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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 - Mar 6, 2019 - 08:34pm PT
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The rain came this morning, but not hard, and then left. The sky had cleared by ten of any real threat of precip.
I went to the bus stop and rode the circuit out to the med center n back to town.
I almost got off at the College to check out Roger's and Jay's Merced River photo exhibit but decided to wait till tomorrow instead.
I stopped at Paul's Place and had beans with onions. I ran into a classmate from the eighth grade, Mickey, so we talked, catching up on fifty years of life in twenty minutes.
"The Originals of Yosemite" exhibit opens tomorrow evening at the Courthouse Museum, as well. Could be a full day.
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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 - Mar 6, 2019 - 08:39pm 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 - Mar 6, 2019 - 08:52pm PT
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Digging out of Purgatory
(the rewrite)
I was a reckless soul
conflicted and torn
like my momma used to tell me
from the day I was born
And I grew up too fast
ran away from my home
never thought it was it wrong
I just wanted to roam
Digging out of purgatory
though I didn’t know where
digging out from nowhere
never thought I had a prayer
I was up to no good
they said I was bad
I was digging out of purgatory
with the one chance I had
With my long tangled hair
and a restless need
they said I was stricken
with a wanderers creed
I traveled the backroads
and the interstates too
becoming lost to myself
and all those I knew
Digging out of purgatory
like a drugstore thief
didn’t know I was nowhere
and no longer cared
they said I was misled
with an unreal point of view
I was digging out of purgatory
what else was I to do
Sold a beat up old van
with just enough for air fair
then I flew out to the islands
but from there I did not care
Took a hop to the big island
where I dived out past a fish trap
o’er the turtles and the coral
heard the whales and saw their tails slap
Digging out of purgatory
like a pawnshop refugee
digging out from nowhere
didn’t know I couldn’t see
I was floating in a paradise
with nowhere else to be
digging out of purgatory
just a mindset binding me
Traveled all around the island
living out of an old car
sleeping mostly in the backseat
parked behind an old friend’s bar
One day I found a beach
at the southernmost lee
with my my back to Mauna Loa
looking out to the sea
Digging out of purgatory
as I dived into the sea
that’s when I felt the tiger sharks
scrape against my knees
I was swimming out of purgatory
as careful as I could be
waiting for the sea to boil
as the dolphins followed me
I just was a reckless soul
conflicted and torn
like my momma used to tell me
from the day I was born
But that day out in Hawaii
when the ocean spoke to me
it centered me and gentled me
and finally set me free
Insignificance being priceless
and a serendipitous perk
I try to go each day without
me acting like a jerk
Finding solace in gratitude
my good fortune’s just a quirk
and I’m still digging out of purgatory
but it no longer feels like work
-bushman
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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BuT IT IS WRITTEN!(I Did Not Read It)
Yo-Thou Saugerties!
Youtz Shall Wurshop at the Wuud-suck
no matter what?
& besidez a thing so short offends no Hippiez!
Plus the zither is trippy[Click to View YouTube Video]
As is~(@-1st, I couldn't pix just 1\_+(~);=E__)
& oh I sure hope that fast bluegrass Isn't just all "Greesy" to you?
Then too or One more thing;
Blind Owl?
"Put It Out Of It's Misery"
sorry,
& I have a true-eey
A good climber & husbandry guy, but in the long run not a good husband
at all, & not that "nice" a guy nor to me Long ago.
carried an owl around in a back-pack while climbin' in the suburban outback.
Blind in one eye, it could still fly but crashed to land every time, some laughed?
I told Jimmie: "put it down, Owls are sad in captivity"
I'd not realize it, like for evah, that those 1st interactions doomed my fate.]
There would be no drunkin gettin' in,not fitting in.
Not being a Hi-guide, grandfather'd in . . .
As I was already climbing xyz ahead of many, not chasing numbers.
Needing to, instead, & so taking others up their dreams,
not just for the joy of it, not always but mostly for meals & such.
I was skilled and climbing things like High-E, with clients since the beginning of things.
Sometime after 1973 for Sure. JR says He was In business starting in 1974.
Beginning, then in '80, I'd make it that way in your backyard.
I so laugh when I think of who Blinny was!
under her barbie nose, I know it, it wasn't, I & it was roamin'
Blind Owl, the band? I could choose one but It's not the same as Greensky- - - -
I could not choose just one
?[Click to View YouTube Video]
'cause in my eye Greensky is all-in 1 an for
okay by me!
!15:45 Of the Billy S/Greensky
"I'm Still Here/Dealin Despair"
NOT TOO MUCH [Click to View YouTube Video]
!4 minutes(Too Much) of Billy S/Greensky Bluegrass
2/9/19 Meet Me At The Creek
https://youtu.be/zL2mnzB1hwE
for to daze? '
it'll glaze ya fo' sure
k?
[Click to View YouTube Video]
[Near Fresh Posting of Old worn out why do ya still wear that shirt?]
Goin' Down The Road ~ Miracle ~ (2 cam) - Grateful Dead - 3-28-1988 -Hampton, Va. (set2-0H that '88)
https://youtu.be/-to826kq-yY
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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them old possum blues #402
oh look at that old possum
he’s giving me that old stare
from underneath my woodpile
don’t think he wants to share
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
oh look at that old possum
he’s wearing on my old shoes
been rooting through the garbage
with them old possum blues
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
oh look at that old possum
he’s stealing my old car
shoulda hauled it to the junkyard
don’t believe he’ll get too far
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
get a load of that old possum
now he’s calling me from the jail
don’t know what he’s been up to
but he needs me to post bail
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
can’t believe that old possum
he’s sitting in my chair
with his feet up on the table
now he wants another beer
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
oh look at that old possum
with his sad old possum eyes
I got a bead on his forehead
say a prayer before he dies
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
oh look at that cute possum
he’s as sweet as he can be
but sleeping on my pillow
don’t he know that rent ain’t free
what are ya gonna do
with them old possum blues
-bushman
...dinna fash,
he’ll get his breakfast soon
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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 - Mar 7, 2019 - 09:44am PT
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Style? You talkin' to me?
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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 - Mar 7, 2019 - 10:40am PT
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Hey there, Bombolini!
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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 - Mar 7, 2019 - 11:17am PT
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Joshua Tree NP > Echo Rock Area > Echo Rock > Echo Rock - E Face > Echo Rock - E Face
Now that those that know what they are talking about have weighed in
I'm not going to go look anything up.
I did a few things way back when.
While I'm not sure what I remember...
Warming up for "Course & Buggy" or waiting to get on "Heart 'n Soul"?
What is it called next to the crack "Bambi Meets Godzilla? some bolted route next to a crack ...Eats Godzilla? What did Big Al send me up? A 2nd ascent? Things that were always desperate,
Silent Scream with nuts & hexs (I may have had a pink tri-cam)
The 2nd pitch of "Figures,O,L"? A solo that stung was called "Wendy? Or "Windy" I have recently found a picture of me on something 'mellow'
"Walk On The Wild Side" back when it had what?1/4inch Button Heads. Star-driven's...A kind of soloing
It's all a blur.
So I had hoped the thread had run its course, but there are 20k 5.8s
Turns out
there is this
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Bambi Meets Godzilla
5.8+ YDS
Gumby Saves Bambi
5.10d YDS
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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 - Mar 7, 2019 - 11:28am PT
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I'm such a weenie, just like you guys.
Back when I still had it, or some of it...late eighties.Back then, we had no rubber biscuits. Just hardwood.
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