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<p>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...<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>I hope the ATIS list is well archived somewhere because
there is a real wealth of information shared by all it's
members.</div>
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<div>I still sorely miss George Willer and will never forget
my visit with Herb Metz at his home.</div>
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<div>I think I need to add Portland to my bucket list to meet
you folks.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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. <br>
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<div>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."</div>
<div>Rambling farther off track (not a cinder track).
:-)<br>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>Speaking of languages, we have become friends
with a Greek family who have a local gyro based
restaurant (pronounced <span
class="gmail-m_2812082207888056499gmail-lr_dct_ph
gmail-m_2812082207888056499gmail-XpoqFe"><span>ˈyērō</span>)</span>.
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.</div>
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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".</div>
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