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   KyleZ | Mar 04, 2005 01:33am | #1

   I'm originally from Clayton.  Five minutes from Canada by boat.  I live in Rochester now.

   Cheers (Raising a metaphorical glass of Genesee)

   Kyle

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   paule38 | Mar 04, 2005 01:47am | #2

   Close enough for me....I'm originally from Chaumont...now, you can see where I am....

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   KyleZ | Mar 04, 2005 06:42am | #8

   The funniest thing that I remember about Chamount is that you could always smell the chicken farm during our Little League games there.  (I'm not kidding.)

   Matt... Anyplace south of Adams was no longer the North Country as far as I was concerned.

   Fast Eddie... Lowville is the greatest farming town in the area.  Whenever we played Lowville in anything we would always say to each other "We better pack a lunch. We're playing the big strong farm boys from Lowville."

   Cheers

   Kyle

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   Dustmight | Mar 04, 2005 05:12am | #5

   Go Amerks! (I'm paying too much property tax in Greece, so they can build the "Taj FireHall"...)

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   KyleZ | Mar 04, 2005 06:46am | #9

   Rochester hockey fans are perhaps the only winners in this NHL labor situation.  The Amerks are very deep.  They've got five or six guys that would be getting a regular shift with the Sabres.  I really want to see that Thomas Vanek play.  (I've got a 1 1/2 year old so its hard to get out.)

   Cheers

   Kyle

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   mgumaer | Mar 04, 2005 02:38am | #3

   Isn't everything north of NYC upstate?

   Matt

   P.S.-I've never felt like a southerner being from Syracuse until now.

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   paule38 | Mar 04, 2005 03:03am | #4

   Syracuse is REAL close to the line...but we've always said that Pulaski is the line.....you can join in, ha-ha!!!!...since I've traveled southward and taken some deer from Apulia Station and had many a hot bowl of soup from the Apulia Bar and Grill.....

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   mgumaer | Mar 04, 2005 05:17am | #6

   I do most of my chainsawing at my in-laws "camp" on the Salmon River Reservoir. That barely gets me over the Sandy Creek/Pulaski border (not to mention free cherry for my lathe).Matt

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   exhibitor | Mar 04, 2005 07:17am | #11

   Know Randy Zimmerman????  Goober???  I miss the upstate life here in DC...

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   paule38 | Mar 04, 2005 05:04pm | #13

   I hear ya about the cherry...and the maple, and the oak, etc., etc...down here there's not a decent tree to be found, I'm in the carpentry/construction business and you ought to see the junk lumber for sale here, it's all dried out so it either feels like balsa wood or so heavy it takes 2 guys to move a 2x4, feels heavier than pressure treated....real garbage..

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   paule38 | Mar 04, 2005 06:52pm | #15

   When I moved down here 2 years ago I left my big jonsered at home, a 72 cc monster and also my stihl limbing saw, figured I'd never need them here and I was right. In the OKC area, there's not enough trees to say so, I love cutting firewood for relaxation, the last year I was up there I cut approx. 300 cords for a buddy.....if I cut 300 cords of wood in this area there wouldn't be a single tree left. BTW....a "rick" ( a half cord of wood) costs about 100 dollars down here and the prices for wood in the stores is astronomical, I was in the Woodcraft shop a couple days ago and they were getting nearly 11 bucks for a piece of basswood, 2x6x18 inches long.....I should have harvested all the basswood there and not just cut it down to make room for the "real" trees up in our camp area. Used to go ice fishing at Renshaw Bay and make a stop on the way home at the little tavern at the intersection of Route 3...can't remember the name of the place now........

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   exhibitor | Mar 04, 2005 07:13am | #10

   Live in MD, near D.C.  Have a place on Ramoana Beach near Pulaski.  Near the Pines Golf Course.  Lake Shore Hardwoods a mile away.  Great figueed maple...Cherry...all the local woods... at great prices.  would retire in the area except for the TAXES... they are out of this world.

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   paule38 | Mar 06, 2005 07:44pm | #16

   We had a big ice storm up there back in 97 or 98, topped out a lot of trees, theyt're cutting them and harvesting the lumber before the tree rots standing there, almost brings a tear to your eye thinking of all that good wood going to waste, a buddy of mine up there who owns 170+ acres of woods had me cut around 300 cord of this wood into firewood for him right before I moved here, his cellar is full.Worked in Pulaski for a year or so back in 1991, at the Agway Energy there. Nice town, love the area and hitting the state parks along Lake Ontario, gotta love that as well. Lots of ice fishing on all the little coves and the like up there, I really miss it...

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   FastEddie | Mar 04, 2005 05:42am | #7

   I have long left the North Country   Lowville of all places!  Walked to school about a mile in a foot of fresh snow and 20 below zero. In those days they never closed school.  Many years ago my Daddy was a woodworker and always begged me to come to the shop in the wood fired garage with him.  I was only  8 or 9 or whatever then and didn't care.  Somehow about 15 years ago,  my daddy"s gene surfaced in my body>>>>>>>>>>>>>>small surprise there  huh?  I now live in Pa, but I remember the go cart he let me build out of a couple 2 X 4's and  some plywood ,a briggs and stratton kick start engine  from a washing machine,   some wheels, couple of steel rods.  Didn't know I had to put brakes on it!  LOL.  Had a few good  rides though! 

   Lord, I wish I knew how to reply to all on these threads. 

   NY'er, please forward this to everyone.

   underneath all that sawdust is there some thing I can sell?

   F E

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   paule38 | Mar 04, 2005 05:01pm | #12

   Already passed on...the message appeared in the column for all to read.....

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   HWG | Mar 04, 2005 05:15pm | #14

   FastEddie

   I thought I was the only one that build one of those go carts.  We never considered brakes, didn't even have a clutch.  Had to put it up on concrete blocks to start it (because the wheels would spin), then just kick it off the block to go.  We steered it with a rope, and hoped we could find a soft bush to stop it.  Had a string tied to the carburetor linkage for a throttle, but don't know that we ever got to pull it much as it idled about 35 MPH, and we lived in town.  We usually wrecked out before we got organized enough to steer it and pull the throttle rope on the same ride. 

   As you can see, we survived, and a kid needs a few scars to show off anyway.  I don't know where my son managed to come up with the stupid ideas that he thought up years later -- from his mother's side of the family, I suppose.

   Woody 

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   paule38 | Mar 08, 2005 10:58pm | #17

   If you want to respond to "all", just click on the "others" rectangle next to the adressee box and choose it as your mailing option...that way it goes to all....