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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Macabre ___The Cat Came back....
Seems the points on the map,
those that the appreciation of, we have shared
At different times that may have overlapped
have left a dent.
Girl bands ?
Thinking of our Swedish? Lollie! I'm not a hard heavy metal rock -a fishy Naldo- now that's phunny
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https://youtu.be/wz9VyggeSbA
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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 - May 3, 2017 - 12:41pm PT
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A missive from the Med Lodge!
Welcome , back ,gnomensch.
O hipe the camputre probs're fixt.
Weave Ben havin'g a glitz in hour spellsczecher.
And here's a flaming shout-out to Lollie, that Euro-Mirror Gal.
Baseball question for Lollie: Who's in the toilet? What's he doing in the toilet?
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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 - May 3, 2017 - 01:06pm PT
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Notice the discreet headband.
edit: I did it with my patented "KnowsAll" which is like unto a "SeezAll" which is not unlike the "SawzAll." See? The right tool for the job.
You don't want a plurality of tools, neithermore.
The gent getting medieval with the alligator could possibly use the portable "GnawzAll."
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zBrown
Ice climber
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HHow you saw a headband thru that helmet is amazing, to me anyway,
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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 - May 3, 2017 - 07:52pm PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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This one stays & I can't reduce my foot print any further or backer
You know ? I'm just like all of you
only .
What ever your woes. .
I'm glad to have met & I don't have to many regrets
Maybe, that I do not, is the problem ?
Look In The Mirror. . .
Think.
I've been cordigile? Cordial ?
Mostly nice - nearly fawning
but poorly received
The double standard is in the breeze
I'm no more foul, foul mouthed, foul minded
Juvenile , or scathing than anyone else here .
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Haha! One of my 1st posts! And that Infact that contraption led to my posting a view of my round self.
nee bee, saw the wider belly, & reading glasses, and so mistook me as a grand-pa,
I'm certainly old enough to be one,
just waited - climbed and bucked the system as long as I could,
till I stood a-Top the heap, married the strongest of the three, while two arguably got away.
I am glad and sad to have been a man in his prime at the end of the 20th century.
With all that came with that.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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It has been really windy here just east of the Divide the last few days. So windy that they could use a chain for windsock, says a pilot friend.
So, I this seemed appropriate for the wind.
The Unseen Power
We are the flute, our music is all Thine;
We are the mountains echoing only Thee;
And movest to defeat or victory;
Lions emblazoned high on flags unfurled-
The wind invisible sweeps us through the world.
—Rumi
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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I've got to admit
[Click to View YouTube Video]
and yes my wife is a saint,
she will not let me talk of what goes on here.
It is a chore; Me!
I've got not much to add evah. . .m.
But wonders c,
it seems they,
you lurkers
tend to come out of the wood work,
I'll be scarce again.
Now if I can just take my own advice
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Good morning, Mr. Mouse, sir. I hope your health is continuing to improve and that things are all on even keel and peaceful for you.
Gnome, great fish fotos.
Less wind today, and warmer. Maybe it is finally time to welcome Spring, although, knowing Montana, we could have another couple of blizzards any day.
Mouse, is the new construction going to radically alter your view of the horizon or limit the long-distance outlook? And if so, is the rising architecture an adequate substitute? Maybe it will provide a lot more people-watching opportunities.
Reading what drives people, I realize that what drives me has shifted over the years, although there are a couple of common threads in the fabric of my life that have been constant since I was a kid. I think we are all motivated each day by something, and usually something that contributes to our sense of life and our view of our journey. For me, it has been art, archaeology/anthropology, exploration, and the compassionate use of my resources. So far, it has been an excellent journey. I am still pondering on this because it is an issue worth exploring for anyone.
Off to a studio day. Playing in clay. :)
Be well,
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 - May 4, 2017 - 10:37am PT
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DMT-
If I recall correctly, Mark Tuttle told me about you when first I began posting on ST, my freshman year, 2012. He told me you and he knew each other and he was pretty upbeat about your climbing attitude.
And so I sent you a message via ST mail and got the reply, "Do I know you?"
I just thought, "What did I do?" I let it go, a lesson in Taco socializing under my belt.
Then I began realizing how well-traveled around the central state that you had become in the years since you emerged from your country hidey-hole. No matter the climbing, so much as the travelogs you provide about the places you visit.
And so we have commonality there, though it was a time coming.
If one is not happy in his situation, he is not likely to brag up his locale. But when the shoe fits...
