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Reminds me of Hee-Haw:
"Gloom, despair, and agony on me
Deep, dark depression, excessive misery
If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all."
:-)
Sarcasm is my stock in trade. I guess that's why I like cows so much.
13 hours agoPerfectly stated, Lyle. It ain't the same from a car.
13 hours agoIt was, and don't think for a minute that your appreciation of the Great Plains, and your journals, didn't have some influence on my decision to ride in Kansas.
13 hours agoThanks, I was hoping you'd come through on that one.
13 hours agoThat's a very pleasant looking place to take a break.
13 hours agoSo true.
13 hours agoYeah, I was impressed by the lack of litter in Kansas too.
13 hours agoThanks. It's going well so far, and I've actually started thinking about maybe doing some sort of Fall tour. Not to Canada, though - it would be too cold, and now Canada hates us.
I'm thinking of going west instead, and knocking off one of the last seven states I haven't toured in: Oklahoma. But I guess I won't glean too much info about OK from this journal? You'll be in Kansas the rest of the trip?
Yeah, you got me on that one, Jeff. The jokes were a bigger part than I let on.
Hey, I was going to send a get-well message on your journal, but I thought I'd wait until after your surgery. Then I got caught up in my own journal and forgot. I sincerely hope the recovery is going well.
Globemallow. Possibly scarlet globemallow.
https://kswildflower.org/flower_details.php?flowerID=99
Exactly. I have yet to see any potholes or shredded truck tires on these highways. Minimal litter too. KANSAS PROUD!
14 hours agoI'm enjoying (sorry: Enjoyin') reading your journal while I'm basically housebound for a while.
Today's was an entertaining entry, but I'm not sure I believe you when you say you didn't include Liberal on the route just for the jokes 😉
Whatta shoulder! Aand clean!! aand proper rumbles!!!
14 hours ago
"I hope it doesn't mean I was hanging around hazardous materials without protective gear." - Well, that's sort of what it means, but I wouldn't worry about it. My inner Geologist (which is a big part of me since I am a Geologist, among other things) requires me to elucidate; produced water is the water that was produced during the oil extraction. It can be very old water that was trapped in the rock pores along with the oil, and it's highly mineralized - so it may have some hydrocarbons in it as well as various salts. It requires disposal at a regulated facility that can treat it before being released into a surface stream or simply evaporated in a basin. In a way you can think of it as being "fossilized water" and that's not a bad explanation - dinosaurs may have drank it at one time.
11 hours ago