Jacque, I can smell the memories... We used to live in Diamond Bar (CA) up on a hill overlooking the valley between us & Cal Poly Pomona. Great vantage point for watching 4th of July fireworks as long as one had a gas mask.
OTOH, there's always sunny SoCal in San Diego County... We've got Legoland & the beach! Judy On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Chipp Walters wrote: > > On 12/21/06, J. Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Or Omaha, where my > >> parents live...can't get much more central than that. We could all go > >> visit the stockyards after hours... > > > > > > If I close my eyes and try real hard, I can already see them now. Wait, > > what's that smell? > > I'm drifting off topic here now, but my high school was the old capital > building (before they yanked the capital away and put it in Lincoln,) > located on a hill overlooking downtown Omaha, just past which was the > Cudahy meatpacking plant (now closed) and their stockyards. Every fine > spring day we'd sit in our non-air-conditioned classrooms with the > windows wide open, and the..um...aroma of the cattle (or what was left > of them) would gently waft through the windows. It builds character, I > tell you. You're a Texan, you should know about cattle. ;) > > My grandpa used to deliver dead cows to the yards in an old pickup > truck. After accompanying him once at the age of five, my father never > did get over it and became a vegetarian for life. Most of us these days > are pretty divorced from where our food comes from. > > On a brighter note, Omaha does have the Henry Doorly Zoo, which is one > of the best in the country (and it really does take several days to see > it all.) And the botanical gardens. And I'm sure there's other stuff > there that smells better too. :) > > We return you now to your regularly scheduled Revolution discussion. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution