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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 - Jun 18, 2016 - 07:55pm PT
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Jun 18, 2016 - 08:21pm PT
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MFM, the last one of Gnome in camo is exquisite.
I might as well post this here on the Flames, as this is about flames in the making, sort of.
Wow! It is just so incredibly beautiful up here in Fairbanks, even with the skeeters
settling in for a long drink. And the entire range was visible today although we
had a bit of smoke in the air. It doesn't get dark now, and everyone is doing things
until we are so exhausted we must get some sleep. I was pulling weeds at
midnight last night, and then decided to be responsible and rest for a while.
We get a lot done! And Solstice parties are being planned. I've been gathering
kindling for the Mountain Dragon Fire Pit. And mosquito coils, too. I've cleaned
and weeded the entire area, and the dragons are ready for people.
I hope that sometime in the future, you will all get up here for visit, or
to have a place to sleep as you prepare to head off on a climb.
The architect is designing an enclosed, 4-season sleeping area for
hammocks to be slung. And there are suitable hammock-friendly
trees, too. For those of us with creaky old bones, there will be a
couple of guest rooms. There is a lot to get done, but the vision
remains sound.
It is just incredibly beautiful, especially once you get out of town.
Oh, hey, Mouse? Congratulations on the great improvement in the
stair climbing. You are well on your way to being back on the stone. Bravo!
ff
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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 - Jun 18, 2016 - 11:19pm PT
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Always nice to hear your exploits.
Exquisite means beauty delicately expressed.
SA Gnome is just a cover name. He's on a delicate mission.
I Can't Say anything about that, of course, but I can critique that image.
It took me TEN LONG MINUTES this evening to figure out what was there.
"Gnome" is Hardly Visible, but so is a large percentage of the image.
It's rather a perfect model. Not Gnome, the idea of exquisiteness.
Hardly Visible is beautiful, even if he is or is not Gnome.
Would it surprise you all to find out that "Gnome" is really Hardly Visible?
He's not just a gnome, he's the world's biggest troll.
Interruption.
Sorry. Gremlins.
Now, this image we speak about is a tropical image, correct?
That's how I see it.
I bet most do, and the rest...meh.
If it were in the state of Alaska, it would be easy to do something of a Santa Claus nature, though he's an elf, not a gnome, I know.
We could set up a shoot based on the old galoot.
We could shoot it in your home or I know a guy in Nome...etc blah-blah etc.
Dream on.
Flame on.
Who do ya put the blame on?
I'm allergic to voyaging afar
I'm pretty ok in a car
But AK is all buggy
And the air is so muggy
I am much better off where I are
I would consider Australia.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 19, 2016 - 05:05am PT
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Waugh
sayin' so is only so-so, if it is time, then it is time go go.
Say Waugh , if you do , saying so in certain Asians, ( not Azn, ghost?that is Wong of you )
Neighborhoods, will most like Lee, make you surrender.
Don't give up ( the ghost, wouldn't and he is my next pharaoh.
I'm still enthralled and appalled that while his mastery, if the pacific North west was
Easily confirmed.
Who! - With Roper! - And Steve was no fainting angle, weeping for J ( ay ) Salatha
And too with Steck he does stay
Wo, & wow thems is royalty
A climbers who's who, that I both cursed and marvels at
when I went regarding the Master Hersay's death
The o see why my friend met his match on an old trade route
When he had soloed harder, if no higher
Cathedral time, had made me do it, as the mourning was in the morning
The climbing, In The Afternoon.
What route !
that stupid big guys have no idea that ,
that it is called the narrows !
Is a joke!
If your weak or short ,
You better sport a better sense than to try to
Bridge, I did and failed, slip dgeing
thwack!
as to chimney there ?
It is an obstacle
To be fair, a bit of leg length
Is all that called for, to ascend that rent.
I went. It stands out but for many reasons
Derek met his match, a cloud burst of vu,
It spit down on him turning dust to goo
I miss him, . . .. .. .. ,!!!., ah,
& more recent the Just another lizard, grabbing at peace,Richie Copland too.
How's the winter of my youths discontent? Just fine like, Fry , I tell you.
