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Rick...
Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:52 pm
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The ultra lite/Crane migration is on and here are a couple of links some
of you might find interesting.

Crane Cam: http://www.operationmigration.org/crane-cam.html

Journey South:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/crane/09/WCEPHighlights101609.html

Crane Journal: http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
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Rick
Fargo, ND
N 46°53'251"
W 096°48'279"


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maryann kolb...
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:56 am
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On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:52:21 -0500, Rick
<fholbrook at (no spam) nospam.cableone.net> wrote:

Quote:
The ultra lite/Crane migration is on and here are a couple of links some
of you might find interesting.

Crane Cam: http://www.operationmigration.org/crane-cam.html

Journey South:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/crane/09/WCEPHighlights101609.html

Crane Journal: http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html


Thanks, this is fascinating especially the Crane Cam. A few years ago
a few of the cranes stopped for a few days at a wild life refuge here
in SC and I was lucky enough to see them. They were so burdened down
with transmitters and aerials etc. that it seemed a wonder they could
actually take off!

Mary Ann
Barnwell, SC
 
Ray...
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:43 pm
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dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote:

Quote:
As an aside: We recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, and we found UPers there! Friendly folks who only fly on
airplanes when they migrate for the winter.

I can't think of a better place to find yoopers. Did you have any
pasties while you were there?

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Ray
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dickr2...
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 1:44 pm
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Rick wrote:
Quote:
The ultra lite/Crane migration is on and here are a couple of links some
of you might find interesting.

Crane Cam: http://www.operationmigration.org/crane-cam.html

Journey South:
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/crane/09/WCEPHighlights101609.html

Crane Journal: http://www.operationmigration.org/Field_Journal.html
Thanks for the links. I've been following the progress of this annual

migration for several years and I find it fascinating.
As an aside: We recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, and we found UPers there! Friendly folks who only fly on
airplanes when they migrate for the winter.
Smile
Dick in MN
 
dickr2...
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:01 pm
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Ray wrote:
Quote:
dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote:

As an aside: We recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, and we found UPers there! Friendly folks who only fly on
airplanes when they migrate for the winter.

I can't think of a better place to find yoopers. Did you have any
pasties while you were there?

Pasties, pasties everywhere, except on Mackinac Island where they only sold fudge.

I'm not going to say I don't like pasties, but the last one I had was 40 years
ago and it wasn't bad ... but I don't have a craving for them.
Smile
Dick in MN
 
Steve.IA...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:50 am
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dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote in
news:i88Em.75837$lR3.67480 at (no spam) newsfe25.iad:

Quote:
Ray wrote:
dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote:

As an aside: We recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, and we found UPers there! Friendly folks who only fly on
airplanes when they migrate for the winter.

I can't think of a better place to find yoopers. Did you have any
pasties while you were there?

Pasties, pasties everywhere, except on Mackinac Island where they only
sold fudge. I'm not going to say I don't like pasties, but the last
one I had was 40 years ago and it wasn't bad ... but I don't have a
craving for them.
Smile
Dick in MN


Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

--
Steve
southiowa

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Pronunciation: 'velt-"shmerts
Function: noun
: mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state
of the world with an ideal state
 
Ray...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:46 am
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"Steve.IA" <saharv23 at (no spam) invalid.com> wrote:

Quote:
Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

Be sure you pronounce it right so they won't think you're a UP newbie -
- it somewhat inauspiciously rhymes with nasty, not hasty. The pasty
that rhymes with hasty is something completely different.

I have a couple every summer when I'm in NE Wisconsin on vacation. Get
plenty of gravy; they can be kind of dry without it.

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Ray
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Leon Fisk...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:52 pm
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:27 +0000 (UTC), "Steve.IA"
<saharv23 at (no spam) invalid.com> wrote:

<snip>
Quote:
Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

Plenty of the places will ship, long distance take-out ;-)

Another good place to visit or get some long distance
take-out:

http://www.sweetroll.com/

I always try to stop for some bake goods. I don't think my
old truck can go by without turning in...

--
Leon Fisk
Grand Rapids MI/Zone 5b
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dickr2...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:26 pm
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Steve.IA wrote:
<snip>
Quote:

Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

Way back in the 70s I went with a group of guys to watch snowmobile

races in Ironwood, MI. That was the first time I was exposed to
pasties. Never thought about them again until our recent trip to
Northern Michigan where almost every roadside restaurant or bar
had a sign outside advertising pasties and fudge. Pasties are
probably a favorite food of the folks who settled there, but
I've never seen them anywhere else in other places I've visited
in the USA. Yes, you might have to go to Michigan to find them.
Actually, they might be good!

Dick
 
Martin Jensen...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:52 pm
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Ray wrote:
Quote:
"Steve.IA" <saharv23 at (no spam) invalid.com> wrote:

Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

Be sure you pronounce it right so they won't think you're a UP newbie
- - it somewhat inauspiciously rhymes with nasty, not hasty. The pasty
that rhymes with hasty is something completely different.

I have a couple every summer when I'm in NE Wisconsin on vacation.
Get plenty of gravy; they can be kind of dry without it.

Ray, you're my man! Such a subtle and precise instructional on the proper
pronunciation of "pasties." "Something completely different" indeed.

Martin - Onetime offensive Upper Peninsula newbie
 
Jerry Avins...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:18 pm
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Steve.IA wrote:
Quote:
dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote in
news:i88Em.75837$lR3.67480 at (no spam) newsfe25.iad:

Ray wrote:
dickr2 <dickr2 at (no spam) frontier.com> wrote:

As an aside: We recently spent some time in the Upper Peninsula of
Michigan, and we found UPers there! Friendly folks who only fly on
airplanes when they migrate for the winter.

I can't think of a better place to find yoopers. Did you have any
pasties while you were there?

Pasties, pasties everywhere, except on Mackinac Island where they only
sold fudge. I'm not going to say I don't like pasties, but the last
one I had was 40 years ago and it wasn't bad ... but I don't have a
craving for them.
Smile
Dick in MN


Never heard of pasties. Had to look it up. They look like my kind of
food. I may have to trek to the U.P. to get one
The diverse things one can learn on R.B.

I think they originated as a Cornish miner's food. Taken out of the oven
in the morning, they were still warm for lunch down in the shaft. I
first came across them in Nova Scotia.

Jerry
--
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Ray...
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 9:47 am
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"Martin Jensen" <hawkeye96 at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote:

Quote:
Ray wrote:

Be sure you pronounce it right so they won't think you're a UP
newbie - - it somewhat inauspiciously rhymes with nasty, not
hasty. The pasty that rhymes with hasty is something completely
different.

Ray, you're my man! Such a subtle and precise instructional on
the proper pronunciation of "pasties." "Something completely
different" indeed.

Thank you.

When I were a lad my siblings and I drove through the UP and into
Canada. Along the way we stopped at one of the many places advertising
pasties, to find out what they were. Before we even finished asking,
the owner said, "You want to know what a pasty is." That's how I
learned the correct pronunciation.

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Ray
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