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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jul 26, 2015 - 01:21am PT
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Ho at least there is a key board workg,..
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 06:43am PT
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more cars, Debbie-O, no pie, no donuts
long lead in, but isn't preparation 90%
roll 'em
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 06:48am PT
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!!!!!
Who needs donuts if ya got fry bread? With powdered sugar?
Actually, I have no baking powder, but I do have ZOOM hot cereal for a nourishing start to my day.
And the prodigal cat has returned.
Shhh...he's asleep now.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jul 26, 2015 - 08:05am PT
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Good morning Mouse and all,
Not social commentary.
Well, I've always considered fry bread the equivalent of bitter herbs and unleavened bread on Passover, in a way.
Fry bread was what First People, especially the Plains people, learned to eat when they were forced on to reservations, and were given "rations" which consisted of some flour, for a people who were meat eaters until their Buffalo herds were destroyed. So when we have fry bread, the stories I heard as a child were more about why we eat fry bread, and what memories of whites were handed down with this tradition.
But as barefoot kids, we got fry bread with cinnamon sugar and sometimes honey, which was a wonderful treat for the children. It was our own version of Lady Fingers, Donuts, Little Debbies, and all those treats made with sugar rolled together, fried up in one delicious, sweet-dripping sugary confection, and warm from the fire. Wow, great mouth-watering memories. That was in the days before food stamps, of course.
Which you could get now, maybe, and then you might be able to enjoy a few more meals out each month. I think it is a time in your life for you to ease into comfort and joy, sitting with friends, enjoying their company, and living in relaxation and ease. Playing with your grandchildren. If you were an elder sitting outside of your lodge, the children would be bringing you berries, and we would be bringing you meat and onions, baked roots, and boiled grains. :)
I see my Sunday commentary has devolved into a food commentary, if not a social commentary. :) Free advice from the pemmican pantry. I am sure worth less than the pemmican. :)
Thank you
feralfae
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 09:04am PT
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I always liked toast with butter-cinnamon-sugar. Not many folks in CV made pemmican.
What kind of berries are those?
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 09:50am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]This was a great movie. It's a beautiful soundtrack, too.
I don't think anyone mentioned it as their favorite Western!
It kind of shows how counter to the public our climbers' sensibilities run.
Now that's social commentary.
There is a highly-readable sequel to the original novel, as well, titled The Holy Road.
Buffalo chip ice cream was developed for this movie. It is a great topping for fry bread.
Liz and I used to love to go to a few pow-wows here and there before she took the sky road.
The last one I ever attended was given in Atwater and it was dedicated by the elder, Brad Two Bears, as HER MEMORIAL.
Also, none of the bison in this, HER FAVORITE MOVIE, were computer animated (CGI was then in its infancy)
and only a few were animatronic or otherwise fabricated;
only two were totaled in the filming, as well.
In fact, Costner and crew employed the largest domestically owned bison ranch,
with two of the tame bison being borrowed from Neil Young;
this was the herd used for the bison hunt sequence.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Two Knee Socks, the trained timber wolf, was a dribbler of uncanny abilities.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 11:00am PT
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Funny thing. Costner lived about a mile and half from me. He had a three-legged dog who I named Tripod. I was running one day and Costner and a couple guys were playing basketball in the yard behind a large wall. They did not invite me in. Something about pancakes or big walls or waffling.
When they divorced his wife stayed in the house. It appears to have sold recently for about $5Million.
Here's the court @ 1:30
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 11:01am PT
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That's funny!!!!!!!!!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 11:08am PT
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What's even funnier is how swiftly property values drop off as you travel West for a mile or two. Hahahahahaha.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 11:34am PT
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Traveling results in a turn-over.
Hahahahahaha!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 11:50am PT
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I like the buddy-seat, but are shocks really that useful for cruising?
I want to be remembered for the music or not at all
-Jim Donini said that
I know everyone has a choice in cruising, but when I cruise it's with Eddie
-Prince Buster
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John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 12:12pm PT
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No, they aren't useful at all cruisin'.
Sorta like the "twelfth man" riding the pine and biding his time,
but still making the NBA minimum, whatever that is.
Remember, the average salary in the NBA is ONLY $4.9 million.
I got in a pick-up game with some locals.
I didn't need to do much scoring to beat them with my own brand of defense.
I kept thinking, what would Chuck Norris do?
I mainly score on the older players who are pretty slow. It's not pretty, sometimes.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 02:10pm PT
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For Gnome, who's lost his camera and is losing his grip. :0)
The Farm Team, not even on the bench.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jul 26, 2015 - 05:08pm PT
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Grips, we got tons of 'em. What we don't have is crips, though there is some weird graffiti in the drain culvert.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 08:20pm PT
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Cosmic, that's the Abominable Snowman--where are your glasses?
Hahahahaha.
HEY, HERR BRAUN!!!!! Look at what I found!
Except in salt water, then the edge goes to Namu.
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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 - Jul 26, 2015 - 09:02pm PT
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Mid-August, 2014.Where have all the wall climbers gone?
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 02:14am PT
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Our Flames reporter, on his day trip to the Valley two days ago, reported that the river was muddy. However, he neglected to tell me of the Hwy. 140 road closure because it opened just before he had gotten on the bus to travel into the park that morning.
He mentioned an incident at the four-way stop at Stoneman Bridge, where Northside Drive and Southside Drive intersect. He was on his bike and it was his turn to cross the intersection on his bicycle when some flat-lander in a big pick-up made a turn-in-a-hurry, right there by Curry, only to become the last in the string of cars strung out on Northside Drive ALL THE WAY TO THE VILLAGE STORE!
So not only was the river muddy, but the roads were sludgy.
Yessir, you can have July and early August in the Ditch. Give me September and October any year.
These are from October 2013.
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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 - Jul 27, 2015 - 06:20am PT
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Off to see the heart wizard in Palo Alto.
Did you know that the words in Spanish "palo alta" mean high stick?
"Palo Alto" means just that, "palo alto".
It might be a more interesting trip if I were going to Alta Bates Hospital in Palo Alta. It's actually Sutter Alta Bates now...a merger or buy-in/out.
Best possible scenario would be to live on Dwight Way once more, and have to go across the street to Herrick Hospital.
Except that it's now called Alta Bates Summit Medical Center--Herrick Campus.
Medicine is getting more whacked out and more expensive AND PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING!
How pucked up it that? So don't ask me what's up, Doc. Ask the nurse, who usually has the right skinny.
Six out of ten doctors will not agree, but they're the ones to avoid.
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