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State Chapters => Arizona => Topic started by: HikerGuy83 on October 07, 2020, 02:59:38 am
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Hello Everyone,
I am new to this board.
I thought I would introduce myself in this forum since this is the one that caught my interest.
I have participated on other boards, sometimes spending waaaaayyyyyyyyy to much time on them arguing with people and (not proud to admit it) flaming them as best I could.
I stepped away and thought I'd try to find a board where I could actually learn/accomplish something.
I have not read through a great many messages, so I am trying to get a feel for the board and it's members.
More later.
Just wanted to say Hello.
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Hello Everyone,
I am new to this board.
I thought I would introduce myself in this forum since this is the one that caught my interest.
I have participated on other boards, sometimes spending waaaaayyyyyyyyy to much time on them arguing with people and (not proud to admit it) flaming them as best I could.
I stepped away and thought I'd try to find a board where I could actually learn/accomplish something.
I have not read through a great many messages, so I am trying to get a feel for the board and it's members.
More later.
Just wanted to say Hello.
Welcome to TBR.... This is a great forum, with great people.
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Welcome to TBR @HikerGuy83 I hope, that perhaps, you have just managed to stumbled upon the best dam group of people this side of sanity. We have it all here, every type of Freak you could possibly conjure up in your worse nightmare. They are all good people, every damn one of them.
You will not be disappointed, unless you are sane.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8WMGBuNaus#)
They paid me to say that, Help me please call my Mom 867-5309
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@HikerGuy83 Howdy! :seeya:
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They paid me to say that, Help me please call my Mom 867-5309
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Ahhh. the early '80's.... When every girl named Jenny changed it to Jennifer... :cool:
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At least it's interesting while were waiting around for Barr's FBI to arrest hellary.
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Hello @HikerGuy83
I'm a '62 so too gimped up to fix the itch much... But I know what it is. :seeya:
:beer:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVJEn9wk9Y#)
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Great rendition of that ol classic from Glenn.
TTIUWP
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Great rendition of that ol classic from Glenn.
I know right?
TTIUWP
Alright @corbe... But he's a hiker dude.That's kinda like a hillbilly... Here is the preferred view regardless...
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You think @HikerGuy83 will mind if we put woman's butts all over his Welcome Thread, The Church Ladies are probably asleep.
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Do you know why they look so good @corbe ? Because you're the poor bastard carrying a 65lb pack. That's right. Chivalry is insisted upon mere feet away from the pickup. Jussayin.
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You think @HikerGuy83 will mind if we put woman's butts all over his Welcome Thread, The Church Ladies are probably asleep.
I got no problem wit dat.
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@HikerGuy83 Howdy! :seeya:
Welcome to TBR @HikerGuy83 I hope, that perhaps, you have just managed to stumbled upon the best dam group of people this side of sanity. We have it all here, every type of Freak you could possibly conjure up in your worse nightmare. They are all good people, every damn one of them.
You will not be disappointed, unless you are sane.
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8WMGBuNaus#)
They paid me to say that, Help me please call my Mom 867-5309
I called and the person at the other end said she was not your mother....and that I was a moron. She told me to think about the number for a minute and see if it didn't sink in.
I thought about it and couldn't come up with a connection. About ten minutes later this song comes on the radio........
Thanks for that !
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Welcome to TBR.... This is a great forum, with great people.
Thank you, Catfish.
As I indicated, I used to post on another board just to vent and get after lefties.
It wasn't very satisfying and I wasn't very happy with myself.
Hope all is well with you.
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@HikerGuy83 Howdy! :seeya:
Hello to you Joe.
Hope all is well.
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Welcome. If you're right-leaning politically, you've come to the right place (no pun intended). happy77
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Welcome. If you're right-leaning politically, you've come to the right place (no pun intended). happy77
Thank you, Xena....
I am pretty conservative. I am not a fan of the current RNC as I don't see them holding up what I consider to be conservative values (i.e. things like States Powers & Federalism).
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All,
Arizona is the state of my birth, although I have not lived there for nearly 38 years.
I will be retiring soon (83 is he year I graduated college) and plan to return to the East Valley (Phoenix Area).
I have always been involved in politics at some level. When we lived in Kansas, I was an elected committee precinctman. I've worked on campaigns and helped start a political group. When I retire, I want to become more active in the political process. But not necessarily at the federal level.
I think far to many people watch to much cable news and get caught up in national affairs when they should be paying attention to what is happening in their own backyards (figuratively speaking).
I currently reside in New Mexico.
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Hello @HikerGuy83
I'm a '62 so too gimped up to fix the itch much... But I know what it is. :seeya:
:beer:
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuVJEn9wk9Y#)
Hello Roamer,
I am not sure I fully understand what you mean....but I hope things are well with you.
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Hello Everyone,
I am new to this board.
I thought I would introduce myself in this forum since this is the one that caught my interest.
I have participated on other boards, sometimes spending waaaaayyyyyyyyy to much time on them arguing with people and (not proud to admit it) flaming them as best I could.
I stepped away and thought I'd try to find a board where I could actually learn/accomplish something.
I have not read through a great many messages, so I am trying to get a feel for the board and it's members.
