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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 12, 2015 - 08:46pm PT
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Too cold, too cold!
What a masochistic pastime.
Ice climbing and ice surfing...zBrown, you're tweested, mi hermano.
The dog and cat show is much more viewer-friendly!
Her daintiness, the Skittish Miss, the "decider."This may be something like Punxatawney Phil's shadow ritual in the feline idiom. Quien sabe?
The Star Wars was actually the Bore Wars, a great black hole of immense dimensions and no talent. To be avoided.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 12, 2015 - 09:29pm PT
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Me with, . . .. I'm almost normal . . . Me without is abnormal.
There is so much snow and ice to clear around my abode that I tore some thing in my
upper abdomen under the left rib cage. It hit like a cramp when I lifted and tried to
straighten up from my shoveling toil.
It feels like a twist of . . . hey post up 'A Simple Twist of Fate', please,
I have not the patients is that the wrong spelling ? prolly is lazy and bad spelling too.
5 To ten below tonight , I used to love this siht, my old climbing partner , the one who has Ms and more friends then I, of all ages,
(damn bad form starting a sentence using the word:) Many ex vets, some in thier nineties, can get out in the cold or he used to, Now he too is old and we have not spoken since the holidays I fear his symptoms are attacking his systems it is a cruel illness and more so for a climber who pounded iron in the seventies.. His name is Jon Anderson a tall blond, proud son of Norwegian stock!
With a sharp wit, it was he who insisted that I use my moniker, GNOME OfTHE DIABASE.
Mouse his writing is incomprehensible, really amazing and he knows it sorry if he is lurking but I doubt he iis and if so Jon Phones work both ways dude, same with E mail .
the climb Crazy Cat in a Bandanna, CCB is his FA on what we called Hibernia, after the first Anglo settlers of the valley this maintaining my persona is still important although today I threw it out as it were if any one cares I will go fix that now. . .
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 12:09am PT
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Nobody outclimbs me! Just then a hawk nailed him.
It's called hubris.
I love those archaeology dudes and the anthropology gals.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 05:00am PT
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The claim is that he was sober."But happy hour's always the prelude to the sunset, right?"
Gnome, you need SPEEDY shutter speed to capture birds so they don't blur. Gypsy says so, and it's as true as what the little yellow bird tells me, too.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 13, 2015 - 05:06am PT
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I asked you NOT to post any telling pictures that might show my true age or that my mother
(or her snakes) might recognize!
WTF i thought we had reached that understanding .
well the cat. . . is out of the bag
( hey how did you photo shop off my bandanna?)
Now all of taco land and it's lurkers know who I am.
I am a monkeez uncle.
By way of a test the nexy uploadz as da boyz in Gaza or really Giza but that like the tank of the chevy truck don't rhyme as well as Dodge and hopeless truedat in Gaza.
(pic of J. Garcia at Giza)
WE hail from Spitz, and the wife's family from Gratz, Austria.
( pic. of map section showing river towns inculiding Spitz,)
As for Dah f. dada,
his farm or grandpa's farm, really it was here:
( pics of great grand dad leon Spitz,(2) The view of the hillsides of the river market town of Spitz, taken from a river cruise ship,HInderhaus in Spitz,. . . .///
test fail as you see I have some stuff that you can see but not from me cause the smiling fake Frontier Buffalo that is a bison will not play nice with Cmac's servers of some techy shite about slow up and down load speeds.Fdit It took three days to get half of what I wanted Said and shown . . . Boo Hiiss!
it is bad enough that I can Not share these, worse is that the Fair Gypsy posted
"All Hail Lennon and Marx" over on the camp4 pics thread . That album is one, that forty years on, I can still recite verbatim, ( not verbate um) like gospel or the Kol Nidrea,http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4955739 the morners Kiddush, or the prayer for the dead in the old testament not that I have any jewishish, roots my friendz.
Probably why I am attracted to the flames, Catholic guilt for not being any of the above.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 06:13am PT
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Pretty tough, coming from such a wee punk.
Let's go settle it in the woodshed. :0)
This calls for something Really Big.Down Patagonia Way.
Show me round those great big mountains way down south.
Take me to your daddy's farm.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 06:51am PT
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Better run away.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 06:55am PT
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Obviously, many of the above photos were scanned from various Nat. Geo. mags.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 13, 2015 - 06:58am PT
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It was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure I beat this guy one-on-one in basketball. Either him or his brother. Put a band-aid on it and stop whining.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 11:56am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
My Morning Whine.
http://www.drweil.com/drw/u/ART00454/Ayurvedic-Medicine.html
Weil I'm on the topic of ayurvedic medicine...I'd like a dollar for each Andrew Weil book I ever rang through the register as a bookseller...I'm pretty sure that the symptom of COPD known as "tired all the time" is the result of loss of sleep, rather than, say, anemia or other causes. I'm lucky to get any real sleep.
Whenever, or nearly so, I lie down prone, the sinuses start emptying and I begin coughing and then need to sit up and cough and spit up, which leads to sitting on the edge of the bed with my head down catching my breath and thinking how miserable I am--for long stretches, until I feel myself keeling over sideways, many times.
And the same holds true of my sitting in the can. (I heard a line the other day from Victor Victoria to the effect that going to the bathroom is a religious experience and I tend to agree.) I've found that the "position" wherein I'm most comfortable is elbows on knees, head down, breathing much better, but falling asleep on the can's not "all that."
