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   McDesign | Mar 25, 2007 01:23am | #1

   <fly for miles escaping the clutches of the imaginary mud hands trying to suck me in.>

   Ummm.

   Don't know if I can make a good enough sarcastic comment to do that straight line justice!

   Forrest - earthbound tonite

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   McDesign | Mar 25, 2007 01:38am | #3

   <fly for miles escaping the clutches of the imaginary mud hands trying to suck me in.>

   Sorry, I've just gotta' revisit that.  I mean, isn't that just perfect a metaphor (simile?)for the creative life?

   Whether the grasping hands are dull clients, accountants, insurance agents, etc., they're always there.

   Trick is to soar above them - you've got that right.

   Forrest

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   JohnT8 | Mar 27, 2007 11:35pm | #12

   Trick is to soar above them - you've got that right.

   Gonna trade that white car in for a gyro?

    jt8

   "Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."  -- Dr. Dale Turner

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   BossHog | Mar 25, 2007 01:26am | #2

   Sure is a muddy mess down here. I'd love to be doing some field work. But it's rained about every day for the past week.

   A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

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   DougU | Mar 25, 2007 06:34am | #9

   I'd love to be doing some field work. But it's rained about every day for the past week.

   typical farmer, bitch about the rain then bitch when we dont get any! :)

   doug

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   BossHog | Mar 25, 2007 02:46pm | #10

   "typical farmer, bitch about the rain then bitch when we dont get any!"

   That's the first thing they teach you in farmer school.

   (-:

   But seriously - It's wet enough that it's already certain to delay spring planting. It genuinely is a serious problem.
   OK, so what's the speed of dark?

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   StanFoster | Mar 25, 2007 03:23pm | #11

   Boss:    I am enjoying your farming thread.  That brings back memories of when I used to farm.   I was surprised at how much I have forgotten.   We were and still are corn/soybeans up here...with a 40 acre patch of wheat everyother year.

   Dad had a local pig factory pump their by-product over a mile through a huge hose.  They pumped it right to the field along State Rt. 9...then a quarter mile north to the wheat field where a tractor with an applicator injected that stuff.

   It didnt cost my dad a cent and it is really supposed to be good stuff.

   I can just see the pork chops and bacon growing this spring.

    

   Stan

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   JohnT8 | Mar 27, 2007 11:39pm | #13

   They should turn that pig mash into methane before using it to fortify the fields.  Run a couple generators.  Give Ameren a break.

    jt8

   "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."-- Mother Teresa

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   MRockwell | Mar 25, 2007 01:47am | #4

   That landscape looks like the neighborhood around here... a lot of standing water.  Love the banking pics.

   I take it you have a five-point harness in your gyro?

   I've been waiting for some non-rainy days to get up and see what it looks like from up high.  Only thing I don't look forward to in summer is density altitude...does it affect a gyro like it does a fixed wing?

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   StanFoster | Mar 25, 2007 06:29am | #8

   MRockwell:    I am afraid our friend density altitude has its hand on even gyrocopters.   I mainly notice the rate of climb goes down.

   Of course temperature and altitude both contribute to density altitude.

    

    

   Stan

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   FastEddie | Mar 25, 2007 01:50am | #5

   That's about 80 degrees more than my stomach would tolerate.

   "Put your creed in your deed."   Emerson

   "When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it."  T. Roosevelt

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   stinky | Mar 25, 2007 02:28am | #6

   I have not missed one of your pics... keep em coming , stinky

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   stinky | Mar 25, 2007 02:34am | #7

   the one pic that shows your shirt looks like your flying a Hornet in a tight formation getting ready to do some serious acrobatics...man that looks like some serious adrenalin rushes.  stinky