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Bravo Nancy! Think - if it's green, it's good.

07/13/14 05:32 PM

#1702

Garry - That was my WI brain and advice. Back there I had a place with 3 acres of lawn. Not wanting to have a stroke over it, or spend dollars on weed-n-feed instead of cheese, I figured if it came up and it was green, all was good. The lawn mower made it all even and cut back the dandelions so the yellow didn't show, and nobody driving past got close enough to see the difference.

As for CA, brown is good because it's one of our seasons. Everyone says we have 2 seasons, brown and green, and this year, brown has just been extended a bit.

As for the train, I like it. If they build it, people will come. I'd like to get back to San Diego more often, but I don't like to fly and the drive really, really sucks. Besides, I just like trains.

I like the water shift idea. Maybe we could get them to just run a pipe from Nancy's place out to here, we could have water and she wouldn't have mud and mosquitoes.

07/13/14 09:15 PM

#1703

Jim,

As long as it was green, was my thought when my Ex and I built a house in Erin ( just north of Holy Hill Rd, on Hwy 83 ) Like you said, as long as it was cut, you couldn't tell that it wasn't grass.

Nancy, I've given up on gardening, years ago. All I want now, is some decent tomatoes.

Several years ago, a Japanese company wanted to build a pipeline from Lake Superior to the West coast, for water to be shipped by super tanker to Japan. The only reason that it wasn't built was because Canada said no. If the pipeline would have been planed for Lake Michigan; Canada wouldn't have had a say. But, there is no reason that a couple of pipelines couldn't be built to supply water to the drought stricken Western states. We just have to figure out how to get all of the excessive rain in the upper midwest and the east coast into the Great Lakes.

Not looking forward to the next few days of cold weather. Anything under 70 is freezing.

07/16/14 01:22 PM

#1704

Lauren - Where in Erin? When I was a deputy with Waukesha County, I used to patrol up that way to hwy Q, and once in a while slide up into Erin for backup or if their county squads were far away. Had to get those horses off the highway quickly, you know.

07/17/14 11:23 PM

#1705

Maybe some of you outside of CA have heard that we have a bill pending to break up into six states. Here are some suggestions for their mottoes. And if this actually appears on the Message Forum, it means I did not actually bring the site down trying to upload it. Yay!

07/18/14 10:43 AM

#1706

Jim,

The address in Erin was 6613 Erin Mountain Pass. The subdivision's name was ( I think ) Erin Mountain Estates. It's been 24 years; so, the memory is a little fuzzy. The entrance to the subdivision was just past St. Patrick's Catholic church on Hwy 83, on the East side of the Hwy. There is a tavern on the West side of 83, that had blues bands on Friday's and Saturday's. And was a biker hangout. I don't remember the name; as, it seemed to change hands every few years.

07/18/14 10:52 AM

#1707

Regarding splitting up California. Most people don't know that the U.P. was originally supposed to be part of Wisconsin; but, politics got in the way. And, Arizona and New Mexico were suposed to be one state. But, Texas complained; because it would have been bigger than them. I do remember when Alaska became a state; Texas tried to block that, too.

A little bit of useless information. Does anyone remember the ' Useless Information ' column in The Green Sheet ?

07/19/14 01:15 PM

#1708

Terri,

Did you get a load of that Garry? Blaming you for troubles on HIS website? He's probably the guy who'd screw up in honor study hall and get everybody else in trouble.

BTW, I like your map, except you and my kids would then be in different states. I can see going through an Ag inspection (Is carrot cake considered an Ag product?) every time we go to visit or the beach.

07/20/14 10:15 PM

#1709

Yes, how about that! Just because I tried to upload that map of California without converting it to a JPEG and got strange messages afterward that the site was no longer in service doesn't necessarilly mean I brought it down. But doesn't Homer Simpson always try to blame Lisa? Jim, we would also be in a different state from our kids - and from you and all my retired friends in the Gold Country. I like the idea that we wouldn't have to pay for all of Sacramento's budgetary blunders. As long as our capital isn't San Francisco, I'd be okay living in the iState.

07/23/14 04:10 PM

#1710

Terri,

As the saying goes, "Ve get too soon old, und too late schmart." It's too confusing for us with all those computer thingys and lingo. I'm just now getting the handle on what we learned in English, and can figure out pretty well where to put commas, etc., and with some success, cut and paste something into a letter. Now it's converting, inserting, perverting, jpegs, epubs, docx, urls, pdfs, pngs, bvds, rpgs, whatever. There's a difference between those folks who work with computers (Garry), and those of us (you and me types) that only do work on a computer.

