[AT] OT don't take any Buffalo Nickels and weather.

[Cecil Bearden]

Well, it has not rained in 5 days.   Temp hit 98 today.  The air is as 
heavy as Grandma's quilt..  Hay is being cut everywhere.  I hope to 
start tomorrow.  The A/C will have to be recharged, and a few Univesal 
joints need to be greased. The fuel leaked out through the injector 
pump.  Not unusual for a CAV pump...
Cecil

On 6/28/2019 9:52 PM, Mogrits wrote:
>
>     Farmer:
>
>
>  Farmer,
>
> I'm 5 days late but want to say I really enjoy the posts you make like 
> this. You too, Cecil. And all the rest of you.
>
> I hope the ATIS list is well archived somewhere because there is a 
> real wealth of information shared by all it's members.
>
> I still sorely miss George Willer and will never forget my visit with 
> Herb Metz at his home.
>
> I  think I need to add Portland to my bucket list to meet you folks.
>
> Warren
>
>
>     On 6/23/2019 2:52 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
>>     I find this discussion a little surprising... I was taught in
>>     about the 6th grade (in a small rural school in the 1950's) that
>>     what we all call buffalo are really scientifically true bison and
>>     that early explorers were just guessing as to what they were. It
>>     was much like them thinking at first that this was the far side
>>     of the world and them calling everybody "Indians". The name just
>>     stuck and so did buffalo.
>>     Even back when I was in school it was understood that most people
>>     would probably always continue to call them buffalo in casual
>>     conservation and I still do. By the time I learned that they were
>>     really bison I had already learned the words dog, cat, cow etc.
>>     and bison was a strange sounding name to me.
>>     Languages are funny things... Always evolving but not always in a
>>     good way. I have a few pet peeves from more recent years about
>>     how people butcher things. I watch a lot of DIY stuff and keep
>>     saying (mostly to the TV screen) "No, that is not ship-lap. Every
>>     old 8" board is not ship-lap!" or "No that is not a "cinder
>>     block! It is either a cement block or a concrete block... It is
>>     only a cinder block if it was produced using cinders for the
>>     aggregate and very few of those are being produced these days."
>>     Rambling farther off track (not a cinder track). :-)
>>     When Diana and I got married in June 1963 we rented a small house
>>     at the edge of town for a year and a half that was on a full
>>     basement all made of actual cinder block. When that first winter
>>     came along I got a real shock. The cinders were quite coarse and
>>     the block walls were not even close to being air tight. When the
>>     winter winds began to howl you could not heat the basement. If
>>     you lit a candle (I really did) and held it next to the west wall
>>     on a high wind day it would blow the candle out.
>>     Speaking of languages, we have become friends with a Greek family
>>     who have a local gyro based restaurant (pronounced ˈyērō). Really
>>     nice family. We were eating there a day or two ago and a lady and
>>     I believe her daughter sat a the booth behind me and were
>>     chatting. I wasn't sure what language they were speaking but it
>>     wasn't English. When things slowed down our friends came out to
>>     visit with them and I realized that that they had been chatting
>>     in Greek. It was a happy visit for the 4 of them and I had to
>>     chuckle a few times as they talked listening to them as all 4 of
>>     them flip-flopped from Greek to English over and over again. It
>>     was maybe about 60% Greek and 40% English. Our friends are quite
>>     good at English so it was funny hearing the sudden  shift from
>>     rapid fire Greek to a perfectly enunciated full sentence or more
>>     in English then instantly back to Greek. I can only assume that
>>     some thoughts just might be easier to express in English and some
>>     easier in Greek. We have some Chinese friends but they always
>>     speak all Chinese or all English. We also have Hispanic friends
>>     and family and they also speak mostly all one or the other. I
>>     have always wished I could learn other languages but while I have
>>     learned many thing in my time, other languages are just not a big
>>     part of my skill set. I do speak American English, British
>>     English, Australian English and a little New  Zealand English... 
>>     :-)  I do also speak a little dog, cat and horse.
>>     .
>>     Dang! I'm getting burned out on daily raining... Crops are all
>>     over the place in quality and some fields are still not planted
>>     and still standing water. One problem with a really wet spring
>>     here is that if the ground stays too wet too long the corn will
>>     not put down many deep roots then if it suddenly turns very dry
>>     it doesn't have a root system deep enough to get good moisture.
>>     If that happens the guys that use irrigation here may benefit
>>     from its use.
>>     It's been "interesting" with these everyday rains going past the
>>     local Whitecastle joint in a down pour of rain and seeing their
>>     sprinkler system running. It must be under "corporate control".
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