Where , oh, where has the Kansas wind gone?
Where, oh, where can it be?
What would you do for enough wind to blow away the humidity and mosquitoes?
It has been very calm up here, too, Wilma. That made it a touch uncomfortable outside all day. Of course, wishing for wind in Kansas is one of those case where you have to be careful or you'll get what you asked for. In case Mother Nature is listening, I'm pretty sure Wilma meant "breeze."
;D
We had one of "your" days here. 80% humidity and 94 degrees. I stepped outside this morning and thought, "This is Kansas weather".
Sure do wish we had some lightning bugs here.
I'll thank mother nature for the calm day today. I got to spray round-up on the grass coming up in the driveway, between the cracks in the sidewalk and etc without having it blow onto places I don't want it. NOW, THAT DONE, HOW BOUT A LITTLE BREEZE
We need that south Kansas wind that we are known for to blow this humidity straight north. I hate it.
How about that, Frawgie? janet wants you to have our humidity.
We tend to have a fair amount of humidity here on our own this time of year. It is my considered opinion that if we had 83% humidity and Janet sent us her 83% humidity, then we would have 83% humidity. I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have 166% humidity. So, what the heck, send it on up!
But I do notice, Janet, that you said "wind."
;D
I really want the humidity to go straight into Canada and on up to the North Pole. Might cause some "global warming". How about that?
Or perhaps make it worse.
I have a friend at the university that goes to Greenland each year, and sometimes Antarctica, to do side-scan sonar imaging of the glaciation there. This year, when he got to Greenland, the small plane (an Otter) that they use to haul people out to where they were going to work had to return without landing. Where they were expecting solid glacier, they found a very large lake of melt-water, something unheard-of in that part of Greenland even in mid-summer. Since the airplane was equipped with skis and not floats, they gave up for two weeks. They went back up last week (Claude and a group of Danes) and were able to get in and go to work.
So if you send too much hot Howard humidity right now, Claude may never get back to his wife and daughter and the Danes may be stranded on a rapidly melting glacier.
Actually it is a north dry wind that usually gets rid of the humidity and makes it cooler. And I am ready for cooler and no mosquitoes.
Here too. South or southwest winds bring all the heat and humidity up to us from Georiga, and bring our worst winter snowstorms too. Give me a nice cool summer breeze from the north or northwest any day. But then we get the Nor'easters and get swiped by hurricanes too.
It is indeed the North wind that you want. Were the wind to blow from the South, thus moving the humidity from over Kansas to Canada, that air would be automagically replaced by a mass of air that was previously living in the Southern Gulf of Mexico, and that new air would be at least as humid as what you got rid of.
I think that makes it Wilma 1, Janet 0, on the subject of winds, although that could change at any time. It's an evil wind, you know, that blows no good.
And speaking of mosquitoes, I have only seen two of them all year. One got blown past me and into the house wall behind my deck about a month ago. The other one came home with my wife from a walk about two weeks ago. I'm not complaining, but it is most odd to live in Kansas and not have mosquitoes in summer. However, picking up on something Diane said (in another thread, I think) we have more than enough extra fireflies this year to make up for any lack in mosquitoes.
;D
Not to worry - we have plenty of mosquitoes down here. If there were a way to ship them to you, for a nostalgia trip, you'd probably have several boxloads. :D
Nope, not me. That was Dandymomm wishing for some lightning bugs. We have them, two kinds in fact. Not as many as years ago, but lots.
It has been a bumper-crop year for lightning bugs here. From the back of our house there is almost no artificial light at night, and boy, does the sky get full of twinkles just as it gets fully dark! I get out on the deck pretty much every night just to watch them. And I'm not unhappy about having very few mosquitoes; I'm not a big fan of those little buzzers, but I am surprised nonetheless. Maybe it's part of the whole changing weather trend. After all, Kansas now has armadillos, as evidenced by considerable road kill, clear up toward Topeka, so maybe the mosquitoes have mainly moved to Minnesota or North Dakota. It could be that the Elk County mosquitoes just didn't get the memo containing the travel plans.
;D
I saw Armadillos near Howard when we were there in '95. several dead ones, and one at night, in the middle of the road, having a stand off with a cat. Daddy said they weren't around when he lived there.
Yup, I think armadillos in Kansas are a relatively new phenomenon. It seems like the bird population has changed a bit, too. It is amazing what a couple of degrees of additional heat can do over the course of a season, for example with glaciers, and I would not be at all surprised if animals were not sensitive to small changes like that. Pretty soon, they'll be having armadillo cook-offs in Canada.