More later.
Just wanted to say Hello.
Hello.
Fresh meat.
Fish.
Just kidding. Come over to the Menbears Lunge. I mean Members Lounge to chat.
I did the graphic for it. And I am running an AI/Robot thread.
This place might not have a large number of people online, but there are mostly professional assassins on line at any given time.
:tongue2:
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@HikerGuy83
The Lounge.
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,387429.msg2300862.html#msg2300862 (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,387429.msg2300862.html#msg2300862)
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All,
Arizona is the state of my birth, although I have not lived there for nearly 38 years.
I will be retiring soon (83 is he year I graduated college) and plan to return to the East Valley (Phoenix Area).
I have always been involved in politics at some level. When we lived in Kansas, I was an elected committee precinctman. I've worked on campaigns and helped start a political group. When I retire, I want to become more active in the political process. But not necessarily at the federal level.
I think far to many people watch to much cable news and get caught up in national affairs when they should be paying attention to what is happening in their own backyards (figuratively speaking).
I currently reside in New Mexico.
I lived in the East Valley for about 38 years, mostly in Chandler. When I retired a couple years ago, I relocated to Bullhead City. I'd had enough of Suburbia.
Welcome to TBR!
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Welcome! I lived in the PHX area for about 6 years, never as far west as 7th St., so always on the eastern side. The closest I got to 24th St. and Van Buren was 24th St. and McDowell Rd.
Take things easy, have a sense of humor about things and about yourself and you'll do well here.
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@HikerGuy83
Howdy 0005a 0005a
Hope you are happy here. Never lived in Arizona closest I’ve been is I do drink Arizona ice tea. Anyway, do stop by the members lounge. I’m the moderator and I’m leaving on the light for you, as well as coffee and donuts.
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@HikerGuy83
Howdy 0005a 0005a
Hope you are happy here. Never lived in Arizona closest I’ve been is I do drink Arizona ice tea. Anyway, do stop by the members lounge. I’m the moderator and I’m leaving on the light for you, as well as coffee and donuts.
I thought Arizona Iced Tea was made in New Jersey, or some place back east... :shrug:
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I thought Arizona Iced Tea was made in New Jersey, or some place back east... :shrug:
Brooklyn, "AriZona." No such place.
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Hello Roamer,
I am not sure I fully understand what you mean....but I hope things are well with you.
With @roamer_1, you'll be conversant in Mountain Man in no time. Fluency takes a bit longer.
Welcome!
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Our @roamer_1 is NOT to be confused with these Mountain Men:
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With @roamer_1, you'll be conversant in Mountain Man in no time. Fluency takes a bit longer.
Welcome!
Typically, most redneck dialects will do. :beer:
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With @roamer_1, you'll be conversant in Mountain Man in no time. Fluency takes a bit longer.
Welcome!
@roamer_1 does speak in authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
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Hello Roamer,
I am not sure I fully understand what you mean....but I hope things are well with you.
I should probably explain, @HikerGuy83 ... I meant the 'hiking itch', like portrayed in the song I left.
I am more bushcraft and mountaineering (technical mountain, technical ice, technical rocks), but I get through-hiking, I do.
Like I said I am too old and gimped up to scratch that itch like I would otherwise.
:beer:
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@roamer_1 does speak in authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
Thank you for your support. :beer: :seeya:
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I should probably explain, @HikerGuy83 ... I meant the 'hiking itch', like portrayed in the song I left.
I am more bushcraft and mountaineering (technical mountain, technical ice, technical rocks), but I get through-hiking, I do.
Like I said I am too old and gimped up to scratch that itch like I would otherwise.
:beer:
Did you hike Sedona much ?
I lived there for part of High School. I wasn't happy about being there (my mother moved us up there from Scottsdale), but I did like to hike there. Now there are tons of developed trails.
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Did you hike Sedona much ?
I lived there for part of High School. I wasn't happy about being there (my mother moved us up there from Scottsdale), but I did like to hike there. Now there are tons of developed trails.
Nah... I am up in NW Montana in the Rockies... Up by Glacier Park. been all over the backwoods up in here (the Bitteroots, the Yaak, Koocanusa, the Bob Marshal,the Great Bear wilderness...) and over into the Idaho Panhandle, and down in the Tetons in Wyoming.
Been down in the four corners... Moab, Animas Canyon... but I quit having fun when I ran out of trees. Turned around and headed back north.
That desert country would kill me dead. Though I would love to see it someday. But I am made for deep in the Boreal forest.
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Nah... I am up in NW Montana in the Rockies... Up by Glacier Park. been all over the backwoods up in here (the Bitteroots, the Yaak, Koocanusa, the Bob Marshal,the Great Bear wilderness...) and over into the Idaho Panhandle, and down in the Tetons in Wyoming.
Been down in the four corners... Moab, Animas Canyon... but I quit having fun when I ran out of trees. Turned around and headed back north.
That desert country would kill me dead. Though I would love to see it someday. But I am made for deep in the Boreal forest.