07/25/14 10:56 AM

#1711

Jawohl, Jim; alles daß Sie sagen, ist wahr. But I have no excuse. I started working on my first computer at Madison Newspapers in 1976, when they converted to computerized typesetting and set off a huge, ugly strike. As soon as I got back into teaching in 1983, I had to use a computer-based reading program (and this was in Georgia). Needless to say, when I moved back to Cupertino, CA (the home of Apple Computer) I had to TEACH computer skills to my students, as well as design lessons, Back to School Night presentations (with JPEGs), etc., etc., etc. on the computer. And I guess you're right : all of that still boils down to working ON a computer. Your cartoon hits it right on: things are changing at a dizzying pace. Now when I go in to subsitute, students are all using iPads to do research and photograph things to put into their reports - and they all will be taking their standardized tests on the computer starting this year. I think I will have to substitute til I drop, to keep up with it all!

07/25/14 07:43 PM

#1712

Garry Sellers

Having spent 3 years in Emma Jungton's German class (a solid C-/D+ student) I am absolutely shocked that Terri would call Jim a name like that in a public forum. We know it's true but geez Terri ... he's a burden we all must bare but he is so, so sensitive and so, so fragile. Jim ... ich liebe der (the Berliner form of it). Es tut mir leid.

07/27/14 09:44 AM

#1713

My grandparents were living with us when I grew up, and Grandma spoke German. She would call me things and say things like that in German. When I asked her what she was saying, she would never tell me. Of course, I always figured they were terms of endearment. Now Garry, you're suggesting she and Terri might be inferring something else? I am shocked, flabbergasted. Another bubble of life broken.

07/28/14 06:52 PM

#1714

Ha -hah Jim, I just said in German that what you said was true. Leave it to Garry to insinuate something evil. But your story reminds me that my Grandparents also spoke to each other and my mom in German, and same thing - they wouldn't tell me what they were saying. It was their way of "saying things behind our backs". So I took German in H.S. only to find out that they spoke a dialect of "Plattdeutsch" totally incomprehensible from the "Hochdeutsch" we learned in school. Rats!!

07/28/14 11:36 PM

#1715

Garry Sellers

Get over it Jim! You should hear what they call you in English!!! Don't think of it as a life bubble burst. Think of it as just another self-amputation. I'm still concerned that Terri could even find a "ß" (es-tset) on her keyboard yet alone use it in a word!!! Am I living in Angela Merkel's neighborhood and shouldn't the NSA be listening to her phone calls to Terri? Ooops ... too late!

07/31/14 12:31 PM

#1716

On my iPad on-screen keyboard, if you just press & hold a letter for a second, all the foreign markings or shapes for that letter come up as choices. When I write to my German friends, like Angela,I can even get umlauts!!

07/31/14 06:42 PM

#1717

One good thing about CA 100 degree days - when you get out of the pool, you're all dried off by the time you get to the house.

08/03/14 08:21 PM

#1718

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR AUGUST BABIES

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU

AND, MANY MORE

08/03/14 08:25 PM

#1719

Jim,

No pool in Bullhead City, AZ; don't have the room. We built a $6,000 deck where a pool would have gone. When it's a 117 ( and, if we would be there in the summer ) the clubhouse is too far to walk.

08/05/14 06:48 PM

#1720

Lauren,

117 does sound a little warm. Had a job offer there once, years ago. My experience with bullheads was all from fishing in WI, and most of that was yucky. Couldn't figure someplace called Bullhead City sounded that attractive. Thought they'd all come crawling out of the river come after me. Then I looked it up and saw that, besides being overrun by creepy fish, it gets a tad warm there, so I opted out.

And as for the pool thing, I'm not one of those wealthy CA people with the pools. Mine was $49 at WalMart, and about 2 ft deep when we finally got it blown up.

08/06/14 07:12 AM

#1721

Bullhead City was named after some guy named Bull; not the fish. I don't know how ' head ' got added to the name. There has been a town in the area since the gold mining day's in the early 1900's. But, as far as being a city; Bullhead has on'y been incorporated since 1984. It's starting to cool down there, now. Night's are down to the low 80's and upper 70's.

08/06/14 12:52 PM

#1722

Sounds like a lot of bull to me.

08/07/14 12:09 PM

#1723

Only if you're walking directly behind the bull. And, always look for the bull before cutting across the pasture. The bull can run a lot faster than you can.

08/07/14 04:18 PM

#1724