I keep wondering if we will ever see lightning bugs in Washington. Well, the west half anyway. Our summers seem to just get hotter and hotter. They might have them in Eastern Wa. But I'm really not sure. Anyone know anybody in Spokane or Yakima???
I don't think fireflies like salt air. I lived in the San Francisco area for over 25 years, always either right on the ocean or right on the bay, and there were certainly none there. However, I think there were fireflies in Roseville, which is just a bit east of Sacramento. So maybe there are some in Eastern Washington. I'm not sure.
Oh-oh, it's even worse than I thought. Take a look at:
http://hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu/projects/FFiles/habitat.html
It just goes to show you, those fireflies headed west, stopped in Kansas, saw what a good thing it was and refused to go further west. Sorry Mrs.Momma.
I guess that it is only fair that you don't have everything. We have fireflies and you have an ocean and mountains. I still really miss the ocean. When I lived in Moss Beach, this was the view out of my work-at-home office window. That big blue thing just above the fence is the Pacific Ocean:
Okay, kdfrawg, I think I hate you.
That's about enough to do it, isn't it? The me of now is pretty envious of the me of then, as well. It's just plain overwhelming living there, from the occasional foggy morning to the occasional gale-force night, but most just walking down there every morning with your first cup of coffee and watching the waves.
I think I hate me, too.
Dog-gone-it. No fireflies for me. Oh well.
I guess I'll share some photos...
< smile >
I just love the ocean. I'd start posting pictures but I'd be afraid I'd never stop. I have an almost endless supply of them after all those years. How close are you to the shore, dandymomma, so I know how envious to be?
About 2 hours from the Pacific Ocean and 5 minutes from the Puget Sound.
That's a lot closer than the 27.5 hours that it is from Kansas.
;D
Ah yes, Puget Sound , home of those wonderful oysters, love 'em... great photos both of you.
Quote from: kdfrawg on July 17, 2007, 08:07:37 PM
< smile >
I just love the ocean. I'd start posting pictures but I'd be afraid I'd never stop. I have an almost endless supply of them after all those years. How close are you to the shore, dandymomma, so I know how envious to be?
Why not make a slide show and send it to me.. I'll be glad to put it on the forum for you!
Keep it under 8 minutes... :)
What do you use to make your slide shows, Teresa?
I use ULead VIdeo Studio 11..
Kjell uses Pinnacle Hollywood FX 6 for Studio 10 to do his work.
He is trying to get me to change over..and I should actually. They are both similar, but the Pinnacle is better and has more options, but there are a few things in the ULead that I really like better..
soooo... ;) I probably will be stubborn for a while longer and he will be his usual patient self for a while longer and then I will finally change over and brag about how I like the Pinnacle software better
( now that I understand all of it) and he will set back and let me take the credit for thinking it was my idea all along to use it!
sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
How sad to actually know and realize that I am outwitted every day.. :-\
:)
Most Windows computers (XP) come with Windows Movie Maker which is also a nice tool to both edit videos and make slide shows.
Give it a try. It's fun.
I had to be different.......I have an Apple Mac G5. And I haven't figured out how to use it yet . I guess I wiil have to practice if I want to share a video on the forum. Cuz ......do you want to see where I live and bake my pie's and cakes?
I am sure that there is a software on your computer that you can use to make picture slide shows.
Look in there really good and see.
And yesssssss... as much as I hate to admit it to you.. I want to see where you bake your pies and cakes..
Jeese.. I swear.. what I have to say around here to keep the family peace ::)
:) Seriously folks.
Once you play around with software to put pictures on and see all the cool things you can do.. you will be hooked.
It takes lots of time, but the finished product will make you proud... I promise! :)
( And I know that everyone here just luuuuvessss to see video's. of all kinds from everyone)
I repeat my offer though.................. if you have a batch of pictures and you want me to make a slide show of them for you.. just send them to me in original size ( I'll do all the downsizing) and I'll make it presentable for you. But it IS really fun to do them yourself.. as no one really knows the 'story ' you want to tell in them , but you.
Kjell has found a way to reformat our video's that I put on here to be smaller so that maybe they will be faster to download for everyone..
