Shrinkage

[04 commemorative]

Originally Posted by snide

I've had to do some work in Minnesota. They have only two seasons - cold as **** and black fly season.

**** that.

"I Don't Know Shit About ****" Ruth from Ozark - YouTube

[mrvette]

YEH, it's chilly frozen WET cold up there......I remember a summer trip with family some 60+ years ago.....to the Mesabi Iron Range.....talk about a Grand Canyon size ditch!!!! trucks and cranes looked SO small on the bottom as we looked over the edge.......and the iron train paralleling the road up there to the mountain top where the ditch was.......and us stopping for gas on left side of the two lane road.....on the right was this RR track going down hill of course....and a row of trees between us and the track......and so the ground starts shaking we looking around thinking earthquake and the attendant was laughing, saying it was the ORE train....that passed by at about 100 mph or so......LONG train full of rusted out iron heading to the furnaces to make cars/etc......

[DJ_Critterus]

It was cold enough here to cause my knee to lock up.

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by mrvette

YEH, it's chilly frozen WET cold up there......I remember a summer trip with family some 60+ years ago.....to the Mesabi Iron Range.....talk about a Grand Canyon size ditch!!!! trucks and cranes looked SO small on the bottom as we looked over the edge.......and the iron train paralleling the road up there to the mountain top where the ditch was.......and us stopping for gas on left side of the two lane road.....on the right was this RR track going down hill of course....and a row of trees between us and the track......and so the ground starts shaking we looking around thinking earthquake and the attendant was laughing, saying it was the ORE train....that passed by at about 100 mph or so......LONG train full of rusted out iron heading to the furnaces to make cars/etc......

If I go up 2 Generations in family, my Great Grandparents had a farm outside of Hibbing farmland in what became Measbi range.

Name was Kozak, did ya know them?

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by MadInNc

If I go up 2 Generations in family, my Great Grandparents had a farm outside of Hibbing farmland in what became Measbi range.

Name was Kozak, did ya know them?

No, not from any trip done over 60 years ago....BUT, that last name sounds familiar, from some time ago....may have been a customer, maybe a client for one job I had.....I was a TV man for 15 years, then engineering field work and prototype dev. work in the lab......then went into home remodeling.....

[MadInNc]

Originally Posted by mrvette

No, not from any trip done over 60 years ago....BUT, that last name sounds familiar, from some time ago....may have been a customer, maybe a client for one job I had.....I was a TV man for 15 years, then engineering field work and prototype dev. work in the lab......then went into home remodeling.....

So it’s true, you’re over 120 years.

I owe DJ a beer