Full Version: Greetings from the Great White North!

From: John (ICTJOHN) [#5]
 7 Feb 2007
To: Vicky (ANDERI) [#4] 7 Feb 2007

It has been proven recently that Kansas is flatter than a pancake............. :O)

From: Vicky (ANDERI) [#6]
 7 Feb 2007
To: John (ICTJOHN) [#5] 7 Feb 2007

Ahhh....That would make it a crêpe (pronounced sort of like "creyp", not "creep" ;-) )

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#7]
 7 Feb 2007
To: John (ICTJOHN) [#5] 8 Feb 2007

quote:
It has been proven recently that Kansas is flatter than a pancake

...and that western Kansas has one tree and a buffalo. B-)

From: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#8]
 7 Feb 2007
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#7] 7 Feb 2007

But at least it's windy there, too.

From: John (ICTJOHN) [#9]
 8 Feb 2007
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#7] 8 Feb 2007

I think I heard that tree fell on top of the buffalo, now the only thing that is worth going out there is... the Colorado state line :O)


~

From: Boz (CHEDDARHEAD) [#10]
 8 Feb 2007
To: ALL

Ah Vicky, you're not supposed to say anything to anyone. We have this lovely little area that we want to keep that way. SSSSSSHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Now that the cat is out of the bag, we might as well go on and gloat. Saturday, we left the shop at 9:00 AM and it was 15 below 0. We drove 3 hours to northern Minnesota to meet someone and pick up a machine. At noon, in the Wallly World parking lot in Alexandria, MN. it was a balmy -14 degrees with a nice fresh 20 mph breeze. It took exactly 6 minutes to find her van in a pretty busy parking lot, circle it once to let her know we were there, back up to her van, open the tailgate, lift the machine out of her van and place it in the back of the truck, lash it down, wave goodbye, and drive away. She rolled her window down as I was getting into the truck and said, Hi I'm <name>. I left my ski mask in place and said, nice to meet ya, I'm a bank robber. And off we went. No further dicussion needed. We made it back to Hudson about 6:30 PM and our high for the day's trip was -9 degrees.

On Sunday, our high temp was -8.

Today it started out at -14 this morning, but it is going to get all the way up to 9 DEGREES ABOVE 0. Yippeeeeeeee. And we are all walking around with our coats open and saying "It's not too bad today."

So Vicky, when I saw the picture you posted, and had my wrist touching my desk, which feels to be about 50 degrees, all I could do was shivver.

But it sure makes us appreciate those two weeks of road construction we get every July. I even take my polar fleece off and wash it during the two weeks of summer. 8-O

From: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#11]
 8 Feb 2007
To: Boz (CHEDDARHEAD) [#10] Unread

You only have 2 weeks of road construction????

Wow.....it's a year-around thing in Texas.

It's so bad here that we changed our official "state animal" to a traffic barricade.

From: Vicky (ANDERI) [#12]
 8 Feb 2007
To: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#11] 10 Feb 2007

Haven't you heard? The four seasons in Canada (and apparently in the Northern US as well) are:


People around here actually prefer driving in winter because the snow fills in all the potholes. :O)

EDITED: 8 Feb 2007 by ANDERI

From: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#13]
 8 Feb 2007
To: Cody (BOBTNAILER) [#11] 10 Feb 2007

Cody,

I thought Texas started a new economical Department of Transportation (DOT) construction barricade program. I heard the DOT employees were painting the road kill along the highways a reflective orange color, than aligning them in the direction they wanted traffic to go. :D

From: basehorawards [#14]
 8 Feb 2007
To: Engravin' Dave (DATAKES) [#7] 8 Feb 2007

Did you know we (Kansas) used to have a National Forest?

http://www.kshs.org/portraits/kansas_national_forest.htm

and the largest elm tree in the nation? By country living standards it was just down the road from our farm. Unbelievably huge with branches that were 6 feet in diameter. It finally succumbed to the weather and age.

