Hi! I'm new here

“Hi!
I've posted on "that other board" for a while now, as desert star. I just met Lizsbaby (I take it she posts as Lizs over here from the liitle browsing I've done ?)this afternoon and she asked why I don't post over here. After telling her I didn't "know" anybody over here, I realized that was kind of silly, no? Well anyway here I am!

BTW ~ It was great meeting Lizs (baby), she seems pretty cool, from the little time we hung out, Getting out with her one of these days would be a blast”

“may be a little quiet on a friday night, except for those of us crying in our beer being at home. Be ready to be challenged as a TROLL!”

“Hey desert star, I reconize the name from the other dark side :D over there I am known as nicklebag :)”

“Nicklebag! A familiar "face" already. How ya doin'?

Nah, not a troll... semi annoying at times I'm sure though. I make no great claims to ability, my gear is crap and I don't get out near as much as I like... but every now and again, I do get out”

“How-dey ;-)
Is it tommorow yet? Is this freaking heat wave over in WA state yet? Can I go backpacking? ;-)
TROLL!!!! :-D”

“Hey you!
Get you dog yet? lol Sorry, it only comes in RED”

“freakin heatwave....freaking someone send me a freakin heat wave!!!!! >:( I am tired of this piddly cool weather.”

“It's the incessant rain I could do with out”

“I post on the other side too.

As chili36.....

Just call me Mr. Consistent.”

“we could really use some rain too...it mighty dry for may here:(”

“I post over there, too, as Woodswoman. Someone from this side convinced me to post here, too :-)”

“I've read a few of your posts over there...nice to have you here.”

“Thanks

Startin' to look like the gang's all here”

“wondering if dstar is short for deathstar...lookout the dark side is coming”

“I decided to drop the "desert" part, it's kinda silly with me sittin' here in Wisconsin, no? That's what everyone calls me for short over there... that and and I just can't think of a darn thing more original”

“'sup Dstar

welcome to the board, it'll be quiet here all weekend, but livens up during the week when people are at work.”

“Dstar, welcome aboard.”

“welcome aboard--”

“


FYI

~BW is not a girl with a blonde mullet
is not really blind”

“Lizs?”

“welcome dstar. hope you dont get scared away from us too soon.”

“Welcome DStar. You may not be able to figure it out, but I post on the "other" site as Hyway9 (don't pass it around, I am trying to keep it a secret).

Just came in from a 87 degrees and sunny watergun fight with the wife and kids. That little hoodlum is viscious.”

“hey dstar, glad you took the plunge”

“Thanks guys

Where on earth is it 80 degrees and sunny!? I want some of that!
We've had rain off and on for weeks....blah Typical Memorial Weekend weather
Hope it improves this week. I'm off work Tues-Friday, and way overdue for a trip!”

“At this moment in Wilmington, NC it is 86 degrees and sunny. Its 6 hrs to the mountains and 10 minutes to the beach when the traffic is light.”

“Good deal!
I'm impatiently waiting for summer, we've only had a few days in the 70's. The rain's bumming me out more than the temps”

“I hate you just for having such nice weather....

JK, enjoy............

~BW”

“I thought you hated me because I am not really gay.”

“Well...all i get is a view out the window today. It appears partly cloudy...nearing 70 degrees (so I'm guessing)”

“Don't believe him.
Blind Willie looks wonderful in his blonde mullet.”

“I like the purple better”

“80 degrees and sunny here in Northern Colorado! The front range looks great too!”

“


Oh and SC, Me too. I am a sexy b@tch in the purple....”

“Hey, the second I saw it said "Dstar," I thought... hmmmm... could it be???

Yep, she's real, although all you guys are gonna call me a moron cuz I didn't take a picture of us together.

Hey, I saw the cinema across from the GREAT resort (heheee) is called Desert Star. Me thinks you got your name from there!

Friday and Saturday were fun. Prosecutor, Dr. Atomic (now if we can just get HIM to post here -- he'll be on our Upper Iowa trip) and spalpeen/thegriz were there. Still don't know what happened to firebug??!?

I'll have a fun geocaching story here at some point.

Just home and now I need to get to the working part of my weekend. UGH!!! High school graduation, here I come!!!!!

And welcome, Dstar. Next time I roll through (perhaps on time?!?!? LOL!) I'll have to get a photo. :-)”

“Hey you! Glad you hada good time. One heck of a storm rolled through later that afternoon... I was thinkin' about you guys!
I haven't been there yet, hope you do a trip report... I live vicariously though you lol

NO the name's not from The Big "K"... they are our most evil nemisis. Bitter rivalry thing goin' on with them. It's from a National Geographic pic o' the day... lucked out on that one, could've just as easily been a pic of one of those saggy chested native women they're so fond of photographing... then who would I be?”

“Where are you @ Dstar?

Just Curious... ; ]”

“Baraboo, Wisconsin... aka "Clown Town"”

“And she works in the Wisconsin Dells ... otherwise known as "beautiful natural surroundings which draw crowds, now ruined by amusement park-like atmosphere and zoning run amuck)

Yeah, it rained but those shelters are big! So we were inside. And then it was cool to watch the fog and steam in the valleys after the rain... The shelter is on a ridge.

Hey, if you're off Friday, sneak to our Upper Iowa trip for the Friday night shindig and meet some folks. (Can't ya call in sick Sat/Sun? hehehe... Dr. Atomic needs a canoeing partner)

On to this graduation..OMG!! You never saw so much crying and hugging! The speaker had had a girl in the graduation class who was special needs -- who died after maybe a couple years or so in school. She talked about how this class made her daughter feel so welcome and just like she was one of them, and not "special."

When the students went up to get diplomas, most of them hugged her on the way across the stage. Afterward, I heard students talking about PARENTS starting to cry during her speech.

good stuff... BUT IT SUCKS TO COVER IT ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND!!”

“tempting

LOL There's still natural beauty, ya just gotta sit in the middle of the river to see it... oh, and look out for the tour boats
Actually there's a couple nice little spots up there but the noise from the Interstate really takes away from them

Wow I'd have bawled like a baby, bet there wasn't a dry eye in the room”

“Welcome Dstar!”

“About time you came over”

“ok, I'm a dork, lol”

“Troll!!!! Troll!!!!! (sorry, its dull in here today) Troll!!! Troll!!!!”

“Wisconsin Dells use to be a nice place to go.

The Wollersheim Winery was a nice place to stop. If I remember correctly there is a place that makes and sells cheese within a mile of the winery.”

“Welcome to TT, Dstar.”

“Welcome Dstar!”

“Have you tried their Prarie Fume,outstanding (and I'm not even that big on white wines) There's a Carr Valley store in Sauk City, the cheese factory's by LaValle. They give a good tour, lots of samples, and it's a nice drive out there”

“it has been well over 20 yrs since I was at the winery and cheese factory. The cheese place was out in the middle of no where. They had over 100 different varieties of cheese and one large vat in the back making cheese.

I actually ran across the winery by mistake but still remembered its name. Guess I wore that t-shirt to many yrs..lol”

“There's a place in Wisconsin that makes cheese? You don't say!”

“hmmm, not sure that's there anymore... but then that's not quite my regular stomping grounds. I'm usually only passing through there when I go to Madison,which I don't do all that often anymore”