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Posted on 05/02/2011 7:25:30 PM PDT by blam
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So humid your eyeglasses fogged up like a beer bottle when you went outdoors.
Secret Californian repellent. Whatever works.
Golfball sized hail to screw up your car ...
Plus we have 2.0 earthquakes on the Richter Scale.
And to cap it off, it was a “dry county,” ...
Relatively few hippies or winos though.
The women were good looking ..."
On that I agree. My wife calls the neighbor women the Charlie's Angels. I think they are all former UT cheerleaders.
It isn’t Houston or DFW, it’s dumbass country.
Thank goodness. Just look at Houston city government.
But we have Carmel-by-the-sea ...
That's a nice place, if you can afford it. My large new house in a nice area cost maybe a tenth of the Carmel price per square foot.
You have poke salad and cow shit!
And you have a state income tax, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, and Jerry Brown. We win!
I’ve seen the rock walls. They’re actually sort of attractive, as long as one doesn’t think about the work involved in building them.
Don’t those rocks damage farm equipment? And how did people deal with that mess prior to gasoline engines?
Tough, New England farmers were, really tough!
we used to have a tractor pulling a flatbed trailer in the freshly plowed crop fields and we'd toss rocks onto the trailer all day long. It really takes a toll on the body. Sometimes you'd just stare at some massive stone, wonder “ how the hell did that get coughed up “ start to dig it out and realize its many times larger than you thought.
Mainers were once some of the toughest people in New England. Some folks used to refer to Maine as ‘ the wild west of NE ‘. The likes of Joshua Chamberlain and the 20th Maine Volunteer Infantry were once the types of folks you'd find in my old state.
One real curiosity that has developed in recent years is the market for flat rocks. People will pay you for them and they pay real well for large flat rocks. There was a small operation of a father and son who were buying flat rocks out of rock walls on my mothers property.
One fellow not far from us discovered so many flat rocks on his property he started mining them by himself. Some mining company recently offered him 3 million dollars for his land but he declined. He is still pulling out the rocks himself. another fellow discovered his home and land was sitting on a huge gravel pit. He is still digging that out despite the damned liberals trying to stop him.
As an historian, I’m curious as to whether anyone has tried to map out patterns for these walls. They indicate the growth of farms, family borderlines, etc. There’s a wealth of information in them.
In my home county, there’s no equivalent. If a farmer fails to actively plough as long as two years, a tough pine forest pops up on his land and he has to clear all over again. There are no stones, but just sand.
Preach it brother! :-)
Not exactly true. Vermont is better in that way.
I don’t live in southern NH but I do know that whether Massholes have “ruined” that part of the state or not, they vote right. Like I said earlier, Rockingham County is probably the reddest part of the state these days and that is because of people who have fled Massive2zitts for here.
If you think NH is that free, you havent lived there. When I was there in the late 80’s its was “Live Free or Die....as long as you live the way we want you to.” I hated it.
Northern NH might be OK, more like Northern VT.
Well, compared to Maryland where I live now, NH looks pretty darned free.
And then start in on MECHA, La Raza, Reconquistadors.................
LOVE your “tag line”!!! Crackin’ me up! ;-)
Water - and a year-round growing climate... Floridians also deal with nutty people in a chaotic environment on an everyday basis - now.
Crazy stories - the ones that verge on being unbelievable - are almost always dateline Florida. So we're used to dealing with stuff that others in more stable areas of the country never get to experience. In short - we're already half way there...
Thanks for the link, blam - this is important:
For evaluation purposes (and because I am an aquarium hobbyist), I decided to purchase online a variety of these products and found them to be identical (unlike some Dog and Cat medications) to those used to treat humans with a doctor’s prescription. I was able to purchase them without any demand for medical licensure, etc. The drugs are listed below and the bottles list the antibiotic as the sole ingredient. They are:
FISH-MOX (amoxicillin 250mg)
FISH_MOX FORTE (amoxicillin 500mg)
FISH-CILLIN (ampicillin 250mg)
FISH-FLEX Keflex 250mg)
FISH-FLEX FORTE (Keflex 500mg)
FISH-ZOLE (metronidazole 250mg)
FISH-PEN (penicillin 250mg)
FISH-PEN FORTE (penicillin 500mg)
FISH-CYCLINE (tetracycline 250mg)
These medications are available usually in plastic bottles of 100 tablets for much less than the same prescription medication at the pharmacy (some come in bottles of 30 tablets). The dosages are similar to that used in humans, and are taken two to four times a day, depending on the drug.
BTT
After finals, I’ll nose around and see if I can find out anything about the historiography of those walls. I’m not aware that it’s ever been attempted (though American history is not my specialty, remember). I’ll let you know if I find anything out.
By the way, I’ve been to Maine on several occasions, and found it beautiful but heavily infested with those blasted black flies. Augh!
Well, the season doesn't last too terribly long but it really is horrendous. But we had a sure fire trick for dealing with them when working outdoors ( and it seems we were always working outdoors)
We all wore white construction helmets that were slathered with baby oil. The black flies were attracted to the baby oil I think...or maybe they just got stuck to the helmet trying to get at us. I don't recall which but it sure worked! While the black flies are bad in swarms during their season there are few bites as bad as the dreaded Deer Fly - brother, those things would draw blood! Really bad.
Don’t mean to go on, just felt so enslaved & closed in on in so many different ways back east. I have freedom out here like I’ve never experienced anywhere else; and me likes it.
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