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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 3, 2013 - 11:20am PT
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hey there say, guys... and:
WELCOME to feralfae! you got your own thread here now-- sometimes your wonderful sharing is not seen by everyone, since not everyone knew doug here--and your posts and shares are so VALUABLE!
"CARRY ON" i liked how you said that, :)
you SURE had a HARD climb since that 2008 accident, you, doug, the cancer, and the recent SPINE injury manesfesting, whewwwwwww
tencity that doug would be proud of--you are so welcomed here,
and as you carry on, we will be here to cheer you onward, :
man oh man... THIS was some last few years, :O
This is feralfae's share from the
doug buchanan on the other side, thread:
Jan 3, 2013 - 07:04am PT
Thank you everyone for the get well wishes and the great notes and cards! Neebee, I know you were the brains behind this, so special thanks to you for everything. Yes, it was emergency spine surgery of a highly amusing nature.
Since many of you asked, here's the short version of the story...
Careening along the frozen expanse of the Johansen Expressway in Fairbanks, returning to HQ from last-minute shopping prior to Christmas, the rental car I was driving was struck in the driver's door by a pickup. I was the driver on the inside of the collapsed metal. After the side airbag exploded and knocked me out, and I came to, I realized that I could not move anything except my head. December 2008.
Soon, lights and noise surrounded me, as paramedics and fire people figured out how to pry off the driver's door, slip a board under my body, and slowly inch my frame on to the board, while stabilizing my head. Of course it was -23F, so we did not need to worry about conserving the A/C in any of the vehicles. Our Godson Jason, up from Montana, was in the vehicle with me, but I heroically managed to absorb most of the shock of the impact, so he was unscathed in the collision. But terribly shaken, as he held on to me while I was out and after when I went into convulsions from the airbag blow.
Doug met us at Fairbanks Memorial, where x-rays revealed that I had not broken my neck, but that I had a bit of damage to the lower spine. I was instructed to have it checked out when I got back to Montana. The rental vehicle was entirely wrecked, and was given a decent retirement to the scrap yard. I was given a brace to reduce the pain in my cracked ribs. We scrambled into the trusty Jeep and headed home to HQ.
We had a grand and glorious big bottle party, followed by more glorious parties around the neighborhood. My rib wrap was working to hold things together. I showed the Ice Tower show for everyone.
Later in December, after a delicious dinner with our friends the Foots (Feets) Doug and I went home to HQ, climbed into our bed, and snuggled up for a nice rest. A few hours later, Doug woke up in severe pain, and a few hours after that, he was at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, where he had emergency surgery and the diagnosis of cancer.
I put Jason on a plane home a few days later, and settled in to care for Doug, completely setting aside the "go see your spine doc when you get home" message, because here we had lots worse and immediate stuff to consider.
Fast forward through three years of chemo, doctors, surgeries, special diets, more surgeries, more chemo, lots of hope and desperation there at the last, and Doug writing out detailed instructions, leaving lots of notes, and then managing to escape his body that was no longer functioning. I held him in my arms as he left.
By that time, I was wearing a back brace full time, taking lots of pain medications, and still able to carry on. I made it through the Fairbanks Celebration in May, and was able to hang on for a couple of significant meetings arranged earlier by Doug. I headed home to Montana, driving down the AlCan, where the flooding and washed out roads impeded progress.
In WhItehorse, by now barely able to walk from the pain, I was rescued by a sister climber, who got me back to Fairbanks and on to a flight for Montana.
Arriving home, I remarked to a friend that I could finally collapse and rest. I was eating pain pills with remarkable appetite. Two weeks later, after an emergency room diagnosis of coda equina, I am rushed to emergency spine surgery, from which I am recovering with remarkable success. I plan to be back in the mountains before too long. I had a super spine surgeon, who is a runner and sometimes climber, and the best physical therapy team in the business—all people who live here so they can play in the mountains.
That's it. That's it. The whole story. I'll be in Fairbanks in the spring or early summer, as soon as these PT guys release me to go play and carry stuff. I have a design for helium balloons for carrying my pack into Rainbow. So, I'll be sure to post here before I head up to Fairbanks. For those of you in Wyoming, I will be down in the Winds later as well, hanging on the North Fork with occasional trips in to Lander. If you are in the area, let me know. You can reach me at ilo(AT)iloilojones(dot)com, just put Wyoming or Winds in the subject line.
