[Artemisia] You know you've been in Artemisia when...

[Sue Clemenger]

Well, there, *DR* Helm, I'm glad that was you and not me!
--maire, laughing hard enough to wake the neighbors! ;-D


drchelm wrote:
> 
> There's a place on the Snake River, not too far from where Coronation 
> was at, called Thousand Springs.  It's where the Snake River Aquifer 
> discharges out of the basalt-sided cliffs in the canyon of the Snake 
> River near Hagerman, west of Twin Falls.  Let me digress briefly on this 
> aquifer.  It is the largest basalt-hosted aquifer in the world, and also 
> the most prolific.  The bulk of the snowpac that falls on the 
> Beaverheads, Tetons, Grand Targhees and Yellowstone melts and gets 
> sucked out of the forks of the Snake River and into the aquifer.  That's 
> a lot of water, folks, and since most of the world's french fries are 
> grown using this resource, the aquifer is pretty important, not just to 
> folks in Idaho, but to fast-food lovers everywhere.
> 
> So what does this have to do with Artemisia?  Well, I'm getting there.  
> Patience, bubula, patience...

<snipped so as not to give away the punch line ;o)>