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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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 05:52am PT
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Aphidoidea is a large family of bugs called whiteflies, greenflies or blackflies.
Dr. Greenjeans Warned Me
Saying nothing, he examined my soon-to-be-missing thumb.
Eventually, he wrapped it in fresh gauze and said in a matter-of-fact way,
"Your thumb is turning green.
I think it's gotta go.
The nurses will prep you in the morning.
Just thought you'd like to have a last night with it.
It's a good thing you're not a musician."
What a kind thought.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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One of my running routes circled Balboa Island and I passed the Duke's house all the time. Never saw him at home, but I ran into him shopping at Fashion Island.
He was so happy when I recognized him but didn't approach him that he just gave me the pilgrim nod.
He carried around "pre-signed" cards to hand out to admirers so he didn't have to take the time to write. I never saw what, but I'm gusssing they wre pre-printed.
Don't ya love Gary's shoes?
Speaking of cowboys, I used to run past Dennis Weaver's house on the border of Ridgway and Ourey (some say). I say it was in Ridgway. Only donini knows for sure.
Bear feeder, Donna Munson (RIP) definitely lived in Ourey.
http://www.denverpost.com/2009/08/08/woman-warned-against-feeding-wildlife-eaten-by-bear/
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zBrown
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Public greetings were not his cup of tea.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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This was not the link that fits that would be the Cayman Brac V's Hurricane Mathew link
Or some thing to do with a curmudgeon we should reach out to named John Byrnes? I'll check that
This link ?
well, what's to say ?
the whats is in your pack, Peter Croft. . . ( a Grigri?)
http://mojagear.com/gear-feature/2016/09/13/whats-in-your-pack-peter-croft/
Brought it here
http://mojagear.com/d
Iv got to say the memorial post below added to the pathos felt on the pages recently.
can and do effect all manner of interactions, these snaps and the Last one too
pprI had only a few moments to load so shot 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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 08:48am PT
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Big doin's.
It all beginnned here.
Merced Doin's 101. 2 credits.
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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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 09:05am PT
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UCM now offers a program on becoming a Ranger.
I know a former Park Ranger named Maynard Medefind. He's a classmate of mine from '66.
Son of a bush if I didn't bump into him at the breakfast table today.
He and a fellow named Stephen Maxey are planning a Yosemite trip for homeless men from Merced on the 15th. Their purpose is to let them take photos of their experience and later expound on their impressions of the park.
This is in conjunction, as I understand it, with a larger program that Stephen is running under the auspices of the Multicultural Art Center, which gives the homeless here in town a chance to do the same with their everyday lives.
Since Maynard was a Ranger many years ago, he of course knows the Rev and remembers his name and another's being written in concrete somewhere up at the old ranger cabin at Merced Lake. Since I have never been to Merced Lake, this was news to me. Jeff has never mentioned it, but it's time to find out about it.
Maynard is a retired Atwater HS teacher, and has a fine reputation here. It will be a pleasure and privilege to work with him and Stephen, since they invited me along when I volunteered to take some of the load.
Maynard was even kind enough to pay for our meals. Thanks, bud. It was not our doing that brought us together this morning. Thank you, too, big brother in the sky.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Shall we dance? What the hey, eh?
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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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 09:21am PT
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Gay's shoes are sooo Gary!!!!
After Breakfast at Tiffany's, there will be Love In the Afternoon.
Followed by a meeting of the Audrey Fan Club of Beverly Hills and Bel Air (AFCBHBA).
Henry, Mel, and Gary surrounding their queen.
[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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 09:49am PT
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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 - Oct 5, 2016 - 04:49pm PT
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http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercedsunstar/obituary.aspx?pid=181441970
Trolling around under the old (1940) Hwy 99 Bear Creek bridges this afternoon was hard on me.
But hearing of the death of my good friend and Flames associate, John Feaver, was even harder. He was a year younger, 67.
He came to Merced with friends from Los Banos HS every so often and became one of my circle, which included the Rev, who was at the time we met up with Feav, working in his dad's auto body shop and attending Merced College.
I was just out of USNTC boot camp in San Diego and attending basic electricity/electronics classes and coming on the bus to jive on the weekends instead of doing nothing at the school's barracks.
He became qualified for the draft and was drafted soon after this. He spent one tour with the Army in the shet over in Vietnam. He came back and I spent quite a bit of time with him in the early '70s. We went fishing at Lake McSwain in his father-in-law's boat.
When Dolores and I were stuck in Merced while I was between jobs and hoping to get another one with North Face after they folded the Lowa warehouse, John and his wife Carla opened their home and gave us a room for two weeks while I made plans to get us up to Berkeley to stay with Bruce and Cathy Hamilton for another couple of weeks.
The goodness of this man is just not easy to talk about. He was easy-going but had a temper, or I might say he was ready to take down anyone who messed with him. And this happened several times. He had a tough life after his break-up with Carla. Just as I did when the same happened with myself and Dolores. We had much more in common and he even became my roommate in the early '80s following that episode.
We decided to get an apartment once the house I'd bought sold. The deal was that I put up the deposit and the first month's rent, while he actually paid the rent himself. I was able to store some of my stuff in the extra bedroom in his place in El Sobrante. He HAD been rooming in one of the spots in the house which went on the market and helped finance the deposit on the apartment.
So this worked out fine for two years. Then I came up and took my stuff down to where I was living in Oxnard in a rented van. He had become one of the apartment complex's regulars at the spa and was always a Raiders fan. It was his great thing to talk about their kicker, Chris Bahr, who was a regular in the spa as well.
He participated in the woodchucking business that Bro Tim and I started out of the house in El Sobrante. We three, plus my brother-in-law Marc, and Carrol Holthaus, a climber I'd known for sometime due to his patronage of the North Face shops, plus his GF Natasha and her boy. All of us, plus another climber dude, a friend of Carrol's and who I once picked up hitching to the Valley named Scott Something found a space on the sofa on occasion, occupied the house at its peak and all of us did some work towards getting the business going. It was crazy times, fueled by lots of beer and Ozark Mule weed.
Shinin' times.
There's a lot more I could say, but as Feav was fond of saying, "Mouse, give it a rest."
The next round's on me, bud. Seven & Seven, right?
1974 at my dad's 50th birthday party.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Upon the Blue Ridge Mountains, good place to make a stand?
Light somewhere near the end of a tunnel. It's not dark yet, but it's gettin' there.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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i'm sorry you didn't get to run through that string of memories with the man himself mouse. a shocker
like that really shakes them loose. i'd share a bench, a bottle and lend you my ear if i was out your way
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zBrown
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First gear, I'm all right
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zBrown
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Did ya get any tongue on that first encounter?
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zBrown
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Famous gate thread?
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