So, okay, that's the story and update. Other news and links are available through MeansOfInquiry(dot)org, where I will post occasionally, or on the related sites you can find through that one.
Thank you all very much for your kindness, concern, and great notes. I am still sorting stuff here, and have a lot of Doug's stories that he never got uploaded, which I hope to get entered into the sites in the next few years as things settle into a new path and a new life. Thank you all very much for your love, caring, and wonderful fellowship.
Carry on.
feralfae, aka iloilo
thank you feralfae for getting in touch with all these
wonderful folks that sent you the messages...
god bless!!!
and YES!!! LET US KNOW about all your alaska treks, as well!!!!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2013 - 11:34am PT
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hey there say, all...
we NEED the link to the doug buchanan on the other side:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=1745193&tn=60#msg2033195
say, feralfae... wow, i just read this again and i cried those 'tears of relief' and a few sad ones and some 'happy tears', :)
may god's grace help you on your new trail, this year...
may the ground be stable and solid and may you fulfill doug's wishes,
and have good special play time in the mountains with all your
beloved friends!
happy new though different, but soon to be speical, NEW YEAR!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Welcome feralfae!!
Doug was a unique character here, and still missed.
Please pitch in with some good ol' Alaska news from time to time!
(I'm a Venetie, Kotzebue, Nome, Bethel, Anchorage, Eagle River boy myself.)
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Ron Anderson
Trad climber
Soon to be Nipple suckling Liberal
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Howdy and welcome to the stew that is,, the TACO! ;^)
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Hi felafel,
never did get to meet Doug.
Welcome to the scrum.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Hey, thank you all!
My own thread! Wow! Now, in the interest of maintaining a level of authentic entertainment, I shall begin to share some of my, ahem, adventures, preferably not of a medical nature.
Thank you all. I will endeavor to carry the banner and to provide a small portion of the writing my most Worthy Husband and Partner could do.
Thank you!
Carry on!
***<twinkles>***
feralfae
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dare I say that we welcome you robustly?
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Aloha Farelfae,
Glad to have you here at our virtual campfire.
Will
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Wee hours bump for feralfae, and a PM I just got.
It's a funny world sometimes.....
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Welcome feralfae!
What is a feralfae? Sounds scary!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It's a free for all here, sister.
But it's also a pull-togther thing, kinda like sled dogs.
Shout out for Alaskans!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 4, 2013 - 10:01am PT
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hey there say,feralfae!
three cheers, the campfire here
will be all the richer... adventures make it brighter, for sure!
as to this quote--wonderful!!:
I will endeavor to carry the banner and to provide a small portion of the writing my most Worthy Husband and Partner could do.
:)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Hey,
A Feral Fae Is a wild fairy, previously sort of tamed, but then, having considered her options, she decided to go back to being wild, thus feral, which means she left a university position and scooted out to Montana to play in the mountains pretty much full time. And became much more of a self-responsible anarchist, and learned more about living free.
Not scary, but certainly not scared, either. :)
Thank you all for the welcome. I will consider this the place where I can post about wild adventures, especially those where we are not sure if we survived or not, although I try to avoid those most of the time. And I may occasionally rag the government, which certainly needs as much ragging as we are able to provide through our laughter at the stupidity of war and burdensome taxation, not to mention all the entertaining encroachments on free climbers.
As I may be traveling a bit (I am also an archaeologist/anthropologist) I hope to have some good excuses to climb in various places as I explore Rock Art and remote habitation sites. I'll keep my usual notes.
Carry on!
Climb On!
feralfae
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MisterE
Social climber
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Welcome to the mix, feralfae, that was quite a story! Seems like you have gone through some crazy stuff, and come out the other side!
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Welcome Feralfae!
I am looking forward to hearing of your adventures - your style of writing is very honest and warm.
I have an interest in archeology, would love to see some pictures of sites that you have visited if you care to share.
Be well!
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t*r
Mountain climber
where the wild things are
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A Feral Fae Is a wild fairy, previously sort of tamed, but then, having considered her options, she decided to go back to being wild, thus feral, which means she left a university position and scooted out to Montana to play in the mountains pretty much full time.
i can understand perfectly what pulls feral fae back to the wild! its lure is strong for those of us with glitter in our veins ;)
thank you for sharing your story, dear fae, and welcome.
(dreamweaver fairy c. brian froud)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Thank you for all the kind and loving comments.
