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You’ve gobbled the turkey … you’re stuffed with stuffing … now’s the time to support my Muckville Kickstarter campaign!

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At your wonderful dinner yesterday did you eat any of these?

Not those … these:

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Do you wonder how they got from point A to point B … your plates?

That’s only part of the story …

Ever wonder what happens when a entire crop is obliterated?

Ever wonder how we work with elected officials and politicos to bring about positive public policy for farmers?

If any of these things are either of importance or interest to you then please support my project and spread the word. My memoir tells the story of what’s involved in growing a crop and working with the powers that be to develop smart public policy.

And either way … eat more onions and thank you for your support … this Bud’s for you!

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“Keep On Rolling …Keep On Rolling ……..”

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Quick update on my Kickstarter campaign:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176629437/muckville-a-memoir-of-the-public-policy-life-of-a-0

33 backers … $1,397 … that’s 25% of my goal!

But we are down to 18 days to go and the clock is now becoming a factor! So if you can back that is fantastic and if you can encourage others to back … even more awesome!

Remember … if my memoir doesn’t get edited and then published … how will people learn all about the vegetable trees?

https://muckville.com/2013/11/26/if-my-memoir-muckville-isnt-published-how-will-people-learn-about-the-vegetable-trees/

So this holiday weekend let’s “Keep On Rolling …!”

On a nice roll ….

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Wow … what a day yesterday was for my Kickstarter campaign! I picked up a bunch of backers, now up to 30 and $1,267! That’s 23% of my funding goal!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176629437/muckville-a-memoir-of-the-public-policy-life-of-a-0

But, I’m now down to 19 days to go and Kickstarter is “all or nothing.” If I don’t make my goal then I get zero funding!

We can do this!

Why is this important?

In yesterday’s issue of Politico current Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack was interviewed. In the article entitled “Tom Vilsack: Farming ‘under-appreciated'” It states in part:

As you look at your (hopefully) full plate this Thanksgiving, take a guess at what percentage of your annual income you spend on food. Whatever you guessed, you probably guessed too high.

“We pay as low as 6 percent,” Tom Vilsack, the secretary of agriculture, was telling me at a conference table in his office. “In most other industrialized countries it’s 20 to 25 percent.” And if you were spending that much on food in America, Vilsack asks, “How big a house would you have? How nice a car?” In addition to being a relatively small amount of our incomes, our supply of edibles is virtually guaranteed. “America does not really have to depend on the rest of the world for food,” Vilsack says….

Only 1 percent of the U.S. population actually farms. Though Vilsack and his wife own a farm in Iowa, nobody in their family has worked a farm since his great-great-grandfather. But, Vilsack says, one out of every 12 jobs in America is connected to agriculture….

“It’s tied to national security,” he says. “In 40 years, we will have to increase agriculture by 70 percent globally to feed the world.” But the amount of land devoted to agriculture is shrinking — think climate change and urban development — and because of that, farmers will have to produce more food with less land and less water.

“And if you think the world is unsafe today, wait until we have serious fights over food and water,” Vilsack says. Enter the American farmer. “Farming is under-appreciated and misunderstood,” Vilsack says. “It is a sophisticated business.” It is also a business whose practitioners are aging. The average age of a farmer on a commercial-size farm is probably close to 60, Vilsack says, and it’s hard work. “There are three times as many farmers over the age of 65 as under the age of 25,” he says.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/tom-vilsack-farming-roger-simon-100360.html

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That’s sort of the point I made yesterday when I talked about the woman who believed vegetables grow on trees. They don’t, but, I don’t think she is the only person out there so clueless about farming.

My memoir talks about what is involved in being a farmer. It also talks about how Eve and I have gone about the past 17 years to educate the public and elected officials about what we are experiencing and ways in which the situation can be improved. And what’s detailed can be a road map for you to improve your situation!

Once again I greatly appreciate the support and humbly you ask for your continued help to get this done!

If my memoir Muckville isn’t published how will people learn about the vegetable trees?

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Why do we need, “we” meaning our society, my memoir “Muckville: Farm Policy, Media and the Strange Oddities of Semi-Rural Life” to be published and widely disseminated?

Allow me to introduce you to this young lady who back in 2008 testified before the Santa Cruz City Council on May 13, 2008. Much of her testimony focused on agriculture.

Please watch her testimony now. It’s only 2:35 long:

You’re laughing … I know. Stop laughing, or at least reduce it to a giggle please.

You see, if my book isn’t published and doesn’t become widely available how will people like her learn about the onion trees that I grow my crop on?

You’re laughing … I’m laughing … sort of … yes, this young woman might be equal parts drug influenced and a level of stupid of epic proportions but believe it or not … she is not unique.

Did you notice one person clapped at the end of her presentation? Did you notice you could see not one person on the floor laughing in hysterics at the end of her presentation? Yes, some, probably most, were just being courteous and nice, but I would bet not everyone was simply being courteous and nice.

I would bet there were others in the room that believed land is free and vegetables grow on trees.

As I said, she is not unique. I have come across via the internet, and in person mind you, many many many many many many many many many many many people that rival her in regards to her utter and complete lack of understanding of farming practices and our production realities. There are people that sincerely believe fresh produce is simply produced in the back room of the grocery store, the place the men and women that wear the aprons that scurry back and forth from, rolling the fresh produce out on those carts to put on the store shelf. It’s produced by magic, you know.

You see, we as a society are so far removed from farming we have lost much of our basic understanding and perspective regarding the simple facts as to how food is grown and the overall importance and impacts of farming in general.

The following is an excerpt from Muckville that discusses this:

Farming is one of the oldest, yet it is now one of the most unique professions in this country. Currently, though representing a mere 1.2% of the overall GDP for the U.S. economy agriculture represents roughly 9.2% of U. S. exports. Roughly .7% of the labor force is employed in farming, forestry and fishing and it is estimated that roughly only 2% of the U. S. population is involved in farming on some level. If you add processors, outlets and related industries the number increases to 15%. But, only 2% to 3% are really only directly employed or work on a farm. That means that every on-farm job helps create 5 – 7 related industry jobs.  That is a pretty impressive positive economic impact.

