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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Welcome to fry day?
I'm not got time tho yo
Garbage collection day - delayed by the. 4th so.....
I'm on it,
You know it takes a lot of time to read this
Shjt,
it
is hard to read it when it is so good?
I'm not got time .....?
oh now
I'm repeating my self?
Bye?
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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 - Jul 8, 2016 - 08:31am PT
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From "Dog Diaries" by Sheeba the Shepherd,
beloved canine star of TV and the silver screen.
Sit. Stay.
In a normal voice. Once.
Followed by Good Dog.
Perfect.
No begging.
That's a good one. Haha!
Fetch.
What a canine's purpose is.
So treat me like your bitch and I'll love you in return.
If I had a tail, I'd wag it when you walked by.
But you wanted it docked. That's cool. I knocked a lot of stuff off tables as a pup, so it's just as well.
I would sniff your crotch but don't want to get told I'm bad, so it's all good.
Is it dinner time yet?
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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 - Jul 8, 2016 - 11:07am PT
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It's been years since I wrote this and posted it to the old Flames thread.
I'm glad I found it.
It's Not Bedlam Yet
It's not bedlam,
as I have said otherwhere.
sung in the key of tranquility
with the passion reserved for Ruler of My Heart
I have my poetry.
The key is tranquility.
Just ask miss neebee
sha she'll tell ya
I would write this bad god dang news
Some sad old natural blues
If I could play the ivories
Instead of these keys
When you are gone I'll not wish you would come back
I'll wait patiently
Maybe go to sleep at the wheel
Of this semi-load of blues
I'm so tired and I hate to be alone
I'd give you a call on the telephone
But you seemed like you want to be alone
Feel like death-dog chewing on my bone
Oh, I feel like howling at the moon
I feel dogged-down just like a coon
Told me you're going away real real soon
Too dang soon
three months left
the doctors say
nothing left
gone away
just like
"snap your finger"
I happened to see this endpaper in my old notebook with addresses and rants (mostly justifiable) and ideas and idle crap. Liz gave me the notebook long ago in the nineties.Triste, non?
FYI & FWIW,
Nostalgia sometimes strikes deep,
Into your life it can creep,
Starts when you're losing your way,
Get back in line, you're wasting the day.
And now the predictable nostalgic snapshots, mainly of Flames & known associates. Many are from Gypsy, who hasn't checked in recently.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Its a green lightthe hing is that on the schablet every action is manual,those two shots are taken looking around 180 degrees, while in the swamp. Now this is where that comment about it being a manual labor thing.
Do you remember that swap boat picture? See this is the crux of climbing for me
Access via the shortest walk,
The best rock lies just past the swamp. In 4 or 5 cases the most direct way to the. .?
What to call it ? ,,,The garden teed virgin rock ! Is trough some
sort of swamp or across a stream with swampy banks.
This winter I strung a line from bank to bank at one spot
It could be a prime spot next to the posh Recreation Center .
They have the ability & space all sorts of interest, and the rock.
I could see a full time guide service if someone wanted to do that.
The line that I set as best I could, is off by 20 feet this wet year. But will get one from swampy edge to swampy edge. I can't find a partner for these antics, mainly because of TICS,
The snakes don't bother Brett as much as they do me.
Brett Malone? Anyone? Anyone know him from Cali?
No I figured not
So this guy sees me with my kids in the town pizzeria parking lot, and points to me and says
Hey! I know you!
I look both ways, then like a deer in the head lights & squeezing both kids hands tight,
I reply No you must be mistaken, you don't me just someone that looks like me. Brett insists,
You taught me climbing & saved my life!
I have no memory of the man in front of me, salt 'n pepper hair, middle age swell around the middle . . . Glasses ..... I try to shift back in time?
This is always so embarrassing, many reasons for memory loss, but one has to try.
I sputter, telling the kids to run inside, you got me I'm sure if you give me a hint it will come back to me.
He says Sundown, it means nothing to me, he says
" I'm Brett you saved me when I soloed up Sundown,
you were working the next climb over, it was big don't you remember?
You jumped up threw in some gear, tied me in and knocked me off!
That sounds like something I would have done.
Brett tells me I was pissed off at him, and that we never spoke again. Until then.
Brett is a fukU kinda cat, so am I so it was that's that, for sure, now it is 30 years latter!