Most of my past archaeological files are archived at Northwestern University, University of Illinois, Illinois museums, or University of Tennessee. Some of my files are at the Center for American archaeology at Kampsville, Illinois. I was with the Center for American Archaeology at Northwestern, but also worked in a few foreign spots. I archived my records when Doug and I were packing and sorting to move to Southeast Alaska.
So now, I am figuring out where I will wander next. Maybe east of Greece, not sure. Maybe more in Egypt. Maybe more in the Highlands and Orkney Islands. Maybe Mongolia. I am pondering these options as I heal and grow stronger, and begin to figure out life without Doug. :) There is also Chile, with its marvelous iconography, which is worth studying. And if I want to stay close to Montana, there is archaeology here and in Wyoming, as well as in the Dakotas.
I have friends in the field all over the world, but for now, I am unpacking my studio, planning to get back to art-making in the next year or so, and not sure what life is going to hand me in the way of more miracles and adventures, so taking it slow right now until I finish healing on lots of levels.
So, sorry I don't have a lot of files and images, but we were sorting stuff and paring down the number of ConEx containers we would need to move from here to there. Whew!
Life is glorious, interesting, an adventure, and hands us marvelous opportunities and challenges. I am working on staying open to all the options the Universe presents, while dreaming my own big dreams and the dreams Doug left me as well.
Thank you all, I and I shall post some images and commentary here as I get things more sorted out, including myself. :)
Carry on,
feralfae
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Thank you all for the welcome. I will consider this the place where I can post about wild adventures, especially those where we are not sure if we survived or not, although I try to avoid those most of the time.
Uh, yeah! This is the place.
Archaeology? Anthropology? You need to go to New Mexico.
Gives me an excuse to bump your thread. Here's a link to one of the most undisturbed/unvisited sites I've been to. My trip report with my son:
http://www.supertopo.com/tr/My-Hiking-Buddy-Ancient-Oceans-and-The-House-Of-The-Spirits/t10913n.html
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Hellohello, Iloilo!Welcome to the world's cheesiest Taco!
Boy, neebee, you got some neat-o pals!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Feb 17, 2013 - 03:25pm PT
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Okay, it has been more than a year now since Doug escaped from the insatiable demands of government bureaucrats and from his non-functioning body. As far as I know, he is doing fine. I still find the occasional note. He hid them all around before he left. Best yet, I find things he hid around our forest for me, which is totally cool.
The great report of the day is that between snow sprinkles, I made it across our ersatz balance beam today, legs trembling, but strong enough to balance me across a slow, twenty-feet walk on the log across the gully, which happened to be free of ice and snow today. This is huge. I could not walk at all 7 months ago. I could not feel my legs, even. My goal, of course, is to run across the balance log, then start climbing the trees across the gully as my legs get stronger again. Whoo hoo! I have not yet begun to use Doug's chinning bar.
Now then, about these insane government weapons laws:
Depriving any sane and peaceful woman of the right to self-defense is totally repugnant to the human rights of everyone. I mean, isn't it enough to tax us of half our grain and cattle and sheep? Does the king not have enough to eat? Is his house without heat? Still, would that excuse armed robbery?
Has he no clothes? Oh, wait, that was the other guy, that emperor who took half my grain and cattle and sheep, too, several years back, and was too stupid to put on clothing because someone bamboozled him. (All right, he just had an impossibly horrid wardrobe, but I consider that a distinction without a difference.)
So, now we have this guy who thinks we will all turn in our spears and swords? I'm not even willing to part with my atlatl. Or my blowpipe from Brazil. So, on the disarmament thing, no, thank you, I think not. Thank you all the same.
If this king. emperor, whatever he calls himself, if he needs more money, he needs to learn to ask nicely, instead of all this armed robbery and trying to take away my weapons. How many jets can he fly at once, for goodness sakes? How many limos does he need? How many chefs?
And how come they want to take my sword and bow, but they have bombs? I think that is backwards, because I never threaten or attack or kidnap or imprison or enslave them. But they do that to other humans. Peaceful ones. I actually bake cookies for people. Who in government is that kind?
Sheesh, I am keeping all my blades and bows, and especially the atlatl. (If you need to send a line across a chasm, by the way, a good old bamboo wand and atlatl made from another wand will work very well. I am sure several of you have constructed an atlatl and thrown a line on the spot many times.)