Of course, in some states agriculture is one of, if not the most important industry. This includes, surprising to some, New York State, where agriculture, outside of New York City, is one of the largest and most important industries in the state. But, times have changed. In Orange County where we live, agriculture is still the #1 industry, and its economic impacts are still very important on a local and state basis.

Even as recently as 1955 between 10% to 15% of American workers worked in agriculture. Today there are roughly 3.3 million U.S. farm operators but those farms produce enough food that U.S. consumers each year spend about a half trillion dollars on various food products that are produced on U.S. farms. What we don’t always understand is that we in the U. S. have one of the world’s cheapest food supplies. U. S. consumers spend just 10% of their disposable income each year to pay their food bill. For comparison that figure in France is 15%, China 33% and the Philippines it’s 37%. But for every dollar spent on food the farmer receives about 16% of it. The average age of a U.S. farmer is 57 years old. And today each American farmer produces enough food/fiber to feed 154 people in the U.S. and abroad. These are just some of the facts folks.

If you look at the figures above, that $0.16 of the food dollar that the farmer receives generates $0.80 to $1.12 in related businesses. To put this into perspective, one of the arguments for bailing out General Motors was that its demise would have a negative ripple effect across support businesses that would be as large as the funds invested in GM.  Agriculture has much less control over its own destiny than the auto industry.  And its ripple effect is much greater.

What does this all mean? Our nation’s history and roots are inextricably tied into farming. Farming is still a major part of our economy, including being a key part of our export economy, and everyone has to eat. Yet, it is an industry and vocation that few people today have a direct connection to. Nor do they have a good grasp of in terms of the sophisticated, multi-faceted production, marketing and economic realities surrounding it.

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That’s one aspect of Muckville … informing people about the production realities associated with farming. But that’s only half of what Muckville is about. Muckville is also about informing people, educating people about what is involved in formulating smart public policy. Much of Muckville is all about the sorts of things Eve and I did to bring about positive changes, from the grassroots level, to laws, regulations and general public policies connected to farming.

Why is this important, or, more importantly, important to you?

First, if people like Eve and I and other farmers don’t do it, don’t work hard to bring our voices to the table in terms of formulating sound public policy positions on various farm related issues, well, more clueless people will fill that void and do it for us.

People like our friend who testified before the Santa Cruz City Council. Sad reality, I would actually count her as a “friend” of farmers. There are people out there, many people out there, who are virtually as disconnected and uninformed as her but are not benign in terms of their positions. They are not friends of farmers and they stake out positions, or are simply manipulated by people who are not as clueless, to back positions and policies extremely harmful to our industry.

This affects you, because you eat, daily (or at least you are supposed to) and I firmly believe maintaining a healthy domestic farming industry is not just wise public policy, it’s a matter of national security.

The second reason why Muckville should be important to you is that what I detail in the book you can use as a roadmap in terms of working on any issue of importance locally to you. In other words, what we did you can do. I spell it all out.

So, Muckville is about informing, educating and entertaining … it provides a great deal “behind the scenes” details as to how one can influence public policy. It enables you to make better choices in terms of supporting to backing various issues or positions connected with agriculture.

Please, back my Kickstarter campaign. Spread the word to your friends. Help me to be able to afford an editor, to get this work polished and get it to a willing and eager publisher.

Link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1176629437/muckville-a-memoir-of-the-public-policy-life-of-a-0

Or face the potential consequence … a loss of farms and the eventual eradication in this country of all vegetable trees. When all the onion trees disappear how will you be able to enjoy local onions?

Just think about that.

Kickstarter campaign update!

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It’s the weekend and we are still moving forward. As of noon on Sunday I now have 23 backers and have reached 17% of my funding goal.

So, we are continuing to move forward but this is a huge weekend and week coming up!

A special shout out to all of my public policy and media/news friends. many of you are mentioned in the memoir! Very positively, for the most part, I might add. Hey, I’m just telling the truth as to what Eve and I have experienced over the years and so many of you have played a part in helping us help our community, either via your actions in your positions or via accurately telling our story and helping us get the word out!

Thanks again to all of you that have backed me so far and have spread the word! I greatly appreciate it. Just like years ago I just knew we would be successful in obtaining the eventual special earmark we obtained as part of the 2002 Farm Bill I see myself some day, in the very near future, talking about “Muckville” and sharing how others can imitate what we did in terms of grassroots activism!

This piece details just some of our public policy activities!

http://digital.turn-page.com/i/102943/3

This story deals with the 1 year anniversary of Irene, which really details what we have been struggling with:

And here is a story about Irene at the time:

Again, thank you all!!!!!

My beautiful Russian bride to be and our e-mail romance or … a fake bride to be meets a time traveling soldier from the future!

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In 2011 my onion crop was utterly destroyed by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee.

I was so desperate, looking to prod the Congress into providing a crop loss program I put a 50lb bag of onions on eBay for $150,000.

By December of 2011 I was very deep in debt and still unsure as to what I would do next. I was under a great deal of pressure and very depressed. I needed something to divert my attention.

And on December 12th, 2011, I got a spam/scam e-mail that was just what the doctor ordered.

Normally I just quickly delete such nonsense but this time I decided to respond and see where it went. Below is the entire chain of e-mails between my potential Russian bride and myself. Also included are the actual sent pictures. My friends on Facebook enjoyed this immensely as I posted all of it as it happened back in 2011. I hope you all enjoy it as well!

From: “ANGEL” <ylmyyxy@hackney.gov.uk>
Subject: You look gorgeous
Date: December 12, 2011 4:33:20 PM EST
To: <evelynf@warwick.net>
Reply-To: “ANGEL” <ylmyyxy@hackney.gov.uk>

Hello there How are you currently doing? I like your profile.

Are you wanting to check out my own private pics?

