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dando

06-29-08, 10:14 PM

Weatherman reports record rainfall in C'bus this June - over twice normal. We've actually gotten off pretty lightly as far as flooding and such.

~10" for the month going into today....~+6" above normal for the year. Quite the change from last year's drought. :saywhat:

-Kevin

dando

06-29-08, 10:15 PM

Have you tried to rent one of these?

Global warming, yo. :gomer:

-Kevin

Sean Malone

06-29-08, 10:20 PM

Ankf00

06-30-08, 01:56 AM

supposed to rain like clockwork every afternoon this time of year

has yet to t storm ONCE and july 4th is next weekend...

Wheel-Nut

06-30-08, 10:23 AM

The rain and the mowing is killing me. I mow my parents yard because they keep paying landscaping crews to mow and they show up when they feel like it so I told them "Save your money, I'll do it!". Our St Augustine is growing so fast you can watch it!

Feed it some Nitrogen. It really likes Nitrogen. :laugh:

supposed to rain like clockwork every afternoon this time of year

has yet to t storm ONCE and july 4th is next weekend...

a bit dry? Stand at the ready with your garden hose.

opinionated ow

06-30-08, 11:04 AM

Have you tried to rent one of these?

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/goat.jpg

Good old Boer goats. Fantastic creatures, they really grow a great personality...

06-30-08, 11:45 AM

Good old Boer goats. Fantastic creatures, they really grow a great personality...
Who you kidding.

We all know it's not their personality that you like...

:p

Methanolandbrats

06-30-08, 01:04 PM

Neighbhors? Screw em. If they don't like the way I live, they can move. :D

Stu

06-30-08, 01:40 PM

~10" for the month going into today....~+6" above normal for the year. Quite the change from last year's drought. :saywhat:

-Kevin

<insert obligatory "thats what she said" here>

Ozarkian

07-01-08, 11:08 AM

Have you tried to rent one of these?

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Cynops/goat.jpg

One nice feature of these is that they can mow and fertilize at the same time.

emjaya

07-01-08, 06:43 PM

One nice feature of these is that they can mow and fertilize at the same time.

And they taste good too. ;)

cameraman

07-01-08, 07:09 PM

And they taste good too. ;)

Chevre....

yum

oddlycalm

07-01-08, 07:35 PM

And they taste good too. ;)
They do indeed, but it might puzzle your neighbors depending on where you live.

Back in the 70's when I was living in Idaho we butchered a young all-white whether we'd bought from a goat dairy and roasted him on a spit and got accused of eating the dog owned by some mouth breather from town, which had apparently shown sound judgement by running away. Seriously. :saywhat:

oc

cameraman

07-02-08, 12:59 AM

Okay then, how far up in the pan handle were you living anyway?

oddlycalm

07-02-08, 04:25 PM

Okay then, how far up in the pan handle were you living anyway?
Right in the West central part of the state, between Council and McCall on the North Fork of the Weiser River. The whole thing blew up into a full-on witch scare. Seriously. It made the front page of the Idaho Statesman above the fold 100 miles away in Boise twice in a month. And this was 1974, not 1774.

We were just there building a vacation house for folks from Oregon who had 20 acres on the river, but things got real ugly for the neighbors down the road who were the target of all the nastiness. The sons of the Council High School principal and the District Ranger for the USFS drove up and down the road in an old Ford Falcon taking pot shots at us with a .22 rifle one night. The neighbor shot out their tires and held them for the sheriff. Their parents tried hard to get them out of it, but the judge, a cool old guy named Harvey Whiteman, stomped them hard enough for us to think one of their parents must have pissed in his Wheaties at one time or another. That was the end of the witch scare.

