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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 09:14am PT
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No, Ron, wait! It was in the Courthouse Park, after dark, I was on a lark.
I wandered away around the corner of the courthouse for a bit, came back, no pack, I was jacked, but had only myself to blame for my geriatric lack
of attention.
It was 'round midnight.
Amy Winehouse/'round Midnight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IuALymbySw
All in all, it was "A most disturbing event."
And I might have liked to shoot off some rounds to help vent,
But I suppose my anger's now come and went.
(I spoke with neebee. Thanks, friend!)
But thanks all the same, dude. Yer such a gent.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 09:31am PT
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She runs one of these when she's not out ranging for bears and mice.
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Visit Facelift and introduce yourself. She may have some espresso for you.
You could share some ladyfingers, too, maybe?
She is a fan of dill pickles, too.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 10:10am PT
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Or you might try these with her as a challenging variation on technique.
Meantime, I'm being forced to vary my technique, simply to keep shooting till a new lens lends itself to my use.
I consider it a challenge. It may be what I needed, as I discussed with neebee.
(Point of etiquette, here: It's never 'neebs' unless yer 'zeebs.' Otherwise, I rely on your gentles' good offices in that regard. 'Just sayin'.)
I'll manage, somehow. I'm good at "muddling through."
http://stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/2014/06/muddling-through.html
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 10:33am PT
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Okay, enough 'rowdy' talk.
Ladies, forgive us 'ancient teen-agers' and our C4 picnic "table talk."
Please.
Thank you.
Here's for neebs, for being such a vibrant part of The Flames and ALL the threads;
and for being such a grate sport about our way of doing things of which she might disapprove in her own kids.
http://buddiesinthesaddle.blogspot.com/2011/05/ralph-connor-sky-pilot-1899.html
Really, thanks, Mommie.
Wish I had one of those purty cards to show right now, too.
"Quilt thou not forgivest me?"--SnakeSpeare (the divil in me)
Act Three, Scene 4 of Hamlet (no plays on words, promise, just the real dill)
Hamlet:
Such an act
That blurs the grace and blush of modesty,
Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose
From the fair forehead of an innocent love
And sets a blister there...
O, such a deed
As from the body of contraction plucks
The very soul, and sweet religion makes
A rhapsody of words. Heaven's face doth glow
O'er this solidity and compound mass,
With tristful visage, as against the doom,
Is thought-sick at the act.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 10, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
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Guten Tag:
Just thought I'd drop in for another go at Der wilde Berg-und-Tal-Fahrt auf Herr Maus.
Interesting that you should mention The Bull. We just celebrated his and wife Reita's 70th wedding anniversary yesterday (that's 70 earth years). I'm in the middle there. I've got the Bull's back so to speak. Grandma Chele is to my left and sprinkled throughout are her various kids and grandkids and the biggest guy (crouching down & taking my back), who is my nephew. It may just be coincidence, but then again, it may not, but ever since I've been posting on the thread, my hair has gotten whiter.
white power? I'll ask Carlos next time I "see" him.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 03:43pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Just piss off.
u used to drink all night and slept all day.
u were no good then.
ur norwegian now, too, and i'm not finished yet
happy returns, bull, by any means whatever!
*w/w/hack!//*
& what's with this "natural ice" piss i been pissin' 'n tryin' to get loose with?
it's worse'n piss, it's doo-doo!
furk all tightwads.[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 10, 2014 - 04:03pm PT
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Forty days![Click to View YouTube Video]Forty nights!
But the rain keep comin' down.
Keep rainin' all the time.
I love that girl with all my mind.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Until I go out to the garage.
Next door...quien sabe?
[Click to View YouTube Video]Sing-a-ding, Don Gallito! Soooo 'canoodle-doo!"
Makin' plans...
seems incredible, but vee havff interrupted zis zubjekt. unt he wass happy to say...
"c u inna nex troom."
dot's norwegian!
keepin' it e-rowdy!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 10, 2014 - 04:49pm PT
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Orale. Lyle, Gerry & Carlos (Robbie & Tim handling camera work)
Do you believe in Magic? In Cuba, guajira and guajiro are used as nicknames for rural or country folk, just as "hillbilly" is used in the U.S
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Hang glider above Mt. Lukens, not Gerry Lopez
Stealth Gliders over Mt. Lukens
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Aug 11, 2014 - 06:56pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
as to this:
Topic Author's Reply - Aug 10, 2014 - 06:28am PT
Yellow Pines!
Slowly I returned...scene by scene, frame by frame...
GREAT recovery!
keep taking them pics...
great cameras, sure do help, but the eye-and-spirit of it all,
is the 'one behind it'...
say, oh my, did not even think on this:
YOU were up at yosemite or not??
and NEVER did we all talk of YOU getting your BIKE!!!
oh my, :(
it is still there for you, :(
awww, and thanks for the notes of politeness, :)
and will go check out the link, too...
say, be praying--got some heavy stuff on my mind, as to some folks that
are dear to me... private stuff, as to their troubles, though...
but--prayers are welcomed...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 11, 2014 - 11:34pm PT
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You got it, sister.
You're my "stoned partner," as Jumpin' Vernon Brown used to say on KYOS 1480 AM.
