Re: Hey Farml, Rob, David and All..

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:48:07 -0700 (PDT), Warren
<amwwbrock@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Apr 4, 2:26 pm, Charlie wrote:
>> Ya'll mind if a midwesterner from the US hangs out and asks, from time
>> to time, a few questions about what ya'll do on the other side of the
>> world from me?
>>
>> My knowledge of Australia is limited to what i've learned from NGS and
>> the limited amount I've learned online.
>>
>> I've talked to some of you in rec.gardens.
>>
>> We 'mericans tend to be a bit rude and forward at times...I'll try and
>> behave meself.....until I get a sense of what you are all about. ;-)
>>
>> Charlie
>
>G'day Charlie,

Hey Warren.

I just spent the last fifteen minutes getting off a simply brilliant,
dazzling and detailed reply to you and went fumble fingers and somehow
completely disappeared it before sending.  ****.  I'm running out of
time, so I guess you just get the condensed short version.

>                     Now that Mr Bush is an honourary Queenslander,
>for some reason, I guess we are kinda another distant state of America

Sorry, mate, that sucks for ya'. ;-)

>anyway... And here in Queensland, we have a town called Texas, it's a
>little country town in South West Queensland.  Although I have never
>visited America, I imagine Texas to be not dissimilar to Queensland in
>climate, rain fall etc... with the exception that our maijor highways
>are probably not much different to a county bush track.  I have a
>brother who spent a few years as a truck driver in the states and he
>discribes the roads there as being far superior to ours, which is a
>bit of a sore point with me and probably other ozzies, we have all
>this wealth generated by the mineral mining boom, yet our
>infrastructure is almost 3rd world, which I guess is that elusive 2nd
>world we never hear about.  About 90% of ozzies live along the coastal
>fringe, where most of the money gets spent, and most of the money is
>generated well inland with mining and agriculture yet very little is
>spent on roads and the like.

Our roads, and infrastructure, are crumbling now.  chunks are being
sold off to the highest bidder and turned to tollway.  Several
companies from Oz have participated in buying roads.

>I live right on top of the tropic of capricorn in a town called
>Rockhampton.  It's like a big country town.  Beef is our back bone
>here.  Rail is a big part of this town also.  I work 5 hours drive
>away from where I live, mining coal from the Bowen Basin, probably
>Australias richest coal deposit.  Greenland benifits from what I do
>because with climate change, greenland gets warmer and the people
>there would probably enjoy a bit of sun****ne.  The rest of the world
>doesn't really get much out of it though, but I don't feel all that
>guilty because I feel that with climate change it has gone beyond the
>point of no return and also we have had climate change before, in that
>something had to melt down the ice ages, of which we are still
>currently in the final stages of.  Besides, if I didn't do it, someone
>else would.

I live in the far northwest corner of Missouri.  Rural farming area,
but the small family farms are nearly gone.  Our country roads are
falling apart, particularly after a hard winter like we had and funding
is in short supply for repair.   A significant ****tion of the bridges
in this America have been rated unsafe.

>Anyways mate, enjoy what you read here, maybe try some of the
>"technology" in your garden there but remember to reverse the seasons.
>
>Regards, Warren.

Thank for the welcome, Warren.

Care
Charlie