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Chelsea Poppins played basketball for ISU - appreciated the way that she played.

If anyone plays the computer version of Strat-O-Matic Baseball, it quickly becomes apparent that the Wizard of Oz lives.

A Richie Valens song comes to mind.

I always thought that it would be interesting to fish that water instead of just passing over it. The drawbridge to the south always seems to be up.

They call the fork in the CN line, the Duluth branch. I've never seen the draw bridge down either.
Back to the CN rail, it runs south of Lake of the Lake of the Woods, in Minnesota, west of Fort Frances.

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There is often a long string of cars on the tracks north of Orr.

I got to see these roll through Wabigoon, long ago.

Before I started school, Dad would come home for dinner, I would be waiting for him, I'd jump in the car, and we'd run out to the crossing a mile north of town to wave at the engineer. We also have some old 16mm movies of him and me riding the steam-powered train from somewhere like Fonda to Alta.

'm lookin' for the fish that modeled for this.

I had her on the line on a fly-in one time. When she finally decided to come up and see whatinhell was on the other end of the line, she only had the jib held sideways in her mouth. Once she saw us, she just opened her mouth, let it go, and slowly returned to whence she had come.

I just had to have one of those neat spin-cast reels. Dad saw no use for them and their "plastic line that you can't tie a damned knot in"; the old non-free spool bait-casters were plenty good. He finally broke down and got me a black Zebco (don't know the number). Like all kids then, now, and forever, I didn't keep tension on the line when I reeled it in and had a glorious mess wrapped around the axle instead of the spool. Cap at Cap's Tackle in 'boji straightened it out.

There are those who feel that I am becoming Walt.

A family friend looked every bit a good as Sophia in her day. Italian she was. Born at Kenora, Italian parents, her voice was half Italian, half Canadian.