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Big Day
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TomD
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kurtdesign1
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I bet Seymore tastes better than those avocados...TomD wrote:
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Stewmuse
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A+ Tom!TomD wrote:
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StewMuse
Stay smokey, my friends.
Stay smokey, my friends.
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Kip
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Sweet Mother of Pearl it's a beautiful morning...
Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....
Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....
White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise....
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Stewmuse
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Kip wrote:Sweet Mother of Pearl it's a beautiful morning...
Sent via smoke signal from the tropics....
Just keep that all right there for another 5 weeks...
StewMuse
Stay smokey, my friends.
Stay smokey, my friends.
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Zedman05
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Blow me.
At least we aren't as cold as the city my brother lives in. -37 yesterday without the wind chill. Ouch. Now that is cold.
At least we aren't as cold as the city my brother lives in. -37 yesterday without the wind chill. Ouch. Now that is cold.
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IWinchester
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It's gonna be 35 freedom degrees here today! I'll get my first cigar in in over a week!
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kurtdesign1
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Winter has arrived -5 lows to +10 highs (-20c -- -8). yuck
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Kip
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Saw an article this morning promoting the fact that poverty incidence in the Dominican Republic is *down* to 36%. Not good, but improved....until I dug in and found that the poverty line is 152 pesos per day. That's about $3.27 US at current exchange. Over a third of this country's residents live on $3 a day.
Sent from cigar country via smoke signal...
Sent from cigar country via smoke signal...
White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise....
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Kip
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We took a day trip to the capital yesterday with a few folks from school. It was mostly recon for us, as we'd never been to the colonial zone and want to take a longer trip later when we can actually take it in. Trying to soak up some history in a day's time is tiring and ineffective - and we were actually there to take the kids to see The Nutcracker before heading back to Santiago. There's just something about 500 year old buildings that is cool, though, so I'll definitely be going back.
Anyway, we saw several things we want go back and cover thoroughly....but the thing that inexplicably intrigued me was the game these guys pictured below were playing. It's pretty much checkers, but with a few moves I couldn't decipher - and with 30(!) checkers per side. It appeared to require a good bit of strategy, but moved at a very rapid pace. And, the folks standing around seemed to be discreetly gambling on it. I thought it was cool.
There were a number of small cigar operations sprinkled throughout the Colonial Zone. Didn't make it into any, but it's on my list for next time.
Anyway, we saw several things we want go back and cover thoroughly....but the thing that inexplicably intrigued me was the game these guys pictured below were playing. It's pretty much checkers, but with a few moves I couldn't decipher - and with 30(!) checkers per side. It appeared to require a good bit of strategy, but moved at a very rapid pace. And, the folks standing around seemed to be discreetly gambling on it. I thought it was cool.
There were a number of small cigar operations sprinkled throughout the Colonial Zone. Didn't make it into any, but it's on my list for next time.
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White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise....