I'll have to get out to your (new) part of the country some day. My dad likes it so much he goes every spring to visit some other 'former michiganders'.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome Make your sound your own!
I'll have to get out to your (new) part of the country some day. My dad likes it so much he goes every spring to visit some other 'former michiganders'.
Bob,
Take a look in the 'studio pix' thread and you would see where you would stay perhaps - in the guest bedroom/studio. Murphy bed is my most expensive piece of 'studio gear', but also what enables me having the studio in the first place.
Kinda makes you wonder what the settlers were thinking.
I imagine a meeting of the "westward-HO" society:
"Well, here's the situation: The natives all want to kill us. The woods are full of venomous creatures, and large carnivores with huge teeth and sharp claws. The fields are strewn with poisonous-yet-delicious looking plants, berries and mushrooms... when they aren't covered by a solid sheet of ice, as they are for 6 months out of the year. Three fourths of us have already frozen to death. The rest of us are slowly starving to death. What are our options?"
Nice pic of a great blue. When I get to another system I can post an image of a groundhog bringing an apple to a great blue, but for now this is all I got. Herons are cool. I watched an alligator try to sneak up on one one day .. kept trying for half an hour, but the heron would just wait, wait, wait, fly down the shore. Gator just kept floating along towards him acting like a log. It was kinda comical.
To fish around here right now you need a good auger and coveralls.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome Make your sound your own!
I think in the previous posts some folks are talking about that bean laden stuff that some folks call chili ("New Jersey?").
Real folks know chili only comes in two variations: Red or Green.
And whoever here was posting about cold and white winters and was speaking about the LOWER part of Michigan knows little about winter, lower MI is subtropical, try night shift work on a flight-line up in Gwinn (K.I. Sawyer AFB) or Kincheloe (KAFB) or any outside work at Minot (ND) or Eielson (AK).
Simply going to college in Marquette, Northern Michigan University (good solid school by the way), alone should earn goers some kind of arctic certification on top of a degree.
Yoopers forever!
Honesty in advertising, you will notice I don't live or work up "north" anymore or even back in home state of PA. Because I don’t want that white crap anywhere near me. I don't mind LOOKING at snow on a mountain top covered in it but that is as close as I want to get now a days.)
Larry
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(PS if you want some good fresh NM chilies next season let me know! My wife, who is Chinese, grows and pickles Jalapeños - I'll send you a jar or two along with the Chilies)
That would be an appreciated care pack, Larry, you can't imagine what I go thru to get my Chilies here in Virginia, don't get me wrong, they grow plenty of 'em, but they taste different, guess its the soil and the climate.
That'd be Atlanta again, only this time we got it right. Everybody stayed home so the sand trucks and plows could do their work. (I thought I'd run out for a Blu-Ray player to go with the new big screen TV I got just before the last storm, but resisted the impulse.) However, there was ice involved. Tens of thousands of people are without electricity due to fallen trees and power lines. Nobody's going anywhere for a couple of days.
"My primary musical instrument is the personal computer."
Ryzard, Rharv and others I'm making jokes and all that but these storms are really getting serious and I know you're getting sick of them. I get it, been there. Be careful and you guys have my sympathies.
My office overlooks the runways at LAX and I can see the ocean from here. It's partly cloudy and 69 degrees.
What can I say? Typical LA winter except we need more rain.
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