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    Big Lake is a census-designated place (CDP) in Skagit County, Washington, United States. The population was 1,153 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Mount Vernon-Anacortes, Washington Metropolitan Statistical Area. Big Lake is an exurban community in a fairly rural setting, although recent years have seen significant suburban development. The area, however, has remained primarily residential. A few notable exceptions include a playable 9-hole golf course on the lake's east side, a 50s-themed bar & grill, a quaint community store, and a small (but quickly growing) elementary school. The latter two are located at the historic north end of the lake, once a bustling logging town. A fire destroyed much of the town proper in the early 1900s, and that which was lost was never rebuilt. Based on per capita income, Big Lake ranks 134th of 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked. Big Lake is located at 48°23′36″N, 122°14′11″W (48.393245, -122.236351). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 4.7 square miles (12.3 km²), of which, 4.0 square miles (10.2 km²) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.0 km²) of it (16.46%) is water. As of the census

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    City Contained By:

    • Skagit County
    • Washington

    Timezones:

    • Pacific Time Zone

    Size:

    • 12.1729441186 km squared

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    Help to indentify something growing in our small lake in Washington state?
    Question:
    They start small an there are some as big as a 3 basketballs put together. they grow on downed trees, tree limbs under the water. We first thought they were pitch from the fallen trees, but they have been spreading and keep growing. They are solid gel mass and clear on the inside and dark outlines like a sack? They almost look like a paper wasp hive from above the water. Any help would be great? Thanks I have pics but do not know how to attach them

    Answer:
    Sounds like rock snot, a mass of diatoms. Washington has an algal id service -- you might want to get this confirmed. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/PROGRAMS/WQ/plants/algae/monito ring/index.html

    Does any one know a simple way to get Anacharis is Washington State?
    Question:
    K, so, that's my question. It's illegal here but I really want some in my tank with my RES. I think it would be very beneficial for the tank, the turtle, and myself. They don't sell it in stores (duh) and I think if you take some from Lake Washington (even though I've heard of some guy doing it) you'd get in big trouble, partially cuz it's an endangered plant here. So, anyone with hint or something would be cool. Thanks.

    Answer:
    try DresFosterSmith.com, they are an excellent source of materials for reptiles. You might try an on line search for aquariums as well.

    Washington - Lake Chelan area?
    Question:
    In Summer 87 I was on holiday in Seattle. I am looking for a small village. The village was build in wood as and old western city with sherif office, jailhouse, bars with svingdoors etc. Whereever I look around it was totally as old time. Only the horses was changes to cars. The roads in the city was sand. I get into a bar to get something to drink, and the man behind the bar told me they also use this city to make western movies. I want to visit this town again with my family but cant find it. I remember I drive from Seattle, Redmond to Lake Chelan, driving in the mountains, along rivers and also passing and drive over a big dam. The town was placed in a kind of dessert. The climate from the mountains and to the dessert change in 2 hours very much from cold to hot. Do anyone know what small city I am talking about ?? Sorry my english is not so good.

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    Ich dachte an Ferien in den Vereinigten Staaten. Noch sorge mich ich um Pässe und die zugelassenen Anforderungen des amerikanischen Senats. Papiere lesen, daß der Gesetz nicht verabschiedet wird, bis 2008 so dort verzögert ist. Es ist ein reizender Bereich. Gut für das Wandern, Bootfahrt, canoeing und fischend, habe ich gehört. Leiten Sie das Waterskiing für mich, Dank weiter. Ich mag Schläuche und konnte parasailing versuchen, nachdem wir die betroffenen Sicherheit Ausgaben festsetzen. Können Sie für eine Heißluftballonfahrt dort gehen? Wie über einen Anhänger zu einem Grillaufstellungsort herausnehmen? Irgendwie horsebackriding. Ich mag es. I thought of holidays in the United States. Still ensure me I around passports and the certified requirements of the American senate. Papers read that that is not discharged law, until 2008 are retarded so there. It is an attractive range. Well for moving, boat travel, canoeing and fishing, I heard. Pass the Waterskiing on for me, thanks. I may try hoses and could parasailing, after we determine security concerned expenditures. Can you go for a hot-air balloon travel there? How over a trailer to a grill place of assembly take out? Somehow horsebackriding. I like it.

    How many Lake Merrideans are in the state of WA?
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    I'm not exactly sure how to spell Lake Merridean, meridian, merridian, well anyways, doesn anyone know how many Lake Merrideans are in the state of Washington? They can be small or big, popular or uncommon, all they have to be is named Lake Merridian. So does anyone out there know how many there are, it would also be helpful if they new the location in WA of these lakes. Thanks for anyone who can help!

