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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2013 - 11:18am PT
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South from atop the Tioga, sixth floor. Good morning, Merced.
To the east, the Clark Range. Kinda the Dark Range this time of day.
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 28, 2013 - 12:00pm PT
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As nearly as I can tell there is no webcam in Merced, though there is a proposal in for four at UC Merced.
WTF, even Chula Vista has a webcam. Get on it mouse, I'd suggest putting one in the Partisan. Looks like a right proper place.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 28, 2013 - 08:45pm PT
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What web, we got the bar. The last of the good old fashioned steam trains kind of place, takes it a while to get rolling, but once it gets a head up of steam, it rocks.
I'm heading there soon tonight, like now.
Kinda Kinky Koalas Monday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5W7q8IsnPs
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 29, 2013 - 10:53am PT
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It's too foggy/cloudy to get any shots of the sunrise today. I went for a bird walk instead.
Crows generally take to the fields first thing before sunup, like 6:45 now.
This was taken earlier this month.
Bluebirds may not be purchased separately.
May the bluebird of happiness fly up the Nose on Donini's face!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 29, 2013 - 11:10am PT
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Curt and RC.
Curt is an owner of Coffee Bandits.
RC is an owner of The Partisan.
they were vamping for me outside in the arcade yesterday.
I was taking stock of what I had just found at the St. Vincent de Paul store.
The American West from Fall 1964 was one of eight for eight bucks and has a great spread of the "Standing Up country" of Utah and AZ, Cathedral Valley on the cover.
Thirteen Moons is by Asheville native Charles Frazier. It's in good shape, but I mean to read it and send it on.
I am happy to be able to read Roy's semi-autobiography. Slyke nothing I've ever read.
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Jan 29, 2013 - 02:14pm PT
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Gypsy
Social climber
NC
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Jan 29, 2013 - 02:14pm PT
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The Charles Frazier book looks interesting. Tell me more...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:42am PT
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I have that Eastern Bluebird print as my computer desktop at present. I found the print in a collectables shop here the other day, thinking it would work with a photo of Our Lady of Medjugorje. It does, quite nicely.
Thirteen Moons--the story of Will, an orphan indentured to run a trading post in the Cherokee tribal lands, becomes the adopted son of Cherokee Bear and falls in love with Claire, a white gal who is the charge of the local bull of the woods, Featherstone.
It's the story of his love for the place, too. I'm thinking Wendell Berry, maybe. We shall see. I'd be happy to forward it, should you like to read it. Or you'd be able to get it in the local library, surely.
I read Cold Mountain in 1995 or 1996 and wondered if he'd write another as good. It's too soon to say, but it's not a prize-winner. How much is the $$ for the National Book Award, anyway? CF's probably been living "the good life with horses" since the movie deal for Cold Mountain. This one is a 2006 copyright.
"It's good, though."--I read one chapter sitting in the coffee shop today. I thought Will would die after he tells his story as an old boy. Instead, he takes a Parker loaded with birdshot and plinks at the railroad train he owns and hates. He's lived long enough to see autos, trains, and phones.
"The whistle blows two short friendly notes, and the locomotive turns the curve and drags its train behind. In the end, just a fading rumble coming from down the river and black smoke settling over everything before the mountains form up again, shorn and damaged and eternal."
Feeling Lucky.
The Thirteenth Valley, by R. del Vecchio was the first book I read about Vietnam. Four stars.
There are thirteen books in Euclid's Elements. All these books sucked in high school.
Nevada Barr's novel 13 1/2 is apparently her 17th novel. I've yet to read a single Nevada Barr offering.
Thirteen Re3sons Why is Jay Asher's new novel. "It changed my life."--rave review, never read it
Grasping for the Wind is the 13th novel in the Wheel of Time series. Have yet to open one of them.
Dead Ever After is the 13th Sookie Stackhouse novel by Charlaine Harris. Sookie is a telepathic waitress working in Merlotte's Bar and Grill in Bon Temps, Louisiana.
