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March 19, 2026 Are We Ready for Spring Training?

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  In six weeks we'll have our answer dear readers. This photo has two people walking on a surface that looks like mowed Poa annua grass. Do you see them? I don't see golf clubs or caddies which makes me skeptical. We'll find out and let you know.     Let's talk about Spring Training. It happens every year for Baseball Teams; it occurs every fall for Hockey Teams and Football Teams and it happens every year in Canada for golfers, tennis players and many others.     My readers know me as having had 77 seasons of getting ready for burby, baseball, hockey, skiing, golf, tennis, squash and finally golf again for the last 40 years. My sons Greg and Rob know this and have poked fun at me while I tightened trusses and elastoplas bandages onto arms, legs, wrists, shoulders and spine to allow my passion for sports to play out on ice, snow, wood, concrete, grass and good old plain dirt. I didn't need these bands of assistance all the time, but often enough to be known as a...

A Post from TGLF refiled from 2002 My Sales Experiences 1963 to 1998

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  The Garfield Legacy Fund Significant Sales Experiences 1965 - 1998, May 29, 2002 -  February 08, 2023        My Significant Sales Experience (May 29, 2002)   My son Rob triggered this thought: 'What were your significant sales experience Dad?'  I answered with, 'That's a tough one Rob, let me think about that for awhile.' I immediately cracked open a new Word file and saved it on the desktop as YSSE. On a rainy day in May following several weeks of procrastination, I've considered a few of these memories for your reading enjoyment. My former partner Duncan McGregor has agreed that this paper would be a benefit to any sales person plying their trade in the lithographing business; indeed, he offered his recollection of these events and added one more horror story to my thoughts regarding the one whose itch is contained in the following material. Please read on, and know, that I have not included his comments into this report, as much as I apprecia...