By the way, if you think the park rangers would not rescue you without a bribe (and I am kindly discounting their highly amusing incompetence) do you think paying for the prospect of their rescue "skills" will cause them to be any more proficient? Or is your not paying the initial bribe just an excuse for them to collect more bribes from you if you want to stay out of jail after not paying the initial bribe? I am trying to figure this out.
Time to go get stronger. I have mountains to visit soon.
Hey, neebee!!!
*<twinkles>*
feralfae
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Nohea
Trad climber
Living Outside the Statist Quo
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Feb 17, 2013 - 04:05pm PT
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Viva la Liberte!
Great to hear and Aloha. This week in my AP government the topic is the bureaucracy. Wholly...can you say leviathan? While it was locke's attempt to limit the State, he failed and Hobbes showed the power lovers their dream of a social contract.
Wonderful log crossing!
Will
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 17, 2013 - 04:21pm PT
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Break on through to the other side.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2013 - 05:33pm PT
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hey there say, feralfae!... happy to see you here tonight!
as to this qoute:
Best yet, I find things he hid around our forest for me, which is totally cool.
wow--this is really something...
in my jake books, i had a loved hide little fun things along the trail for their loved ones, as well, and thus, after the one passed on--there was 'little bits of love' left behind...
how wonderful, dougs love for you....
keep on getting well, so welly! the body back doing what our body was meant to do:
walk, run, skip and jump... like the 'kids we are' at heart...
:)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Feb 17, 2013 - 05:52pm PT
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Hey, neebee,
Doug might have read your books if he knew about them, you know. He had an excellent level of curiosity. It was one of our tests for each other, by the way. Curiosity. Asking and answering questions.
The best loved treasure found so far is the blue shell, one of mine made from porcelain in my studio, dozens of which we hid in trees from here to Fairbanks. It is stuck in the bark of a tree on the other side of the balance log. I have earned the right to smile at it.
My training course also has trees to climb, no joke, and rock hopping, and some nice little puffer inclines up which I carry the firewood. And Doug lift tokens of love all over the forest. I had no idea until after he escaped. It is more cool than I can talk about fully right now.
I am very well loved. No doubt about it at all. I think I live inside a shell of love energy.
Your prayers helped a lot. Your notes and love helped a lot. Every gesture, card, gift, the portrait, all the loving things you did, I know they helped to tip the balance. I have a couple of your cards out and I read them very often while I am doing exercises. :) Great incentive, your vessel analogy. I thank you ten thousand times. You are really a great Angel. Thank you.
I am truly thankful to know you.
I am thankful to all the *Angels* here who sent so much love and support this past year. Thank you more than I can say, more than those grains of sand. I'll just send you all a toss of fairy dust, hhmmmmm?
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 17, 2013 - 06:19pm PT
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hey there say, ferelfae...
my arms and heart are open:
catching the love from all the 'fairy dust' you got there...
got a few more things to send you, in march...
:)
i will always picture you in your healing-woods, with doug's
trail, :)
my mom loves these kinds of stories, too, she loves the woods...
i will share this with her...
getting off line to get some chores done--hope to see you here and there, on line, thank you for sharing this post, here tonight...
meant a lot, in lots of ways...
that's why we are here...
to share life and love! :)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Feb 17, 2013 - 07:53pm PT
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Thank you nohea and Mouse,
Nohea, If you have not read Nozick's Anarchy State,and Utopia, you will enjoy it.
Mouse, that is a great image. I like the idea that if they keep climbing, eventually, their heads will touch.
Then they can figure out a better plan. :)
Take care, you two. See you around.
* < Twinkles > *
feralfae
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 22, 2013 - 03:55pm PT
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Greetings SuperTopo Tribe,
I send everyone good wishes from Montana, where I am watching a snow storm begin to scuttle across the Divide, riding on the stampeding wind. It is slate blue over there to the West, where the clouds are spilling down on Helena. I am still in sunshine out here.
Very Good News!
I have permission to run, to play on any and all of our equipment we had here for Playing in Shape. Some is in the forest, some is in the media room/library. They are resurfacing my track this next couple of weeks as well. Life is good.
I am mixing the paints for the new design for the rainfly. I am drawing my new banner. Our old one is folded away. I have my own banner this year.
It is Spring. Time to prepare gear for adventures, because even if I am not climbing, I WILL be in the mountains, on the waters, or in the sky. I hope to visit new places in Alaska, and then maybe return to the known paths of the Winds. There is time for both.
Two girlfriends and I have been talking about picking up a circumnavigation that was begun years ago, before our darling, magnificent, and wonderful Husbands intervened. Husbands can be an entirely excellent adventure. Definitely no complaints here. But we did not get across the Pacific to some places we wanted to go. She is in Trinidad right now, not under sail. So, we are sort of half-heartedly pondering this possibility, but I don't think any of us are very serious about it this year. Two are playing other places with their Husbands. It may be that the two married couples will put her under sail this year, or next, but it is nice to dream about Tahiti. :)
One brother suggested that we would need to be careful of pirates, three or four women alone, oh my! Maybe we should take a chap along. Maybe him. Can't you tell he is a politician? Created a scare, and then offer a solution which requires his presence, or input, or stolen money. It is so incredibly laughable. We laughed and laughed, and suggested that he go peddle his fear to someone he could scare. We know we are a superb set of humans, with excellent skills. Any one of us can outdraw and outshoot him, for goodness' sake, if we need protection.! We are all far superior cooks, and equal or better sailors. And better conversationalists, too. He has never done honest work, except maybe before he was thirty or so, and began his "career." I am laughing robustly.
Politicians: they sell you a scare, and then offer their solution. Stop feeling grateful. Laugh at them. Lean on the Tribes you have, where you can Trust people. Doug told me some stories about some politicians he knew, and we laughed and laughed at their predictable antics. They keep telling us that humans will mess up big time if left alone without politicians. They encourage us to fear each other. They try to scare us, and to set us against one another. Fling the fear back at them. Laugh at them.
Most humans on Earth manage to have voluntary, free market systems that keep us fed, clothed, shod, connected, and making a living, and there are cultures with fewer politicians that are doing it even better.
So, let us try to meet somewhere in the mountains where the Armed Ones will be not so inclined to attempt armed robbery. I am open to good suggestions, for I far prefer honest pirates to politicians and their ilk, who hide behind some sets of bureaucratic papers which I, for one, never agreed to obey.
I think I will bring our ice tower banner, too, come to think of it. :) :) I am once again laughing most robustly. (It's in the pack. We had it up in the Ice Shack, some of you will remember.)
This will be a fun year.
Are you still here?
Quit wasting your time reading this stuff, and go do something free and extraordinary, for you are made of Star and Earth stuff, and this Earth is our playground (perhaps this Solar system, huh?), as well as our responsibility, come to that. Humankind creates better when feeling happiness. Go play.
I am going. The wind is battering my sense of space, the Sun and clouds are shadow dancing, and I am going out to walk my balance logs and skip around a bit.
Go play. This is Your Life, after all, so make it an Extraordinary, Magnificent One. I certainly intend to continue doing so.
* < Be your masterpiece. > *
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Mar 22, 2013 - 04:17pm PT
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Wow, what a post!!
Welcome back!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 22, 2013 - 05:20pm PT
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Thank you for the welcome.
Making an entrance, you know. :)
Please read it again; I changed the ending. I am laughing so much!
I am laughing most robustly, actually.
(Hello everyone. I'm still planning on Rainbow. I think I have at least one person in. Shall we let guys tag along? Or will this be just for the Sisters? I am not sure we are allowed to do that in this New Dispensation, actually. I mean, it would not be good manners. Bad form and all.)
Carry on.
:)
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 06:26pm PT
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hey there say, feralfea!
happy to see you this eve!! the snowstorm sounds exciting, as to the colors, oh my...
got some friends around the area of libby montana, they've shared a few snow stories, and CALVING stories... seems they got baby calves, dropping out, all over, :) and glad for it...
say, as to this:
Very Good News!
I have permission to run, to play on any and all of our equipment we had here for Playing in Shape. Some is in the forest, some is in the media room/library. They are resurfacing my track this next couple of weeks as well. Life is good.
I am mixing the paints for the new design for the rainfly. I am drawing my new banner. Our old one is folded away. I have my own banner this year.
It is Spring. Time to prepare gear for adventures, because even if I am not climbing, I WILL be in the mountains, on the waters, or in the sky. I hope to visit new places in Alaska, and then maybe return to the known paths of the Winds. There is time for both.
will have to go skip and jump in my dance room, now, to join in on the fun
of you being 'permitted again' for play!
happy new year, as it IS still a new year!
so glad to see that 'laughing robustly' will not die out... ;)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:12pm PT
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Hey neebee,
Good to see you. :) I am most happy to have my permit to play re-certified. Woo Hoo!
