The Last Stand
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On Runoff levels not near record
(anonymous)
June 16, 2008 at 10:49 p.m.
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Sbsmon, I'm 36. I live with my wife and our son in Steamboat II and I'm not pulling your leg. Since you seem to need an explanation here it is. The paternal branch from which the McLaughlin name comes goes like this.
I was born in 1972 when my dad was 36
my father was born in 1936 when his dad was 43
my grandfather was born in 1893 when his dad was 50
my great grandfather was born in 1843 when his dad was 33
my great great grandfather was born in 1810.
My great great grandfathers name was Jacob Warwick McLaughlin and you can find him on rootsweb. I made a typo in my post last week. He actually died in 1850 at the age of 40 and we do not know who his father was. We just know he died and is buried somewhere in Randolph County, VA, now WV.
I could look at 10 different branches of my family tree and see 7th generation relatives born in the 1700's, but I don't have the time or space time to spell them all out here just because you guys want me to prove it.
All I was saying was one person claiming 7 generations in a certain time frame is exactly the same as someone else claiming 3 generations. I gave my own family history as an example of the other end of the spectrum to make the point. That's all.
On Runoff levels not near record
(anonymous)
June 13, 2008 at 3:29 p.m.
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Loosen up everyone. The point I was trying to make was that we are all 7th generation something and it's a terrible measuring tool because a generation could be 20 years or 60.
dogd is 4th generation and 7gen claims he is 7th. Both evidently have family that have been here for roughly the same time frame. Claiming 4 or 7 generations doesn't tell us who got here first. Their grandparents may have both come over on the same wagon train for all we know.
7 generations of my own family goes back to pioneer days east of the Mississippi in the 1700's. All I'm saying is you can't compare two different families generations and get anything meaningful out of it if you are trying to establish a time frame.
On Runoff levels not near record
(anonymous)
June 12, 2008 at 9:23 p.m.
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correction Jacob Warwick McLaughlin was born in 1810.
On Runoff levels not near record
(anonymous)
June 12, 2008 at 9:22 p.m.
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I would agree, that does seem like a lot of generations shoved into a very short time frame. However, everyone needs to calm down and think about it for a minute before jumping all over 7GEN. He does say “native”. which in my mind means Colorado not just Steamboat. That gives him a little more time to work with.
I agree 7 Generations in Colorado seems a bit tight unless you can claim Ute heritage but it could be done if he is counting the pioneer family that first moved here (as opposed to being born here) as the 1st generation and he's not talking about his family being in Steamboat or Routt County from the start.
Those numbers don't work for my family but they might for 7GEN's.
I just looked at my own family tree that I put together a few years ago with my Aunt. My great great grandfather (4th generation back) Jacob Warwick McLaughlin was born in 1910 and died in 1840 in Virginia (now West Virginia) and his son, my great grandfather fought in the Civil War. When I get back 7 generations I'm into my family members who were pioneers in Virginia and the Northwest Territory (at that point Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan). Several of these folks were born in Maryland and Virginia in the 1740's 50's and 60's
By the way, in keeping with the subject of the article which is what brought me here to start with, I have also spent a lot of time around rivers and I agree. I don't think the Yampa river is going to go drastically higher and break any records this year.
On Our View: Nuisance bears a solvable problem
(anonymous)
June 4, 2008 at 9:19 p.m.
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I keep mine locked up in the garage now. We used to leave it under the pine trees beside the garage. Ours was never browsed. The first time I heard reports of the critter last fall I decided keeping it locked away inside was the best bet.
I rented a duplex in Brooklyn the first three months I lived in Steamboat while we were waiting to close on our house. The landlord did not have bear proof containers for us to use and there was no garage our outbuilding to lock up the garbage. A bruin decided to raid our trash three nights in a row. Finally I decided to use a trick my dad used in Ohio with the dogs and his compost. Melindas eXXXXtra hot sauce. I think it's a quadruple X. Just get the most x's you can find on a bottle of melinda's. It's a habenero suace that takes a few seconds before the burn really sets in. I marinated a couple of hot dog buns using half a bottle of the stuff. I laid the four pieces in a semicircle around the trash can. Next morning two pieces were gone and two were still there. The trash was not disturbed and we had a bear free summer for the remaining 6 weeks we lived there.
On The Record for May 26
(anonymous)
June 4, 2008 at 1:15 p.m.
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No kidding pinion. I agree. I just counted and it looks like Rockie and his alter egos have 38 posts. I made a comment the other day in one of the other record threads that I thought the bickering was actually entertaining and he jumped all over me.
On Our View: Nuisance bears a solvable problem
(anonymous)
June 4, 2008 at 7:31 a.m.
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I've said it in several posts before. Having an ordinance in Steamboat does nothing to help the problem if we don't enforce the same rules across all areas of the County. Bears don't care where we draw the line for the city limits.
There is a bear now that is quickly becoming a nuisance in Steamboat II. I've lived there six years and never saw any sign of a bear until last fall. There are alway numerous trash cans sitting outside unlocked or even on the street days before trash pickup is scheduled. If people aren't going to voluntarily comply then we need to have some way to motivate them. An ordinance similar to the city rules needs to be County wide.
On The Record for May 31
(anonymous)
June 3, 2008 at 6:44 a.m.
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Loosen up Bounty. I never said you were the same person. Now you are just being paranoid and jumping on anyone who makes a comment.
I just said I'd been reading the posts from you two and all the others and find the whole thing very funny. The interaction between the two sides is much more comical than the commentary about the record.
On The Record for May 31
(anonymous)
June 2, 2008 at 10:46 p.m.
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By the way, I've been checking in on the Rockie/Bounty saga for the last few days. This just gets funnier and funnier. Keep up the good work everyone.
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On The Record for July 14 (anonymous)
July 17, 2008 at 1:54 p.m.
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I thought the same thing when I read that in the paper yesterday.