Public service announcement for our California riders
- Thread starter Coyote Chris
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DO NOT do that. Stay away. It is a horrible place.
The smell of cow excrement and pig poop is pervasive. You can't go for a walk (some fool will stop and offer you a ride home). In the fall, you will end up with more garden produce than you can possibly eat. Every church and civic club has Fall Harvest meals. You can drive 30 or 90, no one seems to care. and, on that drive, you might even see another car. A 20 minute dog walk takes 2 to 3 hours. In the grocery store, you will meet a neighbor or high school class mate . . . there goes an hour! People in old pickups wave as they meet you. If you don't mow your lawn regularly, someone will call to see if you're OK, or if you need a hand. The Deputy Sheriff up the street stops you while you're walking to remind you to wave at his little daughter who waits in the window for you and your dog to go by.
I could go on and on, but I won't.
I will simply repeat S T A Y A W A Y.
The smell of cow excrement and pig poop is pervasive. You can't go for a walk (some fool will stop and offer you a ride home). In the fall, you will end up with more garden produce than you can possibly eat. Every church and civic club has Fall Harvest meals. You can drive 30 or 90, no one seems to care. and, on that drive, you might even see another car. A 20 minute dog walk takes 2 to 3 hours. In the grocery store, you will meet a neighbor or high school class mate . . . there goes an hour! People in old pickups wave as they meet you. If you don't mow your lawn regularly, someone will call to see if you're OK, or if you need a hand. The Deputy Sheriff up the street stops you while you're walking to remind you to wave at his little daughter who waits in the window for you and your dog to go by.
I could go on and on, but I won't.
I will simply repeat S T A Y A W A Y.
Manfred
Stuart Brogden
And you got trouble in River City! Trouble with a capitol "T" and that rhymes with "P" and that stands for pool!
You wasted your time. They won’t understand.
Another draw back . . . Friday we are going to a farm run by a Mennonite couple and an Amish couple. They milk between 300 and 400 cows and have an onsite milk processing plant. They also make the best frozen yogurt on the planet!!! Serve yourself and pay on the honor system. No one around to take your money.
So . . . Friday they are having a pulled pork sandwich with chips and pop (and free frozen yogurt samples) as a thank you. Plus a tour of the farm on a wagon pulled by a tractor.
For this, we will be charged $6 a person. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
www.countryviewdairy.com
So . . . Friday they are having a pulled pork sandwich with chips and pop (and free frozen yogurt samples) as a thank you. Plus a tour of the farm on a wagon pulled by a tractor.
For this, we will be charged $6 a person. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
Country View Dairy
Located in Hawkeye, Iowa, Country View Dairy makes all natural farmstead yogurt in both Original and Greek style, using the wholesome milk from our family’s own dairy herd. Our state of the art creamery is located right on our family farm, guaranteeing the freshest premium quality products.
www.countryviewdairy.com
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Proffessor Harold Hill here to sell you a brand new NT 700v 2010 with factory warrenty! Gold medal class of ough 5. Actually, the people get better the farther west you go. Indiana and Illinois suck.
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Actually, my Partner is from Iowa and I have been there many times.
"Join us at the picknick, you can have your fill of all the food you bring yourself" But we will give you our shirt and the back to go with it if your crop should happen to die.
In Spokane today, one mentally Ill guy was running around cars in 5 lanes of traffic swearing at everyone. Homeless were everywhere. Drug needles and homeless camps. One guy was knifed to death.
I now have a homeless camp on the next property over.
Actually, I miss the real tomatos and lightning bugs. I will say the people of Indiana are entirely different. I walked into a small town hardware store and the cashier had on a button that said, "I am not as dumb as you look" We were there for two years while Barb was a visiting assistant proffesser and everyone was like that. Very happy to leave.Another draw back . . . Friday we are going to a farm run by a Mennonite couple and an Amish couple. They milk between 300 and 400 cows and have an onsite milk processing plant. They also make the best frozen yogurt on the planet!!! Serve yourself and pay on the honor system. No one around to take your money.
So . . . Friday they are having a pulled pork sandwich with chips and pop (and free frozen yogurt samples) as a thank you. Plus a tour of the farm on a wagon pulled by a tractor.
For this, we will be charged $6 a person. OUTRAGEOUS!!!!
Country View Dairy
Located in Hawkeye, Iowa, Country View Dairy makes all natural farmstead yogurt in both Original and Greek style, using the wholesome milk from our family’s own dairy herd. Our state of the art creamery is located right on our family farm, guaranteeing the freshest premium quality products.
As a former Oregonian, I approve this PSA.
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The really sad thing is to see over my lifetime how Oregon, WA , ID have changed and not for the better. I dont even recognize Spokane physically or culturally since we moved here in 1989. Traffic, over crowding, Urban sprawl...honking horns, road rage, gang violence....and homeless camps. It took a guy at Oshkosh WI at the Reno air race booth to explain to me why we were over run by homeless. Since I worked for the Washington State Patrol, I knew all about the organized crime syndycates from our detective who specialized in that.
Now, as I have said, I walk into our little town of Airway Heights Walmart and there are TWO police cars parked nose out against the building and rent a cops driving around the parking lot recording licence plate numbers. Lots of small "expensivee" things like $10 plastic watches are under lock and key. Keypads on the bathroom doors. Then you go over the border 30 miles away into Idaho and all that disappears.
I understand completely, Chris. I left my little boondock town in NorthEast Iowa in 1965. Moved to "the Big City". Then to Florida in 1984. After 21 years in FloriDUH, we moved back to the "sticks" in 2005. Took me 40 years, but I finally made it back home. Nearest WALMART is 40 miles. Nearest ALDI'S is 50 miles. Nearest Interstate Hiway is 65 miles.
Yes, we have tornadoes and blizzards. I'll take that any day over bi-weekly hurricanes and sardine can packed PEOPLE. My wife and I are related to half the town and friends with the other half.
Yes, we have tornadoes and blizzards. I'll take that any day over bi-weekly hurricanes and sardine can packed PEOPLE. My wife and I are related to half the town and friends with the other half.
I’d be pretty upset and openly defensive.
Regarding Oregon I feel lucky that I was around two or three generations of relatives that were loggers and/or farmers and definitely outdoorsman, so for me, I can point places in Oregon that I’ve visited that see very few people. Unfortunately I grew up near Portland and I’ve seen that achieve the highest ranks of dumpster fire. I still have a rental house in Cheney Washington. my job has taken me to Kansas. Not sure where I end up after retirement but I’m having a harder and harder time seeing myself in Oregon or Washington. And that’s too bad because the salmon fishing and elk hunting is so accessible out there, and my extended family is still out there. The Kansas fall is lovely right now. Pour one out for the Pacific Northwest (edit: changed from “poor” to “pour,” which is what I meant. Betrayed by voice to text once again!
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Is this Heavan? No, Its Iowa.
That’s a thing of beauty. That ridge on the right makes me think it’s Mt Hood?
This was the view of Mt Hood from the house I grew up in. When it wasn’t too cloudy…