    Answer:
    According to Google earth there is just one. About 25 miles south east of Seattle. Nice little lake.

    My car has brown transmission oil, should i get it flushed before i go on a big trip?
    Question:
    Me and some friends are headed over to Lake Chelan state park for 9 days and i was thinking maybe i should drop 100 bucks on my car before i go. Because i live in western washington so i have to go over the mountains to get to lake chelan and haha i have a little Honda Prelude. and yeah i didnt mean to say oil i meant to say fluid but u guys know whati mean i hope

    Answer:
    Your proposed $100 investment will, no doubt, save you hundreds perhaps thousands in towing and repair bills. Taking any trip in our cars requires that we have the car serviced beforehand to avoid any unforeseen pitfalls and breakdowns along the way. This will also give you the piece-of-mind of knowing that your car is at it's optimal performance capability. *check fluids *check belts *check hoses *check tire pressure Have a safe trip.

    Poetry is in the soul not the learning?
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    You can study all the forms know all the great practitioners and never come close to this by a man who probably couldn't even write. Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion upon my people for centuries untold, and which to us appears changeless and eternal, may change. Today is fair. Tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never change. Whatever Seattle says, the great chief at Washington can rely upon with as much certainty as he can upon the return of the sun or the seasons. The white chief says that Big Chief at Washington sends us greetings of friendship and goodwill. This is kind of him for we know he has little need of our friendship in return. His people are many. They are like the grass that covers vast prairies. My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain. The great, and I presume -- good, White Chief sends us word that he wishes to buy our land but is willing to allow us enough to live comfortably. This indeed appears just, even generous, for the Red Man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, as we are no longer in need of an extensive country. There was a time when our people covered the land as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor, but that time long since passed away with the greatness of tribes that are now but a mournful memory. I will not dwell on, nor mourn over, our untimely decay, nor reproach my paleface brothers with hastening it, as we too may have been somewhat to blame. Youth is impulsive. When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, it denotes that their hearts are black, and that they are often cruel and relentless, and our old men and old women are unable to restrain them. Thus it has ever been. Thus it was when the white man began to push our forefathers ever westward. But let us hope that the hostilities between us may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain. Revenge by young men is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and mothers who have sons to lose, know better. Our good father in Washington--for I presume he is now our father as well as yours, since King George has moved his boundaries further north--our great and good father, I say, sends us word that if we do as he desires he will protect us. His brave warriors will be to us a bristling wall of strength, and his wonderful ships of war will fill our harbors, so that our ancient enemies far to the northward -- the Haidas and Tsimshians -- will cease to frighten our women, children, and old men. Then in reality he will be our father and we his children. But can that ever be? Your God is not our God! Your God loves your people and hates mine! He folds his strong protecting arms lovingly about the paleface and leads him by the hand as a father leads an infant son. But, He has forsaken His Red children, if they really are His. Our God, the Great Spirit, seems also to have forsaken us. Your God makes your people wax stronger every day. Soon they will fill all the land. Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide that will never return. The white man's God cannot love our people or He would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we be brothers? How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? If we have a common Heavenly Father He must be partial, for He came to His paleface children. We never saw Him. He gave you laws but had no word for His red children whose teeming multitudes once filled this vast continent as stars fill the firmament. No; we are two distinct races with separate origins and separate destinies. There is little in common between us. To us the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground. You wander far from the graves of your ancestors and seemingly without regret. Your religion was written upon tablets of stone by the iron finger of your God so that you could not forget. The Red Man could never comprehend or remember it. Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors -- the dreams of our old men, given them in solemn hours of the night by the Great Spirit; and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people. Your dead cease to love you and the land of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb and wander away beyond the stars. They are soon forgotten and never return. Our dead never forget this beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bays, and ever yearn in tender fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the happy hunting ground to visit, guide, console, and comfort them. Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun. However, your proposition seems fair and I think that my people will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them. Then we will dwell apart in peace, for the words of the Great White Chief seem to be the words of nature speaking to my people out of dense darkness. It matters little where we pass the remnant of our days. They will not be many. The Indian's night promises to be dark. Not a single star of hope hovers above his horizon. Sad-voiced winds moan in the distance. Grim fate seems to be on the Red Man's trail, and wherever he will hear the approaching footsteps of his fell destroyer and prepare stolidly to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter. A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of the descendants of the mighty hosts that once moved over this broad land or lived in happy homes, protected by the Great Spirit, will remain to mourn over the graves of a people once more powerful and hopeful than yours. But why should I mourn at the untimely fate of my people? Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. Your time of decay may be distant, but it will surely come, for even the White Man whose God walked and talked with him as friend to friend, cannot be exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We will see. We will ponder your proposition and when we decide we will let you know. But should we accept it, I here and now make this condition that we will not be denied the privilege without molestation of visiting at any time the tombs of our ancestors, friends, and children. Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. Our departed braves, fond mothers, glad, happy hearted maidens, and even the little children who lived here and rejoiced here for a brief season, will love these somber solitudes and at eventide they greet shadowy returning spirits. And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land. The White Man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.