You're esteemed, appreciated and quite talented, as well;
and it's so good of you to "treat" folks the way you do with your arts and crafts and paintings.
Today, Monday Monday, saw me up there again...wouldn't you just know it!
The bike will still be there, I hope, the next time. I'll check with you on that, Okey Dokey?
I decided Tommy T. needed a big thanky for delivering your Smillin' Sophie;
and so we made it to the six a.m. YARTS bus, pulling into the Visitor's Center around nine.
After refreshing our palettes with some ice cold bottles of Tioga-Sequoia products,
I took him to see Merry and they got to yammerin' about soup kitchens.
(Tommy T. just retired from a local public food service as a cook.)
So I went and bugged Werner to let me recharge my camera's battery,
and was he ever busy with the fed's fleet,
wirin' & measurin' & ohmin', so we sat in the Yosemite Cemetery,
Tommy & me, cuz the battery was dead so where else should we be?
When it was charged up again we shuttled to the Bridge and EC Meadow.
I lost a pair of cheapo reading glasses in my pack the other night.
I have only my old Rx pair. I'm having trouble focusing as a result.
Need to get another pair of reading glasses if I'm going to play this long-range lens and manual focus game well.
I'm not nearly as happy with the results from today's shoot in the meadow,
nor especially from the ride up on the YARTS bus.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 12, 2014 - 11:05am PT
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^But you knew brother Vernon? (we called him vBrown) Ain't that somethin' else. Somehow he got his horns in an uproar and ended up on trombone rather than trumpet.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2014 - 11:19am PT
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Moon(s).
Muskrat.Muskrat rambling:
"The moons you give are equal to the moons you take, or should be.
A moon for a moon."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2014 - 02:20pm PT
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It may be some (Bridwell and Werner for sure) will remember Rod McKenzie from Camp 4 circa late sixties and early seventies.
(He may lurk here, but I doubt so, really.)
Shall we say that insofar as climbing went, Rod "knew his limitations."
Not meaning to disparage his climbing accomplishments, of which I am not informed, he was a part of our petite mis en scene...a quilt block or square, to use the neebean metaphor.
There were many in Camp 4 like him over the years: Not terribly sought-after partners, maybe a "last pick on the playground" type. And happy to be there in spite of this lack.
Rod had many interests, which you might check out on his Facebook timeline.
The last time that I saw Rod was at Tuolumne Meadows Store in the early nineties. My wife and I had not found Millis, who'd promised to be there to meet my new bride. Rod was there in his small RV, though, and we had a good afternoon playing memories for Liz.
The reason for my posting this is quite simple. Today is Rod's 80th birthday.
As Millis would say, Rod, "Happy Birthday, you old stumpfugger!"
Many happy days and years more is my wish-washy wish,
But I hope you get what you want for your birthday is my real wish.
Berg heil, back atcha!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2014 - 02:36pm PT
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Not meaning to disparage the "Mosaic metaphor".
But it's "Old School."
neebee's is "New Cool."Grout or thread, respect and love hold us together.
In "Locker's Case", equally famous as the aforementioned, the metaphor is of glue and rubber souls.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Like a rubber ball, Locker keeps coming back.
What's a good Camp 4 metaphor?
Hmmm...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2014 - 02:48pm PT
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Rod was "about thirty" when Rubber Soul debuted.
I was a Junior. (Delinquent Status did not quite yet apply.)
It's trundling time!
Everybody rock 'n' roll.
This is a "Ladies' Choice Trundle," fifteen minutes.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Next up is a full hour of "All Trundle Together Now."
[Click to View YouTube Video]
There's something about a good trundle that speaks to all of us.It's way more fun than tossing chickens off El Capitan.
I have set myself up for a bald guy joke. Can you tell?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 12, 2014 - 04:08pm PT
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From Towers launch in Sylmar, CA to Mt. Lukens in La Crescenta, back past launch to West Towers, then back over the Pacoima Wash and beyond. 3 hours, 11 minutes. Challenging and rowdy conditions. Lots of live narration of the action and suspense as it unfolds. Video includes the first third of the flight. The rest is shown briefly in 3D animation in part 4.
http://videosift.com/video/Hang-gliding-for-30-miles-in-California
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 12, 2014 - 05:36pm PT
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Missing sleep. Can't do it much at all lately.
Plug in the numbers.
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BB King/ I Believe To My Soul/ Live in Africa 1974
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B.B. King/ Ghetto Woman
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B.B. King/ Rock me all night long/ Montreux 1993
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E.C. Scott/ Lyin’ and Cheatin’
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Big Mama Thornton/ Sometimes I Have a Heartache
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Big Mama T. and Buddy Guy/ Sweet Little Angel
"He ain't nothin' but a hound dog, I swun."
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Joanne Shaw Taylor/ Blackest Day
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JST/ White Sugar
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Koko Tayor/ I’m a Woman
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Irma Thomas/ I’ll Take Care of You (You don’t ever have to worry)
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Irma Thomas/ Be You (featuring the Night Tripper)
I got the Insomnia Blues.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Aug 12, 2014 - 07:09pm PT
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So this showed up a few minutes ago.
BTW, Who is Lizzie? Clearly not Thin Lizzie. Cute Lizzie more likely.
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