So
Here we are,
but I have already worn him out with all sorts of trudging through woods.
Climbs that are to hard for both of us,
and it really irks him that I live where I do
and he paid twice as much for the same thing
a falling down seventies shack, set in a neighborhood.
His is in Poshtown, and we'll set, a good location. In fact it was on a lake when he bought.
The dead beaver? That was from his ponds far side, so now someone has drained the pond and set to trying to claim the RealEstate
Drifting drifting drifting away on the lack of focus of a new day
Hey I've found a lawn mower for $180
It's a win win for me a new ish is safer for the boy to use.
It is just a front wheel craftsman walk behind , the same that's served me well since forever,
Blanchard was a child when I started mowing lawns ha! Take that I'm a wreck. Can ya seedz
It it all down hill skillz that got me here the climbing has just been in the way but I like it So
Sow buttons
All this and none of that
So shoot me
I'll be able to get to make this make some sense
Or not........... Later
sorry to mess & not clean up right away
shoe in's for where Waldo
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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I'm off to the hospital to visit my daughter in law, she's out of ICU and out of the woods for now but still semi conscious with impaired memory, motor function, and speech. She has long ways to go to get back, if ever. I'll be there for a little while for moral support. Or later, it's a tough row.
I'll leave you with this.
The Robins Fall
The boy at play he
hunts for sport
And cuts the hapless robin's
life too short
And the robin says
tweet tweet tweet tweet
for all his worth
As cursed
The bird falls back to earth
Like Icarus they flew
all for naught
With his genius and
his spiritous dearth
Unlike the bird
Icarus had pluck
Yet he and his boy
they never thought
The sun would melt
the feathers
from their wings
And like their feathered friend
the robin
they had bad luck
-bushman
07/08/2016
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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I've not prayed and will not I've read what you said.
It's a brave new world to them,
They think they are the only ones to do
But you & I know, what can one say, I love you to a teenager won't do
So her grandpa,
Iknow you feel like you will have the right words
And me being a presumptive htsaz, I'm still going to add tell her this:
After this,
Life does you hard, there is no escaping that
if you do drugs or drink now that they have almost taken you,
you will be weaker to the lure, & need to take
Deadly life wrecking amounts of crap, so listen to Granpa ,
Or it'll be the po-Po.
I am so sorry, that it is your child's child! Hands to hold and hands hold & scold just where to draw the line is it the child or the life? It is my biggest fear, I'm so cavalier about use,
Knowing that it always leads to abuse. Still I jest about injesting , maybe I shouldn't?
Karma isssss a bish
the bottle holds sway over my 26 yr old nephew, and his younger brother,
he is identity confused, but off to Egland & Oxford college, not that that makes his mental state at all OK
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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Well, I'm not going out there today, the family doesn't want anybody bothering her because she needs to sleep and it will be a busy weekend with people trying to visit. I am going to give my son a ride out there Monday and I will visit her then. She went in with C-diff 2 weeks ago, went into a coma for two days, and then came out of it with impairments, but not before they found a mass pressing on her left frontal lobe which will have to be diagnosed and treated soon. More about this later on the sobriety thread to which this is related.
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Bushman
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The state of quantum flux
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On another note; Emma, one of my two labs, has gone blind due to her diabetes. She is going through a lot of adjustments trying to learn how to negotiate the world without sight, and I'm still working on trying to get her glucose levels down to an acceptable level with the right insulin dosage (with the help of the vet). Otherwise she is pretty happy (as far as I can tail waggingly tell), just skinny as a rail due to the diabetes, and I am working on trying to get her more protein and fat in her diet and less carbs and sugar. More on that later, hell, I'm going for my bike right now.
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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That's disturbing Cosmic, better get that looked at, stat!
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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"I've not prayed and will not I've read what you said."
That was supposed to say "I've not pried and will not I've read what you said." ! Damnit
I pray all the time for Christ sake!
Oops that's not funny here's that boat if you want to call a muck-scupper a boat.
Now back to looking for my snaps of the greatest no climbing allowed climbing zone in the lower 48, the New Jersey Palisades ... On the west side of New York City across the Hudson River.
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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 - Jul 8, 2016 - 08:00pm PT
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"New York City!?!?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesilla,_New_Mexico
Mesilla 88046
Home of CHILO'S CHILE.
