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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hopefully the weather will be back to beautiful by Tuesday May 1st when I decided to arrive
- one day early for your surgery. If I'm lucky some of my Base Camp friends will come along. If they do it will be a real trek. We have a badge:  Chin up, Bearcat, you will be fine  - and you will be sedated while it goes on as opposed to your discogram - ouch! |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The weather is back to beautiful. Sunny and 68 F(20C) today. I was out of town for a couple of days at an out of state wedding. Beautiful church, nice reception, beautiful couple. Both of them are highly intelligent and just plain nice people. I wished them the best.
----------------------------------------I think I caught something on the plane ride. I feel lousy as the dickens and my nose won't cooperate. I hope everyone else is feeling much better then I am. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's pollen season
plus the air in a confined space like an airplaine seems to be a breeding ground for ... well, a wide selection of buggers Wishing you'll get it over it soon, Capt. Joe |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Thanks little mermaid. Nice badge. Joe, spring time bugs suck. All it takes in a plane is one to cough their germs and everyone gets nailed. Hope to be home by sunday. Take care folks.
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Khyron
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 17, 2006 Post Count: 103 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Pollen stinks.
I'm happy that spring has finally arrived! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
TXVB this is looking down on the sidewalk and the gutter of the roadway where I walked today,
----------------------------------------There is a pool because the weather is so rotten this day. In the pool you'll see something light yellow floating. That is pollen. Visible pollen. So large quantities that you can see it - probably arriving with the wind from the fir, spruce, and birch tree forests in Sweden. Our pollen season in Denmark started late April - well, it exploded this year because of summerlike weather. It goes on until late summer, ragweed being the last plant bothering allergics.  How are you Capt. Joe? I can hold two hands ... EDIT: It's common mugwort/common wormwood (aremiesia vulgaris) and not ragweed. Sorry. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 2, 2018 2:20:54 AM] |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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How are you Capt. Joe? I can hold two hands ... smile I am getting better, day by day. I think in about 2 or 3 days I should be back to normal. I was feeling well enough today to go and volunteer at school again, but the students are taking their MCA (Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment) tests this week. (The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments – are the standardized tests in reading, math, and science that public schools in Minnesota give to students. The state uses the tests to see how well schools are teaching the state academic standards and grade-level benchmarks for the standards.) They are pretty strict on how the tests are proctored to make sure any cheating is nipped in the bud. And the state prohibits any help given during the test. So it is best if I stay away during this period of time to nullify any suggestion I was aiding in any way during the testing period. In the pollen picture, those look like granite block curbs. Also, I see BladeD has joined the team. Welcome aboard. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Good to hear you are improving, Capt. Joe.
Your report on the tests in school is interesting. Could that be regarded as some kind of parallel to the national PISA test? BTW they have begun using the PISA test in Denmark (I'm not familiar with the rest of Europe). I understand from what I read that cheating is becoming a major problem at exams here which is such a pity as I see it. Very damaging to the attitudes in a society. But since computers are allowed as aids, I cannot see how you can prevent cheating. In my time the punishment for cheating - which was next to impossible because of teachers patroling up and down was very severe and a stain on your character for years to come. Yes, the curbs in my picture are granite blocks. Home grown. They come from the easterly island of Bornholm which has a good deal in common with Sweden - the granite as the Swedish east coast has as well and which resembles the Maine coast somewhat not to mention the dialect.   |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I am familiar with the local granite, living near one of the quarries within the city limits of St. Cloud. The nearest color granite to me is called "charcoal gray."
----------------------------------------Granite quarries have operated in the area since the 1880s, giving St. Cloud its nickname, "The Granite City." Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
St. Cloud always reminds me of one of my favorite novels:
 where Wilbur Larch says something like: 'In other parts of the world they may .... but here in McCloud ....' This book is so full of love in so many shades and levels that you gotta like it. The movie based on John Irving's book has caught the gist of it very well. I'm not sure we have special sorts of the granite but there must be. We just call it 'bornholmsk granit' meaning 'granite from Bornholm', but there seems to be an amazing diversity of minerals and rocks on an island as small as this - some 20 x 20 miles - to judge by this picture which specifies six types of granite + the kaolin which is the basis for ceramics which is made there, too.  |
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