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Post by tomatoaddict on May 7, 2008 16:02:34 GMT -5
Howdy Mike, It's Terrylynne from Tomodori.. I just found this site and so glad I did. LOL
Whoo hooo!!!
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Post by canadamike on May 7, 2008 17:50:21 GMT -5
Hello Terryline. Yep, this is the site I talk about at Tomodori!!And you know what? The europeans and I get on the chat when it is empty and chat in french!! It is always late, other chatters are in bed, Lav is dreaming about her african horse ;D and we have a ball!! Thanks for supporting us gay people in our frenchness!! Giving you a big hug and a french...kiss  |
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Post by johno on May 7, 2008 18:14:16 GMT -5
I just want to point out one thing that we Americans sometimes forget. We like to think of George Washington as the one who won this country from the English, but without Benjamin Franklin convincing the FRENCH to help us with guns and ammo, we'd all still be eating bangers and mash, spotted dick, Yorkshire pudding, and other assorted disgusting English dishes... instead of French Fries!
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Post by tomatoaddict on May 7, 2008 18:51:32 GMT -5
Yes, people seem to forget the French support in the Revolutionary war. They're too busy reminding the French of what we did for them in WWII.
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Post by landarc on May 7, 2008 19:54:51 GMT -5
It isn't cowboy country anymore, rapidly becoming wine, golf and 'Indian' casino country. Oddly, I am currently working on the West Slope Animal Shelter Project in El Dorado County. It is beautiful and rugged country, in an arid California foothills sorta way.
And I never feel sorry for married men, a little 'honey do' list and some minor compromises are a small price to pay for all that wild crazy romance every night.
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Post by lavandulagirl on May 7, 2008 21:02:41 GMT -5
Will you still be out there this summer? I'll stop by and shake yer hand. (Perhaps with a cold beer or two back at the ranch when you and Andre kick off from your respective jobs for the day.) Where in El Dorado County is it? The house we're moving to is in Placerville.
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Post by Alan on May 7, 2008 21:26:04 GMT -5
LOL, I didn't mean to stir up anything with this post, I thought Mike would get a kick out of it. It actually didn't have anything to do with the Iraq war, Maynard James Kennan (lead singer of tool, a perfect circle, and puscifer) is a big friend of the french culture and is a wine and cheese maker himself. I just thought it would get a good laugh. I have a weird sense of humor I suppose!  I love the French (and the French Canadians) as well, I'm a lover of independent cultures and peoples who hold onto what they believe in and stand up passionately for it. The French are very high on that list. |
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Post by canadamike on May 7, 2008 21:50:59 GMT -5
With all that gay french stuff flying around, holly shit, I got to change my avatar  I only noticed the skates and the ice, never that it was a girlie girl ;D ;D ;D And Johno, thanks for your support  I would like to point out that I totally disagree with you on the Yorkshire pudding...I can see you have never been invited for dinner by a real bloke of the ''God bless the Queen'' type like we have in our National Capital Ottawa, where Her Majesty is our official Head of State...  Let me tell you one thing: Yorkshire pudding dipped in gravy is the only thing you can use to make friends with his bloody ugly saliva dripping dog ( who usually nevertheless looks better than his wife) by secretly feeding him under the table during supper. ;D The bloke is usually so proud of his roastbeef that he watches you eating it expecting raves every time you chew on it. All you have to do after the meal is make sure you don't walk in the trail of saliva the ugly donkey arse faced purebred bastard is leaving between under the table and his master's sofa  |
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Post by landarc on May 8, 2008 11:02:28 GMT -5
Yes, I suspect I will be still working on that project. I have a meeting in Placerville this Friday to discuss how I intend to save 25 acres of oak woodland on a 28 acre site with 94% oak woodland cover, while placing a full animal shelter, pasture, two barns and enough parking to serve 110 cars on the site. We are supposed to be breaking ground in Shingle Springs in June, bwaaahaaahaaa....
Anyways, beer is always good.
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Post by johno on May 8, 2008 11:19:24 GMT -5
Hmm... maybe I was thinking of a different "pudding."
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Post by lavandulagirl on May 8, 2008 11:27:28 GMT -5
Landarc - are they having any issues with Sudden Oak Death (Phytophthora ramorum) in that area yet? Is there the ability to isolate the acreage you're supposed to preserve? I look forward to that beer...
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Post by landarc on May 8, 2008 12:28:09 GMT -5
Not yet, but they will once we get done. And no, we cannot isolate the oaks. The woodland is approx. 25 acres of the 28 acre site, with 2 acres protected wetlands, 1/2 acre is creek and 1/2 acre is buffer zone. By the time we get done with foundation and road work, you have about 15 acres of woodland to put a building and 2 barns on. Most of that will be protected. But, El Dorado County is enacting a Oak Woodlands protection policy that requires no more than 20% of any oak woodland be removed. We are the first project under the new standard, and somehow, nobody at the County understands that the site they got for 'free' is all oak woodland.
In a situation like we have on this site, we must disrupt the site drainage and soil conditions, this will have an affect on the oaks regardless of what we do. If there is the SOD fungal spores around, they, and other pathogens, will have a chance to infect. We proposed certain design choices that could have saved a lot of the oaks, but, the County agencies rejected them for various reasons.
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Post by lavandulagirl on May 8, 2008 16:31:31 GMT -5
Isn't it frustrating when you do your best to explain viable costs to the county, and they nod and nod and then cut the budget to stupid levels anyway? Does part of the protection program include removing other host plants, like rhododendron, and mountain laurel? I think I read somewhere that Oregon Grape was a host, too, but I could be mistaken. I thought I read awhile back that there was talk of restricting some of these landscaping plants, especially ones that naturalize, in an effort to slow the progress of the P. ramorum. We haven't seen the issues with SOD here in the Shenandoah Forest yet, but with the transfer of landscape specimens, it's only a matter of time. I know there were people talking about these kinds of restrictions up in Central Washington when we lived there... Columbia Basin area.
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Post by landarc on May 14, 2008 11:55:40 GMT -5
Well, we are drifting off of the Frenchy thing here, but, yes, there was talk of restricting certain invasive that are not currently identified, and that represent hazards to our native plant communities (like French Canadians) but, that idea has a hard time getting traction. Personally, I cannot support it unless there are changes made to the current liability laws for my profession. Still, there is a lot of talk.
Incidentally, since last we chatted here, the county approved the oak woodland protection policy. They snuck in a last minute change that allowed developers to buy thier way out of meeting the requirements. So, while it is now possivble to do our project, the ordinance is now less that perfect in that a deep pocket developer can go about business as usual.
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Post by sammyqc on May 15, 2008 9:47:00 GMT -5
LOL!!!
Those French Canadians certainly are hazardous! (I can say that, living in Quebec and all...) You should see how crazy they are when they get behind the wheel!
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I only noticed the skates and the ice, never that it was a girlie girl ;D ;D ;D