Mail me at whitmancrk846@hotmail.com and i’ll answer back with my private pictures.

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: ????
Date: December 12, 2011 5:49:18 PM EST
To: whitmancrk846@hotmail.com
Hi,

I just got this e-mail:

Hello there How are you currently doing? I like your profile.

Are you wanting to check out my own private pics?

Mail me at whitmancrk846@hotmail.com and i’ll answer back with my private pictures.

What profile did you see????
C
From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 15, 2011 5:41:01 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: HELLO!

Chris hello! I am glad to receive letter from you!!
my real name is Evgeniya! Now I am writing to you from pers-l email!
I would like to have a relationship with you although I don’t know if
that’s possible in Int. but so I’m looking just for a good man!
it is my first time I try to correspondence with man in Int. world.
I want to see real life and it is impossible to see without
person who knows all sides of the life …….
Today many used a special program for young people who wants to
work abroad. I also decided to do so and to use it. This program just helps to
register documents and gives suitable work in any state(town)of USA,
Canada or Europa (or other big country). I just need to choose.
I already started to register documents and now I need to decide in which city I want to work..
I plan to work in sphere of services or trade!
I decided to find a men and make his city to be my purpose.
I will leave my town in a few days or so. I can’t tell you everything exactly right now……
..Im 24 years old. I do hope that you will be not disappointed to meet me
in real life if we will meet
Please forgive me that my e-mail starts to be too long
I also want to see your different photos and hope to know you better!
I want you to know that I have only good intentions.

I will send you more photos, I hope you’ll like it.
I think you are interested that I don`t have a boyfriend, because all
men here look on my visual aspect and I want somebody who will look inside me.
…my pictures….S E X Y….  BUT….I’M NOT INFO TAKING NAK.. PHOTS!
I really apologize if you think now I’m not a good girl…
I hope you don’t think so.. )

I hope to see your answer soon!!

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 15, 2011 10:58:34 AM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HELLO!

Dear Evgeniya,

Thank you for your wonderful response and your fantastic pictures. You are such a beautiful woman and from the text of your e-mail you are beautiful on the inside and on the outside as well. But, I have to ask, when you say “my pictures….S E X Y….  BUT….I’M NOT INFO TAKING NAK.. PHOTS!” is that a hard and fast rule, or do you bend it a little bit? Just kidding.

A little about me, I’m 45 years old, college educated, I have an M.A. from the University of Iowa in Broadcasting and Film Studies, my specialty, the international spy and man of mystery, James Bond. I studied his ways very much. I am married 21+ years to 1 woman and the father to 2 young boys. Currently my wife wants to keep me. I am an onion farmer on a farm 1 hour north of New York City. Our crop was destroyed by a terrible flood this year and currently I am very poor. I like beer and vodka and a drink called 4 Loko. My great grandfather on my dad’s side came from Poland to start the farm and my great grand parents on my mom’s side came from the Ukraine to mine coal. We are people of the dirt and the earth. Sometimes I go to Washington DC to talk to bigwigs about the plight of the farmers. Many of the bigwigs love the farmers but currently we aren’t experiencing much love. Though my brother farms he also works as an international head hunter and has been to Russia and the Ukraine many times and speaks Russian. He also goes to Italy to vacation every winter. I am like my brother and on occasion take my family to eat at the Olive Garden restaurant.

Are you sure about the no NAK PHOTS? Just kidding.

So, what sort of man and work are you looking for? There are some men here in my neighborhood that would be interested in a beautiful person like you, but they are men of the dirt. As I said, I think my wife wants to keep me for the moment, though if she sees this e-mail she may have some second thoughts. What country are you from?

Here is a Facebook page about our weather disaster, it has some photos you can enjoy: http://www.facebook.com/savemyonionfarm?sk=wall

Well, I look forward to your response. Tell me, what is your favorite American television show? Do you like Dos Equis beer?

Talk with you soon,

Chris

From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 16, 2011 1:00:06 PM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: HELO!!Hello!
I sent you the LETTER yesterday and a PHOTOS !This time I will write you more about myself.
First of all my full name is:
E v g e n i y a
T r o i m o w aMy address here is:
Rus.Federation, Barkhatowo, Chkalowa street 3 flat 7, post code(zip) – 662524.I am 24years old (not too young I think?  )
My birthday is 7 January I’m 154 cm tall (5.5) and 52 kg weight..

I write to you from Internet Cafe!
There is no any messenger in this Cafe so we can only keep emailing each other?
ok, So now you have a representation of who I am….
I like to try new things..

What do you think about my new pictures?
kiss

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 16, 2011 3:55:13 PM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: HELO!!Hi Evgeniya,I sent you a reply yesterday but it seems you didn’t get it. I surmise that based on the text of this e-mail. So I will re-send what I sent you yesterday, based on your initial response, but first I will respond to this e-mail. I enjoyed your 2 new photos. You are a lovely lady that is rootin tootin sure! You are not too young, especially by Malaysian standards. I don’t know metrics but your height and weight sound quite good. I don’t like women who are tall enough to dunk a basketball and heavy enough to block a blitzing linebacker in American football.I greatly appreciated the kiss … my wife not so much.Chris

From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 17, 2011 7:12:17 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: write you more…
Reply-To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>

Hello!Chris,today I will tell my parents about you (or it is not necessarily  ??), I’m sure they will be happy that someone is waiting for me over there!

I think you should know more about my life and my hobbies
so you will know if we have any common interests.

