Then , last week Julie announced that she wanted to go to the Shale Pit at the lake. It seems that she had been there before with one of her college classes. So she contacted the Corps and got the necessary permits and away we went on Saturday. Julie, Scott, Jess, Jace, Chris, and myself piled into the truck and went to the pit.
My how it has changed in the last 35 years. There were cedar trees, grasses, flowers, cattails, water, and wildlife. I never saw them but I found tracks for deer and raccoon. We found skinks, frogs, crickets, and minnows. There was even a waterfall, probably from recent rains. What an amazing transformation for the apparent surface of the moon in my eyes 35+ years ago to something that appears to be teeming with life.
I loved it.
And to think that my daughter discovered the very place 35 years later that Mark and I had discovered oh so many years ago.
Below are a few pictures that I took of the day.
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| From Lake Waco Shale Pit |
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| From Lake Waco Shale Pit |
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| From Lake Waco Shale Pit |
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| From Lake Waco Shale Pit |
For more pictures visit my slideshow of the trip at Visions of My World.
For more interesting reading concerning Lake Waco and the dam visit the Waco History Project: Places in Time page and click on Lake Waco. 
The notes for this week are a set from the Universitat Jena in Jena, Thuringia, Germany. Jena is near Erfurt, which is where my grandfather was born. These notes are very nice. The 1st of three 75 Pfennig notes show Goethe and Friedrich Schiller at the the University of Jena. Schiller taught at the college and Goethe apparently lived in Jena for a while. One source states that Schiller and Goethe co-founded the Weimar Theatre. The 2nd note shows Ernst Haeckel, who studied at the university. The 3rd note shows Ernst Abbe, who also taught at the University.
An interesting side note is that while Ernst Abbe was working at Carl Zeiss's microscope works he introduced the 8 hour work day. Way to go Ernst!!!
The next set of notes are 50 Pfennig notes. One note shows the Fuchsturm (Fox Tower) in Jena which is the oldest mountain inn in Jena. The 2nd note shows the Church of St. Michael in Jena. And the last note shows a scene at the University of Jena.
The 10 and 25 Pfennig notes are smaller in size.
The 25 Pfennig note below, I believe shows a scene of students or fraternity members caroling near a monument on campus. I can't quite be sure though.
Below the 10 Pfennig note is just good looking.
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I did a Google search on the term "Sick em". The most prevalent result I got was in reference to a Seattle based punk rock band whose name I won't mention here. I did find a blog post using the term "sick 'em". When I read it they were referring to Baylor University and why they did not attend; apparently because of the cheerleaders ???) and the fact that Purdue pasted the Men's Basketball team in the 2008 NCAA tournament. Still I didn't think that was the proper usage.
I continued to search.
I started consulting online dictionaries and various etymology sites. It was a little hard to find. However, I learned that "sic' em" has its roots in the term "seek 'em". And has evolved or devolved (Take your pick) into it's current "sic' em" meaning "to attack or incite to attack".
And yes, I learned that "sick" is a variant for "sic". It still just doesn't look right.
SIC' EM BEARS!
(Number 2 in the 2009 Big 12 Tournament.)
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This is what I saw.
"SICK EM PANTHERS"
What does that mean?
Addendum-April 10, 2009
I never thought of posting a link from this March 13, 2009 post to the March 15, 2009 post. (After all, it is 2 days in the future.) The March 15 post contains the probable ANSWER to my post title question. The link is in the word ANSWER since it links to the post The Answer????.
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