[meteorite-list] Fourth of July and Colby (Wisconsin)

From: Michael Farmer <meteoriteguy_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 11:13:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <448753.6536.qm_at_web33108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Here here Bernd, what a wonderful story.
We are celebrating 4th of July here in Sweden by
taking the day off and cleaning our meteorites for
shipment to the USA. Our Muonionalusta 2007 trip is
nearly at an end, but still more hunting to be done.
Today was very stormy and rainy all day, with
lightning popping everywhere, so we had our fireworks
(and good thing it was a holiday, carrying electronics
and shovels is not a good idea in electrical storms)!
The mosquitos are also on overdrive today I think,
biting us even inside. Anyone planning to come up to
the Arctic had better plan to be eaten alive by the
bugs this year, they are extreme right now.
Michael Farmer
--- GREG LINDH <geeg48 at msn.com> wrote:

>
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Thanks for wishing us a Happy Independence Day
> and I especially thank
> you for the story about the American soldier giving
> out the candy and
> smiling at you. It's good to hear something
> uplifting like your story.
> Thanks again.
>
> Greg Lindh
>
>
>
>
> >From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de
> >To: Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> >Subject: [meteorite-list] Fourth of July and Colby
> (Wisconsin)
> >Date: 04 Jul 2007 15:07:54 UT
> >
> >I would like to wish all of our American list
> members happy, safe and
> >peaceful Independence Day celebrations with the
> Colby (Wisconsin)
> >L6 (S3; veined) chondrite. Two stones fell 1917,
> July 4th, 18:20 hrs
> >after the appearance of a luminous meteor with a
> trail of black smoke,
> >moving from NW. to SE., and detonations.
> >
> >Off-topic:
> >
> >Such a day brings back memories from my early
> childhood days here in
> >post-war Germany. Chocoloate or chewing gum were
> something that
> >we could only dream of. My mother's sister was
> going for a walk with
> >me and when we were walking past the American
> military prison here in
> >Mannheim, my hometown, there was a friendly smile
> from an American
> >prison guard up on his watchtower and down came a
> bar of Cadbury
> >chocolate and Wrigley's chewing gum. I will never
> forget these shining
> >teeth (the sentinel was a black American!) and that
> friendly smile on his
> >face and I think he is one of those to be "blamed"
> :-) for my life-long
> >sympathy for everything American.
> >
> >Best Fourth of July
> >wishes from Germany,
> >
> >Bernd
> >
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