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Posted on 08/07/2007 7:52:15 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Sing hey! for the bath at close of day
That washes the weary mud away!
A loon is he that will not sing:
O! Water Hot is anoble thing!
O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain.
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better than rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.
O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed;
but better is Beer, if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.
O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!
Robert Stack was some sort of national skeet or trap champion before the war. He served as both a gunnery instructor and Big Name in Hollywood.
Cool! We’ll be interested to know how you like it, and what your sleep numbers are :-)
I’ve been getting tomatoes this year! ‘Course the ones that grow out of the cage are kinda raggedy and squirrel gnawed. Next year I need to make a better looking cage.
Ya know? It does. LOL
Good for them! That looks like fun!
I have a delayed adrenaline response for stuff like that.... I'd have no problem going over, I'd just get the shakes once I was *safely* other other side. It makes no sense.
It's built! Needs landscaping, though.
In my mind, being at the canyon is overwhelmingly surreal that walking out on that thing would not significantly add to the effect. You don't have to be anywhere near the edge to "feel" the height. It's strange. What is most interesting to me is the fact that the people who ignore the handrails the most, that is, the idiots who climb out on the rocks on the other side of the rails, are overwhelmingly European tourists. There was a streak there in college where the Germans kept falling in. Very strange. They'd have to SAR out one or two every summer.
I gotta get out there sometime. Wow.
Well, I gotta get back to the Canyon, but not that walkway.
As I said last night, I had to be escorted out of the Arch in St. Louis. When we were in Aspen one summer, we took the cable car up to the top. Jr. was three and on my lap and kept saying "look Daddy." When we got out I told the Mrs. I was walkin' down. She found a ranger who drove us and some other folks. He said it happens all the time.
It's a totally irrational fear. I ~know~ I'm not going to fall. But it can induce an all out panic attack for me.
Yup, I sympathize... have felt very vague tendrils of the same sort of fear but not much thankfully.
If we get to do Canyonmoot, you can stand and take pictures of those of us on the walkway :)
I'm so there.
Gotta ask Corin....
A riot gun has specific features. It has a short, cylinder-bore (unchoked) barrel, and usually lacks some of the more refined cosmetic features of a sporting shotgun. It's designed for close-in work, mainly using buckshot or slugs.
While it would work well for hunting upland game, it was usually employed to eliminate or keep in line two-legged vermin.
Heh...that’s about it.
I'd mentioned about a year or so ago that I want to raft the Canyon, and was plannin' to do so for my 50th (next summer). I'm not sure I can pull it off by then.
I was at the Canyon the summer I graduated from college (1980) and vowed to come back and hike it. That ain't happening fer sure. But I'm determined to get back some way, some how, some time.
Huh...I dunno how exactly I’d feel about that...
Good morning, all!
*yawn*
I stayed up too late, following the grammar thread.
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