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post #4531 of 4983
4/15/09 at 11:10pm

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About a year ago I volunteered to be in charge of the "irrigation committee" of our HOA. What a thankless job. I have to deal with the Boise Project - US Bureau of Reclamation Boise Project - Idaho and Oregon , our pump maintenance contractor, and our landscaping contractor.

No pond critters. The pond is drained in the off-season, roughly Oct-Mar.
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post #4532 of 4983
4/16/09 at 2:36am

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mic test 1..2..3..4..
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post #4533 of 4983
4/16/09 at 6:35am
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So sections of Idaho run a risk of being a desert? That's surprising.

Wonder how it ever got the name "New York Canal?"
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post #4534 of 4983
4/16/09 at 7:07am

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Well there's water but the precipitation stops from late spring to early autumn. You couldn't grow crops unless they were irrigated. Contrast this to the eastern US where it pretty much rains every month even through the summer.

Southern Idaho doesn't risk being a desert: it IS a desert.

But even deserts can have major rivers running through them. Think of Egypt and the Nile.

The NY Canal had several financial crisis during construction. To secure adequate funding, local real estate promotors sold a bunch of shares to NY bankers on Wall Street. These shares were sold in a burst of brown-nose advertising as shares in a "New York Canal District". Does this remind you of any financial situation at present?

The NY Canal is an inspiring piece of engineering, snaking across two counties purely by gravity. Must have had some great surveyors on the project - no GPS back in 1900.
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post #4535 of 4983
4/16/09 at 9:31am
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Originally Posted by Dennis Nicholls
Well there's water but the precipitation stops from late spring to early autumn. You couldn't grow crops unless they were irrigated. Contrast this to the eastern US where it pretty much rains every month even through the summer.

I don't know any other way. That's what I get for being ignorant of other places, etc.

Surveyors are cool dudes. Quite a skill.
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post #4536 of 4983
4/16/09 at 11:46am

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I'm thinking of taking a drive through part of Nevada tomorrow....

Nevada is so strange. How many town chambers-of-commerce would list "brothels" as a type of business? Gives members-in-good-standing a whole new meaning.

Wells Chamber of Commerce & California Trail Interpretive Center
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post #4537 of 4983
4/17/09 at 1:50pm
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MT & MR TW 2008

Frank Langell & Michael Sheen F/N 2008

Wes Bentley & Winona Ryder The Last Word 2008

Magda Apanowicz Caprica 2009

DG & VH R 1974-78
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post #4538 of 4983
4/18/09 at 7:52am

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Friday had the second highest water flow over Shoshone Falls of the last decade. There's a dilemma for photographers: more water means more mist to obscure the photograph.



Turning the camera gets more of the mist-free water downstream into focus but crops the width of the falls.

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post #4539 of 4983
4/20/09 at 9:02pm

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By the way, today is Dukie's 3rd birthday.
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post #4540 of 4983
4/21/09 at 10:11am
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And my dear daughter's 23rd birthday!

How nice.
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post #4541 of 4983
4/24/09 at 2:36pm
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Vera Farmiga & KB NBtT 2008

KH & AH BW 2009

KW TR 2008

Emma Roberts & Jake T. Austin HfD 2009

Jean Rochefort & Anna Galiena THH 1990
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post #4542 of 4983
4/25/09 at 3:49am

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Here's a really strange statistic which I'm having difficulty getting my mind wrapped around:
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Not only are the northern Rockies still cold and snowy, the Colorado Rockies and the Wasatch Range are preparing for another winter storm this weekend. Up to a half foot of snow will fall throughout the Wasatch tonight and Saturday, where a record-smashing 700 inches have fallen this year.

A few miles east of Salt Lake City gets 700 inches of snow. That's 58 feet or approximately 17.8 meters of snow.
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post #4543 of 4983
4/28/09 at 6:35pm

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post #4544 of 4983
5/1/09 at 11:47pm

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So Mike, are you betting on this horse in the Derby?

Friesan Fire should have the edge in Derby
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post #4545 of 4983
5/2/09 at 10:24am
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Yeah...I was going to let Cees know about that! Us Fresians need to stick together.

What a horrible tragedy in The Netherlands as that sick driver plowed into a parade featuring the royal family there. Just awful. The still images were plastered all over the front page of the NY newspapers, Cees. Did this take place near where you live?
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post #4546 of 4983
5/2/09 at 4:20pm

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Friesan Fire, who became the favorite after I Want Revenge was scratched earlier in the day, finished a distant 18th in the 19-horse field.