~~~Isn't he just the handiest thing with computers??~~ :-*
I've been doing video for about five years. Most of what I have made is formatted to play on TVs, so I would have to resize the output. I have several tools to do that, too. I usually make DVDs and send them out. I have the Ulead profucts. I rather like them. It isn't that I don't know how to do it, or don't have any tools. Rather, if you preferred one, I thought I would use it if I also had it.
Quote from: desertlilydarla on July 18, 2007, 01:15:46 PM
I had to be different.......I have an Apple Mac G5. And I haven't figured out how to use it yet . I guess I wiil have to practice if I want to share a video on the forum. Cuz ......do you want to see where I live and bake my pie's and cakes?
If your Mac comes with iLife, you're good to go.
Yeah DLD.. You're good to go!!!
Ya hear that?
You can do it!
So?
Do it!
I say DO IT DLD!! Go Go DLD!!
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DO IT!! DO IT ..DO IT!!!
SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D
:-\ uummm.. sorry, I got carried away I guess.........
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(((slinking back to doing bookwork))
**That I really don't want to do... as if you couldn't tell ::) **
Take away that girl's sugar!!
No sugar - no pie!
Splenda?
mayba :-\ :-\
Don't give my daughter any sugar --- SHE AND SHERRI ARE GLUCOSE INTOLERANT
I thought they were just Frawg and bad joke intolerant.
LOL!
I like "frawg intolerant."
;D
So, for someone that is completly clueless in the world of A/V and the thought of merging it with the e-mail machine on the desk is scarier than hell itself, how would one go about submitting such a creation?
Ribbit.
Ribbit.
(Cough, cough)
Ribbit.
I have decided that I hate dandymomma because she has ocean front pictures, too.
Stop it Ta Ta!
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You be nice..
We don't hate people because they have pictures of the ocean..
What is wrong with you~~ >:(
Now you tell her that you are sorry and that you would like to see her pictures...
Ya hear me?
Go on... tell her.................................................................
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dandymamma, :(
I'm so sorry that I said I hate you. I do want to see your pictures of the ocean, so I can keep hating you for having an ocean view. :'( :angel: :angel:
sighhhhhhhhh..
(http://www.cascity.com/howard/animations/122.gif) you make me dizzy....
You are hopeless!
LOL!!!
I would love to share more pictures, but first someone has to tell me how to submit a slide show.
OK, Now MR. FRAWG! Put down that cricket, take Rudy's hint, and help Dandymomma. You are so good at this kind of thing, it would be a snap of your fingers to take her through it. (purr, purr)
Nope, I had to finish the cricket while he was still fresh. ;D
I have been using Ulead MediaStudio Pro to do slide shows, just because of the control it gives you. But I am pretty sure that Dandymomma doesn't have that program. So I guess what we should do is ask Dandymomma what program she is planning to use to make slideshows. Thus:
"Dandymomma, what program do you plan to use to make slideshows?"
And if you don't know, we'll need to do a program inventory. I think that Microsofts MovieMaker will probably do this, although I have never used it, and it's free, so that might be a good choice. It should not take long for either of us to learn to use it.
Dandymomma -
I found a pretty good article about using Windows Movie Maker to make slideshows. Take a look at it and see what you think....
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/northrup_02december02.mspx (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/northrup_02december02.mspx)
I am indeed using Microsoft Movie Maker. It does a decent job, but I wish it had a few more special effects. I need to see if there is a way to make the music fade out at the end instead of just cutting it off abruptly.
Teresa and Kjell are working on something for slide shows, so hopefully I can show you guys what I made in a couple days or so.
Quote from: dandymomma on July 19, 2007, 08:02:59 PM
I am indeed using Microsoft Movie Maker. It does a decent job, but I wish it had a few more special effects. I need to see if there is a way to make the music fade out at the end instead of just cutting it off abruptly.
In Movie Maker and after you have moved an audio file to the story board, right click on the file in the audio/music line and choose fade out on the little menu that shows up.
:)
Yeah, Dandymomma, I understand that Movie Maker is kind of the no-frills entry into video. They add stuff every once in a while. I think the current version is 2.1. If that's what you've got, that's all there is. The system that both Teresa and I are using (I think) is from Ulead. She may have a better version than I have. Mine is a couple of tears old. I'm using MediaStudio Pro, which is $400. You can look at it here: http://www.ulead.com/store/msp/runme.htm (http://www.ulead.com/store/msp/runme.htm) That's a lot different than free.
