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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 12:57am PT
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12/31/19
Dakota Snider
15 hrs ·
Yosemite friends and those who care:
I am scheduling a clean up for Wednesday, January 2nd. Meet at the Village Store parking lot by 8am.
Three areas we need help cleaning up:
-Bridalveil Parking
-Swinging Bridge / 4 Mile
-Happy Isles / Mirror Lake
I will have plenty of cleaning supplies, vests, grabbers and bags courtesy of YCA. I have a truck and I’m willing to haul trash.
This is not official, or associated with any organization, it’s just something that has to be done. Not a formal event.
Just to reiterate, this is not connected to any organizations, if you pick up trash you are doing so at your own risk & liability.
But, if you care about our home, and have a free morning, PLEASE come help. Spread the word.
PS from MFM: Bring your own sterile gloves if you have them. And your own water.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Rolling Credits
I hadn’t been sleeping well that night. At two am I heard a noise and thought that someone was in the house. The intruder had maybe bumped a lamp in the other room. Footsteps and a creaking floor alerted me to stand my ground.
Turning on the light I said, “This is my dream and your not allowed to burglarize or assault me in my home.” The man took off his mask and gestured with his gun, “How ‘bout I shoot you in the big fat mouth, huh wise guy?”
“You don’t shoot the dreamer,” I told him, “You kill the dreamer the dream dies too. Then where would you be? You see, I’m the star of this dream and the fans happen to love me. Well, at lease I do.” Then I heard the gun fire.
I live here now at the hospital where the ambulance took me. I feel better now and understand why I can never leave. I see now that I’m not the star in my own dream. Perhaps it is the doctor or...
-bushman
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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 08:07am PT
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Talked with him this week. He is in good fettle and looking at lots more work with dead trees. He had a tree fall on his telephone line and neighbors helped out there and he met two of the newer ones. Likes his rum ration in the evening, he does.
Cheers to you and Mo.
And Dingus.
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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 11:52am PT
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New Years Day Free Solo competition -- street.
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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 11:57am PT
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The judges' reactions...
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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 12:04pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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1 - 1 - 2019 ! !
Past the double nickel Not by an eon,
but still?!
now looking straight down the barrel of six-aught,
Dang tootin,
geezer-fodder ah`fursure
6/11/76, Saint Stephen/Dancing In The Streets/The Music Never Stopped...
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The 12:20 minute, St Stephen, 6/9/76
it has the creepy art.
 (A Slightly strange occurrence to get 2 played in the 4 night(?) stand?)
[https://youtu.be/aHFU38cN0rA]
Contrary to a dearth of conscription a happy now is all I got to lay down.
why is nineteen seventy-nine,
so stuck in my personal Timeline?
was that 40 years ago?
My math skills are poor
Not so, the one that had the MIT interview,
The cause for sending Dr Herr, Doc Hughy, as we called him way back' before...
when he was not so....
is sitting on...
get this one. . .
"Tenterhooks"
When someone is in a state of uneasiness or suspense, you might say that person is on tenterhooks. ... A tenterhook is defined as "a sharp hooked nail used especially for fastening cloth on a tenter." ...
The word shares its origin with that of our word tent—the Latin tenta, the feminine ...
Tenterhook:
From Wiki.
Tenterhooks on what may be the world's last remaining 18th-century Tenter Frames at Otterburn Mill, Northumberland.
For the album by musician Chris Mars, see Tenterhooks (album).
Tenterhooks are hooks in a device called a tenter. Tenters were originally large wooden frames which were used as far back as the 14th century in the process of making woolen cloth. After a piece of cloth was woven, it still contained oil and dirt from the fleece.
A craftsman called a fuller (also called a tucker or walker) cleaned the woolen cloth in a fulling mill and then had to dry it carefully or the woolen fabric would shrink.
To prevent this shrinkage, the fuller would place the wet cloth on a tenter, and leave it to dry outdoors.
The lengths of wet cloth were stretched on the tenter (from Latin tendere, meaning 'to stretch') using tenterhooks (hooked nails driven through the wood) all around the perimeter of the frame to which the cloth's edges (selvedges) were fixed, so that as it dried the cloth would retain its shape and size.[1]
In some manufacturing areas, entire tenter-fields, larger open spaces full of tenters, were once common.
By the mid-18th century, the phrase "on tenterhooks"
came to mean being in a state of tension, uneasiness, anxiety, or suspense,
i.e. figuratively stretched like the cloth on the tenter.[2]
John Ford's 1633 play Broken Heart contains the lines: "There is no faith in woman. Passion, O, be contained! My very heart-strings Are on the tenters."[3]
In 1690 the periodical The General History of Europe used the term in the modern sense: "The mischief is, they will not meet again these two years, so that all business must hang upon the tenterhooks till then."[4]
In 1826, English periodical Monthly magazine or British register of literature, sciences, and the belles-lettres contained the line "I hope (though the wish is a cruel one) that my fair readers, if any such readers have deigned to follow me thus far, are on tenterhooks to know to whom the prize was adjudged."[5][6] In a letter to his wife the same year, American educator Francis Wayland (waiting for his promised appointment as President of Brown University) wrote "I was never so much on tenter hooks before."[7]
The word tenter is still used today to refer to production line machinery employed to stretch polyester films and similar fabrics. The spelling stenter is also found.
Grateful Dead - The Cape Cod Shows! !
zB. don't want to step on your toes
Here's that Cape Cod Show (Hot For Sure)
A small hockey rink type place
but no "They Love Each Other"
this was a (The whole family) attended show
Cape Cod Coliseum - South Yarmouth, MA
10/27/79
https://archive.org/details/gd1979-10-27.sbd.miller.98950.sbeok.flac16/gd79-10-27d2t03.flac
Stagger Lee
https://youtu.be/BmHaBL0TrAs
same show
**!
Franklin's Tower
https://youtu.be/hVqARFrQngg
luv to ya sir! Done rung the bell to well!
been hoping not to overwhelm
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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 - Jan 1, 2019 - 06:28pm PT
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Speaking of films, Laurie took me to see Welcome to Marwen at the theater this afternoon.
Frankly, I wondered whether she might want to check out Vice, but she passed on that and I really didn't feel in the mood for Cheney's BS story being Hollywoodized.
Marwen, meh, I'm not that big a fan of animation, period. And it's animated over half its length or more. I'm with this reviewer in many respects, but you be your own judge. It had its good moments, but most were "live."
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/dec/30/welcome-to-marwen-review-robert-zemeckis-steve-carell
Just an oddball whim: Steve Carell trades spots with Clint Eastwood in The Mule.
Bienvenidos a Marwen.
Clint subs for Steve in Welcome to Marwen.
Bienvenidos a Malpaso.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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He wore his gun outside his pants
For all the honest world to feel
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