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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 16, 2016 - 08:22am PT
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Never too old the learn. From bad to worse or vice versa.
The latest:
fauxrook is not dead
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Come to think of it have you ever seen both of them in the room at the same time?
Support SynGEM - eradicate this/these scourges.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Aug 16, 2016 - 08:33am PT
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Apparently Shaunae Miller did take a dive.
It almost looks like she stumbled (too).
The old Bahamian half-step toodaloo.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 16, 2016 - 03:59pm PT
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Wow,Tad, that's some digs n shins, you have had going on, I'd hoped to hear "you were here, your trip turned south, with time for coffee,
but I'm glad to see that !
what a great share,
tasty ! Looking good.!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 16, 2016 - 04:09pm PT
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Commentator John McLaughlin has passed 89 years
1927-2016, funny thing is I've been watching him forever so I totally noticed when he was absent for the only time in 34 years of doing Sunday Broadcasts!
God Speed & RIP, sir,,you will be missed, we needed him to shine the light #onhilevhitlereerumpapocolypse
Then there is the thing that got me here , here
I'm not saying a word
https://www.mountainproject.com/v/schizophrenic-eeks-oulmate-geartrade--halfmyquadrack-for-aidice/112076404#a_112076836
Sadly, the thread got jerked it was
From a person faking schizophrenia making fast and weird with words going on and on
Full on gibberish
For ten posts all 50 words or more it was scary cray-cray , I should have captured and saved a bit of it.
I have a post inspired PM I sent. . . .
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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 - Aug 16, 2016 - 06:12pm PT
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^^^^I would like Mo McGuire, anyday, because we are FB and FL friends. The Pinko. "You will recognize her by her hat."
I would like Tad's Mo anyday, as well.
I would probably like Tadmo's sister Cheryl (NOT as HOT, mind you) and her new beau Joe, too, if I were to meet them.
So, Tad, you look fat n' sassy in the first pic, appear to have a good tan and healthy appetite.
I've seen better pix of Mo, but that's all on you, dude.
Happy anniversary to you both, Tad and Tadmo.It's the thought that counts, not the Teleflora bucks spent, right?
Thanks for the report from the Dynamic Duo.
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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 - Aug 16, 2016 - 10:24pm PT
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LIAR.MENTIROSO.
But he didn't lift beagles by their ears.
I began rock climbing as he entered office.
John Decker, the ELUSIVE John Decker, was serving in SE Asia at the time.
He has a non-military way of thinking, but lives his past daily.
The back brace is permanent due to disability from working years on the fishing and tourist boats of Monterey.
[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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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 16, 2016 - 10:31pm PT
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If there are hieroglyphicists, John is one, having made a long study of the ancient Egyptian symbols.I haven't counted the dreamcatchers, but he has at least ten.
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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 - Aug 16, 2016 - 10:37pm PT
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Beat the tambourine and strike up the doo-dah band.
My little niece Jessica, aka Wondermom and the Model, made it into the Sonora Democrat this morning.
She also is married to Santa.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Aug 16, 2016 - 11:28pm PT
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Mouse, that is a perfectly beautiful composition, thank you. I mean the moon-viewing shot through the arched window with its pleasing symmetry, shapes, and perspective. Lovely, lovely.
Bushman, thank you for all the good advice. I found a company here who has been in business for some time and was also recommended by a close friend. Thank you and after I get settled in, you are of course welcome here. I hope to have the tower up 'ere long, from whence hammocks and porta-ledges can be launched. But I don't think I am going to get even the aurora-viewing room done before winter, so this winter I'll be doing inside stuff, or continuing to do so. But aurora can be watched from the (ever so slightly, unheated) sunroom, even in winter.
And I will watch the trees through the winter, and I hope to learn what will be a respectful and pleasing compromise with the Tree Fairies around here. And with the squirrels, birds, voles, moose, and occasional caribou. And maybe another fox, although I have not seen one for some time. Ahem, tree fairies are often confused with dragonflies, by the way.
It is good to see everyone doing so wonderfully well here on the Taco. I thank you for all the interesting posts, especially the trip reports to one who is presently Earthbound. I did finally talk with neebee and she has some fish issues to resolve in the new pond, but things are going well otherwise. But closer to home, one of my climber girlfriends up here is in a huge knee brace, and now having PT. So now we are both doing PT. I just want to be able to run without pain again. And another climber girlfriend in Colorado just had both knees replaced. I tell ya’!
Yet, today at Fred’s, I ran into a climber couple I’ve known for 9 years. They have both retired, a living most of the year in their amazing VW Westfalian Wanderer (not sure on the name), with their fat tire bikes and their tent and back packs and XCs along. They are heading outside to Maine tomorrow to ride and hike their way south At the Back of the North Wind.