The Sonoran and Mojave Deserts are an acquired taste. :shrug:
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The Sonoran and Mojave Deserts are an acquired taste. :shrug:
There is a spirit there... a majesty... But I would not like the touristy stuff. I would need to get deep in the heart of it and sit on a rock for a month to drink it in. Similar I suppose, to what I would do seeing an ocean for the first time... Or the big swamp. But all those places would literally kill me. I might could do OK in the coastal forest.. or even in a hardwood forest... Though I know I would have trouble. But 'forest' is the operative term. Fairly confident I could survive, even if it isn't pine woods. But the desert is another duck altogether. I am a total greenhorn there.
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Brooklyn, "AriZona." No such place.
@Cyber Liberty is that why there are snowbirds there? J/k
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There is a spirit there... a majesty... But I would not like the touristy stuff. I would need to get deep in the heart of it and sit on a rock for a month to drink it in. Similar I suppose, to what I would do seeing an ocean for the first time... Or the big swamp. But all those places would literally kill me. I might could do OK in the coastal forest.. or even in a hardwood forest... Though I know I would have trouble. But 'forest' is the operative term. Fairly confident I could survive, even if it isn't pine woods. But the desert is another duck altogether. I am a total greenhorn there.
It's important to be happy where you are. Sounds like you enjoy Montana.....
If you ever have time, check out Sedona, AZ. It is a beautiful place to visit and hike. But you can't go there on a holiday or weekend. Half of Phoenix heads up there to cool off and enjoy the mountains.
Thanks for the information.
We need more hiking !!!!
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The Sonoran and Mojave Deserts are an acquired taste. :shrug:
Especially in the summer.
But, come winter !!!!!
Nothing like playing football in a T-shirt on Christmas day...and being a little warm.
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We need more hiking !!!!
You have no idea how right that is. :beer:
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Especially in the summer.
But, come winter !!!!!
Nothing like playing football in a T-shirt on Christmas day...and being a little warm.
Yeah... I wouldn't know. By Christmas time, heck, maybe by next week, it will be snowshoes and a polk.
So T-shirt weather... that'd be what, like 35, maybe 40 degrees? :laugh:
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At least it's interesting while were waiting around for Barr's FBI to arrest hellary.
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I have lost all interest in getting CLINTONS. They will soon be dead. Other things to the care of. That is very low priority.
Our country is being taken over by communists. By RADICALS. THE SQUAD. Saving our republic is MORE important, than getting CLINTONS. WWW.MAGAPILL.COM (http://WWW.MAGAPILL.COM)
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I have lost all interest in getting CLINTONS. They will soon be dead. Other things to the care of. That is very low priority.
Our country is being taken over by communists. By RADICALS. THE SQUAD. Saving our republic is MORE important, than getting CLINTONS. WWW.MAGAPILL.COM (http://WWW.MAGAPILL.COM)
You lost interest? That's too bad, I haven't. Every day the Clintons walk free is just another deeper cut to the rule of law.
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You lost interest? That's too bad, I haven't. Every day the Clintons walk free is just another deeper cut to the rule of law.
The Squa(add your own letter here) is part of the Clinton Foundation.
@LegalAmerican
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I didn't know what a "snow bird" was until I moved to north east Mesa...
Many of them seem to be driving challenged...
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I didn't know what a "snow bird" was until I moved to north east Mesa...
Many of them seem to be driving challenged...
Ayup.
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I didn't know what a "snow bird" was until I moved to north east Mesa...
Many of them seem to be driving challenged...
No. They drive fine. You just need to learn know how to stay out of their way.
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You lost interest? That's too bad, I haven't. Every day the Clintons walk free is just another deeper cut to the rule of law.
3/4 th's of the country would be in jail. CLINTONS are in CIA, since Arkansas. Corrupt FBI. CORRUPT DOJ. CORRUPT LA RAZA JUDGES/ATTORNEYS, WHO WOUD SUPPORT AOC. CORRUPT muslim judges/ attorneys. OMAR.
Then Clintons, have immunity for being POTUS , First Lady. This would open up precedent to prosecute, ALL PRIOR PRESIDENTS. You don't see the issue? ALL PRIOR PRESIDENTS WOULD BE VULNERABLE....DEPENDING ON WHO, IS IN POWER AT THE TIME. LEFT OR RIGHT. The hoax the LEFT has perpetrated on POTUS TRUMP.....
I am being practical. I would love, all kind of evil, in jail.
BESIDES, THIS IS OUR LAST PRESIDENT. The communists will take over, after TRUMP.
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The Squa(add your own letter here) is part of the Clinton Foundation.
@LegalAmerican
I believe it. Obama too. SOROS.
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No. They drive fine. You just need to learn know how to stay out of their way.
:silly: True. Most can't see well, slow reflexes, and some of you men still insist on driving the car. Blind, slow, on medication. I am getting like that too. lol.
I was slowly backing out of my drive way, because right next to me, are 3 kids, who run around. TOWN HOUSE. 5,4,2.
Then I have to watch my neighbors, who are snowbirds, so then then I check all around. No cars. ZIP, A TEENAGER DECIDES, ZIP, TO MAKE IT PAST MY CAR, WHILE I AM HALF WAY OUT! Small heart attack.
