0n (28 Sep 03) Frank Vest wrote to Cindy Haglund...

 FV> On (28 Sep 03) Cindy Haglund wrote to Frank Vest...

 FV> Hello Cindy,

 FV> Actually, the basket is about 3 feet tall on lowest part. Probably 4
 FV> feet on the corners. No chairs or straps. You stand for the flight and
 FV> look any direction you desire.

 CH>  Anybody ever get sea er flight sick ? 

 FV> Not since I've been crewing. 

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

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

 How are man made lakes made. I understand they create a hole with
explosives. Form the thing the shape they want and then fill it with
water. Where does the water come from? And who come they don't create
a beach/shore but as with the Bambrook (sp) lake it's just a
continuation of the srub brush.

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

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 CH> A scattering of tall buildings, parks... narrow waterway (Trinity
 CH> River)_.... stuck smack davitin the middle of no-where. 

 FV> Yeah. Does look like a lot of open land... and there is. Wish it would
 FV> stay that way.

 It' will stay 'open' but filled with ditto developments; full of
supersized houses owners will be too busy taking care of to do much
else but work to afford to live there. :(  I hate to sound depressing
but that's how it is here in Texas. Depressing... But hey we can
pretend not to be!!! yahoo!

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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.

 You'd not want to come back here if you did.
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 CH>  One thing a bit off topic from this I hve been wanting to ask you. Is
 CH> just how is it all the tall glass paneled sky scrappers manage to
 CH> survive the annual hail storms come spring? :) I'm hoping the fact
 CH> they do survive means such storms are not at all too common or brutal
 CH> as
 CH> I've read they can be.

 FV> I really have no idea. I try to stay out of downtown Dallas and Ft.
 FV> Worth.

 Downtown FW isn't bad. Actually it's rather pleasant. The tall
buildings are scattered far apart enough so you don't get that
'trapped in' feeling. I've never been in downtown Dallas, and by the
looks of it from our route to Plano for the balloon fest, I don't want
to find out.

BTW 40 years JFK assassination comes up this November. Get ready for
all the conspiracy freaks to bloom afresh. Let's put on our 'grin and
bear it, smiley hats.

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

 Accounts for the roads being so bumpy. There's a newly repaved
stretch of highway en route to Grapevine. AHHHHHH so nice!
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 FV> Corn dogs are the reason to go to the fair or other events. :)

 There's a corn dog eating contest going on somewhere this weekend.
One's enough for me! :) And the one's at Plano didn't taste at all
greasy. The cornbread was sweet/crispy on the outside just right.
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 FV> I'm just remembering. As a kid, I got my first corn dog at the
 FV> Oklahoma State Fair. Nasty, greasy things that are cooked in oil that
 FV> you know is old by people that you know didn't wash much of anything.
 FV> Still... they are good. :)

 I suspect today they have to follow certain cooking rules. The last
area of big b. regulation Raegan couldn't ruin.
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 CH> The corn bread part reminds me of an excellent corn bread recipe I
 CH> have from a friend in PA. I'll send it you you if you like. I'm
 CH> thinking of
 CH> finding a corn dog pan and making my own corn dogs. But baked instead
 CH> of fried. (Are we getting hungry yet?)

 FV> Just had supper. :)

 Want the recipe? It's super easy. I cut it in half... Better than
this is that variety you put a can of creamed corn and a cup of
cheddar into (dotted with jalapeno peppers )

Cindy

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