I don’t know exactly my waist, hips measurements, I
don’t have a reason to measure it because I think it’s OK and my body is proportionate )) I take care of my body, I do aerobics three times a week and I go to the swimming pool twice a week.I have a younger brother! We all (me, my brother and my parents) live in two-rooms flat. As I wrote you I live in Russa. The name of my city is Barkhatowo, it’s near Krasnoyarsk city. Barkhatowo is very small and
Krasnoyarsk is a large city, the main city in our district. I graduated from Krasnoyarsk Humanitarian University two years ago. I`m a menager of the big shop, my city is small but we have a big shop here. Sometimes I attend courses in Krasnoyarsk so I have several diplomas, but you know in russia we don`t have good work opportunities. But this work help me to take care about myself. When I come to your city I think it won`t be a problem to find work on my specialization (I shall work as the simple seller). My mother is a teacher of music in the school. I also could play a piano a little. I like classic music, jazz, rock, lounge. I like all kinds of music! A little about my father: he is in a good shape because we usually make exercises together, he doesn`t work now, because he is retired already. I love both my parents and I’m happy my parents will be not alone when I leave them and will go to another country. Of course I will miss everybody but I want to have my own happiness!

do you have an International Airport in your city? please write me it’s name an code. or write me the name of the nearest INTERNATIONAL Airport to you.

If you want I can call you when I will be in Capital, it would be nice to talk to you. We don’t have international calls here. I suppose in few days I will fly to Moscov and start my trip! I hope you are not getting bored to read my emails?

ok… it’s time to finish my mail.

E.

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 17, 2011 12:24:21 PM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: write you more…Hi Evgeniya,As always I enjoy your e-mails and I GREATLY ENJOYED YOUR PHOTOS! It is good to see you are a fun of summer, winter and indoor sports and you take good care of yourself. I am assuming you are probably on a high fiber diet as well, which is good! Tell me, do you eat lots of onions. As I mentioned in my last e-mail, I am an onion farmer and it warms my heart when someone tells me they love onions. Onions are also very good for the digestive system. In fact, a cabbie in Washington DC once told me, “onions are good for flushing the inner cavities.” He was a very wise man and I was also told never to argue with cabbies in Washington DC anyway.My wife found my e-mails to you (she has spyware on my computer) and she wasn’t very happy. At first she threatened to beat me with an American baseball bat but then she got jealous and now we have been making love like rabbits. Frankly, I have needed an oxygen tank to satisfy her the last day. So good thing you didn’t send any NAKE photos, who knows what would have happened to me. I might have been killed, by violence or by violent love, it’s hard to tell with her.As I said I am a farmer and our crop was destroyed this year. If you go to this Facebook page you can see the sad story:http://www.facebook.com/savemyonionfarm?sk=wall Do you have any wealthy friends that can send me money? I am thousands of dollars in the hole and need lots of money and I hear in Russia there are some rich people that can help. Do you know any of them that can help me?

As I mentioned I live near NYC. I am not near any airports though. I am near some bus stations, but they are very dirty and the bad men who drink lots of whiskey and smoke meth and who like to pee in the corners sleep there. You don’t want to come there.

I have a Masters Degree in film studies and studied James Bond and have been on tv many times. I talk to politicians about onions and rivers and dirt and things of the earth. And I beg for money. What are your degrees in. I can get you a job on the farm but I don’t think you would like it much. It is hot and stinky and my dad would want to hug you all the time. He is always trying to hug the pretty news reporters. Sometimes they hug them, sometimes they don’t. He offers to let them pick rocks but they just laugh. You wouldn’t laugh at my dad, would you? He’s just 100% Polish, he can’t help it.

I’ve included a couple of pictures and if you go to the Facebook page you can see many more of the farm.

I think your body is well proportioned. Eat more onions!

Talk with you soon,

Chris

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From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 18, 2011 6:25:04 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: I wrote you not all…hello, ok!! :)I write to you thefifth letter.. I hope you read these letters?  sorry, I just want to add few things… I think last time I wrote you not all my thoughts… My mind is always in a mess when I write you because it’s hard to write everything to somebody who is so far away. I don’t remember if I wrote last time I’ve never been married, don’t have kids but I love them and they love me! I And I want to tell you that I always wanted to find an older man. Why? I have two answers.. Firstly, I think older men are much more serious and they can take care of me, they are more experienced in life and can teach me many things. Have you heard a saying “The older the violin, the sweeter the music”? I believe in it… I think I’m not that young already but I don’t have much experience in life and I want to have someone who has more experience in life then me. Secondly… maybe I’m not right about it… but I want to be honest I’ve always had such worry… if I marry a man nearly my age… and after some years I will become not that young and beautiful… I think it’s more hard for a woman to be attractive then for a man… and he will find a younger mistress and I will become very miserable. I don’t want my man to be unfaithful. I know I can be faithful to my man and I will never cheat on him.
But this is just my worries. This is not my goal. Please tell me if you think you will love your woman at any age and not find a younger one? Can you be faithful? Also I want to tell you that I learned english in university, so I don`t use any translators, and I can speak english as good as I write on it. I hope we will have no problems in communications. I feel that you are very nice man I really want to meet you. If you will not like me or something else we can be just friends. I hope I will get my work visa soon in Moscow and all documents and I come to you! I don’t have any area limits with this visa so I can work where I want. I don`t know exact day of my arrival, but as soon as I will know I will write it to you. You know, I’m just trying to be honest with you and write you all my thoughts on different issues. Please be always honest with me also….I am sending you my best pic! I am sorry for my strange attitude. My thought are so contradictive about us. This pic was taken by my girlfriend. I want you to see all of my body so you know how I look and don’t get too much surprised after we meet. I understand that it is important to all men and you’re not the exception. I respect men’s attitude. Once again, I am sorry and I hope you don’t get me wrong for sending this photo to you. I have no more similar pics! sorry!I will write you later, I will look if I have more nice photos to send you. Have a good day!Evgeniya

