Posted on 07/11/2003 5:54:00 AM PDT by Mama_Bear
Really? Hmmmmmmmmm.......I knew I should have included the former state song.
I believe it was chosen, in part, for its gratuitous mention of the "golden dome," which the former Gov. Howard Dean had recently spent a bundle on.
I noticed the golden dome on pictures that I came across of your state capitol building. That was another thing I was going to include in the post but couldn't find any place to put it.
The former Vermont State Song.......
I'm up, are you back? LOL
(((((((((Sistah Aqua))))))))))
It appears it is warming up nicely in your neck of the woods. Wouldn't a trip to Vermont be nice? It has GOT to be cooler up there!
Not only did we learn things we never knew or had forgotten, but you unearthed some interesting aspects, and showcased them with stunning graphics.
Take a much-deserved bow, Mama_Bear, for making us want to hurry there to see it for ourselves!
I was born in Massachusetts on a crisp morning in early October. I am told that my first "outing", a week or so later, was during the peak of the autumn color. Unfortunately we left that part of the country before I was old enough to actually remember the glorious New England autumns.....although it feels like I remember it. It's there, somewhere. :-)
Do please join us often here in the Finest Cafe and Family Room where we share life and all its ups and downs.
We drift in and out and share the good, the bad and the ugly - laugh and cry and joke and reminisce and pray and offer support to one another - and the coffee is great - LOL
Hope you are gettting comfortably settled - again..:))
Put your eyes back in your head, wolfie! Oh, it's my post you're lookin' at, not me. Well, phooey! LOL!
Great thread, fuzzy. Excellent everything! : )
Thank you. ((((((((((louiewolf))))))))))
PS I don't like Vermont syrup. : )
You are a finicky wolf! I don't know anyone who does not like maple syrup.
I'll be back later, have some things to do first.
Okay. Take it easy, don't get heatstroke back there.
Those pancakes make for whisker lickin', for sure! LOL
SNORF! Yeah, they sure do.
Oh, you don't know how hard I try. LOL!
Here are some interesting Vermont laws......
Are those really Vermont laws? So, that would explain all the giraffes I have seen roaming free throughout the Vermont countryside. LOL!
I love your stories, Nan! You have had such an interesting life.
I'm reminded that 50 years ago this week I arrived in your home state for the first time...at a quaint little place called Pittsburg....home of Camp Stoneman.
On the 25th of July 1953 a bunch of us troops got on board the USS Gen. A.E. Anderson heading for Okinawa and,we thought, Korea.
Surprise, surprise after 5 days at sea, the armistice was signed.
If you get up north to Fairfield stop in to the little, I mean little, cabin of Chester Arthur.
It must have been a real tight fit for him.
Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
Another list; for old Vietnam helicopter pilots.
Why:
1. Why did they call it Collective Pitch? I never collected any. Usually I ran out of it about the same time as altitude and airspeed.
2. Why didn't Ma Bell add more left pedal and aft cyclic? I always had lots of right pedal and forward cyclic. It seems like they could have reduced those and added to the ones we needed.
3. Why did they put the only radio (KY-28) that had to be recovered if you went down in the most inaccessible part of the aircraft?
4. Why did the pilots have armored seats but the Chief and Gunner didn't?
5. Why did situations that called for all the torque the engine could produce also require full use of the anti-torque pedal followed by that damn flashing red light? (Seems contradictory)
6. Why did they call them Hammerhead stalls? Maybe because only a hammer head would try one in a helicopter.
7. Why did I always get an aircraft with a major 1 to 1 when I had a hangover? (For you non-rotor heads, a "1 to 1" is a vertical vibration that pounds you into the seat and quakes through your body one time for each revolution of the main rotor - usually at a rate of app. 294-324 RPM, and the faster you fly, the harder it pounds After a while it begins to hurt, ---even if you don't have a hangover.)
8. Why didn't Ma Bell make the skin out of duct tape so it would match the patches?
9. Why did they make a main rotor system that could cut down small Sequoia trees, and a tail rotor system that self-distructed if it encountered anything bigger than a bumblebee?
10. Why were they called landing skids? Were they intended for landing or skidding?
11. Why did the amount of time I had to spend in an LZ increase exponentially with the amount of fire I was receiving?
12. Why didn't 33 beer taste any better cold than it did hot?
13. Why did the smoke from the s**t barrel always blow towards my tent/hooch?
14. Why was the PX always out of everything on my day off? And the biggest question of all.......
15. Why does a Bell helicopter have unusual noises that can only be heard at night or while in the clouds?
Speaking of 'wolfie' -
I have thoroughly enjoyed 'discovering' Vermont. Who would have thought that there was so much to say about your little state. My goodness! My presentation was getting longer and longer and I still could have gone on and on. There is so much that I was not able to include.
I was born in Massachusetts, and have been to New Hampshire, but never had the pleasure of visiting Vermont. I am hoping that someday I will get there.
I've never heard of Camp Stoneman (even though Pittsburgh isn't all that far from the central valley), so I did a little Google search and found it.
Thanks so much for dropping by and for your military service. :-)
((((((((((dansangle .45 Man)))))))))))))))
Seems backward, doesn't it?
Should be against the law to be seen without 'em !!
You'd go to any length possible to please us, The Thin Man,
assembling so much background.
You're such a noble fellow.
you are our Knight in Shining Armor - --
Awwww..........thank you. It was a labor of love. What a beautiful state Vermont is! I know that all the New England states are rich in Colonial history, but I had no idea how much there is to spotlight in this state.
There was so much more I could have included about the colorful history of the Green Mountain Boys and Ethan Allen, but I just couldn't fit it all in. :-(
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