They expect a lot of good birding along the route. I know they plan a few days at Cape May. They will give a presentation here at Fair Hall when they get back from following the Atlantic Flyway during migration. Here in Fairbanks, most of the warblers have left and the robins are getting scarce. Leaves are turning on the birch, although the aspen are holding green. Some days, I can smell a bit of tundra frost in the air. I love that fragrance, of spruce and aspen, birch and mushrooms, blended together with promises of snow. Today, the talk at Fred’s was how we are grateful it is rain and not snow. The burgeoning blueberry crop is in. I will be having a fresh blueberry and banana shake for breakfast. My bog stompers are covered in mud.
. . . enough of my nattering. Have a beautiful tomorrow.
And from Fair Hall, this 16th day of Aughst, 2016, that is the full report.
And keep on having entirely too much fun.
feralfae
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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 - Aug 17, 2016 - 03:24am PT
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It's okay to gnatter.
Gnome gnatters lots.
Is a gnat prone to gnattering?
I've never heard one do it.
Nor have I seen one gnattering.
I've seen no-see-ums, though they're generally in swarms.
Well, really, what does it matter if one gnatters?
I tell ya.
I cannot tell YOU how very rewarding it is to this old boy to see that you are adding to your literary style with that phrase.
If you need, you might could refer to this dictionary of ranchers' lingo.
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/we-slang-c.html
I used to have wild imaginings of what places looked like when I was young.
I thought Merced was going to have dirt streets the first time I heard we were moving here.
I pictured Fairbanks as a cold, snowy village of eskimos.
Thanks for the lively updates, seriously, and I hope the aurorae entertain you hugely this coming long winter night.
Cheers from Sunny California!And thank you for that compliment on the photo.
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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 - Aug 17, 2016 - 03:42am PT
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We need another cactus shot from the Doctor.
All I have that's close is this.
Alba
As cool as the pale wet leaves
of lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.
--Ezra Pound
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Aug 17, 2016 - 06:13am PT
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Hollow Filled and Cabbaged
I was not a howl at midnight
And have no reaction to the dawn
Still a stranger to the sunset
I hover here lingo-less
Breakfast on my plate
Coffee in my eye
The well is under repair
With an unknown price tag
Full force foot dragging is in order
Stuck in literary limbo land
My poems and dirty filters
Slowed for now with bung
-bushman
08/17/2016
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Aug 17, 2016 - 09:30am PT
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Neener neener my ears were burning natter that it matter, I'll just go dunk my head.
I'm a kite flying freak , I collect kites and never get to fly them
any . .
more.. . .
Some,
I have only flown once.
Go fly a kite,
my friend Stanley,
had just started when instead he got sucked in & then under by boys n boats.
For flying in a crowd where deadly string is used to fatal affect,
I would not be caught holding the string,
with out being in a solid color neck muff,
out west where it gets deep enough ,
Y' all call it a gator. . .
See here is where I need to say in blue Neck muff
http;//Neck Muffhttp://www.cabelas.com/product/clothing/men-s-hunting-clothing/men-s-hunting-headwear/men-s-balaclavas-neck-gaiters%7C/pc/104797080/c/104748480/sc/104380380/i/104041980/under-armour-reg-men-s-tac-coldgear-reg-infrared-hood/1843495.uts?des"
Even if it is Orange.
I see that mfm has it down, how to post the link in words of blue instead of the httpsollections://???????? The. https://. . .. . Ya know, then adde what to wher? To get
Just The words Neck Muff, Elvis.,.,.or whatever.
Before the critic fires off another missive, this is snap 7 of 10 I wanted clear focus on the similar shaped structures of the pulley and the knot in the tree beyond
I've got some others but these , Seem enough of the idea in this new days light.
Rember 'd this hour, our old friend,,,,, Phyllsyborg? Was that it ?
a word that fires up dyslexia
Remember our pal of the mirror images ?
Taken from the perspective that belie a climber's eye.
Only the climbers Mind could sort out in an instant.
The joy of twice as much rock in a single snap.
Hey,
from where has that cat come from?
And where is he at?
Come back.. . .
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My favorite snap , pick of the pix of the weex
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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 - Aug 17, 2016 - 11:31am PT
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"God so loved his sandstone layers
that He turned them endo and created Off Width
so His creatures would have something to compare to hell."
--Rock of Ages 1:50-52
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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 - Aug 17, 2016 - 12:29pm 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 - Aug 17, 2016 - 12:37pm PT
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