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[Gman2007]

I can't get enough of Montaqua - GREAT tasting water! We distilled our own water until I found this stuff - you can taste the minerals which aren't over-powering.

Montaqua Springs - The Full Story

We also like the Big Spring Water and can get it in the 5 gallon jugs locally. It comes from Lewsitown and if I'm not mistaken, the city doesn't treat the water as it comes straight from the spring. Someone else may have more information on that though...I tried to look it up but couldn't find the specifics.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by rickers

I saw it rain MUD once ! Maybe my cousins were hang gliding in a rainstorm !
I hope nobody here thinks the picture of the inbreds are really related to me!

Nah, we alluz figgered one o' y'all wuz adopted

I know some folks here, who used to be married, who looked so much alike you'da sworn they were his-and-hers twins. Not only that, but before being married they had the same last name (Anderson, common enough everywhere... Mr.Ander really got around! ) I joshed 'em about how they had to be twins and the name proved it -- he says, "Nah, can't be, cuz I'm adopted," and I said, "Yeah, from the OTHER Anderson family!"

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Gman2007

I can't get enough of Montaqua - GREAT tasting water! We distilled our own water until I found this stuff - you can taste the minerals which aren't over-powering.

Montaqua Springs - The Full Story

We also like the Big Spring Water and can get it in the 5 gallon jugs locally. It comes from Lewsitown and if I'm not mistaken, the city doesn't treat the water as it comes straight from the spring. Someone else may have more information on that though...I tried to look it up but couldn't find the specifics.

Dunno... a lot of 'em are just rebadges of water bottled by some big outfit. I do like my water to have a healthy "water taste" tho -- natural minerals but not to the point of being strong or leaving an aftertaste.

But not like you get out of the ground ... oh, say on the Witt Ranch (my aunt and uncle) NW of Carter... "overpowering" doesn't begin to describe it!! "Cleaning fluid" or "fertilizer" might come close... really strong alkali. Back in the day before household filters, they hauled household water from the public tap on the Teton River (which has some sort of filtering unit on it, but isn't treated beyond that), and it was a vast improvement.

Spring water can be contaminated too, tho, and often to a higher level than rivers, since spring water has MUCH more time to dissolve minerals as it slowly seeps past 'em. If you drink from a spring out here in the desert, it's liable to contain significant levels of uranium and selenium. There's enough selenium in the shallower ground water that if you take a vitamin pill with selenium, you can wind up overdosed to the point that it gives you muscle cramps. And as to the uranium... Envirofreaks claim Edwards AFB contaminated the desert with radiation. Nope... fact was, EAFB was sited out here because the ground was naturally radioactive (lots of uranium deposits) -- and was considered unfit for human habitation!!

We do see some weird mutations among the local insects, but so far no three-headed babies

[MT2WA]

Raining cats and dogs in Spokane last night. I was flying in from Seattle on the 6:30 PM flight. Delayed until 9:24 PM. Took off went to Spokane (24 minutes later) lightening storm caused us to circle the airport for 2 hours. FInally we ran out of fuel and had to head back to Seattle !

Once we landed they let the upset passengers off, re-fueled the plane and WENT BACK TO SPOKANE.

Landed at 1:30 AM. Didn't get to Thompson Falls until 4:30 AM with the time change.

Ugly.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by Gman2007

I can't get enough of Montaqua - GREAT tasting water! We distilled our own water until I found this stuff - you can taste the minerals which aren't over-powering.

Montaqua Springs - The Full Story

I see they also do private label (ie. rebadged) water -- Montaqua Springs - The Specifics of Private Labeling

According to their analysis it's fairly hard water (lots of minerals) but that's actually good, since we need the minerals in our diet.

Bottled water is pretty expensive (averages in the $4 to $8 per gallon range for individual bottles; dunno what bulk prices are right now, tho Walmart gallons are about 50 cents) but at least it's an alternative to soda and beer, which used to be our only options in portable drinks. I'm mostly a water drinker myself, and I hate it when all you can get is soda!

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by MT2WA

Raining cats and dogs in Spokane last night. I was flying in from Seattle on the 6:30 PM flight. Delayed until 9:24 PM. Took off went to Spokane (24 minutes later) lightening storm caused us to circle the airport for 2 hours. .

Used to be if they couldn't stop at Spokane they'd just go on to the next stop, then shuttle people back as needed. What's with this going back the way we came crap??

Sometimes Belgrade (Bozeman) is the only airport not fogged in between Seattle and Minneapolis -- when I lived next door, we'd see a lot of unscheduled stops in winter because of everywhere else being fogged in.

I once saw four Northwest 727's circling over the Belgrade airport for four hours -- then they all left, all going in different directions. WTF??

Hughes Airwest had an interesting policy -- they didn't actually schedule stops at some of the puddlejumper airports they flew past, but you could make a reservation and they'd stop for you anyway, just about anywhere along their route that would handle their jets.

[rickers]

Good morning everyone ! Holy schmoly, it's after noon. I overslept again and I know why. I couldn't sleep last night so I turned the TV on and for some sick reason I watched on the IFC channel the Rob Zombie movie titled "The Devil's Rejects" The sequel to "House of 1000 corpses" both written and directed by Rob Zombie. It starred Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon Zombie, all horror movie icons. That is one sick sick sick movie but it kept me busy until I could sleep. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Now I'm trying to talk my wife into watching it the next time IFC shows it. We're grilling burgers as we speak and if I feel like it later I'll disclose my secret burger recipe along with my secret burger sauce recipe.

[Reziac]

Originally Posted by rickers

Good morning everyone ! Holy schmoly, it's after noon. I overslept again and I know why. I couldn't sleep last night so I turned the TV on and for some sick reason I watched on the IFC channel the Rob Zombie movie titled "The Devil's Rejects" The sequel to "House of 1000 corpses" both written and directed by Rob Zombie. It starred Sid Haig, Bill Moseley and Sheri Moon Zombie, all horror movie icons. That is one sick sick sick movie but it kept me busy until I could sleep. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Now I'm trying to talk my wife into watching it the next time IFC shows it. We're grilling burgers as we speak and if I feel like it later I'll disclose my secret burger recipe along with my secret burger sauce recipe.

That would be ground zombie, with pureed brain sauce, right??

[rickers]

OK you all can stop twisting my arm ! Here it is; Get your butcher to grind you some fresh burger, mix a healthy splash of A-1 sauce and a few drops of liquid smoke into the ground beef. Grill those dads on a charcoal grill to your liking.
For the sauce mix together well in a small bowl some ketchup, some spicy brown mustard/horseradish about half the amount as the ketchup. Then add a few splashes of bottled Mexican hot sauce such as Tapatio, a few drops of liquid smoke, a few drops of balsamic vinegar, a few drops of honey and a few drops of lemon juice and some fresh ground black pepper.
Are ya happy now ? Now let go of my arm !

[rickers]

Hey what happened ? I quit drinking, served up some great cheeseburgers and everyone takes off ! WTF ? So what did I do you ask, well you didn't ask but I'll tell ya anyway. I watched another whacked out movie. It was set in future Britain and ----- well I'm not going to write the whole plot here but you can read a summery of the plot on Wikipedia. The movie was "Children Of Men" based on the book "The Children Of Men" I guess it was kind of a flop but It was engaging and had some radical scenes. I think the set was a real war ravaged neighborhood or city (not sure) but the childbirth scene was a real childbirth and in one gunfight scene on the bus toward the end, some blood splattered on the camera lens giving a sense of realism. It was released in the U.S.A. on Christmas day 2006. Well worth seeing if you like sick and shocking movies like me !!! I'm looking forward to the next showing of Borat.