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. ;)
 CH>   I love catfish! :)

 FV> Me too. :)

 :) So tender! There's a place in Keller called "Catfish!" ..but its
all fried and  you taste mostly the fried part. Razzo's in FW has
wonderful catfish! :) Oh gosh. I want to go there again while the
weather is still nice so we can eat outside. I had the catfish with
pecan sacue and I'm telling you it was wonderful! :)

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 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

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

 FV> Lakes like that are neat, but hardly man made. :)

 Oh of course they're not man made ! Heh.
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 CH>  Lots of rich folks down here. I imagine it could be done given the
 CH>  will. You've seen the Japanese Garden in FW? Now that is amazing! To
 CH>  think it was once a gravel pit.


 FV> I've never seen the Japanese Garden in FW. I suppose that some
 FV> millionaire in Texas could create a salt lake, but why? It would be
 FV> simpler and easier to just take a trip to the Gulf and be done with
 FV> it. ;)

 OH Frank take yourself and the missus... it's lovely! Now is the
right time too. Not to hot and still warm enough. :) It's beautiful!
You'll forget wehre you are. Adm fee was 3 bucks. When you enter the
garden you are in a 'pre garden' sort of spot and then you come to the
booth where you pay the admission fee.

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

 FV> True. Give it time.

 CH>  Keller is being eaten up by developers as we speak. :( Everything
 CH>  taking on a sterile look.

 FV> Yup. McKinney is the same way. It's amazing. People want the country
 FV> feel with all the perks of the city. They move to the country, create
 FV> malls and other city businesses and then complain that the country is
 FV> gone.


 Yeah... it is , gone. :( We ate in town one day... I liked to walke
around ... It felt good. A good homey feeling. Every place having its
own unqiue character complete with all the little imperfections and
the mature trees...

 FV> It's kinda like those people that go to "rough it in the wild" with
 FV> their travel trailers, computer links, satellite TV and such. :)

 Yeah. (shaking head).

Cindy

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