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No. They drive fine. You just need to learn know how to stay out of their way.
That’s because some snowbirds are. looking for jughandles. The ones from NJ I mean.
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Arizona is a very interesting state.
It has so many varied features.
I love it and I have not explored all of it.
Hope to be doing more of that soon.
I can tell you that I-40 follows some of the most desolate terrain I have ever seen (between Flag and Winslow).
I broke down out there about 30 years ago in the middle of a snowstorm.....very very lonely feeling.
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Best pho I ever ate was in Flagstaff.
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Best pho I ever ate was in Flagstaff.
WTF is a pho?
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Welcome to the Briefing Room @HikerGuy83 .... we ARE a great, lovable group here with a wide range of personalities and opinions.
I've visited southern AZ once our our honeymoon in December (coming up on 38 years) and it actually snowed briefly. We have relatives out there and haven't been back since -- they normally come here to FL to visit.
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WTF is a pho?
Dang if I know --- google search -- it's a Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat.
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Dang if I know --- google search -- it's a Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat.
:shrug:
Thanks!
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:shrug:
Thanks!
:beer: Always here to help.
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WTF is a pho?
A missed spelt prefix.
Faux.
Fakers, ugly people, etc.
Fauxksahontas, fauxtogenic, etc.
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A missed spelt prefix.
Faux.
Fakers, ugly people, etc.
Fauxksahontas, fauxtogenic, etc.
I thought maybe it was one of them new sexual gender expressions or something...
Cis, Miss, Diss, Phe, Phi, Pho Phum.... I dunno. I can't keep up with it all. :whistle: :shrug:
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A missed spelt prefix.
Faux.
Fakers, ugly people, etc.
Fauxksahontas, fauxtogenic, etc.
I thought fauxtogenic used a little vaseline on the lens filter...and an airbrush later.
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WTF is a pho?
In some circles it is the number 4.
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In some circles it is the number 4.
pho sho
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Dang if I know --- google search -- it's a Vietnamese soup consisting of broth, rice noodles, herbs and meat.
Pho is yummy. If you ever get to go to a Vietnamese restaurant try it.
Trader Joe’s also has it in their frozen meals section. It’s pretty good too, if you want to try it.
Here’s a description and photo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pho
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Is pho one of those East Asian soups in which thin-sliced uncooked meat is placed in the broth when served and the heat of the broth cooks the meat?
BTW, the pronunciation is more like "fuh", not "foe".
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WTF is a pho?
Pronounced 'fuh'. Rice noodle soup. The broth is the key. And fresh basil. There is a restaurant here called 'What The Pho'.
(https://www.recipetineats.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Beef-Pho_3.jpg)
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This is how wars begin. yogi555
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In some circles it is the number 4.
888high58888 :rolling: :silly:
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Pronounced 'fuh'. Rice noodle soup. The broth is the key. And fresh basil. There is a restaurant here called 'What The Pho'.
Looks good... for an appetizer... Y'all go out for soup? :pondering:
No offense meant...
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Looks good... for an appetizer... Y'all go out for soup? :pondering:
No offense meant...
It is a very big bowl.
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Pronounced 'fuh'. Rice noodle soup. The broth is the key. And fresh basil. There is a restaurant here called 'What The Pho'.
(https://www.recipetineats.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Beef-Pho_3.jpg)
Hey! We could put all the ingredients in a box. Just add meat and broth! We could call it Pho Kit. It would be perfect if the Democrats take control of everything. You could make community sized Pho Kits for the inevitable soup lines. You could have family sized Pho Kits. School sized Pho Kits. Brilliant.
(I'm a marketing genius.)
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Hey! We could put all the ingredients in a box. Just add meat and broth! We could call it Pho Kit. It would be perfect if the Democrats take control of everything. You could make community sized Pho Kits for the inevitable soup lines. You could have family sized Pho Kits. School sized Pho Kits. Brilliant.
(I'm a marketing genius.)
:silly:
I want in.
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Hey! We could put all the ingredients in a box. Just add meat and broth! We could call it Pho Kit. It would be perfect if the Democrats take control of everything. You could make community sized Pho Kits for the inevitable soup lines. You could have family sized Pho Kits. School sized Pho Kits. Brilliant.
(I'm a marketing genius.)
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Pronounced 'fuh'. Rice noodle soup. The broth is the key. And fresh basil. There is a restaurant here called 'What The Pho'.
(https://www.recipetineats.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Beef-Pho_3.jpg)
You would think the meat is the key. Monkey. Turkey. Donkey. Monkey might taste like rat on a stick. Who doesn't like turkey? Donkey prolly tastes like ass.
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Hey! We could put all the ingredients in a box. Just add meat and broth! We could call it Pho Kit. It would be perfect if the Democrats take control of everything. You could make community sized Pho Kits for the inevitable soup lines. You could have family sized Pho Kits. School sized Pho Kits. Brilliant.
(I'm a marketing genius.)
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Hey! We could put all the ingredients in a box. Just add meat and broth! We could call it Pho Kit. It would be perfect if the Democrats take control of everything. You could make community sized Pho Kits for the inevitable soup lines. You could have family sized Pho Kits. School sized Pho Kits. Brilliant.