So be careful with those goats if you live anywhere near a mill town full of slack jawed morons. :gomer:

oc

Ankf00

07-02-08, 05:24 PM

to further the derail, what's with hordes upon hordes of young people in Boise? Did not expect to see demographics typical of a good sized sun belt/west coast city that far from anywhere. The mormons around the mindhive compound, however, were weirder than expected.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/smurfturfholla.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mindhive.jpg

oddlycalm

07-02-08, 06:40 PM

to further the derail, what's with hordes upon hordes of young people in Boise?
HP and Zilog set up shop there back in the late 70's and it started a trend. Those companies need workers... the rest is history. Idaho has no land use laws at all so Boise turned into a massive sprawl of mostly young people. No idea how much good farm ground got subdivided, but it's a bunch.

During the same period logging was facing envormental hurdles West of the Cascades so they went nuts and logged off a bazillion acres of yellow pine (ponderosa) and closed most of the mills. That got rid of most of the millworkers, so it's no vacation wonderland for young folks and land prices have shot up. Better there than here...:D

cameraman

07-02-08, 07:08 PM

Idaho has no land use laws at all so Boise turned into a massive sprawl of mostly young people. Boise at rush hour is not a fun place.:shakehead

Cam

07-02-08, 07:58 PM

Boise is not a fun place.:shakehead

Fixxered. :)

Ankf00

07-02-08, 08:05 PM

Fixxered. :)

bull f'ing ****, Boise's a blast.

Gnam

07-02-08, 09:09 PM

to further the derail, what's with hordes upon hordes of young people in Boise? Did not expect to see demographics typical of a good sized sun belt/west coast city that far from anywhere.
West coast is the new 'back East'.
Western states are the new West.
Wagons East! mofo' :\

Ankf00

07-02-08, 09:24 PM

West coast is the new 'back East'.
Western states are the new West.
Wagons East! mofo' :\

Colorado, holla! :D

my western neighbors, cameraman's peoples, they freak me out though. they woudn't leave me be for more than 90seconds at a time w/o asking me time and again if I wanted to look up my family tree in their Brainiac computer system.

nrc

07-02-08, 09:26 PM

They call it paradise I don't know why
You call someplace paradise, kiss it goodbye.

oddlycalm

07-02-08, 09:45 PM

bull f'ing ****, Boise's a blast.
Yeah, Boise has been a real fun place going waaaaaaay back to the brothel and saloon days, which pretty much lasted until the techies showed up in the 1970's.

Skiing 20 minutes from downtown, some great restaurants, some great honky tonks, class 5 water to run on the North Fork Payette 20 minutes from town. McCall is an hour away, Sun Valley/Ketchum is an hour away, and only a bit farther to the Sawtooths, Hells Canyon, etc., etc.,

It was the mill towns and mining towns back in the day that were nasty. One thing about letting them cut down all the trees not locked up in a wilderness down is that the surly drunks that worked in the mills and their bosses had to move their trailer somewhere else. :cool:

And, yeah, the traffic really does blow these days, just like everyplace else that boomed.

oc

Bogus Basin ski area with Boise under the clouds below

http://www.idahosummits.com/fave_images/bogus.jpg

cameraman

07-03-08, 12:06 AM

my western neighbors, cameraman's peoples, they freak me out though. they woudn't leave me be for more than 90seconds at a time w/o asking me time and again if I wanted to look up my family tree in their Brainiac computer system.

First & foremost they ain't my peeps. I'm from midtown Manhattan fer Christ's sake. Where were you that you got the whole LDS thing laid on so thick anyway? Surely not at the University of Utah, we don't hire mormons. (at least that is what the legislature keeps telling everybody:rolleyes:) Ya have to view SLC as as if it were a huge junior high school. It is a group of cliques that actively ignore each other. You have your mormon companies and your non-mormon companies, you just need to make sure you are hanging with the right bunch of people. As for Salt Lake City proper, I have more gay neighbors than I do Mormon neighbors on my block.

