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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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If I had a quarter and a nickel and it was quite afew years ago, I'd pump a gallon into my Ducati and scramble on up there to Santa Ana. What a trip. Could try to get over to Ascot.
Somehow this brings to mind junkYard
Angels.
Sure glad I wouldn't collide with anything.
Anyway, speaking of Orange (the city, not the county) Chapman University, which I always called Chapman College, lays claim to being the fifth most expensive University in California.
Located in Orange, CA, Chapman University has an annual tuition fee of $31,700, $908 internal fees, and up to $11,880 for room and boarding.
For that much you'd think a free photo would be in order.
(USC, Stanford, Santa Clara, USD).
Sure glad I don't have five kids to send to college.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Looking for some shade during last week's heat wave, I began by traveling up to Mariposa and then went to Washburn point that evening. I kicked around and had an iced coffee, then went up to the Mariposa jail. Never been there; Yosemite jail is another tale.
It's not hard to find the Catholic graveyard. The secular one is over by the Rest Area/Bus Stop shenanigans, so it doesn't seem very peaceful and there isn't very good shade.
Of course, all the dead who are buried are in the shade, huh?
I decided to find a more relaxing place with a Good Shade rating from Eternal Rest's Best After-Death Cabana Issue. It turned out to be several years old.
A major root canal was in progress, apparently.
I couldn't get this image out of my mind after this once-mighty pine made like a wooden obelisk. Thanks, dude...
I went up a wood stairway to the top of the Catholic City of the Dead, ST. Joseph's churchyard/stairway-to-heaven.
It was peaceful, not a soooul around, manner of speaking.A brief but important word from the Tomb Stone-Master.
Bears a second look and some respect.
Looking away from the church to the hillside.
A native mineral, Mariposite. A native miner, maybe.
And then I hit the road, slowly.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Extreme violence. No Care Bears here.
As you reap just wheat that you sow,
So you also should eat the sow you keep in the wheat.
Mmmm...bacon and cheap beer!
--Brewer E. Mouse
In the Sunday "Bonus, Please!" round we have the Original and Wandering Narcoleptic instead of the usual 60-Minutes re-run.
http://melaniehamlett.com/2013/04/
A bien touch...
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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That's a rather large bear, I'm sure glad he isn't in Santa Ana.
Santa Ana be damned. Largo is askin' for 90 minutes (sounds like a name for TV show), I only need 8.5 (that's minutes, not seconds).
[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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This bike was flying up the GP road.
These guys know flying.
This flag should not be flying.
This heron isn't flying, but he kept his distance. Sorry about the blurred focus, but I'm vision-impaired. And it's totally next to impossible to sneaky-pete in over that flat ground in the heat without the heron noticing and making his bird. I couldn't even think about it, the ground and the cobbles were all so hot. Heat wave, remember? The pool forms only when the irrigation canal reaches a certain high flow--there's an active leak the M.I.D. can't seem to fix. It's probably not a significant number of gallons to worry over.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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"Good history is passed history. I got a D this semester. It's all good."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3445_162-57592359/photography-that-changed-the-way-we-view-war/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_Civil_War_battles
Battles rated by CWSAC
The American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) was established within the United States National Park Service to classify the preservation status of historic battlefield land. In 1993, the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission (CWSAC) reported to Congress and the ABPP on their extensive analysis of significant battles and battlefields. Of the estimated 8,000 occasions in which hostilities occurred in the American Civil War, this table and related articles describe the 384 battles that were classified in CWSAC's Report on the Nation's Civil War Battlefields. In addition to the status of battlefield land preservation (not included in this table) CWSAC rated the military significance of the battles into four classes, as follows:
Class A – Decisive: A general engagement involving field armies in which a commander achieved a vital strategic objective. Such a result might include an indisputable victory on the field or be limited to the success or termination of a campaign offensive. Decisive battles had a direct, observable impact on the direction, duration, conduct, or outcome of the war.
Class B – Major: An engagement of magnitude involving field armies or divisions of the armies in which a commander achieved an important strategic objective within the context of an ongoing campaign offensive. Major battles had a direct, observable impact on the direction, duration, conduct, or outcome of the campaign.
Class C – Formative: An engagement involving divisions or detachments of the field armies in which a commander accomplished a limited campaign objective of reconnaissance, disruption, defense, or occupation. Formative battles had an observable influence on the direction, duration, or conduct of the campaign.
Class D – Limited: An engagement, typically involving detachments of the field armies, in which a commander achieved a limited tactical objective of reconnaissance, defense, or occupation. Limited battles maintained contact between the combatants without observable influence on the direction of the campaign.
http://www.militarymuseum.org/Mariposa1.html
"In April 1846, Savage, his family, and his brother, Morgan, decided to migrate to California and traveled to Independence, Missouri, where they joined the party of former Missouri Governor Liburn Boggs for the trip to California. Along the trail, both his wife and child died. The journey west covered six months; the party arrived in California in late October 1846."--see link above
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jerry moved to the deadhead thread. I felt like I might have a seizure.
Maybe this should go over on the other thread.