Somebody beat you to it.
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Welcome! I lived in the PHX area for about 6 years, never as far west as 7th St., so always on the eastern side. The closest I got to 24th St. and Van Buren was 24th St. and McDowell Rd.
Take things easy, have a sense of humor about things and about yourself and you'll do well here.
I can get pretty jazzed up about politics.
Sometimes have to check myself.
I've come a long way.
I've got a long way to go !!!!
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I am currently in AZ on a visit.
I have looked up legislators in the area and am going to resist contacting them until after November 3rd.
But, I do think I see a lot of precinct captain positions open and I believe we should try to expand this community. I have already talked to some others about joining up.
If I don't post again for a bit, I want to wish all of us the best come November 3rd when Trump will Triumph !!!!
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I am currently in AZ on a visit.
I have looked up legislators in the area and am going to resist contacting them until after November 3rd.
But, I do think I see a lot of precinct captain positions open and I believe we should try to expand this community. I have already talked to some others about joining up.
If I don't post again for a bit, I want to wish all of us the best come November 3rd when Trump will Triumph !!!!
Have a good vacation/time in AZ, and enjoy the sunshine @HikerGuy83
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I am currently in AZ on a visit.
I have looked up legislators in the area and am going to resist contacting them until after November 3rd.
But, I do think I see a lot of precinct captain positions open and I believe we should try to expand this community. I have already talked to some others about joining up.
If I don't post again for a bit, I want to wish all of us the best come November 3rd when Trump will Triumph !!!!
Nice and thank you. I am blunt and non-P.C. most of the time on here. Most people don't like truth. 888mouth
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I am currently in AZ on a visit.
I have looked up legislators in the area and am going to resist contacting them until after November 3rd.
But, I do think I see a lot of precinct captain positions open and I believe we should try to expand this community. I have already talked to some others about joining up.
If I don't post again for a bit, I want to wish all of us the best come November 3rd when Trump will Triumph !!!!
First thing I did when I came to my new town, I contacted the local GOP office to get myself appointed to Precinct Committeemen. Then, at the next regular election we all signed each others petitions to get on the ballot to become elected. Gotta be elected to vote for things at the Quarterly PC meetings.
I was helped by the fact the very first person I met here (long time friend from Free Republic) is a County Supervisor. She hooked me up with the right people.
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I was a committee precinctman in Kansas. I was elected twice before moving to New Mexico.
It was a very good experience.
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Have a good vacation/time in AZ, and enjoy the sunshine @HikerGuy83
I did.
Headed back there in two weeks for another 10 day vaca.
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Nice and thank you. I am blunt and non-P.C. most of the time on here. Most people don't like truth. 888mouth
Alright.
So what is your most important issue ?
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Alright.
So what is your most important issue ?
That you are blind. 888mouth
LAs fine. She is old enough to remember every communist revolution.
And just likes to remind all of us in full caps. Repeatedly.
Welcome to TBR.
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That you are blind. 888mouth
LAs fine. She is old enough to remember every communist revolution.
And just likes to remind all of us in full caps. Repeatedly.
Welcome to TBR.
And @HikerGuy83, welcome to Arizona! You picked the best time of year to visit!
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And @HikerGuy83, welcome to Arizona! You picked the best time of year to visit!
Oh, I forgot to ask...where in Phoenix did you visit?
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Oh, I forgot to ask...where in Phoenix did you visit?
I've been to Phoenix. Six times. Which may be simulchronastichoalherent.
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I've been to Phoenix. Six times. Which may be simulchronastichoalherent.
Ah! So you have a good reason for the Neutron bombs....
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I've been to Phoenix. Six times. Which may be simulchronastichoalherent.
I got to the four corners and started running out of trees. So I turned around.
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I got to the four corners and started running out of trees. So I turned around.
I can see your point:
(https://southwestdesertlover.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/monument-valley-sunset.jpg?w=480&h=262)
It's only good for Roadrunners and Coyotes.
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I can see your point:
(https://southwestdesertlover.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/monument-valley-sunset.jpg?w=480&h=262)
It's only good for Roadrunners and Coyotes.
I still have it in my bycketlist to ride the Rocky Mountain Divide trail from end to end... Though that seems to be a vanishing goal... Should have done that instead of trying to make money for thirty years. Would have had something better.
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I still have it in my bycketlist to ride the Rocky Mountain Divide trail from end to end... Though that seems to be a vanishing goal... Should have done that instead of trying to make money for thirty years. Would have had something better.
It's one of the paradoxes of life. If you had not done the 3 decades worth of work, you probably could not have ever afforded to do it. :shrug:
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It's one of the paradoxes of life. If you had not done the 3 decades worth of work, you probably could not have ever afforded to do it. :shrug:
Yeah... But I did the three decades and can't afford it anyway... Only now I am too stove up to do it regardless of the cost... :shrug:
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There's a lesson in that somewhere.
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There's a lesson in that somewhere.
Either way wears your ass out.
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By the time I ever get to Phoenix @Cyber Liberty ‘s cats will be rising
From their naps of course. I will come bearing fishy treats and catnip!
