01 Jul 09 08:05, Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:


 RW>> Almost. This month's Texas Monthly has an article about a guy who
 RW>> lives on the western edge of the Big Bend National Park. The
 RW>> pictures accompanying that article would remind you of Monument
 RW>> Valley. Those that he has taken from his airplane are spectacular.

 RN> What's the name of the article?  I have a link to that site.

I don't remember. If you find a map of the Big Bend park with the NWern
portion highlighted, that's it. Or a picture of the guys airplane, or a
picture of him standing ready to board a military fighter jet.

 RW>> Yeah, but when your mouth is in your hat, everyone knows it's a line
 RW>> of BS.

 RN> That's partially what she meant.  (-:

 RW>> My driveway in Poway was lined with evergreens. I deliberately
 RW>> trimmed them so that there was plenty of room to park under them,
 RW>> removing all of the lower branches for that. That also allowed the
 RW>> grass to grow under them too. The one in the front yard was about 60
 RW>> feet tall and I trimmed the lower branches so kids wouldn't be
 RW>> climbing on my roof.

 RN> It was almost impossible to get grass to grow beneath a pine tree
 RN> forest. If I wanted to do any climbing, I could go next door to the
 RN> City of Abita Springs Fire Tower (another story, but short) and climb
 RN> to the top.  I got permission from the dudes in the office first and
 RN> politely asked if I had to furnish my own parachute.  The resulting
 RN> expression on their collective faces was priceless.

LOL! I can imagine.

 RN> Anyway, the short story is that where I lived, I had a Covington
 RN> phone number, a Mandeville address and the City of Abita Springs next
 RN> door.  So, any time I stepped off the property, I was in another
 RN> town, depending on which direction I stepped.

And it was long distance to call your neighbor across the street.

 RW>> My neighbor has two figs growing in her front yard. She lets the
 RW>> figs go to seed...figs can be grown in the deserts of CA, but the
 RW>> ground west of the coastal mountains are made up of decomposed
 RW>> granite, so nothing grows unless you plant it in a hole bigger and
 RW>> deeper than the root ball. Even then, the trees that do grow in that
 RW>> stuff fall over easily because the tap root can't penetrate it.

 RN> That's a shame and seems like a waste of time trying to plant
 RN> something there.

During one of the storms we had there one spring, I found my shop under a
Eucalyptus tree because it was uprooted and fell on the roof. BTW, the
best part about those trees is they're heavy with oil...they have so much,
they become blazing fireballs during a fire because of it. I read in a
World magazine this morning that a bible camp near Dulzura lost every one
the 30+ trees they planted there 33 years ago. Those babys had to be 50
feet tall or better.

                R\%/itt

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