I use this position in the recliner, sitting on the forward edge, facing the floor, trying to breath normally. It seems to help.
I've heard from a friend that certain mushrooms are effective in treating breathing disorders like asthma. I'll be checking it out if it's not prohibitively expensive.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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Feb 13, 2015 - 04:25pm PT
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Here, Mouse.
I drink mullein tea and also smoke it instead of using my (steroid) inhaler. My asthma is almost entirely gone since I quit using corp. pharma stuff as much as possible. Actually, I realize I have not been on any corp. pharma for a while now.
Anyway, here is some reading on mullein for asthma and breathing problems:
Mullein for Asthma | LIVESTRONG.COM
http://www.livestrong.com/article/461732-mullein-for-asthma/;
Make Your Own Lung-Healing Herbal Tea with Mullein - Organic ...
http://www.organicauthority.com/health/mullein-herbal-tea.html;
Herb to Know: Mullein (Verbascum thapsus) - Mother Earth Living
http://www.motherearthliving.com/.../herb-to-know-mullein-verbasc#m-thapsus. aspx
Mullein tea is a traditional treatment for respiratory problems, such as chest colds, bronchitis and asthma. Mullein leaf tea is slightly bitter; a tea of the flowers is ...
I hope if you decide to use the mullein that it helps. Mullein grows wild across most of the US. It can also be ordered online, I think. I harvest my own from around one of my apple trees. I think the apple tree helps with the taste. I sometimes add a little silver sage to the mullein, and maybe a bit of mint as well. Let me know if you need more info.
feralfae
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 13, 2015 - 04:31pm PT
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[url="Beautiful https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bouquet+of+flowers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8"]Beautiful https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=bouquet+of+flowers&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8[/url]
Such cool stuff
AS zbrown said, a dada opus here (, Zen MASTER ! YOU ARE)thanks for helping
Beautiful flowers were my idea that zbrown was kind enough to link for me as my server is as slow as dial up and wait.
Then
to ensure that Man boy,
The great Latch an' grab Saint Sharma,
In his dharma pose,
would end this page . . .
He cut off his nose to spite his face & deleted the Link to valentines flowers.
That's alright as I have now restored the Link.
I hope to add a bunch of rat race stuff to save face,
(thanx Ms FeralFae), I'll try the tea.
also more the jJaybird(wife, for those not already onboard) than myself(allergies) has asthma
she /we both try to vary the various potions and pills to kill the mucus and save ourselves:
to remove mucus,
stinging nettle,taken daily as a supplement,
With (now over the counter ) Flonase nasal spray or, Zertec, taken daily to inhibit phlegm production,
In the later in the evening but not to soon before bed, has left Me Hackless till wracked,
(military for in place to sleep)
that leaves me almost, almost able to sleep.
But not in a prone position, nothing lets me sleep on my side or back and I must be on an incline.
The jJay bird snores as apnea prevails,
It is Mold And Dust mites and random stuff that sets her off, too.
thus concludes the Rx segment of our fare word play.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 07:05pm PT
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Hay there zBrown.
Thanks for the bouquet.
I'll just pass it along to feralfae, amyjo, neebee, & Gypsy.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 13, 2015 - 09:17pm PT
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All I want is to breathe
(I'm too thin)
Won't you breathe with me?
Find a little space, so we move in-between
(In-between it)
And keep one step ahead, of yourself
--from Born Under Punches, David Byrne
Thanks for the advice and comfort--this "flare-up" of COPD is nearing its climax, I hope.
That is all I can hope for at this point...anything more, like mullein tea or reishi mushroom tincture or cordyceps fungi will have to "wait a minute."
I feel sort of like a grunt in the jungle,
going through this jungle of a life,
every so often getting my feet bound up in "wait-a-minute vines."
I stop and untangle the blasted things,
then rise up only to find my buddies have gone on,
and the bush looks all the same in every direction.
Now is the time to check the compass,
rather than to shout out to the rest of the squad.
I am beginning to feel old, as well.
I found a good copy of the February 2013 collectors' special of the Smithsonian magazine in the room set aside for reading next to the laundry room on the mezzanine.
Here is the final object photographed for that issue.
Baltimore seamstress Mary Pickersgill made the giant flag that flew over Fort McHenry. Francis Scott Key took some lyrics from a poem he'd written in 1805 and they were set to a tune from the mother country: "To Anacreon in Heaven," a popular English drinking song.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Feb 14, 2015 - 05:03am PT
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Yes that was the Idea please tell all
Happy Valentines day.
Ugh , this real is getting dull,
it takes on a Unfinished sort of drain
On My system to leave this to post till it does...
That could happen or not in twenty minutes
Or an hour
OH MY STARZ IT WORKED!!
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Feb 14, 2015 - 07:15am PT
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Here is a bluebird just to bring you happiness Mr. Mouse and all
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Feb 14, 2015 - 07:28am PT
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Thank you, "cheep-sy."
That was tweet of you.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Feb 14, 2015 - 08:25am PT
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Manson's bride-not-to-be stole this from The Beatles, I'm stealing it back.
Did yhou hear where she only wanted him for his [dead] body.
I think the wedding is off.
"Goggling in the rat race empire"™©®
Happy VD all. All you need is love.
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