:yowsa:
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By the time I ever get to Phoenix @Cyber Liberty ‘s cats will be rising
From their naps of course. I will come bearing fishy treats and catnip!
:yowsa:
T some of the kittehs really love the nip!
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There's a lesson in that somewhere.
I recall the parable of the ice skates.
One Christmas, two brothers received a pair of ice skates for each. They were beautiful skates, with the design and colors, in the most sought-after style of the day. The older brother was the sort who took great care of his possessions and rarely played with the skates, while the younger considered his belongings as things to be used.
By Spring, when it was time to put away the Winter toys, the older brother's ice skates still looked brand new, while the younger's were all scuffed up from daily hockey games with his friends.
Come the next Winter, the boys brought out their skates to get them ready for the season. To his extreme disappointment, the elder discovered his didn't fit! He'd outgrown them! But it wasn't a total waste. The younger brother's feet had grown and he could wear the new-looking ice skates!
The younger brother had new skates for two seasons, while the elder only had skates for one Winter, and didn't use them.
The moral? Never lose sight of the fact that your possessions belong to you, it's not the other way around.
The parable doesn't fit perfectly, but one can see the futility of having things that one doesn't use. One runs the risk of not having them when one really wants them.
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I recall the parable of the ice skates.
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The moral? Never lose sight of the fact that your possessions belong to you, it's not the other way around.
The parable doesn't fit perfectly, but one can see the futility of having things that one doesn't use. One runs the risk of not having them when one really wants them.
Great analogy... And I cannot complain. I rode life hard and put it away wet. And now I get to pay for it. No regrets, other than the things I missed :laugh:
Another one of those bucket list things is distance skating the length of Flathead Lake... So your story is a bit apropos. :beer:
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Great analogy... And I cannot complain. I rode life hard and put it away wet. And now I get to pay for it. No regrets, other than the things I missed :laugh:
Another one of those bucket list things is distance skating the length of Flathead Lake... So your story is a bit apropos. :beer:
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Life is a series of these trade-offs, and it's great you don't regret them, even if it means missing some bucket list check-offs. I wanted to hike rim-to-rim the Grand Canyon. Didn't happen.
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Life is a series of these trade-offs, and it's great you don't regret them, even if it means missing some bucket list check-offs. I wanted to hike rim-to-rim the Grand Canyon. Didn't happen.
That Big Ditch is one of the places I might be convinced to crawl down out of these mountains to go see... Though honestly, that would probably be "WOW!" and then "Good God it's hot! Lets go home."
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That Big Ditch is one of the places I might be convinced to crawl down out of these mountains to go see... Though honestly, that would probably be "WOW!" and then "Good God it's hot! Lets go home."
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It's relatively cool on the South Rim. It's significantly hotter down by the Colorado River at the bottom. I've seen a lot of people look at the Canyon from the rim, and say "whoop-de-doo" and leave unimpressed.
Funny story about one of my visits: There were a lot of Japanese tourists looking at it, and one remarked to my father, "It's beautiful, but so is Mount Fuji!" My dad just stared him down and said, "I've seen Mount Fuji...in 1945."
My dad really hated the Japs, having fought them in the Pacific Theater. To his dying day he said he could snap their necks without remorse. He'd seen with his own eyes the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army.
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It's relatively cool on the South Rim. It's significantly hotter down by the Colorado River at the bottom. I've seen a lot of people look at the Canyon from the rim, and say "whoop-de-doo" and leave unimpressed.
Funny story about one of my visits: There were a lot of Japanese tourists looking at it, and one remarked to my father, "It's beautiful, but so is Mount Fuji!" My dad just stared him down and said, "I've seen Mount Fuji...in 1945."
My dad really hated the Japs, having fought them in the Pacific Theater. To his dying day he said he could snap their necks without remorse. He'd seen with his own eyes the atrocities committed by the Imperial Army.
'Relatively cool' would be 'too effing hot' in Rocky Mountain terms. Shoot, I'd bet it's to effing hot there right now... and it will be too effing hot in January. :laugh:
Yeah, I get that about your dad... my uncle never got done with Korea, and the two good ol boys that raised me up in the woods hated Vietnamese. War is bound to change a man. :shrug:
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'Relatively cool' would be 'too effing hot' in Rocky Mountain terms. Shoot, I'd bet it's to effing hot there right now... and it will be too effing hot in January. :laugh:
Yeah, I get that about your dad... my uncle never got done with Korea, and the two good ol boys that raised me up in the woods hated Vietnamese. War is bound to change a man. :shrug:
Well, sitting on an amphibious craft with the detail of dropping the ramp offered a grand view of severed arms, legs and heads floating by does change a feller.
Right now, the South Rim is 39F. Cold enough for ya?
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Right now, the South Rim is 39F. Cold enough for ya?
No, I'd have to have my shirt off... And nobody wants that. :laugh:
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No, I'd have to have my shirt off... And nobody wants that. :laugh:
:silly: :beer:
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No, I'd have to have my shirt off... And nobody wants that. :laugh:
Give it a month.
It snows a lot on the north rim.
It is a great place to visit.
