[rhodophyta]

I would hope Oregon is now on to its next snow storm or whatever. The slogan mentioned is not about the ancient Greek "pony express", but is instead an observation by a Greek historian (Herodotus) about the mounted messengers of the Greeks' arch enemy, the Persian army. Or at least one of their arch enemies. They seemed to have no end of them and battled each other, Greek city against Greek city, when there was no one else to fight.