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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 03:25am PT
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Delta was a water-stop. It is further up-canyon than the present Lakehead on Shasta. It is where my grandmother lived with her father, Ed Miller, who was a brakeman for the SP, after her first husband died in the influenza epidemic of 1919.
There were untold numbers of fish caught by my family here and in the creeks feeding the Sacramento.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 05:11am PT
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A 4:23 am phone call --
a wrong number after I'd just gotten to sleep.
Pendejo.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 07:03am PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 27, 2017 - 12:54pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 01:22pm PT
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I learned to play several different poker games in Cayucos, summer of '61:
Baseball, High/Low, Monkey Love and Razz among them.
One hundred matchstick buy-in and Everett explained the rules in his mechanical voice as he dealt the cards to Mike and me.
We played cards nearly every evening for a couple of hours in a bungalow across Hwy 1 from the beach just south of Cayucos Pier. It was foggy most of the week.
Following our stay here, I accompanied the Livermore family over Carson Pass and down to Ebbets Pass and on to the West Walker for a week of rainy-day fishing and more cards and watching Jarheads from the winter training camp slide down a zip line.
From that picture zBrown posted, the place looks a lot more populated now, somehow, over fifty years later. That's a common phenomenon with nostalgia.
Who in heck was San Luis Obispo?
I'll let Wiki tell ya.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_of_Toulouse
Obispo is likely the family's name, but I dunno.
Leon's Used Bookstore in SLO was for years one of the very best in California, but closed around '08.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 27, 2017 - 03:45pm PT
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First and last place I ever ate shark was somewhere near Cayucos.
Apparently there is an abalone farm slightly north now.
There is a webpage, but what an abalone would need one for is beyond me.
http://www.abalonefarm.com/
DO NOT CONFUSE Estero Bay WITH Estero el Cuarenta
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 27, 2017 - 04:06pm PT
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That YellowMobile also showed up in El Segundo.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 06:03pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 06:19pm PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 27, 2017 - 11:45pm PT
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hooblie, in his role of tour guide to the boondocks of Coconino County--
18,661.21 square miles*, the second-largest in area in the USA--
showed me what he knew of the local faunascape.
Like "this is j-p" and "that's gambrel oak, grows in a circle"
and I can't remember them all.
One stand-out was cliff rose.* 48,332.3 km2
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Sep 28, 2017 - 12:00am PT
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no r in gambel oak son. don't make me set you to clappin' erasers and wipin' down the chalkboard!
i was thinking just the other day how many things i've become familiar with that remain
unknown to me since i came to think of rangers as LEOs.
not that they owed me an education exactly
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hell, my zipcode has 1,460 sq. miles.
with 186 girls in my age bracket.
i should cut down on showerin'
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2017 - 12:21am PT
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I'm quail before your rebuke, esteemed naturist.
--gashopper
Your conveyance put me in mind of La Cometa Halley from the Gordo comic strip.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2017 - 07:56am PT
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Buenos dias.
What's for breakfast?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 28, 2017 - 10:42am PT
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DO NOT CONFUSE WITH "los cuarenta traseros."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Sep 28, 2017 - 11:16am PT
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No-see-ums, well not really and yes the traps do work.
Feral roosters are fickle. This boy is long gone, despite the free bread and water.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Sep 28, 2017 - 03:08pm PT
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(With edits).
Did I Do That?
I visit here
From time to time
Sometimes more often
Than is kind
Returning mostly
For a rhyme
Sometimes way past
My suppertime
I'd like to say
If any care
I'm now less like
To take a dare
But when I do
Stand clear beware
I've lost more than
My strength or hair
But often as
I'm wont to do
I find more irksome
Than the flu
The memory of
What did ensue
I can't recall
Pray tell can you?
Now even worse
The hearings gone
As I do tend
To yammer on
What marbles I've
Left when I'm done
Should dissipate
To the beyond
I visit here
When times are good
Perhaps more often
Than I should
When times have tried
They often would
I'd linger longer
If I could
-irkman
09/28/2017
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2017 - 05:31am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 29, 2017 - 05:40am PT
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We got a cabin in the country
And a creek that rolls nearby
And a dog that won't even bark at a firefly
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Sep 29, 2017 - 06:02am PT
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Musk Shark
One hungry day
Went for sushi
And ate some shark
'Fore he ate me
Then went to Mars
What did I see?
A Martian shark
Ate my pinky
-nineshooter
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