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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 - Oct 14, 2018 - 08:44am 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 - Oct 14, 2018 - 09:53am PT
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Bouldering Mythology I *
Bouldering on Medusan victims, Greece's climbing ace
Young Alex became enamoured of their embrace.
And he dearly loved the mantle onto Polydectes' face
"It's the hardest one I've ccome across from here to Samothrace."
--mfm
dedicated to the late classical scholar & author Robert Graves
Stone me, to my soul...
Nay, Dingus, I be yet incarcerated. Things, like my low BP, get in the way of my release. It is on the rise and I feel fine, walked about this morning before dawn. It could happen tomorrow if the BP continues its rising trend. Stability will come eventually. Tuning the body with drugs, I call it.
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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 - Oct 14, 2018 - 11:18am PT
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Speaking of boulders...above Pinecrest Lake.
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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 - Oct 14, 2018 - 11:35am PT
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Bematists* no longer roam the earth.
Bematists were people trained in ancient Greece to measure their steps to calculate distances. The bematists would often publish their findings in monographs called Stathmoi, which published distances as well as reports of natural findings and empirical customs.
* Do not confuse with toedometers or pedophiles...er, pedometrists.
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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 - Oct 14, 2018 - 06:45pm PT
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Pure Gold.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 14, 2018 - 09:47pm PT
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hey there, say, mouse... wow-- boulderdash... :O
NOT, of course, as to the 'non-sensical' meaning...
but, in wow:
boulderdash! which boulder WON??
neat 'rush' of boulders, there, mouse...
thanks!
my mom and i love those kind of things, in creekbeds... :)
ps:
looks like the 'triangler' one in the upper left, WON...
HOWEVERRRRRRRRR....
we do NOT have the full picture, ;)
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2018 - 12:52am PT
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hey there say, ...
a 'rarely heard' work... it was said...
thus-- fits in with the rare and precious stuff, on the flames...
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 06:00am PT
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"Rare & precious" describes your sweet self, neebee, but thanks for the compliment.
As for the boulderdash, they are all running in a boulder marathon. The typical entrant's time is incalculable by our standards, however.
Here is the rest of the field, the early finishers.
This creek is the S. Fork of the Stanislaus, BTW.
Any such place which requires a lot of boulder-hopping would've been a nightmare for the average bematist, it should be noted. Various of the 'stathmoi' told of tribulations such as this. Tall grass was usually avoided as being monumentally wasteful of time and energy, for example.
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 06:44am PT
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Sorta early in the morning for this kinda exertion, but it's not so bad from a hospital bed!
Ocarina fanfare for this guy's attitude! See the end bit.
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 06:49am PT
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Ugh! Why be so cryptic, Mark? She's a ho, dammit!
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 07:15am PT
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The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 15, 2018 - 08:05am PT
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For our pleasure listing listening-
Ooh, Poo, Pah - Doo parts 1&2
https://youtu.be/7GQDtH1N8U8
Evil will Out & Snakes Will Get you Closed Every time
It takes
of
holey intervention
smells of fire & brim
who can't shift
Rattler brother spirit returned east to protect
Ashaman some one here would tell it best
O
At the Knee the rest of us alredy sit
z
So a little birdy sat on my elbow, ne. pecking, while I
dreaming felt
sadly in trying it did not
then flew to a postion again whereb I could see
Telling myself to try to recapture sleep did not return said visitor.
We keep 2 birds in 2 cages, both rescues.
1 a small chic-a-de finch with severe injuries.
As well as a growth replacing the long wither'd claw.
A confounding survival . . . A survivor, a sore vi`ve er till
When?
Thuinking for sure that this was my visitor, they were the same type of bird.
I tripped past the open door, in the gap of the hinge,
my eye is caught by the wanton glint of a barrel, needing care
past the restlessly sleeping shedog.
A very she, She alerts; barks in her sleep, (biotch)
I go ten steps in pitch black, toward gray.
3 more to the left
To go check on the small victim
the kids call PT.
In the dark that is gray light,
where every thing is black & white
I found her -still very much alive . . .-
it takes All Kinds
it takes all kinds of will to not go insane
Will
I was stayin' all above any fray
so long Bye - Bye Craimeur They still don't know you
Rattle away in Inglorious ignominy for as long as as you can.
For your Mojo is as strong, the draw to you, for some, is as undeniable as crystal studded spires & pikes,
that lie beyond the bad lands out past the Wyoming plug.You must have a cosmic connection,
Bears Lodge must be one of your great protectors.
I went straight from your flanks
to the Needles & devils tower in the 1st spring of my youtt.
You left me well served. The lessons you had provided, took.
I sailed up everything I tried,
I went all across, as far as New mexico& back
Always trying to & getting up stuff raffa had said BobDA had put upup.
Jimmy Reed, To much harmonica in the morning?
Big Boss Man
https://youtu.be/Dd-o_kLONVI
ho haas blowin hoozharps in da dawn's early...
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 08:37am PT
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Say what? One can NEVER have 'too much harp.'
"Mo' harp, less cowbell!"
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For me, the standard for Big Boss Man is the version on the GD's double LP, first issue.
Otherwise, there's these guys for sheer energy. 1966, man!
Perty Thangs-Bigga Bossa Manna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V773MeS8yrI
Great harp as well.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 15, 2018 - 09:22am PT
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thnx-that 'S Sweet!
Honestly prayin' you were asleep.
Good mron sir,
That hour of Prine on PBS is a treat!
dawg-gawn double nickle gone
A date I dont count it counts me
oh so sweet, - uh-huh
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"The Vulcan sent wedding gifts, A 3 legged stool & a wheel chair Lift"
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 09:30am PT
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I was sorta bamboozled this morning, finding that "Roadrunner" by Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers is NOT the "I'm a Roadrunner" by the Pretty Things.
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Both are covers, one of Bo Diddley & the other of Velvet Under Ground Hog.
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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 - Oct 15, 2018 - 09:34am PT
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bobinc
Trad climber
Portland, Or
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Oct 15, 2018 - 11:30am PT
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Actually, I think Roadrunner was written by Jonathan Richman. The album it was on was produced by John Cale but that is the main Velvet Underground connection there.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Oct 15, 2018 - 02:31pm PT
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hey there say, mouse.... awwww. shucks... thank you...
say, as to the boulder marathon:
aHAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaa.... 'the REST of the story'...
oh my, or, the REST of the participants of the race...
lovely resting places, they have all lodged in...
but, uh, hmmmm, along 'lodge poles' or not... (i do not know) ...
i have not studied-up... ;)
wow, say, thanks for all the neat info...
too, yes, i would have loved to know the river, as well...
will go read on that, maybe later tonight if i can...
tall grasses... hard on mankind, but GREAT FOR
the ol' 'tierra' ...
https://calscape.org/loc-California/cat-Grasses/ord-popular/vw-list?view_style=list
and, most likely the critters that 'should' be still living there, :)
but, sadly are lacking :(
:)
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