:o
Frawgie, did you really mean "a couple of tears old"? Must be pretty frustrating.
LOL! I love it when typos work out like that!
I suppose, actually, that it is a little bit of both. ;D
Good eye, Wilma!
Thanks, Kjell, I'll give that a try.
Frawgie, definately have to go the "free" route. That's ok. I made a few modifications and was able to find enough pictures to use up the whole song, so I think I'm doing ok with Microsoft.
I tried to post my creation on My Space, but they require that you have permission from the title artist even though you have cited your sources. I'm quite annoyed.
Well, I better get the kids to daycare.
Talk at cha later!!!
;D "tears" worked fine for "years" in this instance, which brings to mind :-\ something I was taught when I worked as a legal secretary and that was the importance of spelling and he used this example where a mispelled word would work both ways: My client is NOW ready to sign the papers when the W should have been a T. Guess that has helped me with spelling, but alas my fingers are not so diligent. Also, my name being FLORENE AND NOT FLOREN"C"E, which has been a thorn in my side for years. I am a Notary Public and my very first stamp came back FLorence. I have ordered checks and they come back Florence, so I must attach a note to all correspondence noting there is no "C" in my first name. >:( Most of the time it works. Even get papers from government agencys ie Medicare, etc, addressed to Florence, but that's understandable ;D
I know... I get the same thing with T-H- eresa...
No H in my name...
Unless it stands for Hell-raiser... LOL
:o ;D
Reminds me of the story my sister tells about their youngest daughter. Her name is Natalyn Jo
When she was in kindergarten she brought some papers home and the teacher had written "Madeline, is doing so well in class - she is a joy to have in my room". Helen asked her why she had told the teacher her name was Madeline? Natalyn said, "I didn't, I have told her and told her my name is Natalyn, and just decided if she wanted it to be Madeline so bad, I would just let her".
I probably would have contacted the teacher and told her I'm glad Madaline is doing so well, but would also like to know how my daughter Natalyn is doing.
That is perfect!!!! ;D ;D ;D
My daughter's social security card was issued to Natalie Leach Pearl Alexander. When I took it back to the SS office I told the clerk, "My daughters middle name is 'Lee-ah' Pearl, not LEACH Pearl".
I called Embarq (our telephone company) last week to move service to another building. The person on the other end, obviously from India, asked if I was "RUBY Taylor." I said no. My name is Rudy. She said, "Sir, my computer says your name is Ruby and that's the only person who can authorize this change.
So, I hung up. Called the stupid number again and said, "This is Ruby Taylor. I need to move service to another building.
"Yes, Mr. Ruby," she said. "We'll get it done tomorrow."
I'd say:
1. The name RUBY in India means "hot, sexy man with white skin and lots of tattoos.
2. The name RUDY means "eat lots of garlic and burp really loud when you're on an airplane.
3. The computer wins. It's always right. Just obey it. "666" you know.
How funny that is! I love your retorts. I have this mental picture of people on the airplane diving away from that big burp. And Dandy momma, "leach?"... they type worse than I do. Were you able to get it corrected? As "Ruby" says, the computer is always right.
That's funny Ruby Rudy. ;D
Kjell just "loves" ::) to have to talk to people who... My name is Marahashi.. but you can call me Bill".
Not a pretty sight to have to be around when he finally gets off the phone. :P
So, there I was, sitting in my office in California in 1983 or 84. I had a little programming business and suddenly the entire Indian Space Program in America is ushered into my office. Both of them. They had wound up down at the Moffet Field annex of Ames/NASA and someone had given them my name for some programming they wanted done.
They sat down and we talked about it for a while, having some difficulty with the scientific terms at issue and the language barrier. I told them I would have to get back to them after I looked some things up. So they handed me their business cards, very official with the Indian Space Program logo and everything. The names and occupations on the cards were:
Carl Engineer - Engineer
John Researcher - Research Assistant
;D
Ya gotta laugh
What a Hoot ---------- these people just break my will - try as I might I can't use much patience when I have to talk to them -- my solution --- HANG UP... try as many times as it takes to get some one that has a clue of what I am needing solved.
That's okay about the name thing. I have been called Janice, instead of Janet. Even my Grandmother Furrow would call me Janice. Don't know why. I think her tongue would get twisted. I've been called Jannie, Janette, etc. I'm like Frawgy that as long as you don't forget to call me to eat, you can call me anything you like.
