Gordon's in Beaufort, so call him first. I'm 2 hours further north in Charleston. I need to collect cell phone numbers from everybody who is going to be a part of this caravan/convoy so that we can stay in touch. I already have:
- Gordon
- John Hallstrand
- Leon Chupp
- Aaron White
I need:
- Nolan Scott
- Jack Crosby
- Charles Gardner (if he's joining us)
I can probably do without the folks who're joining us in Hagerstown, but I already have Alan's, and it wouldn't hurt to have Teresa's and Kelly's.
Please email them to me, and I can distribute so we can stay in touch if something happens on the road.
Lane--good idea---my cell number is 501/760-5604
Are we psyched yet? OH YEEEAAHH.---Jack
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I will be sending out a complete email and cell phone list to everyone signed up for Carlisle, via email in the next week or so. Then, everyone attending will be able to contact anyone else to make "pre-flight" arrangements.
I'm sorry, everyone. I've been "of the air" this week. Kathy kidnapped me to Disneyworld for my birthday this week - what a surprise!! They give you this BIG button to wear that tells everyone that it's your birthday. You also get a free park pass for the day - pretty cool, huh?? We spent yesterday at EPCOT doing a "Behind the seeds" tour of their Hydroponic Gardening operation (we are both South Carolina Master Gardeners) and spent today wandering around the Animal Kingdom Park.
I must have had a couple of hundred people wish me happy birthday over a couple of days, plus lots of freebies. We love Disney!!
Anyway, it looks like Lane has pretty much covered it. Once you get here to Beaufort, Nolan, you'll never be without another Speedie around for the rest of the trip. We'll meet Lane just West of Charleston (1-1/2 hours North), and then hook up with everyone else along the way, usually during a rest area stop or something. Very easy trip, as most of us have made the trip to Carlisle quite a few times already (and for me, from different directions!). I have a lot of tools but don't yet have an OBDII reader (what the heck FOR? My truck?) I may have one by then - we'll see (ya never know).
I've sent my phone numbers via email. I called your home number this evening but got a fax machine. Give me a call tomorrow and we'll chat. It's gonna be a cool trip!
gn
I will be sending out a complete email and cell phone list to everyone signed up for Carlisle, via email in the next week or so. Then, everyone attending will be able to contact anyone else to make "pre-flight" arrangements.
I'm sorry, everyone. I've been "of the air" this week. Kathy kidnapped me to Disneyworld for my birthday this week - what a surprise!! They give you this BIG button to wear that tells everyone that it's your birthday. You also get a free park pass for the day - pretty cool, huh?? We spent yesterday at EPCOT doing a "Behind the seeds" tour of their Hydroponic Gardening operation (we are both South Carolina Master Gardeners) and spent today wandering around the Animal Kingdom Park.
I must have had a couple of hundred people wish me happy birthday over a couple of days, plus lots of freebies. We love Disney!!
Anyway, it looks like Lane has pretty much covered it. Once you get here to Beaufort, Nolan, you'll never be without another Speedie around for the rest of the trip. We'll meet Lane just West of Charleston (1-1/2 hours North), and then hook up with everyone else along the way, usually during a rest area stop or something. Very easy trip, as most of us have made the trip to Carlisle quite a few times already (and for me, from different directions!). I have a lot of tools but don't yet have an OBDII reader (what the heck FOR? My truck?) I may have one by then - we'll see (ya never know).
I've sent my phone numbers via email. I called your home number this evening but got a fax machine. Give me a call tomorrow and we'll chat. It's gonna be a cool trip!
gn
Gordon,
I am dismayed to hear that Disney is into Hydroponics also. I've spent the last several years visiting Humboldt County, CA where many "master gardeners" take their hydroponics and other methods of growing very seriously. They may be concerned to know Disney is industrializing the process. Their "behind the seeds" tour, I think, requires a doctors prescription.
I am dismayed to hear that Disney is into Hydroponics also. I've spent the last several years visiting Humboldt County, CA where many "master gardeners" take their hydroponics and other methods of growing very seriously. They may be concerned to know Disney is industrializing the process. Their "behind the seeds" tour, I think, requires a doctors prescription.
So, Gordon, does Disney provide anything special for folks when they hit 80?
Ok, where are my horns?...
Ok, where are my horns?...
Lots of perks for Birthday people at Disney - automatic priority seating in restaurants, automatic "Fast Pass" tickets for rides, discounts here and there. All sorts of stuff.
The hydroponic operation is, interestingly, separate from their large army of Park Horticulturists (600 people strong, just there) but they actually do internal classes to cross-pollinate, so to speak, a wider group of people within the park. The park horticulturists have several nursery/greenhouse areas (something like 10-15 greenhouses and about 100 acres of nursery area) at their disposal which are not affiliated with the Hydroponic operation.
They have all sorts of stuff being grown in hydroponics, including massive cherry tomato trees that produce for 18 months. The last one holds the Guinness record for amount of fruit produced - 33,000+ tomatoes (all cherry size) over 18 months. These plants are massive, grown up into a horizontal trellis at about 8 feet and the canopy spread is about 20 feet with fruit hanging down all under the canopy.
They also had soil-less operations growing lettuce, Brussels Sprouts, egg plant, beans, bananas, oranges, grapefruit and lots of others - four green houses and a geodesic dome, all growing stuff like crazy. They've combined some of their work in "The Sea" with that in "The Land" and have a complementary environment of Tillapia fish living in an aquarium below a lettuce crop, circulating the nutrient-rich water to the lettuce to enhance their growth.
