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If I remember right, it was a wind machine turbine? being trucked to Eastern Washington, or Eastern Oregon, that didn't quite fit going through one of our (Portland) freeway tunnels last year ...doesn't look like that picture though. It took days to figure out how to take the trailer or load apart to get it out of the the tunnel. Luckily didn't do any major structural damage the tunnel. I know as Motorhomers we have to always be on the lookout for places we don't fit, have to know our height, width, and weight too (a detour because of mud slides one year was forbidden to us as we were technic

This whole pet food contamination thing has me so mad, sad, and angry!!! Why didn't they learn from the previous nasty poisonous pet food and recall problem was it only last year? Whatever happened to quality control??? And why on earth would we be sending our wheat etc to third world countries, yes I think China is a third world country no matter what they think, and then they send it back refined down to products like wheat gluten? What's wrong with our flour mills here doing that and saving on all that wasted fuel to ship it back and forth across the world? Stupid trade agreements with ot

Hello my friends, I've missed you folks!!! Come on and have a cup of coffee with me while I tell you about some of the wierd hard stuff that has happened this past month to friends, family and us. The hard times started off with a dear friend's house burning down, Thank God her wonderful 150 lb German Shepherd woke her up in time to run out of the house!!! Unfortunately the last reports I have heard is that wonderful dog died along with all her birds, another small dog, and most of the cats/kittens though two cats survived, some outdoor caged animals such as chickens and rabbits died too. Sh

Dear Handplane, we continue to pray for you to be completely healed!!! Love and prayers from both me and my hubby!!! Pat God bless everyone

You're welcome. Good luck with it later on. Let us know how it turns out. Pat God bless everyone

Hello Marty, We are more alike than not, we value many of the same things...family, friends, our beloved BestTechie family, our blessings, our concerns about the world around us, and a whole lot more I'm sure. I think the message boards tend to show us that we do value the same things in life...no matter where we are in the world. That we care about each other. Oh sure some boards, yes even this one has a few that are materialistic, but most of us are just normal people trying to do a good job with our lives and time here on earth. Sure alot of people have more money than sense in this country

Hi Sultan, I was able to check your link ok yesterday, saw a Windows XP download link for the product, but no real explanation of what it was all about as far as I could see. So maybe the site crashed today with to many people checking it out? The Ask links to the jahplayer site don't work either. One was to a forum for it too. I did an Ask search for both jahplayer and jplayer, with plenty of results for each, but I didn't see any connection between the two. Then again I have no idea what either is for anyhow...sorry about that. Just adding my two cents worth..remember that two cents doesn't

Have had a pedometer fall off into the toilet a couple of times...yep it still worked, including the voice nag, after fishing it out and disinfecting it with lysol spray. Broke the end cover piece off the newest flash drive recently trying to open it. Just couldn't figure out how to open it with my near sighted eyes, and no instructions. Works fine anyhow!!! wheewww!!! Hubby has lost many a wrist watch, along with pagers, and ham radio walkie talkie things at work skinying into and out of manholes and storm drains etc. Unfortunately never recovered any to see if they still would keep on tickin

You're welcome Sultan my friend. I've had fun researching that and other things lately. Found some really good websites along the way...ain't life great when we can add new links to our favorites? Pat God bless everyone

I'm like you Marty! I learned quite a bit by this thread. As for growing cactus...peyote or not...I have no luck at all. (Ooops I'd better clarify that I never tried to grow peyote!!!) I always over water them even though I don't water any of my house plants as often as most people. And in our rainy climate, they would definitely drown outside. Thanks for the links to the article and pictures of both peyote and poppy folks!!! Liz, that is a gorgeous poppy but nothing like ones red or orange ones I have seen or had. Wow!!! Loved the Weed story too. Your Grandma sounded delightful. Now with med

Happy Belated Birthday Joe, May you be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone

I don't live in tornado or hurricane territory, but we do get strong wind storms in the NW. And unfortunately I have seen (long time ago) mobile home anchors fail even in an ordinary wind with a (now that I think about it it may have been an 8 wide instead of ten it was pretty old) ten wide MH...one facing into the wind...it had no skirts and still had tires...so wind was able to get under it and start bucking it...didn't take long to pull up the front side anchors and the ones further back came out a short time later resulting in roof damage from not only the wind but the bucking up against c

