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Crappy mid-west weather

PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 1:05 pm
by grassland
for camping that is. Went to the U.P. in June and when we got out of the car, there was a cloud of misquitos around the teardrop and a cloud of flys around the car! Raining every other day.

Last year was perfect, no misquitos, no flys, only nats not too bad.

This site confirms the emperical...

http://www.upfishing.com/bug.html

Anyone know if things in the U.P. have gotten any better since June?? I'd like to try again in beginning of august.

Thanks

PostPosted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 5:06 pm
by mikeschn
Welcome to the forum!

Let me know what you find out in August. As soon as I get the ET campable I want to go at least to Harrisville, and possibly as far as Paradise!

Mike...

P.S. This link is for Heikki, now that I know what kind of flies those were in the UP! :o
http://upfishing.com/stable_flies.php

PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 6:59 am
by bobhenry
Were south of you but were wet too !

The dog and I went to our campground last weekend and got there very late so after getting a fire going went almost straight to bed. Got up in the AM and fixed sausage and eggs by the time it was done and we ate ( yeah the dog had sausage and eggs too) I had given 2 1/2 quarts of blood. Portions of the campground have been underwater twice this year.
This weekend Crawfordsville IN set a new record 5.6 inches of rain in a 24 hour period. MONTHLY average rainfall in July is only 5.1.

How long is a cubit anyway ?

PostPosted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 9:38 am
by Jst83
bobhenry wrote:How long is a cubit anyway ?


Let's see, I used to know that :lol:

PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:20 pm
by Claw
Jst83 wrote:
bobhenry wrote:How long is a cubit anyway ?


Let's see, I used to know that :lol:


Isn't cubit the flying dude with a bow and arrow, I think he shoots mosquitos :lol:

PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 8:27 pm
by mikeschn
You really don't want to know what a cubit is, do you? :?

Okay, for you nostalgic types...

The cubit is among the first recorded units of length used by an ancient people.

The earliest attested standard measure was called the Royal Cubit (Mahe) and was 523.5 to 524 mm (20.61 to 20.63 inches) in length, and was subdivided into 7 palms of 4 digits, giving a 28 part measure in total. Secure evidence for this unit is known from architecture, from at least as early as the construction of the Step Pyramid of Djoser from around 2,700 B.C.

And if you want to know more than that... there's more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Mike...

PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:43 pm
by cs_whypt2
mikeschn wrote:You really don't want to know what a cubit is, do you? :?

Okay, for you nostalgic types...

The cubit is among the first recorded units of length used by an ancient people.

The earliest attested standard measure was called the Royal Cubit (Mahe) and was 523.5 to 524 mm (20.61 to 20.63 inches) in length, and was subdivided into 7 palms of 4 digits, giving a 28 part measure in total. Secure evidence for this unit is known from architecture, from at least as early as the construction of the Step Pyramid of Djoser from around 2,700 B.C.

And if you want to know more than that... there's more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubit

Mike...


And that is why we no longer know what it is...
;)
Dianne