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Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
Omg
Just had some chops from lasts week's kill.... to die For.
I don't think I'll ever be able to eat commercially raised pork again.
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Commercial pork is very messed up.

When I was in the 4-H swine class in the 1970s we went to a demonstration day. The speaker proudly announced that they were working on producing low fat swine for pork in the stores...Ruined them!

Now it turns out that pork fat is good for you but the commercial pigs are messed up already
 
CapricornFarm said:
Two words ... Global warming. We had loads of snow in the 50s and 60s in NY state.
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Yes and it sucks :(

And yeah, my mom was born in the 60s and she grew up in Erie, PA along Lake Erie and they always had tons of snow!

Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
I remember having enough snow to be able to build tunnels all over our neighbourhood. Now I think Toronto only keeps a few inches on the ground...
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Oh wow!

bruceha2000 said:
Need more snow and power outages?? I did read your follow on post so I do understand what you meant.


I don't remember much snow back then. Might be because I grew up about 9 miles SE of Los Angeles :gig

Apparently the early 70's were big snow years in Vermont. DW has a picture of the snow being higher than the lamp post (residential) at their house. I don't know how you move that much snow out of the way. She said they made tunnels and caves.
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true, I could do without the power outages.

And WOW that's a lot of snow!

Erie's had over 5 feet this year breaking lots of records

Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
My mom used to make us a skating rink in the back yard. My sister and I both learned to skate with Bob skates, pushing a chair.
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Awesome!

Blooie said:
Bruce, when you get in the car and drive though Cody to Yellowstone Park, then get behind all the tour busses, RVs, and folks who stop every time they think they see an animal, and get stuck behind a herd of slow moving bison in the middle of the highway as they amble along, then cut south at Fishing Bridge in the Park and head for Jackson, encountering moose, elk and bear jams and again following slow moving traffic, critters, and the inevitable road construction, then enter Grand Teton National Park with the same issues magnified, you have driven a couple of hundred miles in that 15 hours! And I ain't kidding about the slow moving bison herds - they are common and you don't just honk your horn and bust through. Um, they don't like that. Construction in the Park is an ongoing thing. The thermal activity the Park and heavy traffic, plus the roads just hanging on the side of mountainsides, added to the less than 3 months of feasible construction time, make for an interesting journey! :lau
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Wow I had no idea it was so bad!!!

So if I wanted to go to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks I wouldn't really be able to get anywhere and see anything or?

Michelle Farmer-Brown said:
I once had a bison decide to lie down and take a nap in front of my car...
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OMG
 
Shoot, my grandkids used to beg us to create "bear jams" when the traffic got heavy. "Hey, Grampa...make a bear jam!" So sometimes we'd give in, stop the car, jump out with cameras and binoculars, point to a hillside or clump of trees, and when all the cars in both directions jumped out of their cars to get in on the sighting, we'd drive away...traffic free!

You can still see plenty in the Parks, even with all that going on! In fact, you can see more because you can't bomb down the road at 65-70 miles an hour! Folks often forget that Yellowstone is about the size of the state of Connecticut. It ain't a one hour drive! :lau
 
Blooie said:
Shoot, my grandkids used to beg us to create "bear jams" when the traffic got heavy. "Hey, Grampa...make a bear jam!" So sometimes we'd give in, stop the car, jump out with cameras and binoculars, point to a hillside or clump of trees, and when all the cars in both directions jumped out of their cars to get in on the sighting, we'd drive away...traffic free!

You can still see plenty in the Parks, even with all that going on! In fact, you can see more because you can't bomb down the road at 65-70 miles an hour! Folks often forget that Yellowstone is about the size of the state of Connecticut. It ain't a one hour drive! :lau
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OMG that is hilarious!! I guess when there's that many tourists you gotta have fun somehow! :lau

Wow I had idea it was so big!!

So, stupid question, do people usually drive between attractions? Or are they all pretty close together?

I was just wondering cause with your traffic description it seemed like it'd be hours to get anywhere!

I guess I need to do more research ha

And actually, we're visiting family for Easter and my cousin went there a few years ago so maybe I can ask them where they went. Although all the main attractions are probably online?

I'm much more a nature person though so being surrounded by a bunch of tourists might not be that fun, idk. Is there trash places or graffiti cause of all the tourists or do they keep it pretty clean? Cause that would be my concern.

And here's a better question that might not necessarily be on Google:

Are there any areas that might be better than the tourist areas and/or not known and ruined by tourists? Whether in the park or just like somewhere else completely different in the state or surrounding states or Canada.

I do want to eventually see those parks and others but I really love and want to see nature. Actual nature. You know, mountains, lakes, rivers, prairies, etc. Even if I have to hike some to see it.
 

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