Walking his dog Jacquie to the Agassiz-Harrison Observer newsroom office, Walt Hardinge found a four-leaf clover. Looking at the collection of foliage in his hand, it91裸聊视频檚 clear he found more than one.

91裸聊视频淪even actually,91裸聊视频� Hardinge said, sorting through the clovers on a bench in Pioneer Park. 91裸聊视频淚 just counted them before I got to the door.91裸聊视频�

Most of them were the famed four-leaf clovers, a harbinger of luck and preternatural sight. But a few were five-leaf clovers, which Hardinge likes to call 91裸聊视频淩ose Clovers.91裸聊视频� And others were what the 58-year-old Agassiz resident has nicknamed 91裸聊视频淧apillon Clovers,91裸聊视频� or butterfly clovers.

91裸聊视频淭hey91裸聊视频檙e usually the ones that have four leaves that are almost the same size and then a tiny one, like this one here,91裸聊视频� he said, holding up the clover. 91裸聊视频淏y the time you press them and they dry, they look like a butterfly. I can91裸聊视频檛 say that91裸聊视频檚 an official name or anything, but it sounded good at the time.91裸聊视频�

In the last month or so, Hardinge has found more than 219 clovers with four leaves or more.

91裸聊视频淚 find the darn things everywhere,91裸聊视频� he said. 91裸聊视频淚 went to the mailbox the other day 91裸聊视频� and I found one. Not even looking.91裸聊视频�

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Although Hardinge91裸聊视频檚 clover boom has only been recent, his history with four-leaf clovers started long ago, when he was an 11-year-old boy growing up in Scarborough, Ont.

One day, he was sitting on the grass in front of a neighbour91裸聊视频檚 house, brushing his hands through a patch of clover.

91裸聊视频淚 thought to myself, I wonder if four-leaf clovers actually exist,91裸聊视频� he recalled. 91裸聊视频淎nd just for the heck of it, I started brushing my hands through the clovers and seeing if I could find one. Sure enough, I actually did.91裸聊视频�

Hardinge ran inside to press his lucky find, and over the course of the next few weeks found 10 more. He pressed all his clovers in a copy of the Guinness Book of World Records, and then forgot about finding clovers for a while.

Over the course of the next 47 years, in rough points during Hardinge91裸聊视频檚 life, he would think back to the 11 four-leaf clovers he had once found 91裸聊视频� they became lost at some point during childhood 91裸聊视频� but didn91裸聊视频檛 expect to find anymore.

Then, in the spring of this year, Hardinge and his fianc茅 took Jacquie for a walk to the recreation centre. Just like he did 47 years ago, Hardinge brushed his hands through the clovers in the grass. And just like that, Hardinge found another four-leaf clover.

Since then, Hardinge has been finding groups of four-, five- and even six-leaf clovers. (On May 11, Hardinge found his first eight-leaf clover.) But with all that luck, Hardinge decided it was time to give some of it away. He has been handing out groups of three clovers to strangers and friends in an effort to share the good fortune.

91裸聊视频淚t91裸聊视频檚 amazing the joy I see in people91裸聊视频檚 faces when I give them one,91裸聊视频� he said.

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Hardinge plans to keep 11 four-leaf clovers for himself, to replace the ones he lost, and 11 91裸聊视频渆xotics,91裸聊视频� but the rest he is giving away.

His father had a saying 91裸聊视频渢hat life was a little bit like a big pond. And if you91裸聊视频檙e brave, you will cast a pebble into that pond and see where the ripples go,91裸聊视频� he explained.

91裸聊视频淚 think this is my own way of throwing a pebble into a pond, only now I91裸聊视频檝e got about 200 of them that I91裸聊视频檓 giving way.

91裸聊视频淭wo hundred pebbles I91裸聊视频檓 throwing into that gigantic pond. And we91裸聊视频檒l see what happens.91裸聊视频�

grace.kennedy@ahobserver.com
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