Picto Diary - 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 August 2019 - Perry, UT Peaches
Above: Perry, UT peaches. Half eaten. Good before, but, only now ripening to perfection. 18 August 2019.
Significant enhancement to the summer! I have a bowl of 'em with half and half each evening.
Above: Park City Mountain ski lifts. Red Pine Lodge. Park City Mountain. 17 August 2019.
View from our table at wedding dinner of MITCAL and AlexUH.
Way up here the pine is red.
Eat then rock the Colonel said.
Toast the two. Praise the link.
Know the morrow's in the pink.
Westward air tops Colonel's log.
Drop South Park. Fly to the fog.
Love and bliss for all to see.
Providential match at MIT.
no entries 19 and 20
Above: KAT and TWO3 on Silver Star lift. Park City Mountain. 21 August 2019
LSDM Walkers.
Advance practice for 2019/2020 ski season. — at Silver Star Plaza.
Above: TWO3 at UT SR 224 tunnel construction. Park City High School, Park City, UT. 22 August 2019.
LSDM Walkers.
Above: Looking north from Spiro Trail. Park City Mountain. Park City, UT. 23 August 2019.
LSDM Hikers (TWO3 and Bishop)
Connect from Spiro trail to Eagle trail, then Crescent Mine Grade trail.
1100 vertical.
7 miles.
Start/end Wasatch Bagel.
Image looks north. Quarry Mountain mid range.
— at Spiro Trail.
Addendum:
Had an uncle get his hand caught in a bailing machine.
Brand Man
Ventura, CA
The Monk (in the image with the Pope) was kicked by a cow two years ago and ended up hospitalized with a subdural hematoma.
Happy belated Birthday! Rattlesnake! My birthday was in Cape Town and we had a drink with the Callens before dinner.
Bridge,
Palm Beach, FL
'Member it well. Nice evening!
Mike Luers (Snyderville Basin Water Reclamation District Manager) has told me that an incredible amount of alfalfa grown in Utah goes to China (Saudi Arabia too, I think). Yes, it’s cheaper for the Chinese to buy up Utah farmland, grow alfalfa on it, and ship it all the way to China, than to grow the hay in China.
The reason? Water. The state subsidizes water so heavily in Utah that this works economically for China. Meanwhile, while Utah is a the very least anxious about our water resources, a significant chunk of those resources are going to feed for Chinese cows.
You might give Mike a call to ask if he’s do a presentation on this at LSDM some morning. Pancake is a member of the Sunrise Rotary Club with Mike.
Billy Barker,
San Juan Islands, WA
Mike Luers spoke to us at LSDM a couple of years ago. Most memorable from his presentation was how fish downstream from Park City water treatment plant were morphing into androgynous fish. Park City water treatment did not have the capability, then, to filter out certain chemicals emanating from birth control pills. It cost multimillion bucks to acquire such treatment capability and at the time, his position was, "to be continued."
At the Alzheimer's walk the other day, I saw Mike. I asked him about the fish. "We're still studying the situation," he said. He noted that its still possible we add treatment capability to deal with this problem.
Very interesting comment about hay shipments to China where producer profit margins benefit greatly from Utah cheap water. Utah has the cheapest water rates in the nation and therefore the highest per capita use in the nation. 90% of Utah's water goes to alfalfa and hay. An acre of alfalfa uses the same amount of water as a subdivision of 10 homes.
Utah's otherwise grim farming prospects.... we are a desert state averaging only 7 inches of rain per year... are rendered viable with cheap water.
It would be great to get Mike back in to talk about these issues. I've copied Steve Pettise, who is a Rotary buddy of Mike, to ask him to try to set up another talk.