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    From Alexander Koryagin@2:221/6 to All on Fri Feb 3 08:36:36 2023


    Hi, All!

    "I love the farm, you know, and I'm glad to be here. It's just that sometimes it feels a little dull.
    ....
    It's kind of hard to get excited about having the key to the root cellar".

    What is a root cellar?

    Bye, All!
    Alexander Koryagin

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to Alexander Koryagin on Thu Feb 2 22:51:29 2023
    Hello Alexander,

    "I love the farm, you know, and I'm glad to be here. It's just that sometimes it feels a little dull.
    ....
    It's kind of hard to get excited about having the key to the root
    cellar".

    What is a root cellar?

    A root cellar is a place to "keep" food stuffs.

    When I was young our family had a property out in the boonies. It was old then and I doubt it exists anymore. There was no power lines going there then.

    It had a root cellar that wasn't much more than a hole in the side of a small hill with a door on it. It had a few shelves that we kept our canned goods and a few things like potatoes and dried meat and fish.

    It was dark and it wouldn't get to cold in cold weather or too hot in warm weather.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    ... Disclaimer: Advice void where prohibitted by common sense!
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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Alan Ianson on Fri Feb 3 10:16:58 2023
    Alan Ianson:

    A root cellar is a place to "keep" food stuffs.

    Probabaly so called because trees above would shoot their
    roots through the cellar walls...

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  • From Anton Shepelev@2:221/6 to Ardith Hinton on Thu Feb 23 19:20:46 2023
    Ardith Hinton:
    Anton Shepelev:
    Alan Ianson:

    A root cellar is a place to "keep" food stuffs.

    Probabaly so called because trees above would shoot
    their roots through the cellar walls...

    Hmm... I didn't see a smiley there.

    I am derailing the thread with crazy self-invented
    etymologies. Root cellars are named after what they
    store, which is root vegetables, such as potatoes.

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