When one is missing the meany chip, and foul words have fueled your younger life,
The cat box was rife with fun and a place for the abandoned
To feel NO Abandonment
Where the hell is
WATUSI?
SteamBoat?
Springs to mind ,
Rich bitch, he was the ring leader when I was there
King of the hags, & Sandbags!
Where the hells
Way use, I still owe him a punch,
May be a hug, en' then 'unch 'im 'n da
Wait wait wait
As low the name is on the tip, about to fall out,
The Tall Glass of Water that was
Mike Head, his routes are all sandbags
If your under say six foot.
Seems unfair to have blasted Gordo as mere hotel keep,
It was the closet thing to a climb Ming Commune I've ever got to reside at,
There are saints there are way more sinners, tucker tech fits right but no one quite
Like all climbers come as you are
the legend. .. .. .. The highest priest of that show and all thanks go
To
The TOD GORDON!
Happy Father's Day
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 19, 2016 - 07:38am PT
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all fair
I want to apologize,
There are so many that I wanted to Lionize, & acknowledge
this is not as easy, as it looks, it takes focus
that i lack,
and coming back,
short and sweet this is meant for all of you!
& most assuredly to the Newist Dad among us Too.
that I'm aware of
but
io, I will not Speak his Name. . .
And On fathers DAY I SAY
HAIL TO THE TWO GRANDDADS OF ALL OF US
JOHN GILL
&
John STANNARD
Both of whom are the most responsible for what the best climbers still
aspire to. . .
[Click to View YouTube Video]HAP{P}Y FATHERS{out and back ]DAY!
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 19, 2016 - 07:58am PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Very entertaining, and a Cliff Hanger, to say the least.
Happy Father's Day Everyone!!!
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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 - Jun 20, 2016 - 02:46am PT
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"It’s my natural form of expression now. I’ve always played as much blues as the traffic would bear, starting out with the Butterfield Band in the 1950s. In the 1970s and ’80s, what the traffic would bear was damn little."
Who said it?
Traffic - Empty Pages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRH0CGVK7ic
^^^Seems unfair to have blasted Gordo as mere hotel keep...
Welcome to the Magnificent Brokedown Palace Hotel.
Warren Harding bivied here.
He brought his own wine to table.
Bit of a snob.
RFK once sat in the bar, drunk as a skunk,
telling lies about J Edgar and Hoffa and Marilyn.
Hans Gmoser tried to sleep here one night,
but was kept awake and itching by bed-bugaboos,
or so he claimed.
He spent the rest of the night on Mrs. Harding's floor.
Next to Batso.
Elvin Bishop stayed here and took the pledge the next day.
Hasn't had a drop since.
Todd Gordon wouldn't set foot in the place.
Napoleon from Naples ate in the dining room.
He ate enough for an army that night
and then he walked the check.
Dillis Millis posted about the Bivy Ledge,
the official name of the dining room/refectory here at MBP, on Yelp,
saying, "I barfed on the check when I was paying
and they gave us our the meal for free.
It would have been easy to have walked the check,
but this was WAY more fun."
Ottowa Doug climbed the NW Face with only bolts.
Our insurance specified no free climbing on the exterior.
He used the elevator on descent.
"I was scared shitless in that cage for six floors of hell,"
he claimed before a judge.
"But the bolt route was spicy."
Reservations cam be made at 209-hotelca or Google yergonnacheckout.com
WOW! Thank the Gnomette and Mrs. Gnome. That was...'swell.'
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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 - Jun 20, 2016 - 03:51am PT
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"Come down from your throne and leave your body alone."
Either we're going to have the first black POTUS followed by the first female Potusi or Frillary will be trumped by The Donald.
We were going to have the first GS back-to-back championships or we were going to celebrate Cleveland's first ANYTHING.
Go Broncos!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 20, 2016 - 06:11am PT
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I moving it from a page back and it is the bip of a bump, now
erased from the shoe advice thread. Where
The American Legend, dub, Bob Van bella,
needs children's shoe recommendations, and I in my
Confused state posted it there by mistake,
Some times happens
Stream of un consciousness, forget what & where I am at.
