Been doing several runs that way lately as Cookie is getting new running gear (hip/knee stuff) in Boise. The question: What's the purpose of the steam belching plant just south of I-84 at the New Plymouth /Emmett exit? From memory, I think it's exit #9. Not a sign anywhere with an explanation but a sizable complex.

Langley Gulch Power Plant?

That's TASCO - The Amalgamated Sugar Company. Been there since christ was a corporal.
RB

Who is doing her hip/knee?
I just had a knee replaced on Wednesday.
I haveing a rough go

That's closer to exit 35. This is a power plant.

My error.
RB

Last year I took all the back roads south of the freeway, just for the hell of it, between Ontario and Nampa...My conclusion is that area is a northern province of Mexico. Or Bakersfield.

A natural gas powered electric plant.

Flintlocke, much of the Southwestern US looks like what you saw. Why wouldn't it? We have millions of illegals flooding in. The changes are just beginning and will be catastrophic to our culture and economy.

338Reddog:


A Dr. Vaux through Saint Alphonsus in downtown Boise. She had a hip done about a month back, and it's fine now. The knee on the same leg, however, needs to be reworked as the pain is considerable and hindering activity. She blew out both ACL's years back, so I hope those prior fixes don't complicate things. Pre-surgery warnings are that recovery will be a bit more complex than the hip session. Hope it goes well, as I'm not the best caregiver. Seems she gets tired of my repetitive meat and potatoes diet.

We're coming your way for these sessions as the Idaho folks have a better reputation than similar practices west of us in Bend, Or. Also, seems the Idaho folks are considerably more satisfied with one's insurance payments.

RupertBear:

I'm familiar with the sugar plant that's been there for decades. The facility I'm curious about is only 9 miles in from the Or/Id border on the freeway and is a standalone entity on a hill only about 3 or 400 yds south-south-west of the Interstate. Nothing else in close proximity other than signs for Emmett and New Plymouth and some ag lands north of the freeway. Next time through (this coming Monday) I'll pull in and see what goes on there.

Pulled the facility up on Google Earth, but there are no identifying hints. Location is lat. 43.9044 long. -116.8200 Don't see any large powerlines in the vicinity either.

I like cheap food as well or better than the next guy...but it seems to me these big ag corporations encourage the wets with job promises, in some cases housing, ignore E-verify, hire them for cheap wages...just enough to keep them from job searching. Their families are encouraged to sign up for every benefit, pre natal care to death benefits, translators, legal aid, free daycare if the women are working too, an astounding number of food and nutrition programs, automatic signup for free breakfast and school lunches..it's endless. I have seen with my own eyes an entire small office building in Dorris CA (ag community) where 8 or 9 offices are there to provide benefits. The big ag outfits pay schidt wages, little or no benefits...the costs for maintaining a family are all passed on to the US taxpayer.
I wonder if in the long run it wouldn't be cheaper to pay the wets a realistic family wage, and the taxpayers pay real market value for food with the higher wages built in. And another thing, don't think the wets haven't figured out the workers compensation insurance scams, a non resident alien just a mile south of me went out with a bad back 10 years ago, 80% disabled supposedly...well he makes his spare money over and above disability by cutting and selling firewood.
You nailed it, "will be catastrophic to our culture and economy".

I remember when there were white people in Dorris.

1minute,

It's a natural gas fired electrical power plant.

Ai yi yi, viejo, no mas.

I worked in that area in 1997-98. When I was there last in 2018 or so I didn't even recognize it.

I don't know about now, but those folk from Marsing, Notus, Parma, etc. used to be green card folk that contributed greatly to Idaho's economy.
RB

It is a 300 megawatt gas fired power plant.

No, that is in Nampa. Exit 35 if I am not mistaken.

Look to the West as you travel between exit 9 toward 13 and on toward Sand Hollow.

Here's the best hint I can give, based on my experience and some other folks I know. .................


Push yourself as hard as you can doing the PT as recommended and then push just a bit more. If you need to, and are one that's not reacting too badly to them, take a pain pill 20 minutes or so before your PT session. If not a pain pill you might want to consider a tylenol at least.

Or, do like a couple of folks I know..................don't do the PT as recommended and end up having to back in to the hospital, put under again, and have the surgeon manipulate your knee to break up scar tissue. Those folks told me that was worse than the surgery.

I wish you the best of luck, as I'm pretty sure I'd not have hunted elk 6 months after my surgery, or deer in AZ last year, if I had kept going on the knee the way it was before surgery.

1minute, here's wishing Cookie the best outcome.

And that she learns to enjoy your meat and taters.

Troops:

Thanks for the power plant info and well wishes. I'll get out our leathers and whips and start herding her around ASAP. The "get with the PT" seems to be universal advice.

Thanks again,

Had my L knee replaced in '19, now the R in mid January. Just like what's been said, follow through with PT, push yourself, even do the the exercises multiple times per day.
Try to sleep whenever you can, wherever you can. If possible, have an exercise bike, great for getting mobility and strength. Good luck to the Mrs. Hang in there 338, it can be hard, but we'll worth it in long run.

Hope it goes well, as I'm not the best caregiver. Seems she gets tired of my repetitive meat and potatoes diet.

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Better up your A game 1 minute. The meds prescribed for painkillers oxy condone, tramadol and extra strength Tylenol are rough on your digestion but 1 still needs to eat and cycle it through. Her favorite fruit, breakfast foods and salads with soup she likes will serve her better. They digest easier than heavier meat and taters meals and won't leave her near as constipated. Plenty of fluids easy to get dehydrated. I just went in on 2/12 and was out 2 /13 with a total right knee replacement as 338 reddog said it can be a rough go. You would think after them sawing off the ends if your upper and lower leg bones off you would hurt some but the pain mostly comes from the soft connective tissues muscles ,tendons & ligaments they have to displace a bit to install the new knee. Swelling is very pain ful behind the knee above it and below it for sometime.ice packs rule. She will notice immediately being able to actually put weight on her knee do the pt as instructed. The constant pain wears on you and tires you out let her sleep all she needs. You didn't ask but I hate to see someone as talented as your cookie down for long and hurting. Best of luck..mb

As others have said, you kind of need to beat yourself up in PT. My PT was a little guy, 5'5" maybe 140 but he made my palms sweat when he came to stretch me out. The first couple of weeks are rough but my doc said once the glue set, about a half hour, the joint was a strong as it needs to be and I could climb stairs that day. I thought he was nuts.
Best of luck to Cookie, her photography is awesome.