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Hope you're doing well, Fred. Soon every day will get easier.
Besides Frenchy, you could maybe get an ant farm.
Then as you watch the ants, remember farmers don't wash the tobacco leaves since the plan is to dry them, not make them wetter. Besides the neighborhood dog problem, these little guys, the ants, gotta take a dump somewhere and they certainly aren't allowed to do it in the small confines of the highly disciplined nest.
And just like us... they often don't have to go until they are in the most awkward area... example the highest part of a leaf somewhere. Luckily they have something handy and outdoorsy to wipe with.
Remember... Tobacco = Phooey.
P.S. Leave a little leaf or paper in one corner of the ant farm.
Yeah, I know I'm demented.
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