There is so much we don't see in the mundane existence, but as friend Decker pointed out just the other day, some things you've noticed but which did not impress simply need the right light or POV to make them provocative of feeling to the one seeing the image; or line of poetry, or stroke of brush, or texture of clay, or fine stitchery, etc. It can take many, many attempts before one speaks to the image-maker.
I have the time and plenty of it to look for the odd stuff about ordinary stuff. Take enough walks in the same spot and in various weathers and at different times, and you will see. Most of us have seen that this is so.
And I have decided just recently to try to look at things, not photograph them, and then possibly make a special trip back to do so, having thought about what I want.
I was thinking yesterday of not having my camera around all the time. I likened it to an extra head when talking to Vincente as he was setting tables outside the Cinema. He told me he was surprised I did not have the camera with me then. I told him I was not in the mood to take a lot of pics, so I left it home.
Bottom line is I enjoy what I'm doing and am glad you enjoy the results. For whatever reason.
feralfae-
As to the view, it's different, all right. I looked today and the sun was up right over the Presbyterian church, blazing away. It's hot here now. The temp got up to the high eighties yesterday afternoon. I have the a/c working again, too.
I can't complain or kick about losing the view. I've had seventeen years of the same thing, season after season, and change is gonna come and it's best not to cry. There's always the fire escape on five.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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The fabulous fish pictures are not mine just mined out of the pictures loaded to
the archive.
Thanks and congratulations must go to John Kelly,
a seriously amazing climber one of the most hard core here on the site!
So of course as is my plight he mistook what I said, as all most always seem to.
When it left the top page I bumped it ; With Garbblebase I guess? I was the only one to responde to his amazing share of a solo of a Huge Mountain.
I'll never understand that he took it as some sort of derogatory response.
But that's what my life has always been, so mis-understood, and climbing came easy to me
I've been roped in since 5, the rock was a constant; always there,
hard and pure where gravity ruled.
MY LIFE 'OULD BE SWEETER STILL IF. . . .
Cosmic I'm Sorry that I called you snide, Cosmic,
Can't we just all be friends, comrade ? Yup, coffee n some exercise !
Thought about it, (all) as I found a rhythm, there's pebbles that I can try to trot to...
Things that choss would dis, and disown. But it is touching rock.
As always it grounds me gives me perspective. Thinking no way, wished I'd not,
But like DMT's view a boy has got to beat his chest now and again.
My life would be sweeter still but for many things
It is the rollercoaster of life.
So sorry, as the ride winds down.
I'm glad you caught that, all of that.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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5&1/4 floppies
Windows 98
$1000 17 inch mag monitor
The good old days.
Driving Miss Daisy on my $3500 big screen cathode ray TV
Still has a great picture, better than flat scree.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Mouse,
I thought in a way it was sort of fortunate that you will get a complete change of view, and you didn't need to move, or even pack up a box of books. Who knows what is in store? They might have art in the windows, or dancing or music from that new building. We just never know.
My view here has changed radically due to pine beetles. Doug cut down many dead ponderosa pines from our forest. There are still a lot of trees, though. But now I can see more of the Divide, more of the Lake, and at night in winter, I can see the illumination of the ski slopes. Pretty nice, really.
Glad to hear the A/C is working. I'm going to rescue the MG from its little storage place next week and, one at a time, take a few of my very elderly friends for country cruises along the Missouri. I keep caps and scarves and sunblock and sunglasses in the car for them to wear. We usually stop somewhere for an ice cream. One British chap, who is 87, used to have an MG, so he especially loves these drives out into the country.
Back to making mud pies.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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So I got a "do I know you"-John without ever even sending him him anything
Just post something about
His photo taking and lt'll get his attention
I have his real address and I'm gonna send him a couple of 5 and a quarter floppies
I bet he doesn't even have a drive
I do and it works
May even
Send a copy of this info to Comey to soothe his aching tum
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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 - May 4, 2017 - 04:30pm PT
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Thanks. Writ large and in the open it looks good. It's a million-seller, easy. Like most of what you do.
That sh#t about eKat still rankles, by the way, and I've studiously avoided mention of the lady. She thinks we're eedjets, then let her. It's not like I'm losing a subscriber there.
I've tried to provide variety here, mainly. You can't expect the crowds to stop and stare if all they see is the same dull tent and the same tired bawd doing the same dull and boring dance. There's often nothing on the Taco Midway that keeps my interest, so it's nice to have a place like this.
Yeah, we WERE talking about goats but now it's tree roots. Tomorrow it may be having safe sex while BASE jumping. Or when will it snow next in Algeria? Or does donini wear Depends or Attends and which is right for you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ned9slOGHQc
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