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zBrown
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Nov 13, 2015 - 06:57pm PT
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I think the anniversary of the premiere of Fantasia occurred in the last couple of daze.
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It's probably a completist collector's item, but Judy Garland doing Somewhere Over Under the Rainbow Vomit is a classic to my mind.
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Nov 14, 2015 - 03:11am PT
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gretchen parlato ~ better than: http://youtu.be/iPBxVY65XmE
edit: tonight, after i had forgotten/re-encountered this piece, i posted it here as a healing prospect.
then i searched it on the forum to check that it wasn't one of my dreaded reposts.
it was, but i learned that mouse had peeled it off of the jazz thread
and referenced it here on the flames two years ago.
hmmm ... zoundz rodent, maybe it will work!
double edit: packin' twice the punch of the loonie, you gotcher twoonie. seriously
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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 - Nov 14, 2015 - 08:06am PT
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I did not realize that Jeff has passed.
I guess my list of contemporary blues greats is that much shorter, beginning with Jeff's name and dropping back to BB King.
May both of you rest in peace!
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I confess to having seen Road House many times.
Sam Elliott and Jeff Healey accompany Patrick Swayze to keep the Double D#@&%e in business.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Double Duche.
Ram bam thank ya ma'am.
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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 - Nov 14, 2015 - 04:02pm PT
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Fig Newtons are one of my favorite backpacking/bivvy foods.
Figs were at one time a huge crop here in the San Jaoquin. A large packing operation was located six blocks away from here along the old Santa Fe tracks in a building which still stands, a great long hollow concrete thing, employing hunderds & hunderds of the local gals.
They would box 'em up in purty boxes with cellophane wrapping. They were expensive items, perfect for giving as Christmas presents. They were dried, of course, because fresh figs, particularly the Calimyrna variety, are good for only a short time, then begin rotting.
Time has taken its toll on the fig orchards, and I can tell you that from personal experience, having moved here in '61 and seen the visible proof, which is not apparent after the trees have been taken out. The public's taste runs much more to other items and figs dried are not "fresh". Gotta have "fresh fruit" for that diet, kiddo. Figs are good for bowel moving, and that's all, they tellya. Bull...
My brother Mike's place is in a rockpile out at Merced Falls, twenny acres on the river, which was dredged in the twenties or thirties for gold. The original fig orchard located out there was the world's largest, according to some local experts. You can find bricks out in the rockpiles (dredge leavings) that were once used in the buildings associated with the fig orchard, and the YVRR serviced that orchard/packing house.
And down the road apiece, in Chowchilla, there was a pretty large orchard of figs along Hwy 99 and that lasted from the time we moved here to the seventies or eighties. It's gone, too. I guess the orchards are now more located down toward Fresno County and Tulare County, with maybe two packing companies handling the fresh and dried varieties.
The Calimyrna Fig is one I haven't tasted nor seen on sale. It's used mostly for Fig Newtons.
Good article on why figs are so expensive when and if you find them fresh.
http://waynesword.palomar.edu/pljune99.htm
There are several varieties of figs available. Here is one supplier of young trees.
http://northparknursery.com/2013/09/growing-fruit-in-the-southern-california-garden/
There is one lonely orchard out on Bear Creek Drive South near Planada. Its trees are getting gnarly old.
This is a tree which Mike has next to his entry road and near his own small orchard, which is a melange of different fruit varieties.
Mike has been an active apiarist in the past, selling honey in large drums. It's too much work on your own, and my younger brother took over for a time, when Mike's interest flagged. Now the bee boxes are in a pile, slowly decaying.
Gnome, thanks for that video just below.
Presbyterian WASPs congregate here once a week, seeking Jesus, speaking of Jesus.
Just down the road is the former service station with the unfriendliest SOB I've met in a long long time. He tried to drive me off with rocks, and said no takin' pictures of the slowly decaying old cars parked under the canopy.
Boy, I got news for him. As long as I'm on the street, and his stuff's out in the open, I got a right to take pictures if I'm on public property of whatever I see, except children whose parents may object.
I only left in self-defense and there were no more old cars to photograph.
What a T-U-R-D that guy was!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Nov 14, 2015 - 11:25pm PT
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That was what I was just sayin'
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true dat
a off color never nah[Click to View YouTube Video] this was a hold over from the feelin I had at the rocks rethrown that is unless the curr collected them in anticipation
[Click to View YouTube Video] happy to be blessed by Bachuss, you might like his Wallin' to NOrlns. Or zydeco on Jimmy Fallon?
It is a hard right turn to a soft deal after racing kicked up yo're ole' ticker
Bound for glory
but this 1st
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The whole show ~ The Wallin' Jenny's 7/20/12?norfolk Ct
Deeper well _to
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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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 06:50am PT
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I like most all music, A to Z and "Zydeco" is right up there with "Zither" music.
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All over the world there are zithers: Germany, Korea, and China.
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"Give it away to your friends with tie-dyes? What kind of advice is that?"
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Got a lotta Texas-sounding music, there, likely due to the Germans who settled there.
It's a short jump from there and their zithers to the pedal steel guitar, it seems to me.
But then I'm just not sure, not being a music expert.
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"Let's move to Hawaii."
"Aloha, but are you sure that's where you wanna be."
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http://www.theinertia.com/surf/inside-the-tube/
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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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 08:02am PT
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Gritty? Oakdale ain't pretty and there ain't enough of it, but there isn't that much grittiness about that I've seen; but, then, they only can be judged by eating one taco at a time. One in each hand is gross, by the way.
Now a snapshot of LS with one in each hand would be the better shot, but is she gross? Hell, no! So we'll probably never see it.
Not holding back, going for it.
Oakdayle is how I always type Oakdale, ninety % of the time, and I need to correct it. So from here on, when I might type Oakdayle, I mean Oakdale. (I just did it again! aaaagh!)
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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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 08:09am PT
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Settling down now.
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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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 08:19am 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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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Woo-hoo! It's raining and I hadn't noticed since I took these about an hour and a half ago.
These are from last month, prior to my hospitalization.
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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 - Nov 15, 2015 - 03:05pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]The rain came and left hours ago. I went to take a walk and get some tacos at J&R Tacos.
I stopped every so often to catch my breath, just shuffling along though I was.
I've never felt so old. I ordered a few burritos and three kinds of tacos so I won't have to cook lunch and dinner. Got oatmeal in the mornings, and toast.
It looks as if it might rain again, later.
If and when it rains again, I won't care if it's acid, purple or torrential.
Just feckin' rain some more.
For my brother Flame, Throwpie.
Yo, Steve! Hey, Grampa! What's shakin'?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Nov 15, 2015 - 05:20pm PT
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I had a friend wayback who became known as Hairpie (any guesses as to his 'real' last name?). Anyway it got transformed to Pie_hair.
So:
Ain't that lovin' you baby
But you don't even know my name
-Vera Palmer
on zeeJay Records outa Rosarito Beach de Baja
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Nov 15, 2015 - 06:15pm PT
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Mouse, glad to see you are getting out a bit, glad it rained, glad you have good food, and glad you have you back among us here around the fire.
Carry on, carry on . . .
ff
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