Our Godson Jason called a while ago: he is at a nearby ranch (we could see the cattle across the Lake) helping with calving while on Spring break from Montana Tech. There is more snow over in Butte, I hear. Jason and Doug used to solve puzzles together. Anyway, Jason said they had 53 calves today, one of them red and one tiny one that is being babied by all the ranch hands. Jason said it is about the size of a lamb, but very feisty.
So, I am back to doing some nice training moves, even if at only the Pebble 101 level. Not up to Boulders yet. But working on it. :)
Yes,it is a good day to dance, for sure. :) But then, every day is a good day to dance, is it not?
Thank you for the welcome.
Carry on.
* < twinkles > *
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 22, 2013 - 08:14pm PT
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Hey Skully,
Thank you.
I only rule myself.
You rule yourself.
We all rule.
So, yes, logically, feralfae rules. :)
Carry on.
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 22, 2013 - 09:05pm PT
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hey there say, feralfae, yes, everyday sure is good to dance... keeps the inner self happy, too!
say, my twins buddies, they got mostly black calves, so far, from their
'mammas'...
they don't have a large place, but good sized for them, :)
well, i got to leave all the fun, for now, and go have fun in the kitchen, as:
the ol' RABBIT is loose and playing and jumping, too...
seems it EVEN dances, at times, :)
once again, soooo happy for you!!!!!
night now, to the ol' taco, 'til later perhaps, :)
or morning light, :))
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Mar 22, 2013 - 09:11pm PT
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I only rule myself.
You rule yourself.
We all rule.
pretty much says it.
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couchmaster
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pdx
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Mar 22, 2013 - 09:12pm PT
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"Women on the water with the wind"...quite a trip that would be Ferfal! Best to you and yours.
Smiling robustly here.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 27, 2013 - 09:37pm PT
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Rumor has it that there may be a shindig in Fairbanks on about 19 May, for all you Alaskan Alpine Club members out there. What? You have not yet declared to the Universe your allegiance to adventure and autonomy?
Go, read the website. You can Google it. It's been hacked, so links to me are gone, but we mirrored the sites before the hacking, fortunately. Maybe they will get put back up as they were sometime soon.
Just go read the Alaskan Alpine Club web site, if you have not done so. If you agree that anarchy is better than bureaucracy, you will find much to ponder there.
And I'm writing again, too .. .
Go. Be.
Have entirely too much fun and
Carry on. I am laughing most robustly right now. Life is excellent, and better every day. Cool adventures are afoot.
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 27, 2013 - 09:43pm PT
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hey there say, feralfae...
it's been hacked?
say, i got a surprise... am sending it first week of april... it
is for to SIT in the alaskan alpine club...
you will see why :))
i love reading doug's adventure at that alaskan alpine club, :)
hope all will be well with it... :O
EDIT: AFTER reading some of those adventure, i WONDER if his folks used to worry about him, as a kid-- :))
the adventures remind me of a little kid testing the waters of anything and everything under the sun, that NOT ONLY comes a kid's way, but also to all that one finds to DO as well, when the parents are too busy to grab hold of one!
he SURE found a LOT to do! :O
nice that he shared it all with folks for the future...
hugssss, and keep on using that got-well body to get well into fun, :)
even as you are! :)
after all--spring is about to finally be sprung, :)
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LL LL
Sport climber
moving thru
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Mar 27, 2013 - 10:06pm PT
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And I am doing what you say feralfae....I am following dreams. lynnie
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Mar 28, 2013 - 08:47pm PT
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Hi Lynnie,
Go for it!
Follow your heart and follow your dreams.
Our hearts have beautiful dreams when we have the courage to follow them, and we travel then on some truly magnificent adventures.
Go with honor and impeccable integrity on your Path. Love and live so that you are Well-Loved, In Your Own Days.
Carry on, and * < twinkles > * of fairy dust for your journey.
feralfae
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Hey Wyoming people!
And where is the Wyoming Alpine Club? I may drive down over Teton Pass, and have friends to visit in Jackson, when I come down later this year to Lander.
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2013 - 06:54am PT
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hey there say, feralfae... my message just got ate up by invisible internet critter...
say, if you WANT to post a NEW MESSAGE as to:
going to wyoming alpine club
going to wyoming alpine club
or jackson, lander, etc, etc...
and see who jumps in... you would ge more info for that,
faster, then...
wow, hope it works out!
sounds like fun...
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Thanks neebee, of course that is what to do.
I will do it closer to when I am thinking of heading down there, which is not soon.