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 18, 2011 4:04:46 PM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: I wrote you not all…Dear Evgeniya,As always I enjoy your e-mails and your wonderful photos. I sent you a reply yesterday with some photos of me, did you get them? If you didn’t I can re-send them. I am going to include the text of my e-mail below incase you didn’t get it.I read and cherish every one of your letters. It’s okay about your mind, my mind is a mess too, but mostly from drinking too much beer and 4 Loko. I am very happy you like older men and kids, because as I mentioned I am 45 and currently married and the father of two boys. In my last e-mail I wrote how my wife discovered our e-mails via the spyware she has on my computer. She is not happy with me today. She is not very big on the idea of you coming into our lives. Do you watch the HBO tv show “Big Love?” It’s about a crazy man with many wives at once. Why would one man want many wives at once? I do not know for sure, except that his heart is so big he can’t help but share it with more than one woman … and he’s crazy too. I tied to tell my wife how good an idea this is but then she chased me with a frying pan.Currently, as I mentioned Evgeniya, I am very poor. I am a man of the dirt, I grow onions, and the river flooded me this year. This page on Facebook tells the story with sad pictures and sad stories on tv and in the press. Did you watch them? Do you like and eat onions? A woman who loves me must love onions. She must be willing to smell like an onion … all over.

http://www.facebook.com/savemyonionfarm?sk=wall

I can love a woman of any age, except 80 years old and older. That’s too old for me. I would not look for a younger mistress, I promise you that. I even told that to my wife this morning when I talked about you. And that’s the truth. I don’t think my wife is going to leave me or share me with you. She’s old fashioned in that way. She’s also a coupon clipper.

You said, “Firstly, I think older men are much more serious and they can take care of me, they are more experienced in life and can teach me many things.” What sort of things are you talking about? Love making techniques, how to parallel park, how to do credit default swaps, because there are some things I know more about than others.

I know you are looking for a man to take care of you, but currently in America we don’t have the same form of universal health care as in other western nations. We don’t have a public option with free health care for all under Obamacare, it’s just like Romneycare, which Mitt Romney was for, before we was against it. So now we have to depend on jobs with health insurance and my lovely wife currently has the job with the health insurance. So, if you come here, and she gets mad and leaves me, that will leave me with no money and no health insurance. That will mean that I will have to leave America and go back to Russia with you. So, is there space in your apartment for me in Russia to move in with you? Can you take care of an older man who would never leave you? I am a hard working man of the dirt who would love you at any age. I have some digestive issues as well as some issues regarding germs and some drinking issues as well. I am just being honest with you.

I love these new pictures so much. Do you have any more, especially like the black & white one? Please more like that? I want to see all of your body too. Men do tend to like that. By the way, what does your friend look like? Is she as hot as you?

As always I enjoy our e-mails and I look forward to the next one!

Chris

From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 19, 2011 7:26:08 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: …will be lucky to meet you…
Reply-To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>Hello!!
Chris, thank that you continue write me!!
I like to think about you and about our meeting!Now my parents don`t worry about me as before because now they know you are a kind man and can help me if I will need your help. You can show me your city and tell me about the life over there! I think I didn’t write you I like cooking. I will cook RUScuisine for you! Pelmeni, vareniki, blini, borsch, okroshka! You will like it! Besides I like Italian and Mexican. I love spaghetti and pizzza!!!!! mmm…I like bananas! I can’t live without it! I like Mexican food because it’s very spicy, although I don’t cook Mexican dishes too often. I’ve been told my cooking is very tasty! I like to cook cakes. my favorite is cheese-cake with raspberry! You know… when I talk about food I’m getting hungry ) I eat everything and I’m not on any diets but usually I don’t eat after 7 pm. This helps me not to be fat! I can cook many tasty things for you when we will meet! You know.. almost all Russian men are like bears! They are so rude, they can’t be nice and polite, they don’t want to have a family. I think you are not like them. I like to go to the cinema! I really like to watch a good movie with my friends. 50 percents of movies in our cinemas are Russian and about 50 American. actually my favorite actor is Matt Damon and I like all movies with him. I’ve watched “Adjustment Bureau” Have you seen it?
could you recommend me any American movie so I can watch it? What is your favorite movie and actor? Soooo… what else could I say? I have a driver’s licence but I don’t have a car. My father has a russian car and he gives me his car sometimes. I don`t like only cinema! I like theatre and opera too, I like ballet. I am dancing modern dances a little! Unfortunately there is only one small theatre in my city and there is nothing interesting. If I want to go to ballet, for example, I should go to Krasnoyarsk, there sometimes can come famous Russian actors and dancers but I can’t go there often because it’s quite expensive. By, the way, one thing else about my trip. Agency will help me to rent a room to stay near my future work. I will share this room with a few girls yet, it is usual procedure and it helps to pay the rent (it will be cheaper). And I have a question, is it normal if we will like each other may be it is possible to live together?of course if you or somebody doesn’t mind. As you know I will stay there for three months but If I will like there I will be able to prolong my trip. I think I will be able to improve my english and you can learn Russian and I think it will help us to learn each other better,who knows. I had no sex during one year..  Do you have a big wide bed?(joke).And now I have some good news for you! After sending this email I will go home, take my packed bags and go to Krasnoyarsk! From there I will fly to Moscow! I`m really afraid to fly on a plane! I hope my plane will not fall down! I’m really afraid! It is several hours from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow. when I come to Moscow and settle down I will write you an email. I hope today I will be able to write you. Please don’t worry about me if you don’t hear from me today or tomorrow, that will mean I was not able to find a place to stay and I will write you after tomorrow. In Moscow I will spend a week or maybe even more, I should make all final arrangements with my documents and after it I will come to you! I’ve never been to Moscow before and I’m so nervous now… I’ve never went somewhere alone and now I should go alone to such big city! I really want to talk to you by phone, but as I don`t have a mobile phone, I will find a public phone in Moscow with international calls. you know… I had such great desire to start my trip already.. and now I feel myself like a newborn kitten who has even didn’t open it’s eyes… I just want to hug my mommy and don’t want to go anywhere… but I know that’s my dream to start a new life and I will try to turn in to reality! Soon you will hear some news from me from Moscow!!!!!!!! hope I’m only for you! love you and kisses!Evgeniya

