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[Mo1]

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[ValerieUSA]

Nope... and he just told me that even though they are getting started today, it won't be finished until Thursday probably. I hope he's kidding, but no one laughed.

[Cuttnhorse]

Hi Sweets,

Re your photo...I think it is Huascaran from the northeast, looking SW. Can't be sure because I haven't spent much time on the east side of the Cordillera.

This part of Peru really has some spectacular scenery and a LOT of scary roads. I was on a 7-pucker road yesterday. I rate roads on a pucker-factor basis from 1 to 10. 1 would be driving to Valerie's casa in Texas...a 7 is where your side view mirror is almost scraping the inside of the road and your tires are barely on the road, and there is at least a 500-foot vetical drop. A 7 quickly elevates to a 10 when you come around a turn and coming toward you is a bus filled with people and also has a ton of potatoes and two pigs and a billy goat on the roof. Then you have to back. That gets you to a 10-pucker road.

All in a day's work, wouldn't have it any other way.

Cheers from Peru

[ValerieUSA]

YIKES!!!! Be careful.

[sweetliberty]

" A 7 quickly elevates to a 10 when you come around a turn and coming toward you is a bus filled with people and also has a ton of potatoes and two pigs and a billy goat on the roof. Then you have to back. "

That sounds like a little TOO much adventure, even for me! I was looking at some other pictures of the area. Looks like some pretty unforgiving territory, particualarly in the mountains.

[Cuttnhorse]

The whole country travels on dirt roads...there are a million "combies" traveling all over the back country. Combies are small vans that in the US would carry 6 people, but down here 14 seems to be the magic number the drivers try for. How do I know this you ask? Whenever there's a wreck, 14 seems to be the average number of fatalities.

Around the mine, we are up-grading roads to the local communities. We also up-graded the potable water and irrigation systems and have built numerous schools. Here and in Africa, the local mines do more for the people than all the stupid handouts given by the UN or the numerous irrelevent NGOs. The NGO handouts in Africa provide welcome fodder for the black market.

[ValerieUSA]

I'm proud of you and the mine, horsie. It makes sense for the mines to improve living conditions if they want their own people to live there. It's amazing that so many people in the world don't expect and create a reasonable quality of life for themselves or their children.

[operation clinton cleanup]

it won't be finished until Thursday probably

Did you remind him today is Friday, not Wednesday?

[Rowdee]

Good Lord, honeybear! Are you a rocket scientist, or sumthin? LOL.....

Seriously, loddy, thank ya, you sweet thang you.....my Dad is neither a rocket scientist, or neurosurgeon......he merely needs some sort of 'jumpring' [glorified name for an 'o' ring, if you ask me] that using inches is 1/4" in diameter....he makes earrings out of some of the fishing flies that he makes....

Thank you again.

[ValerieUSA]

He was kidding. How funny. The A/C is now on! The temp in the house is 87, so it has some work to do.

[Rowdee]

And thank you, you sweet thang....I have bookmarked that 'rocket scientist' page!

[See my reply to loddy above].

Again, thank you sir..

[Rowdee]

And thank you to another sweetie! _{*Gulp*---does this mean I'm gonna have to rethink my thoughts about you from yesterday--or was that the day before?}

My comments to loddy above tell the story of the millimeter thingy.

Thanks again, sweetie pie....I just love how you can count on so many FReeople fellas.

[operation clinton cleanup]

I think its time for you to just chill out for awhile...

[Cuttnhorse]

I just love how you can count on so many FReeople fellas.

It's because we are honorable and have the strength of 21.

[Cuttnhorse]

It's because we are honorable and have the strength of 21.

Even Ratty

[ValerieUSA]

yeah, just chill out. EMT wants to meet for a drink ... I guess he needs to talk to someone about his not yet ex-wife again. That is resistible, but a cold drink in an a/c place is irresistible

[operation clinton cleanup]

Better steer clear of the Merlot... we know how you get. Have fun!

[ValerieUSA]

VICTORIA (CP) - A 61-year-old man won a life-and-death struggle with a cougar outside a small northern Vancouver Island village, killing the animal with his 7.5-centimetre pocket knife.

Is 7.5 cm a big for a pocket knife? Cougars are HUGE cats.

[sweetliberty]

"EMT wants to meet for a drink"

Maybe he wants to ply you with alcohol to get you to rethink him not being your type.

[ValerieUSA]

I think 7.5 cm is only 3 inches. wow - he killed an attacking cougar with that? Amazing!

[Servant of the Nine]

7.5 cm is a 3 inch blade. He must have cut its throat. There is no way he could have stabbed it to death with that

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