Push
Post this Reply
Boom it sure don't belong in that thread
What to do
But delete it ?
Leave it?
Seems fraught with inappropriate thread hijack
So I un
Now to take what follows here , .. .. .. .. Back from there.
& put it here hear what I'm saying?
The towers. O!
The white standing things behind Cosmic,
in the picture posted above. . .
Ionic breeze machines!
Mine have all burnt out gotten thrown out,
Long ago.
They were the bomb to help the wife breath ,
What are they doing outside?
I guess that mine too, after not working
stood around for years too.
so
Just "another happy lizard for peace"
Now and then I make like a long lost friend, to some, I am
Why. Have we not spoken much lately?
Is my reprobate, parked east coast, ass a disgrace?
Did you get that Evel & Gnome went climbing, my shoes
All my kit really, caused regular peels of laughter. In between fascination
At the 1st gen, worked into oblivion condition.
Apparently rounded cams are no good? Who new...
between beers, A case of cheap cans, (Evel, they weren't the warmest Yuelingers I ever ate)
people throwing my gear away into the woods
'cause the stiff spots in the webbing was a concern( not to me)
the thrower then giving me what ever the current desposibal dental floss is?
to make up for it,
all of it?
it was not a favorite moment. I fell off ~where one must not~ On a 5.8!
My Over weight ass need to be hauled up six feet! Not epic. Just embarrassing.
Unless, you think that a nod to the wife as I left in the morning when she handed me
Her To Big for me, but 3 years' new almost un-used harness, to use.
So if I wiggled it slid over where ,a glutamus maximums used to be.
This was not a problem to me, it made others throw up there hands,
and insisted I add a chest sling,
I proceed to climb the rest of the day (2climbs, 4piches)
in 15 Y'R old Dot rubber, smoothed to flat, Scarpas 'Mojito' approach shoes.
I'm the king of used climbing shoes & dude, I had no way
of knowing that you had a vertical belt sander. A pro! I know you told me
that you could do resoles, & had done lots.
I have tried to, without success.
3-4 pairs, more than 20 yrs ago, & I made a mess of things. . .
so that is why I doubted you.
That was a big mistake. Apologies and a beg your forgiveness please.
I have just sent a paypal payment and am waiting on some 25 year
old used shoes from Mnt Prj,
I have a small foot that I broke all to fck, yrs ago it is almost a true 39.5 while the
normal, full range of motion, left foot is a 40.5. So that's is what I ware.
With a plastic/leather orthotic stuffed into the right shoe, to take up space.
I no longer make the claim that :
"if it is sticky and stays on my feet I can climb in it"
I'm to old for that hero schst, I need stiff board lasted properly fit climbing shoes.
How old are those Aces, size 8?
That is the 40.5 thing do you have 7.5 in a right shoe or boot?
When/if the purchase off the m project, gets to me if,the Scarpas,
( I hope they fit ) need a sole can you do the fix ?
Anyway I'm missing - lost in my mess,
Your facts
Your info please.
If my lack of classical religious faith has us cross fences I would be
Very sad. I respect, and had a religious background.
I have a personal realationship with Jesus,
I was saved, born again, in the late 80s went to church just last October,
if that matters.
I am very conflicted
my . . . .?
this got strange,
so I'm stopping .
, ,. ,, ,, if anything I've said or done has you putting me on that list,
I beg you have pity it must be the flashes, or the bashes to the head I have taken.
oh, & I now blame Mike Paul, Watusi, for sending me on Loose Lips,
I think it must have been his good idea,
as memory fades that still was not funny!
I, @ 5 foot 2 inches, at best
( back then it was more close to 5 foot then I like to admit )
I came so close to taking that fall,
it remains A nightmare that I have in times of high stress.
To explain; there was, in the camp ground of note,
a huge thing that hung over the place like a sail.
A visor or tiers, that flexed, as you crossed it,
to escape past to a sloping top.
But just before that top, this visor was unattached for a short span the crux,
grasping At grit,
all palms & shjt,
while bending over, loosing foot purchase,
screaming did help, as I had to belly flopp up, three inches at a time,
till I could throw a heel up, so slimed on my side,
a mile from any good pro, and the bad pro threatening
to expand the tier, & under force of a fall rip the off rock .
