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0-2-0 Got in two on Saturday. One from 5 grand and another, a four way from 9,500'.

Yuck! I had forgotten about the kids in school that ate paste.

I like the ones at Bugaboo Creek the best.

I know a little about the subject since as a kid some of my best friends were cows. As mentioned before milk should be good for about a week after the date. Keep it cold and sealed up if you know you are going to run past the date. I don't really know how they come up with the date. The milk can be on the farm for as much as three days before it goes to the bottlers. When it reaches the plant it is tested for almost anything you could imagine. If it fails it either goes to a cheese plant, or if it's real bad down the drain. If I were you and was going to have a lot left over I would learn to make pudding or custard or something that uses a lot of milk so it didn't go to waste.

I might have to check that out this summer sometime.

I'm a volunteer. We don't really need a full time staff where I live.

Sunny. Should I worry?

With out seeing it I can't say but, it's pretty quiet here. The last big fire I went to was in a church last May. We mostly get car wrecks and falts alarms. I have a lot of stories but i've been in the department since I was in high school, 15 years this month now that I think about it.

I've yet to see it or even here many people talk about it, which is strange since I'm in the fire department here.

Me better get a new job at an Illinois cement plant.

0-2-2 Two jumps today, one from 5500 and another from 9500. Beer for first time at a different DZ and also first time landing in the snow. Also attended safety day yesterday at Rochester Skydivers, where I made my jumps today.

So Lou Lou how's it going.

They make you look sophisticated. Actually I like them.

Contact your assemblyman in opposition. Already been done.

Exactly my thinking. By the way I started my day dealing with twin herford calves and a frozen silo unloader.

I believe it's law here in NY as well. That said a friends wife helps in a nursery school three, four and five year olds. This last fall when school started a new kid who was four at the time came up to her and asked for it. His mother was still nursing him at four. I think that when there old enough to ask for it then it's gone to far.

Work. Farm Plowing snow Selling seed ________________ Volunteer Fire Department __________________ Fun Snowmobile Skydive

31 no May first

NASCAR used to go to Canada. The old Grand National Series used to race at Cyuga (sp) Ontario. I think Richard Petty won there last.

Both ethanol and bio-diesel are helping now and hopefully more so in the future. Almost every gasoline powered engine ever built will run on a 10% ethanol blend with no modification. there are also a lot of vehicles on the road now that can run on 85% ethanol or E85 as it's called. The biggest problem is that it isn't widely available. Bio-diesel is becoming more common but is still mostly seen in the midwest, thats where most of the soybean processing plants are and soybean oil is the most common fuel stock for bio-diesel. That said bio-diesel can be made from many other sources such as used deep fry oil and dead animal renderings. As for more gallons per acre from bio-diesel than ethanol I have to disagree. Ethanol production has exploded in the last few years and continues to grow rapidly as oil prices climb. Ethanols production has also become much more efficient and now has a net energy gain of around 60 to 65% over what it takes to produce. Ethanols main fuel stock is corn, although other grains are often used. Corn yields have risen greatly in the last decade while soybean and other oil seed yields haven't keep pace. Assuming that the average corn yield is 140 bushels an acre and three gallons of ethanol can be produced from a bushel of corn thats 420 gallons of ethanol per acre. As for bio-diesel. The average yield for soybeans is around 35 to 40 bushels per acre. Soybeans are around 25% oil. When refined down you only get around 30 to 40 gallons of bio-diesel per acre. In my opinion a market for both needs to exist in order to maintain our system of agriculture as it's not a good practice to grow corn or soybeans continuously on the same land. There for a strong market needs to exist for both ethanol and bio-diesel, which are produced from the two most commonly grown crops in the US.

I saw a billbord for Skydive Illinois a couple years ago and thought what the Hell I've allways wanted to try a skydive.

Summer Whats your favorite activity. (Non skydiving)

Don't worry about it. Just come and when you do remember to look up a guy with a black Chevy truck and a red white and blue Javelin rig.

The food idea came to mind, but I can't cook. Besides they have a large family and a lot of friends so I'm sure food won't be a problem. As for being there, I already had to be somewhat today. The friends that told me have a son just a month younger and they were emotionaly a mess. I spent a big part of the day there while they were working up nerv enough to go see the affected family.

This morning I got some news that made me sick. My best friends wife called crying and said some mutual friends of ours had lost there year and a half old son durring the night. I was and still am in total shock, i've delt with alot of death over the years but never an infant. There was know warning he just didn't wake up this morning. All of us had been at a party last night and the kid was being watched by another friends daughter. When the parents picked him and his sister up nothing was wrong. I didn't go over there today I didn't want to intrude. This week when they do have some type of service or calling I don't know what to say or do. Have any of you been in this stiuation before? How did you handle it? Thanks Marc