Hmmm - that means you are in cell tower range - hardly backwoods, if you ask me.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Here I sit in my little camp in Maine. You flatlanders (yer not from Maine > (well mostly) so yer a flatlander) would probably call it a "cabin" or > "cottage" or something else cutsy but this is northern Maine so its a camp. > I'm about 3/4 mile from the paved road but only about 5 miles out of town. > The land has been in my family for at least 100 years and is pretty easily > traced to a grant from the king before we got it. > My uncle Pat built the camp in about '64 when he had the dam built to make > the pond out front. Uncle Pat didn't use a level when he built the place and > thus its "rustic". > We're far enough out that electricity would be silly expensive so we've got > gas lighting. Its warm today so the fire in the stove is out but we had it > going all day Monday. > > I'm typing on my Blackberry which is by far the loudest thing around though > in the distance I can just hear a tractor planting grain. The blackberry is > the most advanced technology we've ever had in the camp and I think may be > the limit of what is acceptble here. You get a nice quiet place and next > thing you know some idiot wants a tv... > > > -- > OK Don > Pair of W124 300D 2.5 Turbos > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090520/6ccfd3f4/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
