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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the update Sandy; it snowed here in Ohoenix one afternoon many 
years ago. the snow never stuck to anything ; you could just barelty see the 
flakes in the air.  It was very strange.  Glad it is pretty in your desert.  
If you get bored, you can go visit Snoopy's brother; I forgot his name but he 
lives in your neck of the desert <g>..............

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--- On Thu, 12/18/08, Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com> wrote:

> From: Bunjov AT aol.com <Bunjov AT aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Sandy, what's the weather in your desert?
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Cc: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org, cvclifford78 AT yahoo.com, 
> dianedelaceppede AT gmail.com
> Date: Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:07 AM
> Hi, Bob -
>  
> Haven't peeked outside yet, but when I went to bed
> (several times) last  
> night, the Mean Green Machine had maybe 5-6 inches of snow
> on it.
>  
> I know that the 'romance' of snow is probably
> long-lost on all our  listmates 
> to whom it is business as usual, but I still marvel at it. 
>  
> One of my first thoughts, living where I do, is that the
> storm will be of  
> benefit to the level of the groundwater, which has been
> 'steady droppin' every  
> year. When I started coming out here, the water table was
> at 12' - now it's at 
>  almost 300' 
>  
> Our alfalfa farmers (few and getting to be fewer) and our
> dairies (even  
> fewer than that) are gettiing the blame, but it's
> actually the developers down  
> the hill in Victorville and points west who are drinking up
> every drop.
>  
> The MWA, coupla years ago, went to a great deal of trouble
> (and public  
> hoopla) putting in a pipeline that ends here in Newberry
> Springs, complete with  
> two huge 'detention basins' which - a short time
> after the civic celebration of  
> their completion - remain dry as a bone to this day. I
> drive by the 
> installation  almost every day, and all I see is two big
> empty ponds surrounded by 
> maybe a  mile of very expensive fencing that encloses -
> nothing. 
>  
> And I'm sure that the taxpayers of SB County are also
> paying for the 24/7  
> maintenance of the little shack that houses the electrical
> and plumbing for the  
> facility.
>  
> We are so scattered out here. Fewer than 4,000 people in
> 117 square miles.  
> That may be an awful lot to those of us like James and
> Jeannie (and I agree) -  
> but this is not the norm. 
>  
> The County gets mega$$$ from the developers who are
> building in V'ville and  
> Apple Valley, and we placidly pay our property taxes every
> year and still get  
> blamed for over-usage, and there are regular Watermaster
> meetings and  
> adjudications that threaten to ramp down our usage and also
> threaten to force us  to 
> install water meters on our wells -
>  
> They do 'fly-overs' to see who's growing what.
> I consider that to be the  
> ultimate Big Brother tactic, and it makes me want to whip
> out my Che Guevarra  
> T-shirt, no matter what shape it's in (or what shape
> I'm in heh heh).
> I don't believe it.
>  
> Well, now, I started out sending a message about the beauty
> of the snow,  and 
> have ended up in a regular rant.
> Sorry 'bout that.
>  
> I guess I'm just waking up (again).
> Sandy
>  
>  
>  
> In a message dated 12/18/2008 5:21:59 A.M. Pacific Standard
> Time,  
> bobford79 AT yahoo.com writes:
> 
> It's  been drizzley here for two days, Vegas is getting
> snow, how 'bout  you?
> 
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