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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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You didn't mention the things we did on the last day of the meet, people!
First, we went to the drag boat racing church service, which will be in Mystery Worships one of these days.
Then, we drove off to Groom, Texas to see the biggest cross in the western hemisphere. URL HERE
Then to the Jesus Christ is Lord travel Center, You Tube video here
Now that was the sublime, now for the ridiculous.....
CADILLAC RANCH!
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Originally posted by Ye Olde Motherboarde:
First, we went to the drag boat racing church service, which will be in Mystery Worships one of these days.
Report has been received and edited. So far it's #1 in the next batch to go up. As soon as four more come in* and have been edited, the batch will go up.
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Originally posted by Janine
I have to bow to MacGuyver's apprentice -- the man can put away some grub.
I remember the Charlottesville meet where he ate an enormous dessert after eating a good-sized lunch.
Moo
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Janine
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I dunno where MacGuyver puts it. Motherboarde speculates he has hollow legs.
(Oh -- near the end of the previous page, I mentioned "good bologna". That was, of course, for a given value of "good".)
I keep getting flash flood warnings and torrential rain warnings and tornado watches and warnings via text from WWL Radio out of New Orleans. Kinda surreal, being here in what is basically a desert.
(I have spoken with the FG, so far all is well. He's working 12-hour days right now, and so sees a "rainout" as a mini-vacation.)
On the menu tonight, at least in part: little cornmeal cakes that would've been hushpuppies if I'd used deep fat; smothered collards, the liqueur reduced quite a bit and by now mostly absorbed by the subdued greens; hamburgers, if I heard JB right; and... potatoes? I should go upstairs and confirm all that.
Maybe after a bit, while we're here in what is basically a desert, we can also get into what is basically a dessert. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Pata and I enjoyed visiting with all of you. I think the best part of the meet is visiting with the other shippies. I hope all of you enjoyed Oklahoma and enjoy the Santa Fe portion of the meet.
We have traveled into Southeastern Oklahoma to visit my mom. I decided to go fishing this evening and my mom's dog joined me. The dog enjoyed it more than I did. Right off he jumped into the water and swam to every corner of the small pond I was fishing in. After that he started following my casts. I cast to the right off swims the dog toward the plop of my lure. I cast to the left and off goes the dog to the plop of the lure. Needless to say I did not catch a single fish. However, I almost caught a dog.
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Well, the end of my trip was...interesting...
While Rug was out fishing for dogs, I was collapsed on the sofa with what I thought was either (1) really bad allergies or (2) a virus. Since I wasn't getting any better, Rug and I set off for home so I could be miserable in my own bed. So the trip to the Cultural Museum will have to be rescheduled. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
On the way back I made an appointment with the clinic that I use to check to see what was going on, or to, at least, get better drugs as my throat was sore and I couldn't breathe at all. The doctor told me that I had strep.
yea...But at least I should be feeling better in a day or so...
This is NOT a good end for a shipmeet for me! I need a do over!!
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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BUMMER, Pata, BUMMER
I think we all caught something in that cole Cox Convention Center other than the great dancing!
Get well soon!
Janine, MacGyver and I are now basking in the beauty of Monument Valley. At Gouldings Lodge . We opted for the Monument Valley house near the property. We have it all to ourselves. 3 bath, 4 bedroom, garage, full kitchen, so we ate dinner and breakfast in. MacGyver and Janine are taking the bus tour tomorrow around the park.
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Bisti Badlands looks like a fascinating place. Those photos are amazing. I'm glad you are all enjoying the Shipmeet out West. And get well soon, Pata.
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Janine
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I thought I was the only one who felt a bit queasy @ Red Earth. Just kept popping minty antacids to kill the nausea. I was blaming the tuna salad @ Subway I ate the day before i got on the plane.
Re: the Monument Valley stay --
The price for that very nice house -- you can sleep nine or ten people if you must -- is fantastic. Definitely a draw for extended families or friends to base there, go to Monument Vally, see all the fun stuff even just there in the complex. They've got "John Wayne's Cabin", a little cabin built for one of his movies. There've been a bunch of films done using the fantastic scenery in Monument Valley.
It was nice to "eat in" Wednesday night, for a change. Cheese and apples and chips for appetizer. We had some really nice steaks -- no way they should've been as high-quality-cut and aged as they tasted, at that price, but they were. JB did a spice rub and we broiled 'em. Some very lightly sauteed veggies and bread and a reasonable facsimile of hash browns, since the only taters available nearby came in 10-lb bags. Iced tea, and a little ice cream and some cherries in the 'fridge.
No wine. JB was heard to sigh a sad sigh. But, see, we were on or slap up next to tribal land -- and we were in Utah. Double whammy. Heaven knows how many miles lie between poor JB and a good bottle of wine.
The leftover potatoes, steak bones and fat scraps, and apple core slivers, are all outside. Coyotes may show up out back, jays or foxes or something out front. Whatever eats fruit and fatty stuff and beef bones. I hope it's not against some law to do that. ![[Ultra confused]](graemlins/confused2.gif)
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Today, JB and MoBo and MacGuyver and I stopped at several overlooks in Canyon De Chelley -- pronounced "Shay", originally spelled "Tsegi", meaning "Rock Canyon". Or at least, it would've been spelled Tsegi if the Navajo a couple hundred years back had spelled stuff with English letters...
Anyway, lots of fantastic photos were snapped, Anasazi ruins looked for, and surreptitious silver salespeople's stuff sneakily stared at.
Around every bend in the National Park-within-Navajo lands road, we saw a little home or hogan among the gnarled cedars, and the dainty little horses of all colors wandered along the roadsides and across the roads at will. Many had leggy foals alongside.
What really caught our attention were the Ravening Attack Sheep, arrayed at best tactical advantage along the roads, staring daggers at Motherboarde. (Apparently word has gotten around that she's so eager to get her hands on wool that she shaves her dog.)
She got her camera ready; she was prepared to get the photograph as proof that they were out to get her. This immediately caused the Ravening Attack Sheep to go underground. They left behind a threatening-looking flock of half-buried tires, which almost fooled MoBo as they bounced toward her, but she wasn't bamboozled for long.
Next installment: an international, centuries-spanning tale of intrigue, heritage, blood, sweat, tears, and Japanese tourists: Navajolotta Sushi.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Six more pictures
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Ten more
(And re-ordered the set.)
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Janine
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The Goulding's Lodge tour of Monument Valley was classic. The driver came to get us in an open-sided truck with bus seats in the bed. We were about... 25 people? 30? I didn't count us, that was Tour Driver Jonah's job. (He's a wiry little guy, his long hair folded into a traditional Navajo bun under his cowboy hat, wearing a scarlet shirt and blue jeans and boots.) It was MacGuyver's Apprentice and me; JB and Motherboarde stayed home and did something fun, like KP duty.
There were shorter routes, maybe an hour or 1.5 hour tour? I noticed that one was popular with the Japanese tourists. They were well-prepared against the blowing red sands; I saw every one of them on their way back wearing a surgical mask.
We went on the half-day tour, 3.5 hours, was it? God bless the ones who took the whole-day tour. Those trucks buck like broncos.
There were times the passengers were tossed sideways and backward and a foot up off their seats. The dear little German lady next to me rattled around like a single pea in a dusty, bouncing pod. Me, I sometimes had two hands gripping the seat backs before me, and rose from the seat when necessary the way you do on a horse. What a workout! Talk about tired that evening!
Just out from the Lodge, before heading to the park, Jonah took us to see an older lady at a hogan kept for the purpose, who demonstrated carding some wool and winding it by hand onto a spindle. He told us some basics about why the hogans are considered "male" or "female", how they're constructed, and so on.
Later on, halfway through the thrill ride that was the Monument Valley tour, he pointed out a couple of hogans there among the fantastic rock formations, and mentioned that the Grandmother living there was getting a little elderly to handle the tourists coming all day long, therefore they did the pre-tour visit these days. And her age, did he say... what? 87? 97?
Heck, I'm nearing 50, and I'd probably buckle under the busy buzzing weight of several hundred people dropping by every week. Living in a hogan in high desert conditions breeds some tough people, tough as gnarly cedar roots.
Jonah explained a bit about the clan affiliations within the Navajo tribe -- and many other tribes as well, in one form or another. He himself had four, one of which was unique. It seemed that an child ancestress had been kidnapped by the Spanish, grew up with them, started to make her way home (to a different tribe), but fell in with the Navajo.
At least one child was from a relationship with a Spaniard. She was fluent in Spanish, which was a big draw for the Navajo. (There's always a job out there for the bilingual.) She stayed and made her home with them. Thus did a new Navajo clan begin.
On the way out of the valley, on a longish stretch of road with no special views, Jonah sang us a couple of Navajo songs -- one was a sweat lodge song. Can you picture this? Open-sided truck aggressively forcing slower vehicles to pull over into overlook spaces, leaping and bouncing and crashing along, with Jonah's voice booming out of the cab-mounted speaker...
He also did one that might be used at a wedding celebration, with a bit in English at the end reassuring the bride-elect that she's found the right guy.
He ended with one you'd hear in a Navajo Christian church gathering incorporating the Lord's Prayer in English. I thought it was lovely... but then, I was in the driver's side seat row. MacGuyver OTOH was on the passenger side, dangling on the edge of the precipices as we bounced and roared and slithered along. He later said that it at least seemed appropriate that we sail over a cliff to our fiery death with the Lord's Prayer being broadcast all about us.
OK, this has been the Official Approved Version meant for public consumption. I'm putting together the ultra-secret Navajolotta Sushi Goin' On and hope to post it tomorrow. Only those of you who are the Elite, the in Crowd, will be able to read it. The rest will see only an old-fashioned test pattern.
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Thank you MB for the latest photos, and Janine for the latest installment - I wish I was with you now!
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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I'll enter the tale of how it happened later today, I hope --
But, y'see, we have a problem. This followed us home.
Since we can't go on calling it "Hey, Ewe"... well, maybe we could, but that's rather pedestrian and unimaginative, iddinnit? -- We need suggestions.
There's always Bob (pronounced "Baaahaaaaaahhhhhhb").
Or Sean. As in Sean the Sheep.
Agnew? Leroy?
What would you name him?
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Macgyver's Apprentice
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I'm sitting at ABQ Sunport at the start of the journey home. It was great to meet up with Janine, Pata, Rugasaw, Motherboard, and JB again.
I'd particularly like to thank MB & JB fot their hospitality over the last week. I got to see some great sights and eat some delicious food. JB deserves a medal for his driving.
I'll start on getting some photos posted over the next week.
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Thanks for all the updates and pics! Not as good as being there, but pretty awesome!
Janine, I'm thinking Apprentice Sheep 3. AS3 for short?
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Macgyver's Apprentice
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Well it was all going swimmingly until I got to San Francisco International. My flight is delayed and even for an airport everything is shockingly expensive!
Looking on the positive side, the longer the delay here the less time I will have to spend waiting at Heathrow for my flight to Glasgow.
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Janine
The Endless Simmer
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Considering the time that has passed since his post, let us hope MacGuyver's trip home is back on track.
Re: the names for the sheep... well... wait until you hear more detail before you give him a loving and welcoming name. Something like "Demonspawn, Stealer of Candy from Babies" might seem appropriate.
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... And now, for all the Initiates, while the Uninitiated stare blankly at the test pattern -- now to the real, gritty (ptui, sand in the teeth) truth about the dangers inherent in the desert.
You know how fond JB is of sushi, right? Well, the retired Grandmother in the little hogan in the little meadow in the midst of Monument Valley had a lot more to her than meets the eye. She has been the one final guardian of the ancient Navajo family recipe for Mutton Chili Sushi, so old and revered a recipe that it is said to have been carried from the Old Country over the Bering Strait Land Bridge.
It seems she's the last one, because the inheritors are required to actually desire to carry the secret, and, Lord love 'em, nobody likes the stuff. Until JB came along.
She offered the secret recipe to JB.
He must've impressed her with his extensive knowledge of All Things Sushi. And All Things Chili. (And probably All Things Mutton, for all I know.) Also, his generosity in paying for the expensive expenses of the detailed ceremony that cleansed his harmonics and harmonized his cleanliness and ceremonialized his harmonious sparklyness was not lost upon Grandmother.
So now, Grandmother can continue her retirement years satisfied that a real foodie holds the secret recipe, which will not perish from the Earth, 'cause JB knows a lot of other foodies. (I mean, they take photos of their food, fer God's sake.)
And the real reason Tour Driver Jonah sang to us all the way out of the park, we now know, was to cover the screams of those who would rather the secret die with Grandmother than to have it leave the tribe. Screams, I say, as they plunged to their blazing deaths far below while he chanted and sang the Lord's Prayer and defended us by driving offensively all the way. Turns out we were really quite safe the whole time, MacGuyver's Apprentice and me and my poor little bruised German seatmate.
And that's not the end of it.
We had a nice long drive to Canyon de Chelley next day, and of course JB and Ye Olde Motherboarde keep their vehicles buzzing and whirring with all the latest gadgets, things that speak sternly to them in no uncertain terms when they so much as miss a turn-off, y'know?
With all that modern tech, and with JB being a good and law-abiding driver anyway, can anyone tell me how it happened that he was speeding? At just exactly the right time & place for a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer to pull him over? A big ol' bruiser of an officer, the kind of guy you pray is a “gentle giant” all his life, 'cause he could break you like a matchstick if he so chose?
Where did such a man hide? Behind a tumbleweed? He was in a full-sized vehicle, not on a motorcycle that might park behind a juniper or something. The conspiracy theorist in my head demands to know!
Of course the BIA officer was jocular and smiling, and gave the truckload of tourists in the Great White Beast the kind mini-lecture about state and Federal roads being posted at higher speeds, while 55 remains the norm on BIA-covered roads.
"Slow down", he says. "Enjoy your vacation", he says, looking us over. No traffic ticket, no fine – just a note about JB entered in the BIA files. They are watching him, now.
I think he was planted there to look for us. I think he was supposed to take that ancient sushi recipe back. I think we only got away because Grandmother has major cataracts after all those years in the actinic desert sunlight – and she described us 'way differently than we actually look.
The description they forced from poor Grandmother did not live up to the vision that met the Officer's eyes when he gave us the once-over. She spoke of four dusty windblown non-descript tourists, possibly to throw off the chase, bless her heart --
While the BIA officer actually saw a statuesque beauty with a killer smile, sparkling eyes, an infectious laugh and glowing prematurely silver hair; a potentially forbidding-looking handsome fellow (they don't call him "Dr. No" for nothing) with a charming disarming puckish grin; a well-dressed fair-haired younger guy with a beautiful complexion (marinated in sun cream?) and a camera-geek sexiness about him; and a heaving bosom topped by a dark leather cowboy hat and partially obscured by long tangled ebony hair that had apparently been combed with an eggbeater. So, he let us go.
Wow. Close call.
Then came the Canyon de Chelley business with the Ravenous Attack Sheep. I thought they were after us because They Know About MoBo's Potentially Shaved Dog. Actually, I bet they were all in on it. They were Sheepish Militant Ninja Sheep. They were sworn to get back the Ancient Mutton Sushi Recipe, or die trying. (At which point they could be roasted and made into Ancient Bering Bridge Sushi. How appropriate.)
We thought we were safe when we escaped the Canyon. MacGuyver's Apprentice tried to warn me about that Oreo cookie I tossed to the hungry little palomino-paint colored dog at an overlook. He said if I fed anything it might follow us home. (I know that works. That's how I landed the Football God. Fried chicken and rabbit at a picnic in the park.) Well, I figured, how much trouble could that cookie cause? Hmmmn. It may be the dog was a sheep in canine clothing.
Off we went next morning to the perfectly innocent Hubbel's Trading Post. No way the Ravening Horde of Attack Sheep could follow us all that way, right?
Wrong! Oh, so very wrong.
Prepare yourselves. Women will faint. Strong men will blanch. Little kids will run screaming away. (Cue the Doom Song). We have been followed!
We should've known we'd never get away. I mean, wasn't tinkle dink tink ting tink dink bling bling tinkle tink sounding out, just below the normal range of our hearing, the whole way home? MacGuyver turned around, and I know we saw impending disaster in each other's eyes. I know he heard the Sheep's bell... bling bling tinkle tink bling...
Why, oh Lord, were we driving in the daytime? Why couldn't we have been traveling at night, so we'd have noticed the glow behind us and seen the the Hellish sparks flying from his evil sheep feet? Why oh why couldn't we have guessed it, why couldn't we feel his beady black sheep eyes boring into the back seat?
With no warning it came, the Sheep, the Nameless One. It's here now. MacGuyver escaped this morning with our blessing – someone has to live to tell the tale. We have brought in a wood-carved three-foot-tall Virgin of Guadalupe to stand in his place. I dare that sheep to stare down the Flaming Mother...
The Football God keeps calling me, telling me to come home, come home now, offering to pay for ever-more-expensive plane tickets... but I think The Sheep could follow me through the air, and I don't want to lead him to my grandchildren.
What will happen to the Ancient Mutton Chili Sushi Recipe if the Sheep gets us all?
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After that one wonders how the tequila distilleries will survive now the Meet is over!
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I'm now at Heathrow with a couple of hours to wait until my flight to Glasgow. Undetered by my inability to get the free wifi to work, i'm using my faithful Kindle to post.
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Glad to see MacGyver isn't stuck in the airport.
Mystery Worship is up!
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Janine
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quote:
Originally posted by Macgyver's Apprentice:
I'm home safe and sound (and a little bit tired).
Considering the hours in the air, the hours of waiting around, and the backwards/unwinding of the jet lag, never mind a little tired, I'd have to be scraped up off the sidewalk and poured through my front door keyhole when I finally got home. I bow to your energy level ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) .
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Macgyver's Apprentice
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It's worth all the travelling to meet the people and see the sights offered by a 'Santa Fe' Ship Meet.
Just have a little over a thousand photographs to sort and edit!
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Janine
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![[Eek!]](eek.gif) Zowie. 1000+ pics, M.A.
Well, you'll be able to whip through that in no time, oui? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Would y'all believe I found a one-way flight home for $178? I seriously considered taking the deal, just to say I did it -- but the thought of changing 'planes 3 times, passing through 5 different airports, winding my way through different subsidiaries of the main airline involved... I just can't. Over twelve hours straight, either flying or waiting in airports, had better get me to Scotland or France or somewhere more interesting than home!
Having stewed myself to sunbaked pruniness with Motherboarde at Ojo Caliente today -- yah, ladies, if ye cain't tone it, tan it!! -- I'll be spending time with my friend Aloe Vera tonight.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by JB:
Mystery Worship is up!
Just one little addition/correction to the minutes as posted: there are, in fact, fish in the Oklahoma River. If you'd seen it before they were able to race jet boats on it, you definitely wouldn't believe it, but I've caught 'em before.
I think this says quite a bit about the fish.
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Ariston:
The question is:
are the fish edible from the river?
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I'm sure there are people who have; I am not one of them, nor do I plan to be.
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There was an interesting aspect to report about the Bisti Badlands, at least the first bit we wandered through for a couple of hours.
I don't think I've ever seen so much poop in one place before. Other than a manure pile, I mean.
Where we were, you could tell that what rain does show up will gather into pans, flat areas that hold some water, making temporary pools (description of similar here; here is a 152-page PDF about it, you'd need to be really curious to look at that one:) ).
The rock in those spots was covered with a thin layer of sediment, alligatored and cracked into plates in the areas that dried last.
Whatever the local fauna usually go through for water, you know they enjoy the relatively easy access to water for as long as it lasts in those shallow pools.
Everything had been coming to the area. I couldn't ID all the types of herbivore scat. Some looked like horse -- ones that'd had some extra green in their diet, like in the springtime in clover country. There'd be either wild horses or herds grazing nearby on leased lands, I guess?
Some looked almost goatlike. Antelope? Deer? Elk? Really big goats?
Some looked 'way too substantial for horse poop. Makes you wonder if there are still any stray camels about. That was some major-sized stuff. Maybe there are mysterious secret elephants there.
So, even with the minimal tracking skills of a Louisiana desk jockey -- it's hard to find footprints in a swamp -- I could see that every herbivore and his brother had been partying all around the rainpools. Jack-bunnies in bikinis. Deer holding frou-frou drinks with little paper umbrellas in them. And, being plant-eaters, they just don't care where they heave their... byproducts.
All that doesn't mean there was anything icky about it. The stuff had been dessicating for weeks, maybe months, since the last real rain. All was dried and not an odor was to be found. It was like walking on hay, if you had to walk on it. It amazed me, though, 'cause down home in the eternal damp and heat, such material, left out in the open, gets utilized down to nothing pretty quickly.
Perhaps all the droppings inspired the person who bagged up his dog's -- or his own -- offering, and left it right in the middle of a very interesting rock formation. ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
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Glad to see MacGyver isn't stuck in the airport.
Mystery Worship is up!
And it already has its own discussion thread, complete with questions for y'all. So hie thee to Ecclesiantics!
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Ariston:
The question is:
are the fish edible from the river?
I don't know if there are still fish* in that part of the river or not. I don't know how toxic the fish* in that part of the river are. But if you remember we did see some people fishing just upstream from the boat races a day or two before.
*I have a brother in the area. I will have to ask him sometime.
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Two videos of the dancing at Red Earth added to the pictures.
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I don't seem to have permission to view the videos. Flickr is saying it is a private page.
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Me three.
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While trying to access JB's videos I inadvertently created a Flickr account (not sure how that happened!). Anyway, it gave me a place to preview some of my Red Earth photos
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I got in using one of the older photo links and saw at least one of the dances -- the washboard dance, I think.
Isn't A. gorgeous! Lookit that smile. I can barely see those tiny, tiny beads. And those aren't all the pieces, when I saw her later on at lunchtime she'd added the rest.
That's one of the neatest things about Red Earth -- all the handworked beads and feathers and so on.
My camera was doubtful in that light, I'm glad Macguyver got the shot. And thanks to the subject for obliging us. Dang, I wish I'd gotten her email.
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Rugasaw
I don't seem to have permission to view the videos. Flickr is saying it is a private page.
Macgyver's Apprentice
I have the same problem.
Organist of the Jedi Temple
Me three.
The video of competition dancers, but not the washboard dance, was originally marked private. Please try again.
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Two videos of the dancing at Red Earth added to the pictures.
Spectacular! And I loved the dancing little girl.
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... it gave me a place to preview some of my Red Earth photos
Wow!
As usual: sharp, properly exposed, and well composed.
Motherboard took one look and started camera shopping.
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JB,
Thanks for the kind comments.
I hope your wallets can survive MB's camera shopping!
It's only fair to point out that while my camera has a great sensor and electronics for low light work, I also put expensive lenses on the front. These allow photos to be taken wide open at f/2.8, gobbling up all the available light and throwing it at the camera's sensor. So when shopping, MB may want to look at the quality of the lens on the camera as well as the performance of the sensor.
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Yah, the adequate camera and the outrageous lenses are important, but I think somebodies gots Mad Camera Skillz too.
I was thinking about RedBone today -- one of the neat little stores in Madrid, New Mexico. Found some sweet fossil ivory earrings destined for one of my sisters.
I saw the sign -- a red bone on a white ground -- and assumed the name of the place had to be either RedBone or Scarlet Femur.
There was some nice stuff there. I could've bought half the store. Was happy with the earrings, though.
At Maggie's Diner I found one of those black leather thingies you tie up your braid with. You know, with the silver stud-looking pieces you secure the leather laces through? Next time I need to discipline my pony tail I'll take a picture of it. ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
It figures Maggie's would have neat little motorcycle-related stuff 'cause of the Wild Hogs connection. They have a sign on the door as you walk in -- "This is not a diner!" -- They left the place as it was built when it was the movie set for Maggie's Diner, soda-fountain-bar-stool chairs and everything still in place, and are running the gift shop from it. Stacks of T-Shirts all folded and displayed on the stools.
Our lunch at the Mine Shaft Tavern was nice. It was good to sit in the shady breezy place -- despite record high temps around the country, at that altitude and sheltered from the sun it's really pleasant --
We rested up while waiting for the lager and the porter and the tea, and then waited a bit more for the food. It seemed as if the poor waiters and waitresses and bartenders were a little bit overwhelmed. The slight delay didn't matter much, though, with so much neat stuff to look at.
We were finishing up and just about to leave when their power went out. We were in luck , it didn't affect us. It was interesting to hear the waitresses recommending the other restaurants when the tourists wandered in during the blackout. They must not be asked their opinions and recommendations of the competition very often. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
The vintage (and/or vintage style) clothing at Heaven was lovely. I saw two dresses I coulda-shoulda-woulda bought, soooo pretty, but, well, how much clothing do I really need? JB bought MoBo a lovely necklace-and-earring set, I loved it -- she immediately wore it to church the next day.
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I was in Madrid while they were filming that Hogs movie - I kept getting approached by burly security guards asking me not to photograph the 'stars'. Not that I saw any 'stars' about, only lots of techie guys riding around on quad bikes.
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Just as a little warning, "Please don't shoot the stars" ![[Cool]](cool.gif) , or were they getting obnoxious about it?
We told the lady at RedBone they ought to sell CDs of Leon Redbone, and the 70s rock group Redbone (omigosh dig the turquoise on the bass player droooool)...
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Nibbling away at the photo mass. Four more pictures
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