I hope all is well with you and that you are having a great day today.
Best to you,
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 4, 2013 - 06:28pm PT
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hey there say, if you are still online... surprise, is in the mail now, feralfae... they said it might even get there for monday, so keep a look-see... a special ol' taco buddy here, chipped in to mail it, :)
will send a card, so you will know who, :)
:)
hope it is something that doug would love... i think it is... ;)
the alaskan alpine club wouldn't feel right without doug
'peeking over their shoulders' so to speak, ;)
:)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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I will be watching for it, neebee, and thank you again.
Now I am excited to see what arrives!
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Dear friend neebee,
I am crying. Thank you so much.
You have captured Doug so very well.
He was trying to get "Yooo Iloilo" typed in, and finally did. I was in Montana at the time, and we were messing with the webcam out at the Ice Towers. Finally, we got the "Yooo" one done as well. I was down here in Montana, taking photos of web cam pix while Doug was out on the ice or in the Ice Shack up in AK. We were talking on the phone and emailing back and forth during this time when I had to scoot down to Montana to do work for a client, so we stayed in touch all the time by web cam, email, and phone. Oh, we had such a wonderful life. :)
neebee, I did not see any card in the package, and I love your beautiful cards. but thank you to everyone who helped make this project happen.
The hat was made by Kate Bull who lives now of Australia and a very dear friend. Doug made the colorful jacket. The pink dye in the ice tower is my own work, before I scooted south. . We had remarkable fun. The photo was taken at the Ice Shack, which is owned by our good friend John Reeves, of Fox, Alaska, who let us come out there and play with his water on his land to make the Ice Towers. John orchestrated the projects. I wish I could remember and list all the people who played with us.
I will take the protrait to HQ when I go up, and I hope it will hang in the Great Room there. I will be taking the other portrait as well. On this new portrait, you did a wonderful and loving job of capturing Doug's eyes, his smile, and his spirit of life. Thank you so very much.
The Tefft wine is from his friend Joel Tefft's winery which we visited and later, Joel also visited us. I have a couple bottles of Tefft with the Great Blue Heron on the label in our wine cellar here in Montana. Great wine! The Chukar Cherries we picked up on our Washington State wine tour at the Chukar Cherries store. So delicious. Wow, lots of wonderful memories, and the tears are just tears of delight for our L*ve, and thankfulness for having really wonderful, loving people in my life and heart. I am incredibly blessed. Wow, cannot stop the tears. Whew.
The portrait brings back so many wonderful memories, thank you so very much. I will make sure it is properly hung in a nice place at HQ, and that is is safe to leave it there. I will write up some stories some day, over on havefunbefree.com, where there are already stories, a few.
neebee, you are a wonderful, caring, compassionate, and generous person. Most of the climbers I know are like you, thank goodness. Your loving heart and kindness show in everything you write and do. I am honored to call you friend.
Blessings and many, many "Thank You" gestures being tossed with fairy dust to you, dear one. I'll be in touch more privately, once the tears stop flowing.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
You are one special friend.
{{{hugs}}}
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Okay, here is the photo without the jabbering. This has been a really special day so far. Miraculous presents. My cardiologist offered to trade hearts and throw in some cash, because my broken heart is working very perfectly again. It was scaring everyone from about a week before Doug left until fairly recently. It is mended. I can fly without medication, drift above 8,500 feet of rocks, and keep going. WooHoo!
Okay, that is more jabbering, I know.
Hey, what are you doing reading this? Quit reading, close this screen, and go do something remarkable and beautiful.
You are here to make adventures of great entertainment and entirely too much fun.
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2013 - 02:54am PT
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hey there say, freralfae...
been busy working on sticks for a trellis, and keeping the rabbit company, and had been mailing a few things, DUE to my many-times-anonymous 'mailing helpers'...
(will send a card in morning, with the very kind mailing-hero that rose to the occasion) :)
well: confession:
i just had a super cry, earlier, though no where as deep as yours, of course, but it was due to your 'jabber' that got to read by me, many times...
i love knowing the history that goes with this ice shack...
may this painting long-ever grace the alaskan apline club...
a MEMORY MARKER of doug needs to keep
'look see' at all the 'new history' that will grow there...
well, i MUST heed this wonderful advice, just posted by you:
i shall go do some 'wonderful adventure' here now, tonight...
had just done my nightly 'check in' to see how everyone is and i saw you
here...
