0n (30 Sep 03) Frank Vest wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 FV> On (30 Sep 03) Cindy Haglund wrote to Frank Vest...

 FV> Hello Cindy,

 CH>  Anybody ever get sea er flight sick ? 

 FV> Not since I've been crewing. 

 CH>  How long have you been up to this :) Pun intended!

 FV> 'bout 6 months. :)

 You started back during the big nasty!? 

 FV> On one flight I got to ride in, we flew over the old Texas Instruments
 FV> building. The parking lot and stuff looked like a toy. :)
 

 CH>  DO you go over any of the 'lakes' ? I gotta ask you about those lakes
 CH>  so here's a topic hop.

 FV> Not if we can help it. Lakes tend to be places where down drafts and
 FV> such hang out. :)


 I see. Pretty view though. :)
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 FV> Many man made lakes are feed from streams and rivers that are dammed
 FV> up. The engineers locate a place by calculating how high the water
 FV> will rise based on the height of the dam and what area will be
 FV> covered. Then the city, county or state "acquire" the
land that will
 FV> be covered and the dam is built. That's why many lakes have tree
 FV> stumps

 I noticed that. Even on the 'shore' they cut a bunch down around
Bambrok 'lake'. Not a good place to take your dog btw. Good grief. OUr
two hated it. Made like hell back to the car. Got full of burs....

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 FV> In lakes created this way, the river "channel" is still
there. That's
 FV> why you can go to a lake and fish for channel catfish. ;)

  I love catfish! :)

 CH> Y'know what would be waycool? If they created a 'salt lake' with
 CH> beach... and didn't charge an arm and a leg for folks to enjoy it.
 CH> Something like the Japanese Garden in FW. Lovely place! Rich folks
 CH> have tons of money to toss away so why not. This garden was a gravel
 CH> pit back before it's development in the '70's. Amazing!

 FV> Salt water would not be real good inland, I think. Salt water tends to
 FV> kill most non-marine plant life and soaks into the soil surrounding

 True. I was thinking of that big come and go lake in north western
Australia. Saw a PBS NATURE show about it awhile back. :) This area;
a shallow valley floods (torrential rains), every five to ten years or so,
takes two years to dry up. During this period the area springs to life.
It's magical. :) Animals will come for water, flowers bloom everywhere.
And there are frogs having laid dormant for five years ... hopping happily
all over the place... I ought to go look it up.
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FV> the lake. To make a salt water lake inland would require that the area
 FV> be sealed in some manner, I would think, so as to prevent the salt
 FV> water from leaching into the surrounding land.

 Lots of rich folks down here. I imagine it could be done given the
 will. You've seen the Japanese Garden in FW? Now that is amazing! To
 think it was once a gravel pit.

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 FV> "Open" to me means undeveloped in this case. Fields and
such as that
 FV> would qualify. Housing developments and such do not.

 Nod. At least FW isn't as claustrophobic as Dallas.

 Keller is being eaten up by developers as we speak. :( Everything
 taking on a sterile look.
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 CH> Being from the hilly parts or Upstate Western NYS I can never quite
 CH> get over how flat it is here. Yes even Florida is flat though much
 CH> wetter.
 CH> It's just amazing. Scary even :)

 FV> I'd kinda like to fly over the hills or in the mountains once... just
 FV> to say I did.

 CH>  You'd not want to come back here if you did.

 FV> I've been in the mountains. I've even took a steam train from New
 FV> Mexico to Colorado through the mountains. I already don't want to
 FV> "come back here". :-)

  I've hiked a bit in Paradise Pass (Mt. Baldy) with my youngest
brother. It's awesome. OH gosh it's awesome. :) I see Texas as a place
of complacency. Perfect for the wage salve. Work/go home/eat/tv/go to
bed/work/go hoem/eat/tv....  :( If you have no love for communint with
nature, Texas is perfect. They can have it.


 FV> Yes, the storms can be rough around here.

 I'm shaking in my shoes about what's to come. September was tame.
Nice. October is nice so far....

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 CH>  Accounts for the roads being so bumpy. There's a newly repaved
 CH> stretch of highway en route to Grapevine. AHHHHHH so nice!

 FV> Mass amounts of traffic account for most of that.

 True especially all the big trucks for serving construction. Brand
new concrete roads in our development and there's cracks in a few
already. Interesting the roads are concrete, not asphalt. I mean
they're laid out in slabs, not the way raods are usually laid out.
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 FV> Corn dogs are the reason to go to the fair or other events. :)

 CH>  There's a corn dog eating contest going on somewhere this weekend.
 CH> One's enough for me! :) And the one's at Plano didn't taste at all
 CH> greasy. The cornbread was sweet/crispy on the outside just right.

 FV> Still a lot of grease in them.

 True but dang, we only have them once a great while. :) (Yep as with
a few other rich goodies (Dream cheese cake being another fatty
favorite.)
          
 Cindy
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