They say it fell down?
What did? the whole visor/tier?
Is the dihedral, leading to the business, still there?
Repeating myself, with that loose lips crap.
Hope you are well, that your pain is not swelling the knees
(I phooked-up mine planting trees)
Get out in the heat? ( I'm not good in that +85-90degree zone)
Seems like the high country or inside for this gnome.
Be well see you in the funny pages.
With real love & affection
Your east coast reporter
Un stoned for the moment, ( I bought the used shoes instead )
From small rock hell
Gnome
Not edited for rational thought, or typos. . .
Can you hear me 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 - Jun 20, 2016 - 06:39am PT
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One two tie the shoe.
Oh, my, what'll I do?
"Huck it...but do it before Cosmic sees it."
--TrumpleBum
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 20, 2016 - 07:50am PT
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It seems like only yesterday it was safe for those cows out there in Potrero. Now, they're gonna have trouble getting home on time. Courtesy of the UCSD Los Pinos Mountain Campus Webcam.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Happened to click onto the best 11 places to buy a vacation home.
Potrero was not on the list, however, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Bulgaria and Hungary were. Offering up some net neutraility, Cleveland was not mentioned (nor Akron).
P&G, P&G, P&G (What locals yell when attending victory parades in Ohio. Clearly the biggest winner of all time. Disclaimer. I was offered employment with the Proctor & Gamble company).
Getting a little impatient I ff'd to number 11 -> Philippines.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 21, 2016 - 08:46am PT
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Jun 21, 2016 - 09:41am PT
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An Invitation to Lemming's Landing
Politicians, lobbyists, mass shooters, and zealots,
Pedophiles and corporations selling guns and bullets,
There's a place that you can be,
Satisfied and worry free,
There's an open invitation for all those so repellent,
Step right up and feel the breeze,
No one cares if you're a sleaze,
It's your chance to be forgiven,
For the sh#t you pulled while livin,'
You can go out on your feet instead of on yer' knees,
So step right up now all you buggers,
To Lemmings Landing and meet the sluggers,
Step right up to the edge,
No back room deals to hedge,
Your admission has been paid by all the souls you've made to suffer,
Lemming's Landing is there there for all you partners in greed,
And there's never enough power to satisfy a politician's need,
For every psychotic killer,
And sociopath who loves a thriller,
The drop is long enough to think of what you've done before you bleed,
Now you've earned your invitation to launch from Lemming's Landing,
So step right up and step right off it isn't too demanding,
Now drop yer' cocks and grab yer' socks,
There's sharks down there below the rocks,
We'll give a little push so there's no misunderstanding.
-bushman
06/21/2016
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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 - Jun 21, 2016 - 10:25am PT
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^^^No, their lives' endings will not be televised.
And it's too late for them to be saved from the rocks by rock and roll.
But thanks for asking. You must be Canadian! Right?
For Jim Brennan, dude.
One fine mornin', she puts on a New York station
And she couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine-fine-fine-fine music
Ooohhh, her life was saved by rock 'n' roll
Hey baby, rock 'n' roll
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Come on make it easy
Say I never mattered
Run it up the flagpole
We will teach you
How to make
Boys next door
Out of as#@&%es
[Click to View YouTube Video]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Save_Rock_and_Roll
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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 - Jun 21, 2016 - 12:15pm PT
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Well, swell. In fact, that's just
"fine-fine, fine-fine"
with me-me.
Break it down, Mimi.Free Solo
by the Zepellin-led Singers
I have seen the writing on the wall.
Don't think I need anything at all.
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all.
I'll just climb alone.
You heard me, I'll just climb alone!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jun 21, 2016 - 03:14pm PT
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Say there mi amigos y compadres y compadressas
Were there Jack-in-the-Box drive throughs up there yonder?
I don't recall ever seeing any.
I'm sure most of the main drags had train track running down the middle, right?
Not far from where the camper shell truck is parked was where the Wolfman had his "studio".