THREE CHEERS FOR THE HEART to be heartening hearty/hardy to carry you
forth from the hearth to the hills! ...
this is wonderful:
you are getting stronger each day... it is our weakness and pains, released to god, that make us newly strong--we are less burdened and our bodies not 'injured by it' then... :)
so very happy to hear this!
:)
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 10, 2013 - 06:14am PT
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That's an amazing painting, NeeBee. Wow. A beautiful and caring gesture, too. Damn, Words fall short, huh?
It made ME cry & I'm a crusty bastard. TFPU, both of you.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 10, 2013 - 06:28am PT
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hey there say, capt... or skully...
oh my, oh my, ohmy, again...
it made me cry, too, for quite a few reasons...
thanks for sharing, skully...
thank you very much...
ps:
i already sent feralfae a thank you very much,
for her sweet kind note, and the doug-history, there...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Apr 10, 2013 - 07:14am PT
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My compliments, feralfae.
That's a handsome guy. We understand your loss is ours as well, and we share your joy in life today, gal!!!
We're tigers all...
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Apr 11, 2013 - 01:38pm PT
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Hey, thank you everyone, Captain, Mouse, and neebee, as always, of course.
I am so touched by the love here. Thank you all so very much. It helps to heal my heart. Thank you.
Meanwhile, I am packing up the studio and some of my kitchen and dining room stuff already, carefully labeling and indexing all the cartons so I can locate stuff later when I land. Thinking of packing up the library, but not sure it is time to go quite that far, stuffing good friends in to cartons. Yikes!
The stencils and paints to paint the new designs on my old VE-24 arrived from England. I have fun projects to do between sorting things and packing. Where am I going? Not sure yet, but thought I might as well start sorting and packing. Right now, AK is #1, WY is #2, and Inverness Scotland is #3, although there are no actual mountains unless one crosses over to Europe. But I have family near Inverness. And in AK and WY.
I am feeling okay with being sort of footloose for a while, packing stuff slowly, sorting, sifting, simplifying.
And neebee, you are just the best. I will wait for your card to check in with other people who were involved, okay?
Clouds are spilling over the Divide. Snow later, and no one here to go out and lean into the wind and snow with me and laugh. But it is okay. Some days, I know Doug is smiling at me for having the courage to get ready for another adventure. I am most certainly sauntering in that direction.
Hey! Go play, stop reading this stuff and have some wonderful fun. Laugh and dance, play your flute, sing , and smile at a stranger. Go hug someone you love and tell them how beautiful their spirit shines for you. :)
I gotta go make dragonflies on my base tent. It is a day to celebrate this gift of life. :)
* < twinkles > *
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 12, 2013 - 07:35am PT
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hey there say, feralfae... just posted a whole note and it disappered, due to dial up, :(
will post later, as to you neat share, just now...
see you soon, as in later this eve... :)
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Apr 12, 2013 - 06:40pm PT
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Hey neebee,
Just thank you one more time for your loving artistry on behalf of Doug. You are very kind, and there are no adequate words other than
I Thank You Most Robustly!
I'll be back on later this evening. Still doing a few more things today around the old place.
I send you lots of fairy dust.
***...*......*** (it doesn't say anything, but I'll put one up later that does)
feralfae
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 13, 2013 - 12:17pm PT
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hey there say, feralfae! oh my! i am so very touched! i got a:
ROBUSTLY :)
awwww, thank you so much... :)
say, was going to say, last night:
as to the snow:
Clouds are spilling over the Divide. Snow later, and no one here to go out and lean into the wind and snow with me and laugh. But it is okay. Some days, I know Doug is smiling at me for having the courage to get ready for another adventure. I am most certainly sauntering in that direction
this is so much like the relationship of the couples in my jake books... it works so deep in the heart... i will someday send you a few of the books, when i can... you may enjoy parts, not sure if the novels are best, or the shorts stories based on the novels... (sometime there is not enough time to read novels) ... the short stories, too, give more highlight on the various situations that show 'the sparkles' ...
i been up all night sketching, so got to get my 8 hours now...
been too cold to work the yard, still, and had minor snow this morning, :O
not best for planting gardens, but great for feeling the reaction of the greatoutdoors, :))
will now read your newer post, :)
as always--happy to hear from you...
god bless!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
Montana
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Apr 25, 2013 - 12:43pm PT
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Whether Climbing or Morphing ...
“Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.”
~Anne-Sophie Swetchine
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