On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:12:12 +0000, you wrote: > >An ice house or a nice house? I could understand the latter not wanting cow >pies around the yard, but I don't understand why Colorado had salt in the ice >in the early century?? > >Since he probably shoveled the sawdust out of the icehouse when removing the >next block of ice, I can see why 'plops' lying around might taint the old >sawdust, but we just sawed up a couple of trees and used new sawdust every >year.
I guess I didn't explain very well. His parents had a general store. They cut ICE from the lake in the winter and stored it in an ICE house. I suppose it was from making ice cream that they had the salt. This was a ghost mining town in a very arid range area - the cows weren't fenced in - not many trees except up in the mountains. > >I can imagine he shoveled >> The reason my dad had the generator initially was because his parents> had >> an ice house, and the salt attracted cows from the range (this was> in >> Colorado c 1917) >_________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
