A little peek...

[Rchop]

at our small town of 9000 in the heartland... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQGm-c3AWI

What a change from the left coast :023:

[NC HILLBILLY]

Really cool........A place I could easily call home.......Mark

[mnnden]

Very Nice!! Small town America, I don't think it gets any better. Den

[Sir Limpsalot]

Thanks Randy. Looks just like the town where Superman grew up..

Cheers,
Si.

[Tassie Devil]

Randy,
Ya got me thinking......

You haven't got any clear mountain springs nearby have you????

Give a cigar to that marketing team.

Great little town, thanks.

Cheers,

JQ.

[Rchop]

Thanks Randy. Looks just like the town where Superman grew up..
Cheers,
Si.

Si, that's because Metropolis is only 75 miles away http://www.metropolischamber.com/ :)

JQ, unfortunately, no mountains nearby. Plenty of lakes though.

[Wild Will]

What a change from the left coast :023:

Yeah, I'd give up the uncrowded, endless twisty roads and lack of cops any day to be back in the midwest. NOT!

Sweet little town! Too bad about that "winter" thing, though.

[Rchop]

Yeah, I'd give up the uncrowded, endless twisty roads and lack of cops any day to be back in the midwest. NOT!

Sweet little town! Too bad about that "winter" thing, though.

Your area is quite a bit different than what was on my mind when I wrote that Will. I aways found the Northern part of the state a world away from SoCal. After living most of my life in 2 season locations, I find I'm enjoying the 4 season living...not very much snow around here at all.

[Dirty Doug]

Randy,

Thanks for the tour. Mid America has always drawn on my heart strings. How did you come about deciding that was the place for you?


Dirty Doug

[Rchop]

Randy,
Thanks for the tour. Mid America has always drawn on my heart strings. How did you come about deciding that was the place for you?
Dirty Doug

Doug, this was the last place I would have decided to live on my own. Having never lived in the midwest, I had a lot of pre-concieved ideas about the weather, and I thought the whole place was flat! How wrong I was! Living here on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest I have come to find most of the roads are far from straight and flat and I usually only share them with the sunshine and an isolated piece of farm equipment. The weather here is so variable that you can find very comfortable days all summer and winter with a max of about 10-12 inches of snow annually.
I found this out by being dragged, kicking and screaming by my wife here about a dozen times to visit her extended family in the area. That's one of the main reasons is all the family here, but I'm glad we decided to relocate.

Having lived in the West most of my life, I have found the extreme weather warnings in May and June a little unnerving, but I guess it's no worse than the firestorms, mudslides and earthquakes!

[DarthRider]

Doug, this was the last place I would have decided to live on my own. Having never lived in the midwest, I had a lot of pre-concieved ideas about the weather, and I thought the whole place was flat! How wrong I was! Living here on the edge of the Shawnee National Forest I have come to find most of the roads are far from straight and flat and I usually only share them with the sunshine and an isolated piece of farm equipment. The weather here is so variable that you can find very comfortable days all summer and winter with a max of about 10-12 inches of snow annually.
I found this out by being dragged, kicking and screaming by my wife here about a dozen times to visit her extended family in the area. That's one of the main reasons is all the family here, but I'm glad we decided to relocate.

Having lived in the West most of my life, I have found the extreme weather warnings in May and June a little unnerving, but I guess it's no worse than the firestorms, mudslides and earthquakes!

Well put Randy!
It took me a long time to learn or realize that those "pre-conceived ideas" about other places are usually just...wrong. Or so far off the mark as to be more decsriptive of some other place altogether!
The rest of your post was true for us too, except it was I who dragged Betty back here. Now she is happy as a clam, involved in the Timbercreek Canyon Garden Club, we're both involved in camping in the Panhandle region, and the fascinating Texas Master Naturalist Program, and learning fast that the "pre-conceived" ideas of even someone who grew up here are just...wrong.
I can't wait to get the "insider's tour" of your new home area, and give you guys the same for ours.
And anyone else who's not afraid to check out a "dry, boring, flat, featureless, windy place with straight roads" you've never seen, or just seen briefly from desolate I-40!

[Rchop]

So true Dave, just driving through Amarillo, who would know what a little slice of heaven you have there in Canyon country!

So I guess I have to start calling you MR Texas Master Naturalist :webers: can you say that 5 times fast?

I do look forward to my next trip to Beezer land :023:

[Donson]

Randy I dont know if I told You,but I picked up the Bronson Bike in St. Jacob,I guess about 100 miles or so from You. I loved it. Bill lives outside of town,near the small airport,where,among other ventures,He is a flight instructor.I couldnt get over how green everything was,and He has about 40 acres of corn for a front yard. The back yard is a small stocked lake,then forest. I didnt get to stay but about an hour,but I am going back in July,to pick up Him and His Bronson bike to go to Mountainfest.He said in the evening,the skies come alive with fireflys....What a cool place! I could live there!:)

[Rchop]

Randy I dont know if I told You,but I picked up the Bronson Bike in St. Jacob,I guess about 100 miles or so from You. I loved it. Bill lives outside of town,near the small airport,where,among other ventures,He is a flight instructor.I couldnt get over how green everything was,and He has about 40 acres of corn for a front yard. The back yard is a small stocked lake,then forest. I didnt get to stay but about an hour,but I am going back in July,to pick up Him and His Bronson bike to go to Mountainfest.He said in the evening,the skies come alive with fireflys....What a cool place! I could live there!:)

You're welcome to stop by here if you have the time.

[Donson]

I would love to-btw I have quite a bit of tech info if You are going to build a B-bike,and could spare You a couple of correct eye decal for the tank.

[Rchop]

I would love to-btw I have quite a bit of tech info if You are going to build a B-bike,and could spare You a couple of correct eye decal for the tank.

Thanks Don, I'll let you know :023:

[Rchop]

I was downloading some pics from the wife's camera last night and found these. We had left the Christmas decorations up so we could take a Christmas card pic when it snowed. Finally, on Jan 28th, we got our one and only snow accumulation. It was just beautiful as I got up at dawn to catch the smooth snow...

http://www.frsengineering.com/1snow2009.jpg

http://www.frsengineering.com/2snow2009.jpg

[DarthRider]

Colder than a witch's bosom in a metallic halter!
But beautiful...

[Sir Limpsalot]

Now this..

http://www.frsengineering.com/1snow2009.jpg

Is a bloody terrific photo!

I wish I'd taken it..

Cheers,
Si.

[Rchop]

Thanks Si, I get lucky now and then.