http://www.wamego.org/elm.htm

Well, now that I think about it this is north central kansas

From: logojohn [#15]
 8 Feb 2007
To: basehorawards [#14] 9 Feb 2007

quote:
largest elm tree in the nation


Don't forget another of Kansas' great attractions - the "World's largest hand-dug well". There is even a sign on the highway for it!
http://www.bigwell.org/bigwell.html

If you visit there for 2 days you can also make time for The World's Largest Ball of Twine . . . No joke. http://skyways.lib.ks.us/kansas/towns/Cawker/twine.html We got a call and actually had to reschedule work in Liberal, Kansas. It fell on shrove Tuesday and it couldn't be done on that important of a day. All the local ladies race down the street while flipping pancakes in a frying pan and the same time people in England do it to find a winner. http://www.cityofliberal.com/thingstodo/spevents/pancake.html I lived there for 7 years traveling all over the state.

EDITED: 8 Feb 2007 by LOGOJOHN

From: basehorawards [#16]
 9 Feb 2007
To: logojohn [#15] 9 Feb 2007

We also have a world-class space museum

http://www.cosmo.org/

and an incredible dinasaur museum

http://www.fhsu.edu/sternberg/

and who could come to Kansas without seeing these gems
The Garden of Eden (and you thought it was in Mesopotamia)

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/KSLUCeden.html

Rock City

http://www.washburn.edu/cas/art/cyoho/archive/KStravel/rockcity/

and for a small town with a lot of heart and a lot of neat stuff to see

http://www.wamego.org/

When our kids were younger and not as busy with school we used to take trips around the state to see all the sights

P.S. if you make it to Wamego then you really ought to take the short trip up Onaga road to my birthplace

http://www.onagakansas.org/onaga1.htm

They don't have my childhood home on the Sites of Interest yet but just wait until my oldest becomes the first astronaut to play soccer on Mars and I'm sure they will add it.


Vicky what do you have up there besides snow?

From: John (ICTJOHN) [#17]
 9 Feb 2007
To: basehorawards [#16] 9 Feb 2007

Oh, and in the southern part of the state, US Highway 54 is officially called "The Yellow Brick Road" - you just click your heels together and you're home!

:B

From: basehorawards [#18]
 9 Feb 2007
To: John (ICTJOHN) [#17] 9 Feb 2007

When I told my wife about this thread she mentioned about six more neat places. If we keep at it eventually we will be able to pull all these threads and make a travel guide for Kansas.

From: Vicky (ANDERI) [#19]
 9 Feb 2007
To: basehorawards [#16] 9 Feb 2007

quote:
Vicky what do you have up there besides snow?
Ummm.... polar bears? Just kidding. Those are a little further north than I am. :O)

Gosh, if you're looking for sight-seeing or historical attractions, we have more than I could ever possibly list. Ontario seems to be where all the explorers landed in their search for the trade routes to China, but got confused by all the big lakes and wound up going south instead. ;-)

But I'm not as attached to Ontario as you seem to be to your State. I'm a native born 'n' raised Quebecer. Spent the first 30 years of my life there, so it'll always be "home" to me. If you're looking for a less expensive European vacation, you could always go to Montreal or Quebec City. :-) Excellent food, great skiing, lots of history.

From: LG (WAIIB) [#20]
 9 Feb 2007
To: basehorawards [#18] 9 Feb 2007

Besides the space museum, we will also soon have a salt mine museum 600-700 ft. down. www.undergroundmuseum.org/ ICTJOHN has some neat places over there. Sports Hall of Fame, Exploration Place, the Zoo.

From: basehorawards [#21]
 9 Feb 2007
To: LG (WAIIB) [#20] 9 Feb 2007

Are you in Hutch? I will be down there the third week in July. My oldest son will be doing level 4 of the Future Astronaut Training Program at the Cosmosphere. This year they are going straight to Florida to the Kennedy Space Center.

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