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[OhPleaseJustQuit]

And the sun was well up when I woke up this morning so I missed it too. But sorry that you had to if you were up to see it.

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We're just having wall-to-wall overcast and rain.

We like it because we're surrounded by farmers. We didn't get much snow this winter so we're in NEED of moisture.


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[Foxfyre]

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We're just having wall-to-wall overcast and rain.

We like it because we're surrounded by farmers. We didn't get much snow this winter so we're in NEED of moisture.


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What part of the country are you in Oh? Here is Albuquerque it has been so long since we've seen serious moisture I can remember the last time we got that.

 

[lg325]

high thin cloud cover here so i missed the smiley face but seen one meteorite a fire ball type that vanished quickly.

 

[lg325]

FYI, yesterday was Albuquerque's 318th birthday. It was founded in 1706 almost a hundred years after Santa Fe was founded.

Just to add St. Augustine Florida was founded in 1565. New Mexico and Florida have a dispute over which is Americas first settlement.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

What part of the country are you in Oh? Here is Albuquerque it has been so long since we've seen serious moisture I can remember the last time we got that.

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I'm in the Southeast corner of South Dakota. Flyover Redneck Country!


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[Foxfyre]

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I'm in the Southeast corner of South Dakota. Flyover Redneck Country!


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Ah. Okay. I have good friends in Sioux Falls on the other side of the state. They also describe that as redneck flyover country.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Ah. Okay. I have good friends in Sioux Falls on the other side of the state. They also describes that as redneck flyover country.

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Yeah, we love it here. I am so fortunate to live in a tiny farming town with friends and fellow church parishioners who love it here as well.

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[Oddball]

Saturday morning!

I'll just leave this here.

Let the cartoon begin!

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[Manonthestreet]

 

[Foxfyre]

Just to add St. Augustine Florida was founded in 1565. New Mexico and Florida have a dispute over which is Americas first settlement.

Well at least its something fun and entirely inconsequential to fight over. Santa Fe NM claims to have the oldest U.S. single family home still standing. New Mexico and California battle for the oldest church designation. I will concede St. Augustine as the oldest settlement still in existence.

 

[Foxfyre]

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Is that for real? If so, somebody wasn't thinking.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Is that for real? If so, somebody wasn't thinking.

Don't know but with todays workers it would not surprise me

 

[Foxfyre]

Don't know but with todays workers it would not surprise me

Me either. I was just observing about how many of Albuquerque's intersections seem to have been laid out by probably an intoxicated accounting clerk leading a blind mule in a snow storm. And on more than one occasion I've watched them lay down lovely new white and yellow lines on a street only to repave over that a week or two later.

There is one roundabout intersection here that is extremely hazardous because they have this enormous raised area covered with tall shrubbery in the middle of it making it impossible to see what's coming from the traffic we're supposed to yield to. I have to take my Aunt Betty through there to one of her periodic doctor appointments and it is white knuckle, hold my breath time every time I have to do that.

But are they fixing those problems? No. But they've completely torn up all intersections along several miles of I-25 going through town and redoing them, all of which were perfectly fine before.

 

[Foxfyre]

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Yeah, we love it here. I am so fortunate to live in a tiny farming town with friends and fellow church parishioners who love it here as well.

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I envy you that. I grew up in those kinds of places even though one was also oil patch but that meant we had some of the finest schools in the country and I got an education that allowed me to compete with anybody. But yes a small rural town with almost everybody sharing values and traditions so you don't have much if any chaos ever is the best place in the world to grow up.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Me either. I was just observing about how many of Albuquerque's intersections seem to have been laid out by probably an intoxicated accounting clerk leading a blind mule in a snow storm. And on more than one occasion I've watched them lay down lovely new white and yellow lines on a street only to repave over that a week or two later.

There is one roundabout intersection here that is extremely hazardous because they have this enormous raised area covered with tall shrubbery in the middle of it making it impossible to see what's coming from the traffic we're supposed to yield to. I have to take my Aunt Betty through there to one of her periodic doctor appointments and it is white knuckle, hold my breath time every time I have to do that.

But are they fixing those problems? No. But they've completely torn up all intersections along several miles of I-25 going through town and redoing them, all of which were perfectly fine before.

I drive for a living, one year I watched a suburb tear up and REPAVE the same street once. Another city that took all spring summer and fall to do 2 streets a block long. I asked one of the business" there what the hell were they doing and it basically it was just moving the dirt back and forth

 

[Oddball]

And now another edition of Uncle Oddball's journeys across America...

During my sojourn to Dixie, I took the glider along with the intent of hanging around with the Tennessee Tree Toppers for awhile...Then it occurred to me that I hadn't been off the ground in several years, so hucking myself off the Cumberland Escarpment was an idea that could wait until I refreshed my skills...So I decided to return to SLC, reconnect with my instructor, and sharpen up my technique on a much easier site: Point of the Mountain.

Been here since Wednesday...Winds were super funky Thursday, conditions have been right to fly mornings the past two days....Hoping the wind dies down a bit for an evening session today...Playing some golf too, for some nice two-sport days.

Next up, Indy 500 qualifying weekend....More to come...

 

[Oddball]

 

[Oddball]

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