Quote from: Janet Harrington on July 21, 2007, 01:45:07 PM
That's okay about the name thing. I have been called Janice, instead of Janet. Even my Grandmother Furrow would call me Janice. Don't know why. I think her tongue would get twisted. I've been called Jannie, Janette, etc. I'm like Frawgy that as long as you don't forget to call me to eat, you can call me anything you like.
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You said I could!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(http://www.cascity.com/howard/animations/conive.gif)
I sure opened myself up for that one, now, didn't I? :o :o :o
Then there were the six of us girls - who all looked alike and are only a year apart, each, in ages. We didn't get names. People would ask - and which one are you? - and the response needed to be "I'm number 3." If I said "Debbie" then the question or a variation would be repeated - which one is that?
So . . . just be glad you guys got names! :D :D :D
Quote from: Mom70x7 on July 21, 2007, 07:19:36 PM
Then there were the six of us girls - who all looked alike and are only a year apart, each, in ages. We didn't get names. People would ask - and which one are you? - and the response needed to be "I'm number 3." If I said "Debbie" then the question or a variation would be repeated - which one is that?
So . . . just be glad you guys got names! :D :D :D
My sisters and I had the same problem when we were growing up :-\ only there were 8 girls close in age :D
your reply then should have been "I'm the good one"
I have one prisoner that I talk to every other day or so. He's not my client, but the other counselor's client. I always have to ask which prisoner he is and he always answers, "I'm the other black guy." He is just a hoot.
Marine Mom, I know the feeling. There were 15 of us in my family and people would always say which one are you, my reply would be I am Number 15.
Frank
There were 38 kids in our family and I .... wait, maybe I got carried away there. I just like to top others and I couldn't fathom anybody having 15. How wonderful! And, no, there were only five kids in our happy family.
Let's go to church! Gotta ask forgiveness for fibbing all week long on the forum.
My husband Mark, comes from a family of 16 kids, he is the 15th child. His mother had two sets of twins, and a total of 8 girls and 8 boys. ..She was told after her first child was born to never have anymore , because she only had one kidney. She definitely proved the doctors wrong. That didn't take the wind out of her sails.
Wilma, what amazing women. I can't imagine the discomfort of being pregnant 15 or 16 times. My mother was never in a hospital until she was 70 years old. All of us were born at home, Lavina Rarick (Izola Moore's Aunt) delivered the the last 7 of us.
Frank
My mother was no. 4 of 14. Needless to say, she helped plenty with the younger ones. There were only 4 of us and of her siblings, most of them had only one or two children. The most was seven by the youngest daughter. She didn't have the experience of being one of many.
Mother,
Your dad was one of 14, wasn't he?
It was tough enough on me having Myrna pregnant 3 times, I can't imagine 14 or 15. A lady once told me that if men had to carry every other baby they conceived that there would be half as many people in the world.
one of my niece's on my husbands side is only 36 or 37 just had her 11th child and she's not stopping there.
Lavina was also my great grandmother Clark's name. She was of tough pioneer stock. As a young child, she and her family went by covered wagon from northern Kansas to Texas, with the family cow walking along behind. After a few years they took the same way back to Kansas, same poor cow. Grandma died at 92.
Janet, your grandfather Hancock was the youngest of 8, two of which did not live beyond childhood. His older sisters were grown up and one of them married when he was born so he didn't know what it was like to be one of many, either.
Why did I think that he was from a family of 14 just like Grandma was? I thought in his family there was 7 boys, 7 girls, just like Grandma's. I must be losing my mind. ha ha I know. I know. It's already lost. (There, Ms. T. I said it before you did.)
A sticth in time saves nine,, Janet --- so you are safe on the outside ring of ????? whatever.
Bless you, child -- you are safe.
My husband was 7th of 16--- and all of them were born in a boxcar down in what they called "Old Mexico" by the tracks in Moline. My mother-in-law (God rest her soul) never was allowed to go to the hospital in Moline to receive services for the birth of a child. Once the oldest child became a certain age, she was the "midwife" for her mother's deliveries.
And my mother had 2 sets of twins also and has one kidney. Having twins was the only way my mom and dad thought they could get a boy!!! And if that wasn't enough, they adopted my youngest brother......
As I am the oldest of 7 and my husband was 7 of 16, when we married, we were asked if we were going to compromise on the number of children we would have. Surgeons told us, though, that we had to stop after 3 or at least look somewhere else for a surgeon. (C-section)