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

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!

'bout 6 months. :)

 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.

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

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

Many man made lakes are feed from streams and rivers that are dammed
up. The engineers locate a place by calculating how high the water
will rise based on the height of the dam and what area will be
covered. Then the city, county or state "acquire" the land that will be
covered and the dam is built. That's why many lakes have tree stumps
and such in them. They once were fields or small forests.

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

Salt water would not be real good inland, I think. Salt water tends to
kill most non-marine plant life and soaks into the soil surrounding
the lake. To make a salt water lake inland would require that the area
be sealed in some manner, I would think, so as to prevent the salt
water from leaching into the surrounding land.

 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.

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

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

 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.

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


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

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

Mass amounts of traffic account for most of that.

 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.

Still a lot of grease in them.

 CH> The corn bread part reminds me of an excellent corn bread recipe I
 FV> Just had supper. :)

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

Already got several cornbread recipes, thanks. :)


Frank

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