I recently took the family. One of my adult daughters walked up the viewing area. We caught up with her...she was on her knees crying.
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Give it a month.
It snows a lot on the north rim.
It is a great place to visit.
I recently took the family. One of my adult daughters walked up the viewing area. We caught up with her...she was on her knees crying.
That touches on a thing for me... The spirit of it... If I went, I would probably just find a rock and sit there for a couple days, just to soak it in... I will likely do the same the first time I see an ocean.
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That touches on a thing for me... The spirit of it... If I went, I would probably just find a rock and sit there for a couple days, just to soak it in... I will likely do the same the first time I see an ocean.
Oceans are boring. You probably have a more interesting view from your fire pit. The last time Mrs. Liberty and I were visiting her Sister in Orange County I asked her if she regretted leaving there to be with me in the desert, and that's what she said about it. Back in the day she loved surfing, but at this age that doesn't have the same appeal it once did. Too stoved up.
@HikerGuy83 makes a great point. The North Rim is significantly higher, therefore colder than the South. I think it gets around 130 inches of snow per year.
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Well, sitting on an amphibious craft with the detail of dropping the ramp offered a grand view of severed arms, legs and heads floating by does change a feller.
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A relative of my wife's survived the Bataan Death March, a Hell Ship, and some of the kind attentions of Unit 731. I never got a chance to ask him how he felt about Japanese people.
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A relative of my wife's survived the Bataan Death March, a Hell Ship, and some of the kind attentions of Unit 731. I never got a chance to ask him how he felt about Japanese people.
Oh my god :patriot:
My dad was in a medical unit in Germany right after they surrendered giving aid to various people there including survivors. He refused to purchase any German made products in his lifetime and the last few months of his life he would have nightmares where he would sometimes cry out in his sleep “No Mr Roosevelt I don’t want to goâ€
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A relative of my wife's survived the Bataan Death March, a Hell Ship, and some of the kind attentions of Unit 731. I never got a chance to ask him how he felt about Japanese people.
That was probably because you knew in your heart that if you ever opened that tap, it would come at you like water from a fire hose.
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From the vets in my life.
My sig line.
She asked me name my foe then. I said the need within some men to fight and kill their brothers without thought of Love or God. Ken Hensley
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That touches on a thing for me... The spirit of it... If I went, I would probably just find a rock and sit there for a couple days, just to soak it in... I will likely do the same the first time I see an ocean.
It can make you feel....very very very.....very small.
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This thread can really wander !!!!
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This thread can really wander !!!!
Welcome to TBR! It's almost a rule that when any thread that goes over 100 posts, wandering is required. Wait until you see me "pie" a thread. It's the stuff of legends.
Your first thread, here, is a Hot Topic already!
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It can make you feel....very very very.....very small.
No doubt, as can walking in wonder though mountain cathedrals... Knowing there are range after range after range of them... Each and every one full to bursting with magnificence. Every one with crystal clear white water creeks and rivers... Every one with endless paths through tall forests of pine and birch... One could quite literally get lost in there forever... There is nothing more beautiful to me.
But the Plains, as an instance, Are also magnificent, with a wholly different spirit. Likely so too with the desert and the big swamp, the hardwood forests, and the coasts... And I think in any of them, to touch the land, to feel its spirit, is to feel small.
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No doubt, as can walking in wonder though mountain cathedrals... Knowing there are range after range after range of them... Each and every one full to bursting with magnificence. Every one with crystal clear white water creeks and rivers... Every one with endless paths through tall forests of pine and birch... One could quite literally get lost in there forever... There is nothing more beautiful to me.
But the Plains, as an instance, Are also magnificent, with a wholly different spirit. Likely so too with the desert and the big swamp, the hardwood forests, and the coasts... And I think in any of them, to touch the land, to feel its spirit, is to feel small.
goopo :thumbsup:
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Great analogy... And I cannot complain. I rode life hard and put it away wet. And now I get to pay for it. No regrets, other than the things I missed :laugh:
Another one of those bucket list things is distance skating the length of Flathead Lake... So your story is a bit apropos. :beer:
Catch the wind right and have a drogue chute...(yes, I'll hold your beer for that one). :laugh:
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No doubt, as can walking in wonder though mountain cathedrals... Knowing there are range after range after range of them... Each and every one full to bursting with magnificence. Every one with crystal clear white water creeks and rivers... Every one with endless paths through tall forests of pine and birch... One could quite literally get lost in there forever... There is nothing more beautiful to me.
But the Plains, as an instance, Are also magnificent, with a wholly different spirit. Likely so too with the desert and the big swamp, the hardwood forests, and the coasts... And I think in any of them, to touch the land, to feel its spirit, is to feel small.
Every place I have been, from the Ocean to the tidewater creeks and marshes, to the ancient roots of mountains in the east, high deserts in the southwest, the Basin and Range, to the Rockies and the Northern Plains, has its own peculiar sort of beauty, and its own peculiar set of challenges in temperatures which range from spit freezing before it hits the ground, to drying up first. In aggregate, the experience is one I value. In each place, I'd sit down and wait for the sound of things to get back to normal, for the rhythms I'd disturbed to recover, like waiting for the ripples to calm from dropping a stone in a pond. Then, and only then, could I feel the pulse of that place, it's heartbeat, its breath.