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 19, 2011 1:48:25 PM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: …will be lucky to meet you…Hi Evgeniya,As always I greatly enjoy your detailed e-mails and your beautiful pictures. But I am very sad. I don’t think you are reading my e-mails too much. I am telling you details about my life and I don’t think you are reading them or taking them too seriously. Or maybe you are too much in love. Or maybe you are drinking too much vodka, I don’t know. Let me re-cap, I am 45 years old, I am married to a possessive woman named Eve and the father of two boys. I am an onion farmer, a simple man of the dirt, well, not totally simple, I am also an educated man who went to the University of Iowa who has a Master of Arts from there and really loves the Iowa Hawkeyes. But my onion crop was destroyed this year by a terrible flood, this website explains what happened:http://www.facebook.com/savemyonionfarm?sk=wall I am very poor, very, very poor, I owe the government over $200,000 and one day they will send the men with no necks and black sunglasses to take me away. Until then I live on credit cards and meet with the political big shots and ask them to help us. And I drink heavily. And I don’t eat breakfast and I enter Publishers Clearinghouse sweepstakes and the McDonalds Monopoly contest too! But I won’t collect bottles and cans along the road. I do love my wife very much, she puts up with my crap and she clips my toenails.I asked Eve my wife if it was okay if we take in a beautiful 26 year old Russian woman to be like a second wife, to cook and work at a department store and eat bananas and sleep together in our big bed, but my wife just laughed and said no. I cried, and I cried, and I cried, and I begged and I begged, and I cried, and I said “PLEASE,” and she said NO!” Then she left the room, and grabbed my gun, AND SHE POINTED IT AT ME AND SAID SHE WOULD SHOOT MY MANHOOD OFF IF SUCH A THING EVER HAPPENED! Then she laughed like Hannibal Lector from “Silence of the Lambs” and read a book. Now I am scared. So if you come, and she chases me out, I MUST LEAVE WITH YOU! Can you take me back to Moscow? Can you take care of me? I can work on a farm very hard! Are there any onion farms near where you live? I can cook too and I promise I will not become fat for you! I will be your sex slave and do your laundry and mow the lawn and do all sorts of odd jobs. Typically my feet don’t smell but I have an “inny” belly button that does tend to collect lint. I hope you don’t view that as a turn off.Plus I want to be totally honest with you, I have some other defects I must share with you. For one, I’ve only recently started to wet the bed. Not often, just on occasion, when I get agitated or excited. Or drunk. My wife refers to it as “a touch of the dab.” She actually finds it attractive, she thinks of me as her little puppy dog. All you need to do is put some newspaper around me. Also, I have some issues with warts. It goes back to my college days when I sowed my wild oats. Don’t worry, i don’t think you can catch them, and if you do we in America have some pretty powerful ointments that take care of the itch.

I love the movies. I spend most of my days when I’m not working watching tv or movies. My favorite actor, Ernest Borgnine. Any movie with him in it is a classic. I did watch the “Adjustment Bureau” and it was okay but I usually don’t like documentaries. I love American tv, including “The Brady Bunch” and “Gilligans Island” classic high drama like that. Opera confuses me too much.

You said you will be living for a while with a bunch of other girls. Any chances you will be having pillow fights? If so, can you take some pictures of that and send them?

I do have a driver’s license and a minivan and a truck but what I love to drive the most is my parent’s John Deere lawn mower. When I mow the lawn I will drink three or four beers or one to two 4 Lokos. Then I will sing American rock music like a madman. I will also threaten to jump the large drainage ditch to make my friend Donald happy. Speaking of music, do you like the Russian trololo guy? We in America love him! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1orMXD_Ijbs

You have great taste in food and sexy taste in clothes. Your poses are better than the Monkees tv show! Please send more pictures! And don’t worry about the plane, it will not fall down, this link from Wiki on aerodynamics will explain why:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamics

Why on earth didn’t you have sex for a year? Can we talk about this more? How did you spell relief girl?  Feel free to open up between us!

Well, I will send another e-mail with more pictures. You have a safe trip. My wife is now mad at me but if you can’t stay with me there are lots of farmers around here who would be very interested in getting to know you more, that’s for sure! I do think you are very sweet!

Chris

From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 19, 2011 3:57:04 PM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: …will be lucky to meet you…

Hey Evgeniya,

I sent you a reply an hour or so ago (see below) but I also wanted to send you some photos and a link to my YouTube page. My YouTube page has my many media appearances about my farm, including some with some bigwigs, as well as some college videos too which may make you laugh. Some of them I am drinking in, some I am sober. My wife won’t let me upload the ones with the naughty words. She is such a babushka.

Here is my YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisPawelski?feature=mhee

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From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 20, 2011 5:21:21 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: good weather..I am very glad to write you again!!! I in Capital of our country!!I was in a travel agency, all my documents are ready. Now they are checking a possible flight to your air port. They will give me all information (date and time of my arrival, etc.) tomorrow I think. Tomorrow I will continue to see M o s c o w, like a tourist. In Moscov there are so many different museums! Here good weather, about -1`C, but I feel myself so alone.  Everything here is very expensive, not like in my city… Everywhere are big crowds of people! Everyone rush somewhere and I don`t know anybody here. I feel uncomfortable because of it but I hope I will be OK soon. You can’t imagine how happy I am because I already started my trip to you! I still cannot believe I’ve done it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Something amazing occurs inside of me after I have received your first letter! My heart lost calm since then. But it’s interesting that it does not want to find it again! Every my cell shouts about how it wants to see you. I want to see and kiss you! My sun, you know perhaps, but I’ll tell you that you are the clearest man in the world. My sun! I cannot even think without you, I become silly! I do not want even to breath without you! I need you as an air. It’s so incredibly stuffy without you, and I can really breathe of you! I’m finishing my letter and I want to thank you for hope you offer me.P.SPlease CONFIRM the name of int. airport (and his code) and be sure you wrote it right.

