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Believe it or not I forgot about them, but yea they did come by the farm time to time when I was a kid.
I remember that mom had made arrangements with the local (Nichols) bread delivery guy who normally only delivered factory to stores, he'd stop by once a week with 20 loaves for our family.
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Randy, I know things are always bigger in "Teyhas" but 20 loaves??? Daaaaaaang! Now that's an appetite!
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Well,
there was 6 kids, and believe it or not we'd some time run out. That did not include the biscuts on a fairly regularly basis.
Ya should have seen the garden, if it hadn't been for that and the milk cow, we'd been plenty hungry...Tater diggen time was real fun, on good years I'd dig around 60-70 bushels ...didn't have a tractor, all the work was done with horses.
Course we was WV Hillbillys, I'm transplanted to TX 20 yrs, rest of the family is still in the hills.
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I always get a kick out of the 'bigger in Texas' thing.
Ontario is not the biggest province in Canada, it's about 43% smaller than Quebec.
It is however, bigger than Texas and New Mexico combined. In fact even at that there's still room for New Hampshire, New Jersey and Connecticut with room still left over, almost enough for Rhode Island.
We also have a large territory in the north which was recently reorganized and renamed Nunavut, to comapre it by scale, it's 20% bigger than Alaska, and a little over TRIPLE the size of Texas.
It also has a population of just over 31,000 people! That's about 26 square miles per person.
Best of luck.
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Murf, so they do not have a bread truck making the rounds there do they?
Back to what I have seen of the type of eaters Randy is talking about they are all skinny as they can be. kt
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Murf,
I gotta say I bow to the elbow room yall got, but I bet I have a lot less feezing temps here, and my bones can't take the cold like they used to, although it was 22 degrees this am, but expectin 50 by noon and warmer tomorrow,
even better as far as TX there is a saying, if you dont like the weather, wait an hour...ain't far from true,
last friday was close to freezing, on sunday I was out in t-shirt hiking through the campground.
KT, you are right we was bone thin then, not so much now....
RJ
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Randy, I know what you mean about not true now. My nick name was Skinny Kenny but the Skinny part I worked hard to get rid of that part. One fork full at the time. kt
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Kenneth, it's whale blubber by snowmobile..... 
Randy, we have the same thing up, today is in the high 20's and we're getting about a foot of snow, Tuesday they say it will be mid-40's and rain.
I remember as a teen eating 5 meals a day during times when we were doing field work, 4 a day the rest of the time and never put on a pound, now my belt gets tight walking past the fridge.
It reminds me of the sign a friend had on his boat "Middle Age: The point in life when a broad mind & a narrow waist change places on you."
Best of luck.
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Murf: 'round here, Canada is considered a suburb of the US.
Kenny: didn't you tell me your nickname was No Neck?
My former helper is 20. We're friends. He's always harping on me about losing weight. The other day I asked what size is pants were. "30-30" he says. "Guess what" I told him I was your size when I was 26--an' look at me NOW. He says "That's scary". Yup sure is! 'Tis like looking in a mirror that has a 20-year-lag time.
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That makes me feel better.
I had a 34" waist at 16 years of age, today it's 37".
I weigh a little more, but not too much. 
Best of luck.
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