The Perfection of Peppers and Tomatoes from the Land of Enchantment.
Here's something which I found (I think it's Jaybro on the cover, but I may be wrong) when I Googled Climbing Peppers.Beginning to smell like Guargoyle Lunchmeat left out in the sun too long.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Cunning linguists, all!
.....the 'Waits' "Waltzing"is not working but it is a well know favorite
I know well
Wow
I had to double check what thread I'd clicked on then I laughed, Ha ha HoHo !
Absolutely great individual & as a set that was . . . you set me back an hour
not that today has been a problem. I've been trying to keep the full family unit stoked for not much.
So the boredom is at its peak, I found a 'wolf show' I want to capitalize that I know,
I just don't want to jinx it, dumb, but the Boy & Girls are board.. . ? is that right?
Bored, that's better
It's steamy hot, actually, not that bad weather in comparison much of the rest of the lower 48.
Flooding, fires, stupid hot heat, I'm sweaty when walking hard and pinning for ice cream
To Sichuan a voice in my head screams Alphonse, that works, so far. .?
To which not Sichuan? Not that there is any thing wrong with sichuan, I'm not going to capitalize that either ; superstitious . . . Stupid auto correct! Can't spell To Which, but
Pops out superstitious !
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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 - Jul 9, 2016 - 05:48am PT
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Dedicated to Ron Ganderson.
This one reminds me of a piece of Candy Corn.
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Be reborn each day.
"Has fear of fat stolen Halloween? Fat is the question."--Shakesknife
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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A Daughters, fathers' panic:
To easy & im late, will you pay for the. . . .
Here it comes a word that is as verboten around here in my life as in the papalickerers,( sorry)
I am always amazed at what a conservative I married.
It is the ying and yang of it that makes it work.
Her thing was freedom, to be - do what she wants. To 'wear pants' in her own existence.
But as the victim, the natural state of women, she also had the added misfortune that
She was born to modern womanhood.
Which requires servitude and a need to exert discreet
Power discreetly . From shoes to hair this society handicaps the breeders.
Removing all chances that a free spirit can survive womanhood.
Deep? Or Derp?
The things that this society demands of women are ridiculous.
At some age determined by an Odd glazed look of a male, any ma le,
the she protector, Mom, steps up with tantalizing, Clothing to spur modesty. ?
Then reach a consensus?
With the jointed males, brother & daddy-0,
that THIS & not that is good. Then just change it up? It drives a male mad.
Private talks & visits to junk stores, that were once once off limits,
The contrivances of required use of beauty products. Argh ! Being a girl
Would make a boy go insane. . . Do as that slut does or your unpopular?
Breath & pray and fear for that tragedy that poet. Will rail on about no doubt knowing doubt!
So good this morrow be I see the one retiring bird shot, and a chain saw , not a metaphor.
The pollution of the neighborhood is back at it. This time he is at it in the back. The stooge ? He is a High School Earth Science Teacher, now he knows he has postal employees as neighbors, along his long "flag lot" he is in that guys face instead of mine. That's fine, he is picking fights with each of us, his neighbors. His name John, of course he some church going feul... We just got the school report his ratings low but his placement, good so not good for me or my kiddlets.
Time to jet,
but zB thanx up front & from behind ,
some thing tells me that there is an app for that!
Great Sounds Of Master zBrown,
Gnome Speak Deciphered,? Not nearly a big enough market for it
but that won't matter
Have you looked at all the crap you can load ? Groan. . . society , ,,..?
Going to try "mor ten thousand shaky Jake " the only one that did not go down like a song.
she's is expected to shave? OHoh? How's that gonna work ? Hmmm ?
Okay that
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Bushman
climber
The state of quantum flux
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Sun Creep
The sun pries through my blinds this morn
And tries to illuminate
My reverie
The sun thinks it has the right to know everything about me
It's so big you see
It has a God complex
But when the the sun goes into shade
I feel lonely and afraid
It has forsaken me
And so born unto the sun I was
I'm beholding to it
My benefactor
Long after my ashes are spread to the seven seas
And the sun swallows the world
I will be one with it
Then I'll be prying into the blinds of passing alien ships
They'll wake and squint their eyes
And they'll wish I'd quit
And though they'll feel lonesome when they fly away
I'll regret not learning more about them
Some things never change
-bushman
07/09/2016
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