For me, nature is easier to live with almost anywhere than the wrong bunch of humans.
It's the cities where I am least at home and most restless.
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Every place I have been, from the Ocean to the tidewater creeks and marshes, to the ancient roots of mountains in the east, high deserts in the southwest, the Basin and Range, to the Rockies and the Northern Plains, has its own peculiar sort of beauty, and its own peculiar set of challenges in temperatures which range from spit freezing before it hits the ground, to drying up first. In aggregate, the experience is one I value. In each place, I'd sit down and wait for the sound of things to get back to normal, for the rhythms I'd disturbed to recover, like waiting for the ripples to calm from dropping a stone in a pond. Then, and only then, could I feel the pulse of that place, it's heartbeat, its breath.
For me, nature is easier to live with almost anywhere than the wrong bunch of humans.
It's the cities where I am least at home and most restless.
In all that I am almost envious @Smokin Joe , having been so many places... And the bolded bit is what I mean about sitting on a rock for a couple days to suck it in... Its spirit... as you said, 'its heartbeat, its breath'.
But there is a love of these mountains born of a lifetime within them. I can count on a couple hands how many times I left this place, and all those but for a few were for mere days, maybe a week or two... Only a few times have I left here for a month or more, and it did not take me long to miss it. And not much longer than that to come sailing back to where I belong... And that long living on the land, my whole self lives and breaths with the spirit here in the Rockies. I can smell it on the wind. I can hear it in the lonely cry of the loon... In the deep silence and bitter cold of the winter.
It is something my elder sister simply cannot comprehend. And most of my siblings have gone far, with only my younger sister returning. But I have always been content to be here, putting down deep roots in this rocky ground. So I am not all that envious, as the intimacy I have with this land is far more valuable to me than anything I might find anywhere else.
888high58888 :beer:
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Catch the wind right and have a drogue chute...(yes, I'll hold your beer for that one). :laugh:
Don't laugh too hard. Were I any younger I might just take you up on that... And I might still on a double-dog dare. I worked a while on building an iceboat... which would be the semi-sane way of doing that... Never really got it finished before I needed to part it back out for the aluminum struts, so I didn't kill myself with it... yet. :laugh:
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Don't laugh too hard. Were I any younger I might just take you up on that... And I might still on a double-dog dare. I worked a while on building an iceboat... which would be the semi-sane way of doing that... Never really got it finished before I needed to part it back out for the aluminum struts, so I didn't kill myself with it... yet. :laugh:
I have thought about that for Lake Sakakawea, too, but then, I have seen the pressure ridges that form on the lake, and the thought of slamming into one of those at 80+ and endo-ing down to Newtown just doesn't appeal... :beer: :laugh:
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I have thought about that for Lake Sakakawea, too, but then, I have seen the pressure ridges that form on the lake, and the thought of slamming into one of those at 80+ and endo-ing down to Newtown just doesn't appeal... :beer: :laugh:
Sounds like an episode of Ice Road Truckers!
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Sounds like an episode of Ice Road Truckers!
I have only driven out on the lake a short distance in a very cold year. I worked on an oil rig on the south side of the lake back in the 90s, however, and the hands and service/supply personnel routinely drove a couple of miles across the lake rather than make the entire 140 mile round trip by land, cutting their mileage and time on the road after working 12 hour shifts in half. The route was mapped out, marked with pin flags, and holes drilled in the ice to check thickness. One drill bit salesman drove a 1 ton across the lake to location, with a load of drill bits in the back (figure at least a ton besides the weight of the truck).
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The Ice Pilots series occasionally showed Buffalo Airways using frozen lake landing strips to make cargo deliveries with their DC-3s, C-46s, and Electras (NWT and Nunavut in Canada).
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The Ice Pilots series occasionally showed Buffalo Airways using frozen lake landing strips to make cargo deliveries with their DC-3s, C-46s, and Electras (NWT and Nunavut in Canada).
In serious winter (subzero temps) Ice houses appear all over for fishing, with half a dozen trucks parked around some of the larger ones.
Me, well, let's just say I have a phobia about being submerged below the ice in freezing water, in a vehicle to boot. I know it is fairly safe, and that the rare ones who do go through the ice do so because they were driving on it in warmer weather as a rule.
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I have only driven out on the lake a short distance in a very cold year. I worked on an oil rig on the south side of the lake back in the 90s, however, and the hands and service/supply personnel routinely drove a couple of miles across the lake rather than make the entire 140 mile round trip by land, cutting their mileage and time on the road after working 12 hour shifts in half. The route was mapped out, marked with pin flags, and holes drilled in the ice to check thickness. One drill bit salesman drove a 1 ton across the lake to location, with a load of drill bits in the back (figure at least a ton besides the weight of the truck).
It's fairly common to drive on the lakes here... If not with a truck, certainly with a snow machine. They used to lay track on Whitefish Lake in the winter, because it so shortened the route to the forests that winter is when they made their profits... But then there is said to be a whole train laying at the bottom somewhere... So it is not a fair defense of the idea.