Where in the World is Bob Saget?

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MinnieM123

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@donaldtoo and @Wrangler-Rick , sometimes I watch RFDTV for something different from the usual tv lineup on my satellite package. (I'm actually surprised that I get this channel at all, as I don't live in the country/farm areas of the state.) One of the things I like about shows on that channel are the minimal production effects. A lot of it is straight-forward filming, minor sets (if at all, depending upon the show), and just interesting interviews and educational shows. There's also not many commercial interruptions. (There are similarities to local cable tv access stations. However, since my tv is on satellite, I don't get the local access station anymore for my area.)

So the other night, they had a show about tractors, and the company they highlighted was Case. I never knew there were so many different types of tractors, and so many models down through the years. Many of the men they interviewed wore overalls or suspenders. Perhaps that style had been handed down from their grandfathers. (I think most of the men were farmers.) I recalled a discussion here a few days ago about tractors, and I think also @MOXOMUMD and @Gabe1 are tractor-savvy, too.

I wanted to mention this show, because they have more tractor shows as well, and they also sell a DVD of the shows.

Some people even collect tractors (I guess there's a collector, and possibly a museum as well, for probably anything we can imagine). That reminds me a little of a small, rural museum I went to, years ago, way up in northern Maine, near the Canadian border. It was a big logging/forest area, so they had a museum of different years, models and types of chain saws! That museum was quite different from museums you see in big cities! I liked it. :)
 
JenniferS

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Gabe1 said:
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Welcome to my world. I can't multiquote the proper way. When the box comes up the very bottom of the box is off the screen so I can't see or view the commands and click so I just keep hitting the reply button to collect mutiquotes.
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I can do it just fine on the iPad, but not so much on the iPhone.
 
donaldtoo

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Gabe1 said:
I love dessert. My favorite meal.

When I think of Texas I think of cows and oil fields. Oh yeah and everyone lives on a ranch like on the TV show Dallas.
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Hahaaa!
That post was from my phone. Like most of us here, it, obviously, loves the thought of "dessert" more than a "desert"...!!! :hungry: :joyfull: ;) :)

Y'all should come on down some time. As the ads say...
"Texas. It's like a whole other country." ;) :)
 
donaldtoo

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seahawk7 said:
It's amazing how small it is in person right?
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Yes, it was just a mission outpost and never meant to be any kinda' cathedral, that's for sure. That being said, it's still very cool and just another important part of our overall American heritage. :)

Also, here's a pic I meant to post last night that shows just how much in the middle of the downtown SA hustle and bustle the Alamo is... :)

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MinnieM123

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donaldtoo said:
Yes, it was just a mission outpost and never meant to be any kinda' cathedral, that's for sure. That being said, it's still very cool and just another important part of our overall American heritage. :)

Also, here's a pic I meant to post last night that shows just how much in the middle of the downtown SA hustle and bustle the Alamo is... :)

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"Picture if you will . . . " (in Rod Serling's voice). Looking at the modern-day people and buildings (yet, with the Alamo in the background), I thought of parallel universes. I could imagine an interesting Twilight Zone script written about this. :jawdrop: ;)
 
Soarin' Over Pgh

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MinnieM123 said:
Oh heck--I just looked above--how did it end up upside down??
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I haven't been able to figure it out either. :( I'll take a dunce cap, size medium please.


donaldtoo said:
Happy Labor Day to you, too! :)

Thanks, and I very much loved @Soarin' Over Pgh's Pittsburgh history, as well! :)

Yep, many folks, understandably, still seem to think of the entire Texas landscape as either prairie or dessert. Truth is, the landscapes of this state are as vast as the area it encompasses. Over 350 miles of gulf coastline, hundreds of sq. miles of beautiful central Texas hill country, nine 8,000+ ft. high mountain peaks in west Texas, the piney woods of east Texas, and even Palo Duro Canyon up in the panhandle flatlands near Amarillo. So vast.
Folks come down here and are just completely, and happily, surprised and amazed. :)
That's why I, occasionally, and jokingly, post things like "Stop comin' down here! It's already too darn crowded! :arghh:"
;) :)
Just one typical example: A few years ago, at the clothing store, I sold 2 suits to a guy who's company had recently transferred him down here from the northeast. He told me that he and his wife had come down here just to take a look around, to see if they'd like it here, knowing full-well they wouldn't. Not only did they like it, they bought a house on that first visit (something they told me they had not, at all, planned on doing) before they went back up north to prepare for the move down that they thought they wouldn't even wanna' be making. :)

I've actually been as far west as San Francisco, as far east as NYC, as far north as Warroad Minnesota, and as far south as Laredo, Texas, and MANY places in between. But, with the exception of 2 church trips to a girls orphanage down in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, I have never left the contiguous 48.
Funny thing is, as you related, there's still sooo much in this country I have yet to experience...!!! :confused: ;) :)
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Well I'm convinced. After last winter and with the threats of this winter (wooly caterpillars everywhere! Ad they're huge! Not a good sign) I'm ready to pack it in and relocate south.
 
donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
@donaldtoo and @Wrangler-Rick , sometimes I watch RFDTV for something different from the usual tv lineup on my satellite package. (I'm actually surprised that I get this channel at all, as I don't live in the country/farm areas of the state.) One of the things I like about shows on that channel are the minimal production effects. A lot of it is straight-forward filming, minor sets (if at all, depending upon the show), and just interesting interviews and educational shows. There's also not many commercial interruptions. (There are similarities to local cable tv access stations. However, since my tv is on satellite, I don't get the local access station anymore for my area.)

So the other night, they had a show about tractors, and the company they highlighted was Case. I never knew there were so many different types of tractors, and so many models down through the years. Many of the men they interviewed wore overalls or suspenders. Perhaps that style had been handed down from their grandfathers. (I think most of the men were farmers.) I recalled a discussion here a few days ago about tractors, and I think also @MOXOMUMD and @Gabe1 are tractor-savvy, too.

I wanted to mention this show, because they have more tractor shows as well, and they also sell a DVD of the shows.

Some people even collect tractors (I guess there's a collector, and possibly a museum as well, for probably anything we can imagine). That reminds me a little of a small, rural museum I went to, years ago, way up in northern Maine, near the Canadian border. It was a big logging/forest area, so they had a museum of different years, models and types of chain saws! That museum was quite different from museums you see in big cities! I liked it. :)
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Thanks for that!
I, unfortunately, haven't driven a tractor in many years, but, I do have some darn good memories of doing so in years past...! :)
 
donaldtoo

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MinnieM123 said:
"Picture if you will . . . " (in Rod Serling's voice). Looking at the modern-day people and buildings (yet, with the Alamo in the background), I thought of parallel universes. I could imagine an interesting Twilight Zone script written about this. :jawdrop: ;)
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It is, indeed, a very surreal scene to most. But, it is equally amazing how, once you are inside the grounds, how quiet, peaceful, calm, and reflective you can get. It's like all that big city around you doesn't even exist. It's pretty cool how they have actually screened out much of what they could to preserve a large amount of separation and tranquility. :)
 
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