rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
269 posts
Apr 21, 2005
6:41 AM
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Hey Leo, just wanted to say "thanks" for the phone call and your support of me and this site...
You, as well as the rest on this site who support it are true gentlemen, the kind that makes this roller sport so much more enjoyable and worthwhile. FLY ON! Tony
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Alohazona
4 posts
Apr 26, 2005
12:19 AM
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Tony, I have been visiting your site for about a year and a half,the quality has always been excellent,and I'm enjoying my visits here now more than ever!!keep up the good work and know that it's appreciated by me!!,ALOHA,Todd
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
273 posts
Apr 28, 2005
9:19 PM
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Hello Todd, "THANKS"! The quality is in the people who visit and post and do so for the comraderie and love of the birds.
I want to add more articles and information in the future. Assuming my relocation to MO all works out, I will be spending alot of time on the site and contributing more and doing more research and writing...the best is yet to come. FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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Bluesman
Pigeon Fancier
29 posts
Apr 30, 2005
10:49 AM
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Hey Tony.You could relocate to Pa.You would love it here in the mountains.My closest neighbor to the west is 4 mile.To the east the closest is 5 mile.North & South is different.Starting to get crowded.Harrisonville is 4 mile north and has a pop. of 13.General store and a Post Office.Everybody is friends and looks out for each other.Would love to have you in the county.I promise I would try to limit my visits to your loft.LOL David
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
275 posts
Apr 30, 2005
11:55 AM
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Hey David, that does sound pretty good! Of course you could come over anytime! LOL BUT I have already had an offer on a house accepted. I went to Seymour, MO this last weekend and inspected a home there on 2 beautiful acres with a pond. Escrow closes in about 2 weeks. Don't think we will move on until another 60 days or so, still have to put my current house on the market.
There are a few neighbors in the area, but is okay, some civilization is probably good for a city boy like me. LOL
I will be about 30 minutes from Springfield and 2 miles outside of town off a picturesque highway. I am looking forward to relocating, just hope there are no problems during escrow, you just neber know until its done...Tony
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Alan Bliven
116 posts
Apr 30, 2005
3:54 PM
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Mountains in PA? Hmmmmm I took a trip out there a few years ago and could only find some hills. Where are the mountains?
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Alan
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BULLFROG
88 posts
Apr 30, 2005
4:37 PM
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alen you have to remember the boys out east think a mole hill is a mountian and the rolling hills the have they think are bigger than out 14ers here :) lol chris
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Alan Bliven
117 posts
Apr 30, 2005
4:50 PM
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Yeah, I find it humorous they call them little mounds mountains. I guess they've never seen REAL mountains. The highest point in PA is Mt Davis at 3,213 feet ... ooooooooo scary! LOL
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Alan
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Alan Bliven
118 posts
Apr 30, 2005
4:59 PM
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I believe the highest point in your state of UT is King's Peak at 13,528 and in my state of AZ it's Mount Humphries at 12,633 ft.
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Alan
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Bluesman
Pigeon Fancier
30 posts
Apr 30, 2005
7:13 PM
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Alan.I guess the mountains here are like the rollers.The best rollers are in the west as well as the best mountains.But the fact is they are still rollers and mountains.David
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Alan Bliven
119 posts
Apr 30, 2005
10:19 PM
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There's a lot of good rollers out east but there is no mountains. Here in the west 3000 feet doesn't even qualify as a foothill. Have you ever been in the Rocky Mountains?
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Alan
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Bluesman
Pigeon Fancier
31 posts
May 01, 2005
4:57 AM
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No Alan.I have never been to the Rocky Mountains.When is a mountain called a mountain? Does size have anything to do with it.Either you are just funnin or you never studied your geography in school.There is a big chain of mountains here in the east.David
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Alan Bliven
120 posts
May 01, 2005
11:21 PM
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Yes, I'm just teasing you.
Speaking of mountains we went up to Mt Lemmon this afternoon for an afternoon outing and picnick. It was very nice. And hour's drive from the house to the top (9000 feet) It's all desert down here but huge Ponderosa Pine and Aspens up there.
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Alan
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Bluesman
Pigeon Fancier
32 posts
May 02, 2005
2:55 AM
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Alan.I figured you was.LOL.
At 9000 feet I would need an oxygen tank.
You can keep those deserts.I don,t want any parts of them.There is some beautiful flowers in the desert tho.I watch a lot of Discovery,History,Nature etc. channels on TV.There is some beautiful things in places where you wouldn,t think anything could survive.
O.K. another question.Do you think our rollers would perform different say in the desert compared to atop one of your high mountains? Would a roller from the East perform the same there as they would here? I know several fellows that swear by using a barometer.I have never used one but I do know that barametric pressure does affect the way they perform.David
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Alan Bliven
121 posts
May 02, 2005
12:29 PM
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I don't know. But I would think at 9000+ feet they would get tired easier and maybe even roll deeper and fly faster because the air is so thin. An example would be the way the baseball flies out of Coor's Field in Denver.
I also wonder how humidity effects them. Here in the desert we almost always have low humidity but out your way it's very high. I went out there in June and when I left it was 105 degrees here but on 80 in PA but I was very hot and had a hard time breathing because of the humidity.
They tell me out here we have so many "blue days" (blue skies and no wind) it's bad for the rollers compared to back east because they fly high and get lost. But I have nothing to compare it with, I flew birds in Iowa but that was 30 years ago.
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Alan
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Alan Bliven
122 posts
May 02, 2005
12:34 PM
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BTW... Tucson is a very green desert compared to the others. Have you ever seen these old Westerns where they have the giant Saguaro Catus? Most of those are filmed in this area. It's the high desert. We are at 3000 feet. there's a lot of dwarf trees, shrubs and tons of Cactus in all sizes. There's no sand, it's rocky.
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Alan
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rollerpigeon
Site Moderator
278 posts
May 02, 2005
10:24 PM
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Are there mountains in Missouri? Tony
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Alan Bliven
124 posts
May 02, 2005
11:10 PM
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Yes, if you can bring yourself to call them mountains. The highest point in Missouri is Taum Sauk Mountain at 1,772 feet.
These guys back east must have played too much "king of the mountain" as kids to call 1,772 feet a mountain. :)
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Alan
Last Edited by Alan Bliven on May 02, 2005 11:13 PM
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