Oh well, at least the greatest underdog - or is that underhorse - won today.
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post #4547 of 4983
5/2/09 at 8:16pm
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Cate Blanchett &BP TCCoBB 2008

DH & Emma Thompson LCH 2008

ET & DH LCH 2008

Momma's Man 2008

MB FBDO 1986
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post #4548 of 4983
5/3/09 at 4:45pm

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My buddy and former Lockheed co-worker Wayne Mikel has progressed pretty far in his restoration of a 1927 Monocoupe airplane.

YouTube - 1927 Monocoupe Runs Again

Wayne's a crazy pilot. My draftsman at Lockheed was named Yeager, and I once asked him if he was related to Chuck Yeager. Laconically he answered "yeah, that's my Dad." One day I took a ride in Wayne's aerobatic plane. Yeager's kid told me he would never ride with Wayne Mikel. He said his dad was a careful pilot but that Wayne Mikel was a wild and crazy pilot.
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post #4549 of 4983
5/3/09 at 8:26pm

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I had another "how odd" moment.....

An hour ago I was leaning back in my desk chair with Susie in my lap. I must have dozed off, because I woke up to find Dukie in my lap. Somehow I slept right through the changing of the guard.
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post #4550 of 4983
5/3/09 at 8:55pm
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I had another "how odd" moment.....

An hour ago I was leaning back in my desk chair with Susie in my lap. I must have dozed off, because I woke up to find Dukie in my lap. Somehow I slept right through the changing of the guard.

Response #1:

Response #2: It must be tough to be retired!

That's a funny story!

Do you suppose the cats wore those funny hats for the changing of the guard? Dogs have been known to.

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post #4551 of 4983
5/5/09 at 1:05am

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It's wet here.

Saturday set all-time records for daily rainfall in both Seattle and Boise.

Boise got .6+ inches, easily breaking the old record of .4 inches set back in 1955.
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post #4552 of 4983
5/5/09 at 10:07am
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Is that really a record of .6+ inches of rainfall in one day?

Why heck, that's nothin'. On July 15, 2000, we had 3.23" of rain fall in 24 hours on Albany. Watch the Hudson rise!

In some of the elevated areas, we've had up to seven inches of rain in just a few hours time.

Do you even own an umbrella? You'd think with all that snow fall in the mountains you guys would get a gully washer once in a while.
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post #4553 of 4983
5/5/09 at 12:58pm

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Well there's a big difference in rainfall between the East and the West. The West is a lot dryer. Coastal places on the Pacific may get huge amounts of rain when the moisture is blocked by the coastal mountains (e.g. Santa Cruz, Seattle, Portland). Places like Boise get the "leftovers" when the Rockies squeeze out what's left. Parts of Montana and Wyoming east of the continental divide are as dry as dust.

Typical Western scene.


Typical Eastern scene.
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post #4554 of 4983
5/5/09 at 1:17pm
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So...do you own an umbrella?

I know I've been intrigued by the weirdness of the rain in Florida during the time I've spent there. Nothing like what it is around here.
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post #4555 of 4983
5/5/09 at 2:16pm

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Actually I do own an umbrella, but it doesn't get much use. A cowboy hat is more useful: it keeps the rain off your glasses so they don't fog up.

Besides, an umbrella gets in the way of your quick-draw.....

By the way, did I kill off the "woot" thread?
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post #4556 of 4983
5/6/09 at 6:10am
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You "Woot" thread killer, you!

Grab your cowboy hat, pardner! 'Pert near a half-inch of rain is rollin' into town tomorrow!
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post #4557 of 4983
5/6/09 at 8:00am

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I was just commenting on Henry's posting that $60 "world's worst video projector" a few days back. Who the heck would want that junk?


Who the heck is Bud Hillerich?

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post #4558 of 4983
5/6/09 at 12:51pm
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I saw that on my trip to Louisville a couple of years ago!

I would surmise him to be the founder of the Louisville Slugger company. The name of the company originally was something like "Hillerich and Bradstreet."
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post #4559 of 4983
5/7/09 at 1:46am

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And are you ready for Chi-pitts?

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post #4560 of 4983
5/7/09 at 6:54am
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Tor-Buff-Chester?!?
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