Lastly, they were really big into stacking some crops, grown in pearlite with a nutrient-rich drip-watering system, vertically in styrofoam pots. Instead of getting four plants in a single pot floor space, they would stack them up to get 40 plants in the same footprint. We're thinking of doing something like that in our greenhouse here with strawberries and a few other plants. We could set it up and automate everything so it'll take care of itself when we're away (I can see coming home to find some huge plant in the greenhouse like in "Little Shop of Horrors").
Another interesting statistic is that, for those five greenhouses the output is often used in the restaurants in EPCOT, but they can produce only about one percent of the need in those restaurants for fresh veggies. For example, they can produce a few heads of lettuce per day, while a single Manatee in the aquarium alone will eat close to 100 heads per day, just to put things in perspective.
It's still a nifty thing to play with here at the house, and I have all of the drip-watering stuff available so this might be fun.
gn
80, huh? Shoot! I often feel pretty lucky to have just made it THIS far!
The hydroponic operation is, interestingly, separate from their large army of Park Horticulturists (600 people strong, just there) but they actually do internal classes to cross-pollinate, so to speak, a wider group of people within the park. The park horticulturists have several nursery/greenhouse areas (something like 10-15 greenhouses and about 100 acres of nursery area) at their disposal which are not affiliated with the Hydroponic operation.
They have all sorts of stuff being grown in hydroponics, including massive cherry tomato trees that produce for 18 months. The last one holds the Guinness record for amount of fruit produced - 33,000+ tomatoes (all cherry size) over 18 months. These plants are massive, grown up into a horizontal trellis at about 8 feet and the canopy spread is about 20 feet with fruit hanging down all under the canopy.
They also had soil-less operations growing lettuce, Brussels Sprouts, egg plant, beans, bananas, oranges, grapefruit and lots of others - four green houses and a geodesic dome, all growing stuff like crazy. They've combined some of their work in "The Sea" with that in "The Land" and have a complementary environment of Tillapia fish living in an aquarium below a lettuce crop, circulating the nutrient-rich water to the lettuce to enhance their growth.
Lastly, they were really big into stacking some crops, grown in pearlite with a nutrient-rich drip-watering system, vertically in styrofoam pots. Instead of getting four plants in a single pot floor space, they would stack them up to get 40 plants in the same footprint. We're thinking of doing something like that in our greenhouse here with strawberries and a few other plants. We could set it up and automate everything so it'll take care of itself when we're away (I can see coming home to find some huge plant in the greenhouse like in "Little Shop of Horrors").
Another interesting statistic is that, for those five greenhouses the output is often used in the restaurants in EPCOT, but they can produce only about one percent of the need in those restaurants for fresh veggies. For example, they can produce a few heads of lettuce per day, while a single Manatee in the aquarium alone will eat close to 100 heads per day, just to put things in perspective.
It's still a nifty thing to play with here at the house, and I have all of the drip-watering stuff available so this might be fun.
gn
80, huh? Shoot! I often feel pretty lucky to have just made it THIS far!
Towing package given acid test.....Passes as expected.....Looking for Speedster tail lights to chase.....Only 25 days to go....
Four weeks from right now we'll be in the parking lot of the Hotel Carlisle drinking beer and swapping stories. WOOHOO!!!!!!
Looking into the possibility of towing mine now, seems it would be easier than driving 2 separate vehicles.
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Leon:
I'll give you LOTS of tail lights to catch; Trailer, Speedster and Truck.
Ask Wild Bil about trying to catch a "Mighty Power Stroke" on an Interstate....
gn
I'll give you LOTS of tail lights to catch; Trailer, Speedster and Truck.
Ask Wild Bil about trying to catch a "Mighty Power Stroke" on an Interstate....
gn
Well Gordon, That will make it easier on me.....Just follow the moving sunset.....;-)
Geez... Am I gonna be the only one driving my car this year?
Oh well, at least I'll have plenty of support vehicles, should something unexpected happen.
Are you sure you guys won't be bored at my speed? I tend to stay to 70 or below.
Oh well, at least I'll have plenty of support vehicles, should something unexpected happen.
Are you sure you guys won't be bored at my speed? I tend to stay to 70 or below.
Just stay close, Lane...I can pass you a cool drink from one of the two on-board coolers....
Or maybe leave the window down so you can listen to Chuck Berry...
Just don't follow too close or all those tail lights might blind you.
Or maybe leave the window down so you can listen to Chuck Berry...
Just don't follow too close or all those tail lights might blind you.
Lane, you KNOW that you are not the ONLY ONE driving. Cheer up.
I should have said on day one, John. I KNOW I can count on you to drive. Also, Aaron will be driving his. So from Statesville on there will be one other hardy soul.
Gents,
I can NOT join you all! Linda hospitalized again today. Causes unknown before 2 weeks ago. Extreme low blood pressure and flu-like symptoms.
So, I have decided for the best to remain home until she has and I have been guaranteed that she has fully recovered.
Aaron
I can NOT join you all! Linda hospitalized again today. Causes unknown before 2 weeks ago. Extreme low blood pressure and flu-like symptoms.
So, I have decided for the best to remain home until she has and I have been guaranteed that she has fully recovered.
Aaron
Gents,
I can NOT join you all! Linda hospitalized again today. Causes unknown before 2 weeks ago. Extreme low blood pressure and flu-like symptoms.
So, I have decided for the best to remain home until she has and I have been guaranteed that she has fully recovered.
Aaron
I can NOT join you all! Linda hospitalized again today. Causes unknown before 2 weeks ago. Extreme low blood pressure and flu-like symptoms.
So, I have decided for the best to remain home until she has and I have been guaranteed that she has fully recovered.
Aaron
I'm so sorry to hear that, Aaron, but you need to focus on her for now. Please keep us posted on how sh is doing. We'll see you in October, if not before.