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Posted on 06/08/2021 6:00:02 PM PDT by luvie
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That’s the short list?? I’m worn out just reading it. Glad you visited my Great State of Texas! :)
Sorry to spell Mardi Gras wrong... proof reading needed.
Texas is an impressive state... If I was headed south east from California and I was running I-10 I would time my driving so I would sleep in Las Cruces and drive to Beaumont to sleep again. I don’t know of anywhere on earth that you can sleep in almost a Sonoran Desert and drive for a day and sleep next where sugarcane is grown.
I have been throughout the Panhandle to Brownsville, Laredo, Corpus Christi, the Metroplex, Wichita Falls, seen it snow in San Antonio several times and toMidland/Odessa to the CAF CONFEDERATE Air Force Museum where Fifi was hangared.
Don’t mess with Texas!
I didn’t stress much about testing in subjects I enjoyed. Math and history, oh yeah the stress was there. LOL
I don’t know how well I’d do on a world geography test nowadays. There are a lot more countries than when I was in school and memorizing where they all are would be a chore.
Absolutely you don’t mess with TEXAS or TEXANS! LOL! I live in that “almost Sonoran Desert” area of Odessa/Midland. I have also visited the CAF museum and the yearly air show they put on in October. Lots of amazing aircraft flying around at that time.
Well, some of those countries seem to change names like we change shoes any more. Who can keep up with it. LOL!
It was always so deadly boring. I enjoyed it way more when I could read it for myself. And believe it or not, I learned more from researching while I read a fiction book than I ever learned in a classroom.
"MY FIRST TRIP CROSS COUNTRY WHEN I WAS A KID FROM NY TO CA OVER A LEISURELY 3 MONTH SPAN OF SUMMER, WAS NOT HOW MUCH RICH LAND WAS UNDER CULTIVATION, BUT HOW MUCH WASN’T."
We live in a country surrounded on 3 sides by abundance in our oceans, are blesses by great climate, geography, prevailing weather, perfectly situated rivers and bays, deserts filled with minerals, mountains full of timber and soils as rich as any other nation excluding none.
I was born and raised in California's northern central valley. It is one if not the most abundant favorable weather, natural rich soil and mountain snow irrigation areas in the world.
Many nations have little or none of the resources we have in the U.S.A. The question is: We are blessed with so much and yet some other countries with much less natural resources manage to produce an amazing amount of goods and services.
Think Japan and Hong Kong. Japan makes products that the whole world wants, yet has few resources beyond its people. Hong Kong has no resources but for its people and is the world leader in offering services.
Some nations and cultures have near the resources of the continental U.S.A. but produce only strife and a failure to thrive. Some nations/continents have the extreme example of the climate, geography, flora and fauna weather, soil types and poor if any river systems that all together result in a perpetual survival mode of existence that eliminates the prospect of surplus that allows innovation of civilization development over time.
Adam Smith in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations delineates the foundation of why some cultures excel at abundance and a surplus of goods and services.
Prioritize cooperation and facilitation via thinking less of one's self and more of your neighbor, i.e. The Golden Rule.
Hi ProtectOurFreedom
Well here we are smack dab in a state that has a pretty good mix of the best climate, geography and weather one could hope for. I was born in Chico, grew up in Sacramento on the American river and have spent most of my free time in rivers diving, kayaking, fishing and rafting. In the Pacific ocean diving, surfing, sailing and fishing. In the Coast Range, Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountains fishing, backpacking, cross country skiing and snow camping, rock climbing and generally avoiding responsibility while lounging in beautiful redwood, oak and pine forests.
My first real Social Security number required job was summer farm worker picking plumbs that were to become prunes at age 12 or so. My big travels as a kid were from northern California to San Diego every year to visit family friends. The only time I crossed a state line as a kid was at Lake Tahoe on winter ski trips.
One of my friend’s father was a “Renaissance” man who owned a salmon fishing boat in Alaska that burned completely when they were on it, a bush pilot with no license that crashed his plane and survived that then drove big trucks to earn a living.
My friend and I went with him one summer when he drove a logging truck out of Ukiah into the old growth Redwoods in the Coast Range on land owned by the Masonite Corporation. We would ride from the logging landing back to the mill in Ukiah with different drivers and listen to their stories about various wrecks and close calls driving logging trucks. In the winter when it was too wet or snowy we went on trips from the mill to various lumber yards around California.
I think that’s how I got diesel in my blood that led me to drive OTR for two years.
Sometimes it does seem like some of them change their names every other year or so. :-)
History is the subject that bored me the most but that’s because the teacher was boring. Had the same one for three years and I lost all interest in it until I was in my 40s. A friend who loved it got me interested and like you, I learned more while reading it on my own than I ever did in the classroom.
I got 100% in 4:12.
How's everyone doing this morning?
Howdy EGC! (((hugs)))
Bravo...you did great on the test! You sure do know your states!
School was totally boring to me. I was never in love with it. I was too shy to have much fun.
Guess I’d better go for tonight. See ya tomorrow!
Howdy, E.G.C. ((HUGZ))
Are you glad to have rain and storms out of the way for a bit? or did the heat wave move up into your area when it moved out? Hope you and Gizmo had a good time during your outing yesterday.
I hated school to the point of dropping out. Like you, I was very shy and that didn’t help matters. Got my GED later on but didn’t go any further. Well, I did take a year of basic electronics but math isn’t my strong suit and there’s WAY too much math involved. The only thing that stuck from that course was how to solder and that came in handy when I started fooling around with stained glass. LOL
So we have the AC's going full blast today. Yes, it's cold in the house but at least we're not sweating.
It was announced at the city council meeting last night that the start of the sidewalk project has been moved to August 1st so that means we will get to use the highway today to get to Wichita Ridge.
Gizmo rolled on a couple of stinky spots at Chisolm Trail Park yesterday. We had a great time. Here are all the pics from yesterday.
I re-took the exam on my desktop and timed in at 1:36. Two minutes less than my mobile. :-)
Bravo! That’s outstanding! :)
There is a site called Sporcle that may hold an appeal. The downside is plenty of pop up ads. But it holds various quizzes some against a timer. Name every U.S. president for instance. One other such game has a map of the US without borders. The states are offered at random and the user has to click on the map where that state is located. The range of difficulty varies depending on which states are named in the early stage.
I got 94% in 2:21. They said Idaho and my mind thought Iowa.
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