Re: tornadoes in Colorado

High plains right Betsy?  My sister lived there several years ago.  There is
a nice reservoir with good trout called Horseshoe.

David Franzman
A Touch of the Tropics
www.atouchofthetropics.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Betsy Kelson" <bkelson@ix.netcom.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] tornadoes in Colorado


> Theresa,
>     I wish I could answer your question. I have spent little time in THAT
> area. ABout 10years ago my husband at the time was looking at Colorado
State
> University as a place to go for his PHD in Hydrology. The campus also has
a
> good Horticulture and LAndscape department and has a wonderful view of the
> foothills of the Rockies.
>     It has grown(sprawled) quite a bit in those ten years as most of
> Colorado has. And with the drought, gardening has been more of a
challenge.
> In the FOrt Colllins area, water is more abundant since the population is
> smaller there. It is z4-5.
>     The political climate is Republican with a Governor who came from
Texas
> originally and who currently seems to be telling bad jokes about the
French
> in public.We also have a US representative who wants or wanted a marriage
> amendment to the Constitution and a US senator of American Indian descent
> who wants to drill into the native amerian reservations for gas and oil.
> Kind of lively newspaper reading...keeps us groaning and laughing.
>
>     Lots of outdoor activities in addition to gardening...300 days of
> sunshine. This alone keeps SADD away for me.You can still probaly buy an
old
> missile silo on the plains for about $10,000  ;)
>
> What else would you like to know?
>
> Betsy
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tchessie" <tchessie@comcast.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 11:33 AM
> Subject: RE: [CHAT] tornadoes in Colorado
>
>
> > Hi Betsy-
> >
> > Being completely annoyed with my job right now, I was looking around at
> > other options (not seriously- but more curious)- so anyway there is a
job
> in
> > Ft Collins Colorado.  Can you tell me what is it like there? (climate,
> cost
> > of living, sociopolitical climate?)
> >
> > Theresa
> > Sac, CA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net]On
> > Behalf Of Betsy Kelson
> > Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 7:45 AM
> > To: gardenchat@hort.net
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT] tornadoes in Colorado
> >
> >
> > Hi all!
> >     I am alive and well and did not get a(e)ffected by twirlies. From
the
> > Garden Center I can watch the thunder heads build up and slide to the
> > east...knowing that something is going to get clobbered.
> >     The Garden Center is situated about two miles from the beginning of
> the
> > foothills so twirlies are rare...but we will often get hail which is not
> > good for the plants. It really makes me laugh inside when a customer
> brings
> > me holey or shreaded leaves and wants to purchase a spray to kill the
> inscet
> > that is doing it. When I tell them that it is hail damage, oftren time
> their
> > response is   " But it did not hail at my house"  The perp has melted
away
> > by the time they get home of course.
> >     I am having a day off today...yipee AND its not snowing or raining.
I
> am
> > 3 for 4 on bad days off. Ended up doing housework.
> >     I have squeezed in the planting of the cool season crops and have
one
> > tomato under the Wall O' Water. Poor tomato thing got snowed under last
> > thursday and the WoW keep it from dying.
> >
> > Happy Gardening!!
> >
> > Betsy
> > Colorado
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <gardenqueen@academicplanet.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 4:20 PM
> > Subject: [CHAT] tornadoes in Colorado
> >
> >
> > > &#65279;Just flipped on the weather and heard about tornadoes in CO.
> > Betsy
> > > girl
> > > - you with us??  Everything OK up there?
> > >
> > > Pam Evans
> > > Kemp, TX
> > > zone 8A
> > >
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