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Connection speed

We go so many different places and get so many different kinds of connections, we never know what our connection speed is going to be. There is a website we go to which will measure the true upload and download speeds. Sometime it’s as slow as as couple hundred “k” each.
This week, with the Verizon card, we get a really strange reading. We get 679 download, and 3,181 upload. That’s quite a difference between the two, but really really fast for sending stuff.

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

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Rags the cat update

We thought we were going to have to rescue Rags from Becky’s house last time we were there, but he has been getting along better, so she didn’t want to give him up.
Rags is such a nice cat, and he is officially Teigan’s cat, and who wants to take a pet away from a four year old, anyway?

Good news on the cat front.

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Texas bluebonnets

Connie weighs in…..

Sent: Sunday, June 04, 2006 7:24 AM
To: Steve Taylor
Subject: Re: FW: texas bluebonnets

Well here is another opinion — as a gal born it Texas, I can say that your flower is not a bluebonnet. They are lots smaller than yours, more compact, and does have white. The bluebonnet is from the lupine family. The one from your cmapground could be a lupine but when I enlarged the pic the bloom looked a little different. I thought maybe harebell – but I don’t think so. I saw a delphinium at Home Depot the other day and it looked suspiciously like yours. Still no definite from this end except — not a bluebonnet.
Connie

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From: “Steve Taylor” <spt@thetaylorcompany.net> The most popular guess for the flowers has been Texas Bluebonnets. That’s pretty good, but I looked up Texas Bluebonnets on the internet, and they are shown to have a characteristic white stalk in the middle. I don’t see any white stalk in the middle of the Steamboat flowers.

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Blanca

Know those pictures I’m always sending you of the snow blowing off Blanca Peak? Well, it is not always snowy up there.
Before and after.

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Texas bluebonnets

The most popular guess for the flowers has been Texas Bluebonnets. That’s pretty good, but I looked up Texas Bluebonnets on the internet, and they are shown to have a characteristic white stalk in the middle. I don’t see any white stalk in the middle of the Steamboat flowers.