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Heh. Thought that might get your attention.

Please stop with calling your posts - or any posts - "boring". They are certainly not boring to me! I enjoy reading each and every one of them - WomenRv is the first thing I read when I turn my computer on in the morning, the last thing I read when I turn it off at night.

In my (not-so) humble opinion, none of the posts on here are "boring". Can't happen!! I completely enjoy reading "about your day", however your day has been, whatever you might have done (or not done!) during the course of it, what you might have planned (or not planned!) for the next few hours, the next few days, the next few weeks, the next few months.

It's all grist for my mill!!

The posts on here add normality (is 'normality' a word?) to my world, when it seems everything beyond - in the "real world" - is just one episode after another of the gooey brown stuff constantly hitting the fan.

Posts on here help me to shut the door on all of that smelly stuff - as much as one can.

So. . .DON'T stop with your posts! The worst part of my morning is when I dial into WomenRv and. . . there are no new posts! Gaaahhhh!!

SO! Please PROCEED with your posts!!

Will be doing an update on the California fires shortly (since a few people have mentioned it), will put it on the "California Apocalypse" thread so as to keep all the fire news in one place.

Short version: Yes, the fires are still burning, yes we still have smoky skies, yes we still have a bit of ashfall. And that's just the good news. . .

Anne

I'll try to be more diligent about posting.
Velda

You made me smile. I'm glad your post went a different direction from the header. I'll try to post more even when I can't think of anything to say.

Nothing more to say but I'll drink a toast to your post! Here. Here

I will have to admit that I wondered when I read the headlines.... then had a bit of a
chuckle!!!
thank you for the encouragement as I consider myself the boring one...
Sheila

snowball wrote:I will have to admit that I wondered when I read the headlines.... then had a bit of a chuckle!!! thank you for the encouragement as I consider myself the boring one...
Sheila

Good morning, Sheila.

I certainly do not find your posts boring. Not in the slightest!! I have great admiration for you in how you manage to live in two completely different places for part of each year - Q and Idaho. I don't know how you do it. I don't think I could.

By the way - I think I read on one of your posts that you live near American Falls? Hrm. Or was it Idaho Falls? No matter. I passed through both places on my way to Yellowstone in 2018.

My oh my, I had never been to Idaho before - it was heartbreakingly beautiful.

I stayed at Massacre Rocks State Park, on the Snake River, outside of American Falls. I was extremely hesitant to make reservations there (having never been there before), because all of the photos I could find made the campground look like an unpleasant graveled dust bowl.

But it was the only campground in the area, I was needing to make a stop in that general area (planned 4 - 5 hours of driving each day, making reservations in advance for the entire trip - because of a tip from JudyJB! Thanks, Judy!) so I took a chance.

I am SO very glad that I did. My pull-though site was up on the side of a hill with a view of the Snake River below winding through a canyon. The area, as I am sure you know, is part of the pioneer trail - the "Massacre" in the park name has to do with an. . . "altercation" westward travelers had with the local native Americans way-back-when.

The beauty of it purely took my breath away. I was only there overnight for one night, but after I arrived I realized that I could have happily stayed there a week or more.

LOL. Maybe even forever!

The biggest surprise were the gigantic basaltic boulders scattered around the area of the campground, and beyond - of course, basalt is a form of volcanic rock (lava). Should not have been surprised, since Massacre Rocks is not terribly far from Craters of the Moon National Monument (a heavily volcanic area in central-ish Idaho, for those who don't know).

Sheila, I think Idaho must be one of America's best kept secrets, wouldn't you agree?

Anne

I'm not Sheila, but I agree about Idaho.

Anne
I "summer" in Tetonia Idaho if you look on the map it's about 7 miles north of Driggs to the East is the Teton's not as close as we would be in WY will thinking about it perhaps the same just different access... Idaho Falls is about 60 miles away guessing and is our biggest city to shop in that is fairly convenient. Have been through American Falls but not stopped our dd used to live in Boise and we would make trips to see her.... it sounds like a lovely area... I will have to admit that there is a lot of Idaho that needs to be explored. while in Island Park hosting we would take a back road from our campground to another area we would pass this rock for lack of a better word out in the middle of the forest no mountains to have fallen from no outcropping of rock to have sprouted from nothing to explain this rock being there... it was at least 7 feet tall visible and we all know that there generally is lots under the soil... have no idea how big it's circumference was but it was good sized just a good sized rock where did it come? from how did it get there? and why there? all unanswerable questions but I would stop and look at that rock and wonder lots!!!
I am sure that you can do more than you realize you can do... we all can we have to in order to do what we do do..
sheila

snowball wrote:while in Island Park hosting we would take a back road from our campground to another area we would pass this rock for lack of a better word out in the middle of the forest no mountains to have fallen from no outcropping of rock to have sprouted from nothing to explain this rock being there... it was at least 7 feet tall visible and we all know that there generally is lots under the soil... have no idea how big it's circumference was but it was good sized just a good sized rock where did it come? from how did it get there? and why there? all unanswerable questions but I would stop and look at that rock and wonder lots!!!

