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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Rule one: I own this roof.
Except when it rains.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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I think that is Robert the Bruce on top of that turret, probably looking for his cat or maybe Katmandu.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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I've never seen this but wish I had much sooner.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Same with this. Wish I had brought a comb.
Those boys are working too hard. This is how working men relax. One Gulp or Swallow at a time, Jeez!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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1980s. The Lycra's a dead giveaway.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Bruce Hamilton, TNF's tent designer and efficiency expert.
His "Simon Quotient" tested off the charts one night when his brother Randy brought in some Missouri Mule homegrown.
They had shares in a "catfish farm down there." Bruce is a Van D graduate and one of Jim's and my good friends from those Creedence Clearwatery daze next to Cosmo's on Fifth St.
A visit from the master geometrician in the seventies to the TNF plant on Harrison St. at Tenth.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Ellis, Bruce?
As in Ellis Bruce?
As in EB?
As in "extended big-toe?"
As in revolutionized the foot jam?
As in Everly Brothers?
Nah.
Never hoid o' him.
[Click to View YouTube Video]B-bug's p-play Liszt.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Quite an afternoon's adventure, before heading to 510 Bistro to check out the wine liszt and say hi to Dennis & crew.Dennis M. standing in front of 510 Main St. and across from 519 Main St. He is a professional chef, part-owner of the cafe and bistro. They're all cool.
There's usually a point at which I am aiming, more or less, though I tend to ramble like a little kid in Family Circus, sometimes.
Point A.
I bought this paper at the Coffee Bandits. I came back to the Tioga, watched some NCAA, went down to the street expecting to get some photos of the renters' discussion with the media, which did not happen, and fell into hog heaven when I went in to Merced Tours to speak with Jessica and her husband, Jay, who is in the photo above with his black and white aerial candy.
As the rent committee left, I began shooting and questioning. They have this new business, Merced Tours (c'est tres Nice et interessant). It will have a small museum of Merced and the environs, i.e., Yosemite.
I then went to the bistro and came home to find the paper and read the article on the Greek colony in Merced. My older brother's two wives are Greek, just HAPPEN to be cousins...
Anyway, on the way home from the bistro, I had stopped and taken a picture of 519 Main St., an address on the ground floor of the Merced Lofts acrosse from the bistro and the bookstore where I worked. I was thinking of climbing ratings, naturally, in taking the pic.
I got into the article and the line jumps out at me
Instead of returning to greece, Peter came to Merced in March 1921 and started a shoe shine and repair business at 519 W. 17th St. (Main).
Well, I'm not one, well, I guess I am, at that, who goes and thinks God's tapping him on the shoulder, making him wonder, causing him to do foolish things. I tend to look at these things differently now that I'm older and have read some feralfae Buchanan--HAW!
I checked out yer posts, I just can't think of anything better than what you have said. You do cause me to think. Looking forward to your success(es), and failures, and recoups. Bonne chance.
As I was saying, this is just coincidence, it don't mean shee-it, as Mr. Natural say.
Then, I looked underneath the article on the Greek colony at the bottom of the page.
This is point zB.Stupid question.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there, say, mouse...
wow, that sure is some mouse-hole sweater that you had there, ;)
thanks for the shares...
hope the renter meeting comes to pass, :O
and thanks for sharing the 'ground floor folks' and their neat pics!
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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I really don't drink much Guinness in the yard. Nothing like Java for yardwork prep.
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Show you my coffee cup? OK.
Michele was a math teacher and hard worker. Sometimes I only have to supervise. Unless of course, it's termites, then I'm up in arms (well axes actually).
It's a thing I keep in the back of my head.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Nice one to enlarge
Walkin' like a millionaire
Smilin' like a king
He leaned his shopping cart against the wall
He said, I been a lot of places
And I seen a lot of things
But, sonny, I seen one thing that beats 'em all
I was flyin' back from lubbock
I saw jesus on the plane
...or maybe it was elvis
You know, they kinda look the same
Hey, look out, junior, you're steppin' on my bed
I said, I don't see nothin
He just glared at me and said,
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
If dirt were dollars
I wouldn't worry anymore
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Saturn?
Bah!
Ruby's cute, though.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You never solo.
It never used to be complicated:
It was myself and God’s rocks on the Sunnyside.
Then the rope entered along with another person and more, beside.
Uh-oh, populated.
I am back now to the center: The old Safeway shopping center.
Funny thing: In my head I’m in The Cathedral group;
And a bit on the Shadyside this day.
Alone I have God on my belay--as if He ever looked away--
I was just a nincompoop.
Climbing!
Climb!
Is that a command, Lord?
Just do it, dipsh#t.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Tad, lad--
I want to tell you I've been listening to Rogue Canyon Walls and I love the banjo.
You got some chops, Dad!
Like my gym? Free membership, too!
Ron, son--
Thanks for the compliment earlier in the day re The Yosemite and it's proposed expansion...It's a concern at the top of my list now.
Trying for some clarity in the case of contemptuous political hay-making is not easy.
It's all above-the-board obscurity in the public's mind. They are told what to think and they do, massively.
People need to be shocked and not simply warned away from deals with the devil.
Gated comunity in the area? Possible, not too likely; but call it Yosemite Best and charge hell out of the buyers--more doctors and lawyers who may use the place until the kids grow older and then they find that they can't sell it off...HA!
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