29 Jun 09 10:30, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> RN> All of the following is true, except what is false.
 RW>> LOL! You got that right.
 RN> I enjoy being right.
 RW>> Of course the Spanish were much smarter. When they found a
 RW>> north/south passage to/from Colorado between two mountain ranges,
 RW>> they named it El Paso... :o) BTW, the twin cities of El Paso and
 RW>> Ciudad Juarez, just across the Rio Grande - is the largest
 RW>> 'bi-national' community in the world.

 RN> Prettier country in your area, as far as I know.  I'd have to look at
 RN> a map of El Paso to refresh my memory.

West Texas is like the country one could see in the TV series "Lonesome
Dove"...It's also what you could picture in your mind when you think about
cowboys and the old west.

 RW>> the next thing you know, they'll try to make like the forests of
 RW>> California and Montana actually compare to Texas and Lousiana
 RW>> forests.

 RN> They can do that.  (-:

They can try.

 RW>> i.e. Eucalyptus trees are not indiginous to California. They were
 RW>> imported by a Dr Scripps, who thought California could use some
 RW>> trees besides the scrawny weed like mesquite bushes growing there.
 RW>> If you ever get to San Diego and Balboa Park, they have giant
 RW>> eucalyptus trees and a few other exotics, imported from the south
 RW>> sea area.

 RN> How tall do they get?

Maybe 50-60 feet...they're so brittle that they break over in a strong
wind. Not to mention that they're the filthiest tree I know of. Not much
can grow beneath them because they're so desidious. Not to mention that
their umbelliate droppings are toxic to everything else.

 RW>> They even had to import Pecan trees from Texas so they could enjoy
 RW>> pecans without buying them from Texans.

 RN> Didn't want any of ours, huh?

Maybe they did. I know pecans aren't native to CA...

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