Anna Paquin's looking pretty. Maybe I'll rent this. Or break down and read one. Charlaine's very humorous in a Terry Pratchett way, IMO. STopped reading him long ago. (7)
Musical Offerings
Sir Jhon/Fanning the Flames
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT2dXlfh0ME
Roy Clark/Under the Double Eagle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRkqqdamhEo
Bette Midler/Come Back Jimmy Dean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nilNAdzskc
Jimmy Dean/I wonder Why You Said Goodbye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nilNAdzskc
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:46am PT
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Fancy cats and ladies by Will Barnet.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:52am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:53am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 12:57am PT
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Bobbye at Tahoe in the fifties...(?)
Bobbye the Shasta High School Freshman.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 30, 2013 - 02:48am PT
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hey there say, mouse.. nice birds!
say, i had to leave a whole series of lovely bird prints back in south texas, they got thrown out, i a sure, :(
well, they seemed similar to your blue bird... could you see if you can
find out WHO the painter is? or if there is a a name to go with the one you have?
i acually saw a book once, in a small library around here... i am trying to get back there to see if they still have it, so i can try to find it online...
if you come up with a name, let me know, please...
thanks! :)
in spring, i will try out that library, so if you can't solve the mystery, don't worry...
i do have one print, and i got it from a thrist store, i think?
and--it had no artist, or company name, :(
happy good eve to you, gypsy and all the gang here, :)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 30, 2013 - 03:09am PT
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http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1280
There will be a special safety meeting/thanksgiving service on February 3, 2013, the feast of ST. BLAZE!!!!
All are invited to attend here all day long.
I know it's a Special Football Day or something and people have their plans.
Your guess is as good as mine as to the reason, really. I'm just passing the word. Attendance is not ever mandatory at safety discussions, but is open to all and feel free to BYO Matches, Zippos, Bics, Djeeps, and clips.
Here's a hint about the program.
Pele Juju/Woman
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Saints/saint.aspx?id=1280
"Woman, where do you go?"
Corsica, by hook or by crook!--St. Peripatetta, patron saint of Club Med and the Cyclades
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 31, 2013 - 04:09am PT
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hey there say, gypsy...
will check out the name and see... a ways back on the net here, i tried a few artist's names, as to birds... found a few neat similar pics, but so far, struck out...
will see how this one goes... i dont think i have tried this name yet...
thanks :)
happy radio night!
wish i could hear it on line, can't...
odd thing is, that about three years or four, back, and ON dial up, i WAS
able to hear radio... even greek music, and no 'delay' and, it
was an older computer than this..
can't get none, now, anywhere, they all do a bit of sound and stop...perhaps a ten minutes later, another bit of sound and stops, etc..
:(
well,
thanks again, :) so much!
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Jan 31, 2013 - 05:03am PT
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hey there say, gypsy...
nope, that was not the guy, (edit, of my pictures) but the link DID help...
i found some other trails...
THIS is the guy--john james audubon... i even found an image online
of the prints that lost, :(
(the reason i RECOGNNIZED them, is due to the PALE GREEN, and mainly the edging set-up, around the prints)
*got left behind on the wall, when 'fled' my home in south texas...
it i the only regret that i have, :( from all that...
my MOM had given them to me, :(
most likely too? from her sister, though i am not sure... the sis worked the cleveland museum of art, as part of the original workers, when it first started... they both loved birds...
so thus, i understand what the book must have been, at that little library... see a few online...
silly it was:
i left them, when i hurried, due to NOT wantin to rip them... :O
yet, i knew they most likely would get trashed, later, by my family, :(
so silly, i should have ripped them fast off the wall and saved them... but i would have had to jump up on the high counter, etc, to even try to reach them, from where i had tacked them up...
(never had money to frame stuff--should have kept them i book, but they were a daily reminder of my mom, as, she was in calif, then)... :(
but:
the mystery is solved! and i can at least scan some, or someday buy a book...
they WON'T be hers, of course, but i will have regained a loss, :)
thanks you so very much! odd how one CERTAIN link, to lead to another, and such a find... something about art in that link TRIGGERED
my success...
god bless, happy good morn to you all!
:)
edit:
maybe it will turn out that ALL folks set the prints up this way,
and i will be BACK to figuring out did those prints, :))
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