Sean Malone

07-03-08, 12:14 AM

The last time I saw Boise...Trans Am street race circa '95. I think our pal Gentilover wonned. If it wasn't Boise, it looked just like it. :)

Ankf00

07-03-08, 12:23 AM

Where were you that you got the whole LDS thing laid on so thick anyway?.

undercover in the den of the mindhive. only a brown man sticks out worse than O'Gorman at a Skin party...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mrmon2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon3.jpg

Ankf00

07-03-08, 12:24 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon7.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/Ankf00/mormon8.jpg

they're working on Braniac/SkyNet in the temple basement. It's how they're going to take over the world.

cameraman

07-03-08, 12:34 AM

Okay then working inside the hive you just might get some pressure:rolleyes:

Ankf00

07-03-08, 12:40 AM

you seem touchy. you should have a glass of some contraband single malt :tony:

cameraman

07-03-08, 01:04 AM

Just got royally ****ed over by DARPA today and it has been a Bombay Sapphire evening. A little thin-skinned perhaps...

Gnam

07-03-08, 01:20 AM

At least the Effa Bee Eye isn't crashing at your place. :p

Ankf00

07-03-08, 01:33 AM

that sucks yo. we've been getting jobbed on every bid for nasa and nro the past year, I might be heading to Boise sooner than expected :gomer:

Cam

07-03-08, 09:29 AM

Methanolandbrats

07-03-08, 09:42 AM

Mormon's can be touchy. A friend of mine was lost in downtown Salt Lake and stopped to ask directions. The answer "well, it's right by the Tabernacle". His response "WTF is a Tabernacle?". :D Not much of a sense of humor in that area. :gomer:

Andrew Longman

07-03-08, 10:17 AM

Yes I have been to New Jersey. :irked:

YO! Come over 'ere. I t'ink I gotta cement salesman you't like ta meet.

As for Idaho. I can really comment. Didn't really do Boise except for the airport.
I backpacked in the Sawtooth Mountains for 11 days and the entire time I saw one person (other than my GF who was with me) from about 1/2 mile away.
I don't know if they are rude or just like to stick to themselves. :gomer:

oddlycalm

07-03-08, 03:46 PM

Crikey! I didn't mean to strike a nerve. My impressions of IDAHO all come from a week spent in Pocatello. Mormons everywhere and what I perceived to be one of the rudest places I have ever been. Yes I have been to New Jersey. :irked:
You're right about Pocatello, serious suckage. :thumdown: Thing about Idaho is the mountains and central wilderness divide it, so it's really like three or four different states and it's been changing a lot with the huge influx of new people that started coming in the 1970's and that turned into a flood since the mid-90's.

Not Pocatello though, it sucked then and it sucks now.

oc

Ankf00

07-03-08, 04:00 PM

YThing about Idaho is the mountains and central wilderness divide it
oc

like 50%+ of that place seems to be USFS lands and more BLM on top of that. crazy.

cameraman

07-03-08, 04:20 PM

My impressions of IDAHO all come from a week spent in Pocatello.I'm trying to come up with a valid reason why anyone would spend a week in Pocatello. It is hard. I can only think some kind of week long training dealio at Idaho State:confused:

Cam

07-03-08, 04:54 PM

I'm trying to come up with a valid reason why anyone would spend a week in Pocatello. It is hard. I can only think some kind of week long training dealio at Idaho State:confused:

Close. I was training the City of Pocatello engineering staff on the software that I was supporting at the time.

dando

07-03-08, 04:59 PM

I'm trying to come up with a valid reason why anyone would spend a week in Pocatello.

Fresh taters? :gomer:

-Kevin

07-04-08, 12:25 PM

Colorado, holla! :D

my western neighbors, cameraman's peoples, they freak me out though. they woudn't leave me be for more than 90seconds at a time w/o asking me time and again if I wanted to look up my family tree in their Brainiac computer system.Should have taken them up on the ancestor search. The brown-skin thin might have brought down Skynet.:D

They might have traced you to the Native Americans, the lost tribe of Israel.