Grew up poor on a small farm. Yes there was a hike up the trail to the outhouse...luxury was having store toilet paper...otherwise it was Sears or Wards calalogs.. and bees in the summer to worry about, and spiders all year long!!! Oh how I love indoor plumbing...though still have the occasional spider. Had a well that was on an underground stream a hundred feet down. So pumping the water up took ages, but oh in the summer time it was so cold it would frost the glass up. Great tasting water too...all those minerals were good for us. As was fresh air, walking about a quarter of a mile to the sc

Glad you Southern folks and your families are safe!!! One of the weather forecasters here in Portland, says he saw the typical national patterns setting up, called his folks in Missouri for them to be on the lookout overnight for one batch of those super cells, then later told us the super cells that hit Alabama that the tornado winds were likely up around 240 mph. Yikes!!! Jet stream at 75mph was way down south on the U.S. map carrying the warn moist gulf air which collided with the cold air from the North which produced the terrible tornado winds. Recipe for disaster. My question is why mobi

Today's Oregonian had another article on the sea lions and their quest for en easy lunch at Bonneville Dam on the Columbia. Seems like they are pulling a gang up method to kill sturgeon on their way up river to spawn. Bad enough they are killing so many of the wild salmon, but to gangster style take out the sturgeon is awful....yet the Feds still protect the sea lions, as "endangered species", from being killed to even out things. Sea Lions are plentiful on the coast and on the river....taking over public and private docks completely at times. And who would dare argue with a huge sea lion over

Yes Fort Vancouver is certainly an mportant place to our NW History. I never really thought much about the garden aspect of it though. And haven't visited the site for many years, even though Vancouver Washinton, and the Fort, is just across the Columbia River from Portland Oregon right along I5. I just Googled for the Fort and here is a link to the National Park Service site for it. Many interesting sections on the website. Though I felt it could have added more detail. Fort Vancouver National Park Service This site although quite commercial, does give some good information on Vancouver, in

Yes I thought the name mescaline sounded familiar, though wasn't sure if it was peyote, or something else. I think the last I heard was it was finally decided that under controlled circumstances it would be legal for American Indian ceremonies under religious rules. I sort of remember it also being a military question of an American Indian soldier's right to use it or not in Iraq or other battlefield environment, but think it was denied. Liz, don't necessarily assume that all poppies are the opium poppy. As I understand it, they are not the right variety. But all poppy seeds will cause a drug

Ha Ha!!! Pat God bless everyone

Yeah I thought the ads were ironic too Liz, so much for targeted ads. Ha!!! Is that the same as the common salvia that people plant in yards for flowers? I remember reading in our Oregonian paper last summer about salvia being hallucinagenic (sp?). I thought most wanting something like that went mushroom hunting in our NW forests. Oh well...gardens save them a hike to the woods...Huh?! Have had kids grab leaves off my rhubarb, and try to smoke the green, at times wet even, leaf as they walk off. Never have heard if they got a buzz off it...or just desperately nuts enough to try anything. Anoth

Thanks Sultan, I put it in my favorites to read tomorrow. Pat God bless everyone

Backup regularly to flash drives (disconnect them properly) is easier than doing cds. Don't forget to backup the Favorites folder. Scan with antivirus and antispyware before backing stuff up. Update Update Update, but not necessarily with auto update, do pick and choose what Windows updates you really need and when to download especially if on dialup. Download stuff to a folder then scan with your antivirus, and your antispyware before opening. Use an adblocker and/or a popup blocker, and don't click yes to just anything and everything that asks you to. Don't say yes to, or click on, ads or po

Thanks Sultan!!! Bless you my friend, for such a great link, it's in my favorites now!!! I just spent the last 20 or 30 minutes viewing all the domestic cats, and many many pages of beautiful landscapes....ahhhhhhhh! Took out all the stress of last couple of days of doing taxes!!! Pat God bless everyone

Cry uncontrollably...to blubber! Pat God bless everyone

This is a great tasting fish!!! Expensive too, unless you can talk a fisherman friend out of some of his catch. By the way caviar comes from sturgeon. The current size limits I think are at least 42 inches up to maximum of 60 (which translates to about a 20 year old fish if I remember right). And a limit of 5 per year. This link tells of many types of Sturgeon. They are a very ancient fish species. Columbia River Sturgeon with lots of info and pictures The next link (Frazier River, British Columbia, Canada) has some nice photos. Ooops forgot to put the link in, so when I find the exact one I

Happy Belated Birthday!!! May you each be blessed with a long life filled with good health, happiness, and prosperity. Pat God bless everyone