Hello Sheila.

The rock you describe sounds very much like a glacial erratic - it was likely carried there on an ice sheet during the last ice age.

Here is a brief description, with a few photos of glacial erratics:

https://nsidc.org/cryosphere/glaciers/gallery/erratics.html

There is a Professor of Geology, Nick Zentner, of Central Washington University
http://www.geology.cwu.edu/facstaff/nick/zentner.html

who gives (free) online geology lectures via YouTube livestream, "Nick From Home":
https://mtsgreenway.org/event/nick-from-home/2020-06-28/

I have watched several of his lectures, and he is both informative and amusing. If I lived near his school, I would definitely sign up for his geology classes.

One of his lectures has to do with these glacial erratics (there is a ten minute or so folksy introduction, then he gets to the meat of the matter and explains in layperson's terms what a glacial erratic is, how they were moved, and how they came to be where they are (one can fast forward through the folksy part):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQke3PNrenw

Really fascinating stuff!

Thanks for mentioning your erratic! Do you have a photo of it you might be able to post?

LOL. Geology is my "thing".

Anne

That was very interesting!!! Thank you to Sheila for talking about the big rock, and thank you to Annie, for the explanation! We are an interesting bunch here. Love the forum. Lyn

I don’t know whether you remember or not, Sheila, but when I was visiting your area a few years back and you and I were driving around, we went near that campground you mentioned where you had hosted and you pointed out that rock to me. I suggested it had been brought there via glacier and I feel Anne is definitely correct. I agree it was quite a sight to see in the middle of lots of trees with absolutely no other rocks or boulders in the vicinity. Geology is so interesting.
Sandi

I do remember Sandi I just didn't remember who it was that I showed it to...
Anne I don't think I have a picture of it usually my phones don't do pictures well and if I did take one it might have been on the camera and who knows now where that picture would be but perhaps if I make it up there I can retake the photo ...
thanks for the information it totally makes sense
sheila

Having been exposed to so many glaciers over the millennia, Michigan has a lot of glacial erratics. In fact, if a rock is round, it almost certainly got that way from a glacier, and really big rocks were left in a lot of places. I remember as a kid that big glacial erratic rocks made good diving platforms in Lake Huron. (The lake bottom was mostly sandstone, which is flat.) We had a big round boulder about 100' from shore that was 6' in diameter. We marked it so boats would not hit it.

And at the edge of the last glaciers, in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, where they ended and started melting, they dumped millions of tons of gravel. This was called a glacial moraine, and there are a lot of gravel pits that became lakes after the gravel was removed and sold.

The house my Ohio son sold about six years ago was perched on a low hill which was actually a glacial moraine. His yard was 80% gravel, but he refused to take my advice to add real topsoil before planting grass. Had to use a pick to plant a tree. Guess how well his grass grew?? However, the big advantage was a yard which never was soggy and a very dry basement because water drained so fast downhill. Now he lives in a bigger house, but on more level, clayish soil, and he has already had one instance of water in his basement! Luckily it was not too much water and caused minimal damage.

Speaking of glacial moraines, Yosemite Valley was formed by a glacier and there’s a terminal moraine that extends across the valley where the glacier stopped. It’s not a high hill, but subtle at about 4-5 feet. Maybe it was higher before the valley was settled by Europeans and they proceeded to remake the valley.
Sandi

JudyJB wrote:...
And at the edge of the last glaciers, in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana, where they ended and started melting, they dumped millions of tons of gravel. This was called a glacial moraine...

Northern Illinois has alot of glacial geology. Where I grew up as a child (Pullman area), there was a large hill between State St and Michigan Avenue, that was formed by a glacier.

Also in the southwest suburbs, there is an area where, when the trees are bare, you can see three different moraines, formed by three different glaciers, hence the area is known as Moraine Valley. These moraine are in the Cook County preserves where I used to ride horses.