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Jun 21, 2016 - 06:44pm PT
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. . % of missin' words ? My math skills suck, but there was a whole lot of this and that,
A mention of 1903 & 1911 Owenvile , some good but unretrievable now stuff , you can wiki it
Also a further rehash of the Warriors /Cleveland game 6 & 7, what I felt was crap, crazy rational that in the big games they don't call , what ever , & it was A no call constant, like the
Striped shirts had swallowed their whistles.
, thanking zB & agreeing, that pointless as it is after the fact, it was three things King James was guilty of
Touching ring ( ha slyzeCruzer was right ne. rim ) also strictly defined, the ball, as it was real easy to see, was at the edge of the imaginary cone was thus off limits to be interfered with and.
some may claim that it happened instantaneously (which is the point) or fast, lumbrtron trapped the bal rolling it by hand back away from the net, so the ~Hand~Ball~backboard, contact happened simultaneously( in the definition of the violation?) Then watching the star
athletes, everyone of the players stopped, hesitated, anticipating a whistle, that never came.
You know, I never say it as well the second time, this has me more and that plus Motor vehicle
And then the year ago snag of a new old computer which sat wanting coins thrown at it,
Frustrated. the newHarddrive kept by the previous owner ( logic board? / mother board ?)for the ?7 yr old Computer (that is kind to me) so golden
The HD loaded physically,
check it , it ran . . won't, ,.? now upgrade any thing., ,'? mac,
So obviously /maybe / or cross, fingers not/ pre Yosemite OPS software
I 'm. ,Off route, , , , , for me . . .
Not my department to be obvious,, but this pushes the joystick all the way up kind of palm to face.
Mrs Gnome feels the stress & pain.
I'll say no more.
Things in swirling heat of summer urban travels not sure haven't tried but
Coins is bahn ( how is boehner, bainer? ) I tried in vane(ER) to purchase new old shoes,
now it seems a pair of old Scarpas of unknown condition or SIZE are due.
The story not worth repeating surfice to say I paid a bit into some Fogals' trip to the meadows & the Valley.
The man is a brutally honest guy ( better than you or I ) ie, posted that he had found and retrieved one stuck not and would return it, for which he caught flack & ridicule on the lost & FOUND, thread. ( over there that led, to the moderation of a good effort to return said to be excised, sent to the trash, thread posting to lost & found thread deleted.
so if he says, it was an honest mistake, I believe him. It was some thing to do with his lack of organization, a trait that one needed,
(more back in the day? ) to climb successfully , in your ditch anyway.
So also I'm, or my troubles are to blame the drivers license fiasco, on going
delayed my
Prompt follow through, then I tried to us a link he provided, that took the payment but did not go thru. the 1st try, it did the next ,
and as any good climber would do with paltry funds but a stash of gear
bought & paid for, by a distant, copesestic (sp) slow to respond buyer, benefactor,
Young Dave headed mid week before Barry's vist to get some I kid you not , Leanna's & Five Books action!
So then when getting my e-corespondence, it came as a poke both o him & me.
His pictures never showed the toes of the un- know, but guessed at sized gone black from original green I hope Scarpas. The original owner
Wanted it known, that he was hanging up his harness & shoes and planning on Suffing out the rest of his days,,,,,, you lucky bastards, my ocean is colder harder to find rideable swells
I can't surf I've said to my own demise all most I have tried, repeatedly .
So added to that the slight lack of any fortitude to fight gremlins in this Shablet
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from Philadelphia to New York City(1900- 198_?) That a NY times writer would use that metaphor ???
any way good stuff, thanks.
and further more the coyote pup & the Bear taking a shower, not together, hmmm that would make for a cute video. . . for about 10 seconds then the big guy would have lunch.... any way it has been a pleasure to share with the kiddletts 'round here.
[Click to View YouTube Video] apparently as per the captions this is a pet bear?!
And even more what was the thing with the picture of the distraught bride?
I only get 25, min on the machine....
my glistening vibra foam detector went off, and I was censored,. not censured but it got me thinking &^yer darn tootin right , I'm glad to be here and not trying to survive in triple digit heat .
I know I'm told it is a dry oven so not braised just baked.
now that sounds like i might
teeny winds blow so that breezes will know when to bring down the boughs,
or read Boroughs
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