Hey!
I just got an email from one of my bestest friends back in Washington who plays cello, likes sea monkeys, and rode a uni when she was a kid just like me. She took her uncle’s 20 year old uni to a shop, had it fixed up, and is riding again!! I am so excited.
YAY!
One more of us!
yay, that means collectivly we are now less weird
one more of us, and one less of them!
Washington DC, or Washington state? If the latter, there’s a strong group of adult riders in the Seattle area. If she’s local, we can give you a way offline for her to hook up with some of our ride activities.
Sounds like you’re gearing up for the Washington State gig!! I hope that everything works out great!! Now for a riding buddy at PSU…
Hi TomBlackwood,
She’s from western WA, often does the ride from Seattle to Portland on a bike. She goes to school at WSU. I think she’ll be out in Western WA with her family this summer though. She’s a neat young lady. I shared a stand with her in the orchestra there.
I am doing research at the Elephant sanctuary in TN this summer on my way to NUACC. She might help me out with the elephants and also come to NUAcc. I certainly hope that works out. I can use the help in the field and she’d have a good time (as will I) meeting everyone.
And Unidaddy,
I’ll probably be out at WSU for the job interview this Spring for a few days. No doubt I will bring a uni, which one is the question! I am hoping the job comes through at Penn State, but they haven’t even posted it yet. I’d like to stay put here for a while at least! Two moves in less than a year has just about done me in.
I do love WA state. For the soil geeks in the crowd, of the 12 soil orders in the world, 11 are found in washington State! Incredible. In the long run the job in WA would be also good for me and Bear, too.
go soil go !
hmm what soil type is the missing one… a loam? a clay? a sandy loam clay?
WA is a great state!
thats why i live in washington, the soil types =p actually i never know about that, thats pretty kool though =-p
You’re talkin’ soil texture. All soils have a texture, which is the relative % of sand silt and clay. A loamy soil has a lot of silt, and there are plenty of loamy soils in WA, from the Eastern feet of the Cascades into Idaho!
It missing Oxisols.
There are
Mollisols
Spodosols
Entisols
Vertisols
Alfisols
Inceptisols
Andisols
Gelisols
Aridisols
Histisols
Ultisols
Maybe you will enjoy the fine alluvial soil in Memphis.
Preach it sister!
Soon you’ll have the makings of UniHoki team there…
Man, do we have texture! Under topsoils in our neighborhoods, we have quite a good layer of vertisol with (here comes the building dept. bent) a bearing strength of over 8000 psi according to the penitrometer. Great for foundations!
Man!, that sounds rude.
Sorry to get all Beavis and Butthead here…
They are rude! One of my friends at Michigan Tech nearly lost a thumb to one. He’s the USDA soil conservation officer in Ontonagon now, FYI, Bruce.I will be using one for my elephant study.
Bruce, I’m impressed you know the soil lingo. If I am ever on a date that is going badly and want out, I usually just start talking “dirty” and before I know it the guy is saying, “ummm, time to go!!”
I hope everyone on the forum knows what a Podzol is by now! 
(Podzol is the international term for USDA taxonomic soil order of Spodosols)
Comes with the job, I suppose. Got to know a little bit so I don’t embarrass myself in front of contractors. 
Podzol, if you come out this way for interviews, let us know via posting and we’ll make sure we round up some Seattle Area Riders to show you some of the local one-wheeling sites.