kiss you,Evgeniya

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 20, 2011 8:25:23 AM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: good weather..Dear, dear Evgeniya,It seems two of my e-mails must have passed you by. I hope you did not miss them, like a passing ship in the night. In the first I commented on your wonderful e-mail, on the foods you enjoy, the movies you like, your driving, and I shared my bed wetting issues, my warts on my private parts, and other issues. In the second e-mail I sent some pictures of me as well as a link to my YouTube page which contains videos I have either appeared in or made. You will either cry tears of sadness or joy, or be horribly confused. Here is the link:http://www.youtube.com/user/ChrisPawelski?feature=mheeTo recap, I am a 45 year old man who is married over 21 years to a wonderful woman who currently wants to keep me, and is the father of two young, good, smart boys, who are always hungry. I am an onion farmer, and man of the dirt, the soil, the mud. I pick weeds and rocks and most importantly, onions. I love onions, their skin and their scent. Woman who smell like onions are very sexy to me. Do you smell like onions? This season a Hurricane came and caused a flood which destroyed my crop. I lost all my onions and now I am thousands of dollars in the hole. I am poor and very sad. This page explains it all:http://www.facebook.com/savemyonionfarm?sk=wallI don’t live near any cities nor near any airports. I live near some bus stations but they are very dirty and only bad men who do drugs live and sleep there. You would not want to go there.

I asked my wife if you could live with us like one big happy family but she said no, she already has one loafer too many she has to take care of and that is me. My wife is a good woman and I don’t want to get her mad at me or she will throw me out of my own house and then my kids won’t see me anymore, I’ll have no place to live and I’ll start to be like the smelly people at the bus station who talk to themselves.

But, I have a bigger secret I must protect. A secret that is so important it involves the whole world. Not just our world, but many worlds. I know it sounds confusing, but I can explain. It’s a secret I have been carrying for many years, and it has been crushing my soul, and I must finally share it with someone. Even my dearest wife does not know. But I know, from our few e-mails, that you are very special and I can share my secret with you. Can I do that, can I share a special secret … a dangerous secret … with you and only you … and can you keep and tell no one? EVEN MY WIFE AND CHILDREN DO NOT KNOW THIS!

Oh, I am bursting inside and I have to finally tell someone after so many years and I feel you are that special someone. I am a time travel. I am a soldier, from the year 2120. My rank is major, I am a leader of men. I’m not supposed to be here, in the past, but the human race is at war with cybernetic life forms from a distant planet in our galaxy who have the power of time travel. We have stolen their technology and adapted it. In the course of one battle, 20 years ago, I was thrown back in time, in what is called a “Jefferson temporal curve.” And here I am. At least 15 of these cybernetic creatures were thrown back in time with me. 3 of them posses the technology to get back and I am trying to find those 3 and kill the rest. I have taken out 7 over the years and have severely disabled 2. I have one in my possession. Plus I am doing everything in power to not contaminate or pollute the timeline. I have a device which enables me to communicate, in a limited way and in short bursts, with my timeline. The problem is that my device requires massive amounts of energy. I have to steal energy from un obvious sources to mask my energy use. For example, Fukushima, I was able to divert power from there to power my device before the melt down. I was never a good student of history when I was in school and truth be told, much was lost after the 3rd World War, but I do know basic facts about my past, your present and future. I’m trying to lay as low as possible, to stay out of history’s way, and to take out those cybernetic bastards that come my way. I love my 20th/21th century wife and family but I miss my 22nd century family. No, I wan’t married, but I miss my men, I miss my parents, I miss my world, and I want to take it back from these invaders. “F”: these bastards!

But my dear, I do not want to put you at risk, or your great great great grandchildren at risk, despite the love that may be between us. Further, if the cybernetic life forms recognize that you are special to me they may target you for elimination. That being said, do you know any hand to hand combat techniques or how to discharge small weapons? Do you have a cat? Cats can sense them, even from great distances. Watch your back … trust no one.

I need you to stay safe, in the country. As much as this breaks my heart to say this … but I need you to find a good man to help you make many babies, to make more babies, to prepare for the invasion … to fight for the survival of humanity.

Your soldier, the poor dirt farmer,

Chris

From: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Date: December 21, 2011 6:02:07 AM EST
To: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Subject: 27,December!
Reply-To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>

Chris hello! excuse me that I could not write to you earlier….. I’m writing to you as soon as I can!!!!!! I was busy with many arrangements!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! also I had to repeat some words for my English test and I finally passed my test today morning!!!
today I was in the travel agency and I received an information about my trip! I will be very thankful to you if you can meet me at the Airport!

I will arrive to you on Tuesday, 27 December I shall inform number of flight, the terminal and an arrival time probably Sunday or on Monday. more in detail look at the end of the letter. I copied the information of agency

I hope so much it’s a good day for you to meet me!

I am so glad to see that we are almost near our goal,and our meeting wait for us. I think I will call you from airport before my flight. You know I booked tickets on Tuesday, 27 December flight and I will buy them before my intervew. People from embassy must be sure that I am not going to stay illegally, so I need to buy roundtrip tickets (with returning date). I wanted to ask you about electronic tickets but they tell that I can’t use because it is their businees to arrange all travel details and they have some extra money from all the things, you see it is just business.I think that you will be able to help me because I don’t know anybody here and only you are my hope now, I think everything in your hands and I believe that you will not leave me here alone.please borrow some money. I am sure I will be able to return all your money back after a few weeks, I will get salary and I will collect the sum I own from you. To be fair I am not sure I know what to say because I hate to ask but now I have no different way, you see.Please help me it is only money and much more important if we will meet in person I will do my best, you won`t be disappoined. I see that it sounds a little crazy but I can’t believe that in the worst case I have to return home,they all will laugh at me.I think it rests with you to decide and I feel that you will help me because you are kind. I have about 300 US dollars yet and I think I need about 980 US dollars from your side with all travel needs and living here till my flight! (I had 1180 dollars, but flight from Krasnoyarsk, opening visa, medical insurance and all travel needs costed about 800 dollars). For truth I did not expect I will need to buy roundtrip tickets, but now I see that its a very strict rule. I was sure that my mom will help me becasue she promised but now she sent letter that it is possible only in a few months or so because of family problems.and she can’t send transfer now.I was in the bank to try to ask them about loan but they tell I have to have something to stay them and I have nothing to stay because I have only a few dress and things,some perfume and it is all I have,and small gift for you from russia with love.

please send it today by Western Union or Money Gram I will write you details:!!! send it to russia, Evgeniya Trofimowa !!!!This is my full name!

