Unutterably Silly Friday's question...

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by RWood

Ricky, give us the GPS coordinates so we can see the trench on Google Earth in about 4 years.

Ha .... the Google map doesn't even show my house ... and it's five years old. In fact, it doesn't even show the road going to my house and that's older than five years. And .... just noticed ... the map says Feb 2002.

Let's see coordinates ..... W 98 degrees 25 minutes 31.59 seconds and N 30 degrees 33 minutes and 11.73 seconds. I might be off, but only by a few hundredths of seconds of arc.

Those coordinates would put you pretty much right in front of the house. Should I put in a batch of brownies?? Is anyone coming to visit??

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

is that how long it takes them to update their satellite photos ??? (or is that how long you think it will take ricky to dig the trench ?)

ricky, when exactly are you going to tell us the purpose of this mysterious secret trench, and end this agony of curiosity ?

HA!! Land mines .... yeah, that's it .... land mines!! Mwaaaaahhhhahahahahah ...... (the sun is so hot, it has finally driven the poor duckbilled armadillopuss completely maaaaaaad!!!)

(Actually, I just did a few more measurements .... and it's going to have to be closer to 800 feet. Erg.)

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

HA!! Land mines .... yeah, that's it .... land mines!! Mwaaaaahhhhahahahahah ...... (the sun is so hot, it has finally driven the poor duckbilled armadillopuss completely maaaaaaad!!!)

(Actually, I just did a few more measurements .... and it's going to have to be closer to 800 feet. Erg.)

800ft down - that's a deep well you're digging ...

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

800ft down - that's a deep well you're digging ...

Yeah ... well I wanted to go to the Olympics, but I didn't have the money to spring for a plane ticket ... so I just thought I'd dig my way there.

[GeoffC]

priceless...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Yeah ... well I wanted to go to the Olympics, but I didn't have the money to spring for a plane ticket ... so I just thought I'd dig my way there.

you'd better get cracking then or you'll miss the whole thing.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

you'd better get cracking then or you'll miss the whole thing.

Hmmm ... you're right. Wonder how fast a nearly 56 year old woman can dig in six days using a hand pick???

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Hmmm ... you're right. Wonder how fast a nearly 56 year old woman can dig in six days using a hand pick???

Buy dogs some bones...
Bury bone in first stage of tench...
Release one dog to search for bone...
Tidy up...

Bury next bone...
Release another dog....
loop until 800 ft is reached...

Then explain the why...bit late for planting potatoes isn't it?

[Sparrow]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Hmmm ... you're right. Wonder how fast a nearly 56 year old woman can dig in six days using a hand pick???

You're planning on digging an 800ft trench with a hand pick in temperatures approaching 3 figures .
Wouldn't hiring some mechanical digging equipment be less arduous for a job that size?

It'd be quicker too - I'm looking forward to seeing you emerge from the long jump pit in the Olympic stadium .

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Sparrow

You're planning on digging an 800ft trench with a hand pick in temperatures approaching 3 figures .
Wouldn't hiring some mechanical digging equipment be less arduous for a job that size?

yes really, perhaps you should consider giving yourself a break on this one.

It'd be quicker too - I'm looking forward to seeing you emerge from the long jump pit in the Olympic stadium .

i think we all are... i might just have to reinstall the television in anticipation of that.

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

Buy dogs some bones...
Bury bone in first stage of tench...
Release one dog to search for bone...
Tidy up...

Bury next bone...
Release another dog....
loop until 800 ft is reached...

Then explain the why...bit late for planting potatoes isn't it?

Might work, but knowing my dogs, they'd just run off to chase the deer.

Originally Posted by Sparrow

You're planning on digging an 800ft trench with a hand pick in temperatures approaching 3 figures .
Wouldn't hiring some mechanical digging equipment be less arduous for a job that size?

It'd be quicker too - I'm looking forward to seeing you emerge from the long jump pit in the Olympic stadium .

Oh, I wish I could use machinery ... but then there's all that "explaining" I would have to do to the people up on the ridge as to exactly what I am doing with it.

This is something I'd really rather they don't know about. You know ... land mines and all that. Or ... getting to the Olympics that is.

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes really, perhaps you should consider giving yourself a break on this one.


i think we all are... i might just have to reinstall the television in anticipation of that.

Nooo ... don't do that on my account.


You know ... it might sound silly (talking about digging to China and land mines), but ... and I shit you not ... there was one time I was talking to one of the "officials" of the City of Horseshoe Bay (on the "issue" of my kitties), and he started quoting to me things that I had written about my cats from a bunch of sites just like this.

I think I had posted at one point that I had 19 cats (because I don't usually count Carolyn ... although I do now). I realized at that point that the creepazoids in HSB and the snobs up on the ridge actually monitor my actions on the net. Not all the time, but often enough.

So, now .. .more often than not ... I post that I have 20 cats, 2 dogs, and 5 pygmy elephants. Things like that. I don't happen to agree with annonymity on the net ... so, whenever I can, I just use my real name ... but as long as those bozos are going to keep tabs on me, I make certain that they never know why I might do something, and never actually see me doing it.

And from time to time I post my opinion of the lot of them (which is currently somewhere in the seventh sub-basement).

[GeoffC]

you forgot to mention the panda, 5 squirrels, the armadillo and the platypuss...

next question would be 'how'd they know it's you" or was the "official" just being general in their comments...

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

No ... I wish I could, but I can't. I have to be a little circumspect about digging this thing ... no heavy equipment that might be "noticed." Yeah, I know, how do you dig a "secret" 400 foot trench?? (The answer is mostly at night and very carefully.)

I bought a soaking hose today, which I plan to use to really soak the areas where I have to dig. I'm hoping it will make the process easier. Really hoping. Luckily the trench doesn't need to be all that deep.

Do they have Caleche in your neck of the woods?

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

you forgot to mention the panda, 5 squirrels, the armadillo and the platypuss...

next question would be 'how'd they know it's you" or was the "official" just being general in their comments...

Oh, no. He was very specific. The thing is, at the site where I post my artwork, this site, and several others, my member name is the same as my real name.

As I recall, he (or they) got the information off of my Renderosity gallery site. And, I think I will add the panda, squirrels, armadillo .... heck, I'll add the whole freaking zoo.

Originally Posted by pshrynk

Do they have Caleche in your neck of the woods?

The perfume?? I have no idea ... I haven't been in one of those types of stores for ages.

[pshrynk]

Originally Posted by RickyMaveety

Oh, no. He was very specific. The thing is, at the site where I post my artwork, this site, and several others, my member name is the same as my real name.

As I recall, he (or they) got the information off of my Renderosity gallery site. And, I think I will add the panda, squirrels, armadillo .... heck, I'll add the whole freaking zoo.



The perfume?? I have no idea ... I haven't been in one of those types of stores for ages.

No, caleche as in hard packed, rock-like clay that takes a pickaxe and tactical nuclear device to dig a hole into. I once put in a sprinkler system in San Antonio and part of the yard was caleche about a micrometer below the "topsoil" the developer had put down as a yard. The ditch witch just about threw me over the fence when I hit that. Ended up bringing in about six yards of topsoil and just burying the sprinkler lines under that, on top of the caleche.