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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 26, 2016 - 08:32am PT
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"but when I feel really ratty (ask Rizzo for definition), I help myself to a couple of my mom's left over vicodins. Aids the sleep process. I hope to wake up cured."
We all need some Shuteye.
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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 26, 2016 - 05:32pm PT
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Taking my own good advice
A longish nap was very nice.
I checked my camera, checked it twice.
Then I finished off Friday night's rice.
Vigor came unto me, so,
Down to the springtime scenes below.
To the BofA I thought to go,
To cash my pension check for some dough.
I greeted a bum and "Recycle," his pet.
I crossed to the bank and got barked at, you bet.
The woman just watched while I shot a set
About bushes and bees then I needed a wet.
Taking a twenty from the teller machine
I went to the Cinema as is my routine.
Lydia was there, she's never been mean,
She's been a food server since she was a teen.
They serve a mean breakfast, you can get it to go,
I've always been partial to their big burrito.
Awaiting my order I took this photo
Showing an old boy working today's sudoko.
The owner and I had a nice conversation:
Spring in Oakhurst, water conservation,
The splendid spring weather, there was no hesitation.
I then paid him his money without reservation.
Middle Earth called and the chile from Chiloe
Was poured liberally on that steaming burrito.
I ate and I ate, yes, I ate it with gusto,
The pictures I shot are now shown below.
(That was not intended as a low blow, Bushman.)
finis
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Mar 26, 2016 - 05:57pm PT
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Bunny Bowline
Bunny Bowline's tied a knot
With them ears the two she's got
Around a tree they're tied like bows
Here comes a fox
Watch Bunny go
'Round in circles
On her toes
Where she stops nobody knows
-bushman
03/26/2016
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 26, 2016 - 08:15pm 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 27, 2016 - 01:02am PT
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Flip Flop
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Earth Planet, Universe
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Mar 27, 2016 - 06:18am PT
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Good Morning Buddy
There is a Carpenter
Who lives like a Shepherd
In a wagon by the road.
The Carpenter makes
farm tables
Of oaken wood
For his children.
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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 27, 2016 - 07:40am PT
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There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothink;
there is that maketh himself poor, yeth hath great riches.
Proverbs 13:7
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Cuando estás perdido en la lluvia en Ciudad Juárez
Y es también Pascua
Y la gravedad te falla
Y la negatividad no te deja salir adelante
No ponga ningun aire
Cuando estás abajo en la rue Morgue Av.
Tienen algunas mujeres que padecen hambre allí
Y ellos realmente hacen un lío que te deja fuera.
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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 27, 2016 - 08:02am PT
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Whoa.
Wait a minute.
Aren't you the same guy that just posted this at the Donna Reed Show?
If I die first
You guys can eat 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 27, 2016 - 12:24pm PT
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Thinking outside the litter box, I visited some old trip reports this morning. Fritz posted this on the one about my bout with depression.
That inspired me, knowing of Dylan's ongoing interest in the fight game.
And the coup de grace.[Click to View YouTube Video]
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Mar 27, 2016 - 09:32pm PT
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anybody got any Fahey on banjo handy?
“...bluegrass music gives you liberal ideas, perverse cravings, makes you horny, angry, antisocial, neurotic, criminal reptilian, sociopathic, lonely, unhappy, un-PC
EVIL....
“Mandolins and banjos are evil.
“Bluegrass music is the music of
PAN.”
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Mar 27, 2016 - 10:20pm PT
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i wish we could have a orchanstrationalized conversation on the majic of muzic and it's profound pounding upon our pulse that provokes emotionality.
i don't think monkey's or banana's could have this conversation, it might be neato tho!
there is the beat. And the beat goes on! Yea! Yea! and 3, and 4...
and that, inaquivitally, induces, or reduces.That where we may be at the moment.
then there's the words. Leastly as profound. and even more likely to be irrelevant. But sometimes words can strike a chord. Yea! Yea!
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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 28, 2016 - 05:36am 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 28, 2016 - 05:39am PT
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When I was working the tripod under the M St. bridge yesterday, a muttering voice was heard in back of me. I glanced around behind me and swear it was a troll! He didn't bother me, but he muttered on and on and I KNEW he wasn't talking to me or trying to say anything to me.
I moved the tripod back to the center of the bridge. Leaving, out of the corner of my eye, I saw that there was another homeless guy flopped out behind a screen of tall weeds. The troll had been muttering to him the whole time. They had a crib, a little nest, built above the path going under the bridge on the slope east of the concrete structure.
There is a similar one on that upstream side on the other bank. Unlike the G Street bridge understorey, the M Street bridge is pretty clean of the leavings of the homeless. It's a pleasant place, all in all, because it's 1--shady; 2--quiet, even though it's under a major thoroughfare; 3--I saw two ducks fly right through the opening from downstream.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Mar 28, 2016 - 05:40am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE
Some times three things mesh so well that an absolute denier of cosmic schist is forced in many ways to admit that
WOW a moment ago They ddid not have that tidbit , ages of a riff of a lost base player _ Whoosh a Key to a separate problem a life away from anything here, but some how that weird connect , - Dis-conectct takes place
The win wants more blues in E I jest, but only partly.
She knows what She likes when She hears it
And She won't be told what to listen to.
& she has no idea.
I have a few hints she liked Warren Zevon, and Tom Waits.
she liked the black Crows' singer's sound,
a fact which scares me, when the goal is NEW sounds
Not sure what New means... ???
wedded bliss separate tune travels ? We still kiss.
Now to matters more pressing. . .
[Click to View YouTube Video] Now I will bore you. . .
Which of these stands out as the one to have ! ?#1 From one of the best shows, of the best fall tours evha, October 29, 1977 - Evans Field House, Northern Illinois U, DeKalb, Il (Sat)
OR #2 OR The Classic that I have heard to many times to be objective anymore
and I recommend it with strong coffee for all that ails
[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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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2016 - 06:33am PT
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Letting out the history dogs for a run...let's take the bike trail.
M Street bridge has a bike path running under it, as do the G and R Street bridges. A cool hang in the summer when we were younger, this is a modern concrete structure, whereas the old bridge was a wooden one built in the thirties, the entire run of Bear Creek through town was a jungle, and the bums jungled up just down from the Highway 99 bridge and the railroad bridges.
Before that, there was the SPRR bridge, the YVRR bridge, the Hwy. 99 bridge, and the G Grade bridge. The R Street bridge came in the late forties when Castle AFB was new, employed thousands of people, and the airmen and other workers who lived in Merced who had to drive to the base needed a connection to the north side of the creek so they could take Santa Fe Drive, cutting the commute by several miles.
There was a tremendous housing crunch at that time. It wasn't until the base housing in Atwater was constructed that the situation came under control, eliminating the mass commute down Santa Fe. Meanwhile, the commander of the base (and his name wan't McNamara then) pressured the City Council and the county for another bridge at R Street.
The M Street bridge was put in because there was a need for a connection to the north side of Bear Creek other than the G Grade bridge. The Crocker-Huffman Company was the big ranch north of the creek, and they had thousands of acres out that way growing wheat and pasturing cattle. The County agreed to pay for the construction of the wooden bridge, while the City undertook the care and maintenance of it. Fair enough.
Got all that, DMT?
There was a wooden bridge at McKee Road, Kibby Road and another one at Arboleda Road, both way upstream from what was then "town." Now the city limits have moved and the McKee bridge is concrete, but the others are still wooden.
We have another bridge going in, I guess, to accommodate the new direct traffic connection between Hwy. 99 and the UC Merced campus.
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