Garcia came up with "Grateful Dead" by opening a Funk & Wagnalls dictionary to an entry for "Grateful dead"... The definition for "Grateful Dead" was "a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial"
Sure glad he didn't turn to junkYard Angel. Bob woulda been pissed.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Not too long ago I threw away a Sony TV that I bought in 1976. It still worked fine and had an excellent display. It never had a repair or any problem what-so-ever (unless you count trying to give away an almost 40 year old TV - no racism intended here (just ask Rudy, Fidel, Vincent, & Salvador for four) but Mexicans will take anything).
Which brings me to the subject of toilets. We have three, if you don't count the ground cover in the backyard, which Ruby prefers (I'll admit to using now and then also).
I "rebuilt" all three recently. Why is it that perfection in water closet engineering has eluded all the folks who make a pretty penny (or at least a cellphone loudspeaker magnet) selling this stuff?
It's rather disgusting the manufacturer of two of mine, chose to exploit Dorothy's little dog.
I thought that was a buckboard, but on second glance it appears to be a harvestor above. Sure glad that Toto didn't fall in.
Don't get me started on child labor today.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The following brought to you by the makers of RadioShack Superlock Fasteners and the makers of
Longreen Corporation of San Gabriel.
Pecos, meet Dorothy and Toto.
Sounds like a whirlwind romance, in which case:
He may need all the steed he can get, you bet,
If she decides to play the coquette, all hard to get.
Rolling Stones/You Cannot Catch Me, No, No, You'll Never Catch This Dorothy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_AmARJrEw
Gone like a cool breeze.
Roadkill Resistance urges you to reduce your speed, however, especially around water sources like canals and creeks and rivers and lakes.
And for your own safety and that of your passengers, buckle up in any moving vehicle.
Excepting motorcycles...
Child labor, ha! Shine dem shoes, boy!
There is a bigger similarity between the terms digger and nigger than just their rhyming sounds, Jim. Some similarities are just naturally bigger, maybe? You're hung up on your big vocabulary, Jim. Get over it. there are guys out there who can use words lots bigger than narcississus and Native American.
Anyway, my neighbor,CO, poor boy, had lots of chores and these were the trad things all kids gotta do in the suburban lifestyle, until the Mexican gardener became cheaper and more a part of life.
We mainly cut the grass, but we cleaned garages (CO had a breezeway, no gaage), emptied wastebaskets, burned the garbage (we could do so back then in most counties) or hauled it out to the curb, raked leaves, swept driveways, washed cars, helped paint/wallpaper, pulled weeds, cleaned pools, shoveled snow, but no firewood cutting, manure spreading, stock feeding, cow tipping, cap-tipping (nobody wore ball capps back then), or herding, none of that country stuff.
CO and I were really not country, just lived a suburban-type lifestyle in a hick town, picking up on surf music, drag racing, skateboarding several months after these became the norm down in LA or over in The City. Our teen music scene is reflective of that time lag. Our book-buying habits used to be that way. The internet's really changed much of that for a good part of the society.
Kids still gotta do chores, though. No getting around that.
Glad I'm not a kid anymore. I hated that pool cleaning job.
I didn't mind having to fire up the incinerator up in Sacramento, though. That was special time alone--it was not the best smell, depending on what was in the barrel, so nobody came around.
CO did not have a brother to "share" the work. I had two. One was too young to be relied on. The other was too lazy to do anything much beyond the absolute minimum he could get away with which he could get. He was always out hunting or some jive, so I got saddled with much more than was fair, dammit!
I am an easy mark, though. Mom loved me best.
All this is work--gots to take me some Ease with Jerry and the Unkwicks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLKzUVOdR4M
Oregon, here I come.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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THE RECORD.
Seems like some people are very wise here on our stage. They keep saying things that make sense.
It behooves us to remember a few from time to time and to stash them where we can review them. There are "Quotes Threads" aplenty on the Taco, from our favorite ones to those of WBraun. It's quote Quite a big list. Unquote.
http://www.supertopo.com/forumsearch.php?v=0&cur=0&ftr1=Quotes&ftr2=&ftr3=&ftr4=&scope=topics
Here are two I'd like to share from here lately.
Quote Seems these things bug me more than they did 10 to 20 years ago when I was being a serious climber. Perspective on life has changed I guess and perhaps it's like the older guys were telling me when I was a youngster.
Anyway once again I come back from the valley ..where my heart calls Home.. Affected a bit.. I suppose better to focus on what a great day climbing I had with new friends and especially getting back down to the river and watching smiling kids jumping in.. New life living a beautiful dream. Unquote. --Climbski2
That's one. Here's one from Pat Ament.
Quote I felt I would be
doing the route for the wrong reason. And usually when we do
something for the wrong reason it doesn't turn out very well.
I never quite got around to that solo, but in my heart I believed
I was only a couple of handjams from already having done it.
Those strange turns of youth. Unquote.
I simply want you to see how important are our puntuation marks and how much time and confusion they save, especially these sets of twins.
Teacher: Werner, please use "quotidian" in a sentence for the class.
Werner: OK. "His, quote, 'stupid remarks,' were quoted, Ian, somewhat 'out of context.' How utterly stupid was that?"
Teacher: That will be fine. Thank you.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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You can break my bones
With your sticks and stones
And throwing turds
Will surely hurt me
So don't.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Where have you gone, my nine-digit son?
I've gone to the place that's the Best: Stockton.
RIP Captain Trips.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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One for the boob thread, RIP.
Can you dig it, Doug?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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1951 Henry J Custom Woody
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