Also I’ve got an advice to send you a scan copy of my passport in case you need to confirm my details.

this is my full name used in all official documents. They said this is all info you need. But please for any case write down more info. The address where I’m staying: Bolshaya Yakimanka, 23-94 , post code (zip) 109017. I rent a small room In an apartment of an old policeman here, it’s cheaper then hotel.The address of the closest Western Union (or MoneyGram) here is:

“Alfa Bank” Moscow , 109017, Bolshaya Yakimanka – 19, stroenie 1

I have some money but it’s not enough to complete my trip. Please send me 980 US dollars and I will complete my trip! After it please write me all details about the transfer –

your FULL NAME and Money Transfer Control Number.!!

I will call you as soon as I receive it. When I receive the money I will pay for my trip and only then the embassy will put all final stamps on my documents. I’ve bought you few souvenirs with Russian attributes!!! I’m sure you will like them! If you need something more please let me know, they are not expensive. Also I bought two boxes of Russian chocolate! I hope so much when I come to you we will like each other! You are already very special to me! Please when I come to you tell me more about you and your country! I will listen to everything you tell me and I will do everything you tell me! I trust you really much! I hope you will not do something to hurt my feelings…. I think you are really good man. I will never do anything to hurt yours!!! By statistics Moscow is the second most expensive city in the world after Tokyo… everything is so expensive here… and I have to pay for my rent and food and buy tickets.. please help me.. Sorry if I missed something or didn’t comment please let me know I was so busy with with all preparations!!!!

Evgeniya

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From: Chris Pawelski <evep@warwick.net>
Date: December 21, 2011 8:05:15 AM EST
To: Evgeniya <kularevgen_86@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 27,December!My Dear Evgeniya,I don’t know how else to say this, my cover appears to be blown. Chrono physics or temporal mechanics was never a strong suit of mine but it was imperative that U.S. intelligence services not become aware of me, of who I am, where I am from and most importantly, what technology and knowledge of the future I posses. It could change the entire timeline, and not for the good. Well, backscatter from our e-mails have been collected from the NSA and they are on to me. Further, I was just attacked from one of the cybernetic life forms last night. I took him out, but, when I downloaded the information in his central processing core I found out something very disturbing my love … HE HAD A DETAILED FILE ABOUT YOU! INCLUDING YOUR CURRENT WHEREABOUTS! I KNEW WHERE YOU WERE BEFORE I RECEIVED YOUR E-MAIL THIS MORNING!So, the U.S. intelligence apparatus is after me now and the cybernetic life forms are after you. I’ve now killed 8. I’ve severely disabled 2, I can’t destroy them but they are in a place that can do no harm (and cannot corrupt the timeline). As I said I have one in my possession. That leaves 4, I think. I’m not totally sure. But I’m pretty sure at least 2 are in Eastern Europe right now. They are there attempting to obtain certain minerals needed to build what’s called a “Kennsington Device.” It’s a weapon, a very powerful weapon, one that makes matter unstable, and at short range can destroy a city block. I have to stop them. They need to obtain materials here on the eastern seaboard of the United States and it’s here that Ill take them out, recapture the equipment needed to rebuild the time traveling device, and go back home. But I need to stay ahead of the various U.S. intelligence agencies, who are going to be watching me now. Remember I mentioned I have one of the cybernetic bastards disabled. Well, I forgot to mention, they are shape shifters, they can assume the form or appearance of anyone, your mother, your best friend, your lover, even you. Well, here’s my plan, I’m going to re-program this one to look exactly like me. Then, I’m going to program it to think that it is me, with specific instructions. When the various U.S. intelligence agencies come to take me in he’ll try to get away, but it will be a half hearted effort … he’ll let them take them in. Oh, it will be on the news, local onion farmer taken in for questioning, but they’ll take my “twin” in to a secure location but he’ll give them NOTHING! And I’ll slip away.Here’s what i need you to do. As I’ve mentioned many times, in my cover as an onion farmer I am very poor, all my cash resources are gone. So, I need you to send me that $300 you mentioned in your e-mail. I need it ASAP because I expect the CIA at my door any minute. I have a secure account you can wire it to if you agree to send it. Then, my love, YOU MUST GO DARK. The cybernetic life forms are coming for you. And, if the NSA finds you a valuable asset they may send agents after you as well. Trust no one. I am so sorry I brought you into this. I was just curious at first who saw my profile when you sent that first e-mail. I thought you might be one of those cybernetic life forms playing games with me. Little did I know you would be my Russian “flower.”

I must go dark now … I won’t be able to respond to anymore of your e-mails for fear of tracking by U.S. intelligence or those cybernetic bastards. If I get back to the future I will tell your great great great great great grandchildren how beautiful and brave you were.

Your soldier onion farmer,

Chris

Fantastic article!

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I forgot to post the link to this fantastic article in the Warwick Advertiser about Assemblywoman Annie Rabbitt’s proclamation. I am still overwhelmed by it!

http://warwickadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130612/NEWS01/130619969/Rabbitt-honors-Black-Dirt-advocate

Thank you Annie

I’m on the news … again!

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As Tropical Storm Andrea targeted our region I was interviewed by intrepid News 12 reporter Carolyn Rowe regarding the potential impacts of the storm. As I told her, anything under 5 inches we should be okay, but if we go above 5 or 7 inches I sadly expect the Wallkill to flood.

And that river should be able to handle 5 or 6 inches. It is a disgrace that it can’t.

Here is the link for the story on the internet:

http://westchester.news12.com/news/orange-county-farmers-worry-about-flooding-1.5430157

Here it is on YouTube: