or lights? Part of a story I am writing is about a school Christmas pageant, and I need a song for a character to sing while the lights on a Christmas tree are turned on.
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    weaving technology

    Does anyone here know anything about weaving? I’ve been doing some research into historic occupations so I can get some idea of what jobs and skills would be needed for a community to survive with the technology available in a given time period. I’ve compiled several lists of occupations from...
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    potato crop failure

    I started harvesting my potatoes this morning. Crop failure. I planted them back in January which is the usual time for my part of Florida. But, between last Thanksgiving and the middle of April any day that the weather wasn’t in the 20s was overcast and rainy instead. There simply wasn’t...
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    Bad neighbors = too many grasshoppers

    I want to try to re-start a 40’ x 40’ garden area I used to have on a 3/4 acre property that I inherited from my uncle. There is a vacant lot on one side of me, and the house on the other is empty now because of foreclosure. The vacant lot doesn’t get mowed but 2 or 3 times a year, and the...
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