    Answer:
    You said it brudda! Poetry does indeed reside in the soul, not the mind. One is truly a poet only when intellect and emotion speak with one voice. I live in the land that this great poet speaks of, south coastal British Columbia, and can understand how he came to speak as he does. The landscape I inhabit is one of mist and infinite shades of green and blue, where edges are blurred and the seasons blend and the ravens still speak with men's voices along the river's edge. There is magic in the forests still even though we scape bare the mountain sides to feed our avarice. As a young boy I would wander in the woods to a place where the cedars where giants and the forest floor was carpeted with moss so thick and soft it was hard to walk and even in high summer the air was cool, still and dark. I would lay on that bed of moss in the filtered green light and feel safe and happy. Now that so many years have passed I know that what I had was rare and precious and made me the man I am today. Those hours spent alone in the bush with the ancients is a gift that I will keep forever.

    tomorrow is my anniversary with my bf?
    Question:
    and ive been with for three years and i wanna do something fun... something we will both enjoy but im not sure what we could do last year we took a small trip to seattle took a walk down a path to lake washington although its not a big trip we still had fun so i wanna do something different does anyone have any ideas?

    Answer:
    try to re-live your first date. Go the places you went on ur first date and you both act like it was your first date. Its really fun and it makes both of u remember why u still toghether and the things u both have been through. It is a good experience to refresh your memory by re-acting the first date. Good luck!

    How would you rent this out...7 br house.?
    Question:
    the house has 7 bedrooms. 2 on top floor with full bath, 2 on main floor with full bath and din/living room, 3 on first floor with full bath and kitchenet with livingroom. Since the 2 on the top floor have the view and are the biggest and they share 1 bath I was going to charge more for those two. the 2 on the main floor have a kitchen and a large living room (original hardwood floor) the 3 on the first floor (used to be a daylight basement, renovated 6 months aggo) i was going to charge a little less since its 3 people sharing 1 bath. the mortgage is 3500, I am taking over this property as a favor to a friend that had to fire her former manager (letting rent slip in leu of sex) The house is in an area next to Lake Washington and the University of Washington. My backround is in 1-12 unit apartments, this is my first "house" rental...any help will ..help.

    Answer:
    i live in a 9 room house out by U-village. the way we've got it is that we pay a flat rent that's divided up between the 9 of us. as far as i've seen, the large houses (6+ rooms) were snappped up very quickly (this was in may), and all by groups of students that know each other, so charging by the room didnt seem to be the way it was done out here. Actually, you could probably start charging by room once summer begins, and all the groups are situated; to fill up the rooms with single students. I have a friend looking for a room right now, and the large houses are doing it by room. if you're wondering, i'm guessing rent won't cover much more than the mortgage, which is about 500 a room

    Construction project along I-405 in Renton/Newcastle?
    Question:
    Does anyone know what the HUGE building is that they are building on Lake Washington Blvd N, near Pan Abode Homes? It is just a big frame right now, and this week it has a gigantic "12th man" flag flying on the side of it. What is this building going to be???

    Answer:
    It's the "Virginia Mason Athletic Center" and the new home of the Seahawks. Thanks for asking! I drove by the other day and wondered the same thing, but forgot to find out! http://rentonwa.gov/business/default.aspx?id=2062 http:/ /www.seahawks.com/vmacwebcam.aspx

    To drink or not to drink milk with rBGH?
    Question:
    "WASHINGTON - Milk from cloned cows is no longer welcome at the nation's biggest milk company. Although the government has approved meat and milk from cloned animals while it conducts further studies, Dean Foods Co. of Dallas said Thursday that its customers and consumers don't want milk from cloned animals. The $10 billion company owns Land O'Lakes and Horizon Organic, among dozens of other brands." That should be forbiden. Read more about milk production and all kind of illnesses caused by dairy. LOL LOL....what is the cleanest and safest? Babydoll...........who cares about 5 points.

    Answer:
    I just wasted 5 points asking the same question! It did not show up as a question already posted! Anyway. I do not have a problem with this milk if it keeps prices where I can afford milk and other dairy products. It's interesting to me that cows are being cloned more for breeding purposes than for milk or meat. Superior animals are cloned in order to breed them. Farmers can avoid costly stud fees by cloning.


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