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Thread: Fitty's Angling Ramble 7.0
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02-06-2013, 09:37 AM #1628
Quick update...
Back from the doc... No baby yet, but her fluid is low, so I have until monday to get her fluid back up or when we go in monday at 8 am they will induce her.
Otherwise we are scheduled to induce her on the 21st, if she doesn't go before that.
Now back to the wife tending!
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting." The Buddha
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02-06-2013, 12:26 PM #1637
LOL... We were talking about the car seat thing the other day.
Talked to my Mom and she told me when I was a baby she just had this sort of modified baby bath tub that hooked over the back of the seat, she put some pillows in there and a strap of something she called "Vinyl Tape."
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting." The Buddha
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02-06-2013, 03:47 PM #1641
I wish my scanner wasn't broken and don't have digi-cam. Just some picks of being in the colorado mountains and moutain climbing. There were these chubby little rodents that hid in the rocks and sometimes come out to watch us making a meep meep sound lol. It amazes me how flowers and lichen can grow so far up. At the base it was a heat wave and at the top of crystal peak, snow, ice and strong winds. We could see caves on the sides of some rocky areas where miner's dug during the gold rush and there was an abandoned miner's cabin around the base. And a huge crater on the way up where fish were supposed to be but we did not bother to go down the steep rocky incline. On top of the mountain was a scroll/book encased in a metal cylinder attached to the rock to sign that you made it. I was the first Canadian to sign it that year. Goooo Canada!!! inb4 negs or Canada jokes lol. One thing I noticed my legs felt rubbery on the decline and had to lay down in the cottage with a touch of altitude sickness.
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02-07-2013, 07:11 AM #1642
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02-07-2013, 07:15 AM #1644
Did you just type that in Canadian?
I hate to use the term "Bucket List" but if I had one... Climbing Mauna Loa and signing the book at the top would be on it. Mauna Loa isn't like some super tall peak above sea level (Even though it is the tallest mountain in the world from the sea floor etc...) But when you stand at the base of Mauna Loa and stare up at that thing, it's staggering huge for a single mountain... I've been all over the rockies and I've never seen anything that could hold up to it.6'4"
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting." The Buddha
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02-07-2013, 07:17 AM #1645
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02-07-2013, 08:02 AM #1646
Canadian typing???
I was just telling you where I was aboot
Sounds like an adventure. The ascent and then the panoramic view.
I wonder if this is at the top (image search) as the clouds are close level to the top here. Looks peaceful.
Imagine hang gliding from there.
Never been all around the rockies so I'll take your word for it
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02-07-2013, 08:16 AM #1647
Yeah that pic looks like it's take from just south of Kona HI.
Mauna Loa literally means "Long Mountain" Basically anywhere that you stand and look at it, Mauna Loa takes up at least 2 of the 4 horizon lines!
When you're in Kona on the western side of the Big Island the sun rises around 6:30-ish on the East side of the Island (Hilo)... But in Kona the light is greenish tan, because it's reflected. You don't get full sun in Kona until almost 9:30-10 am when the Sun finally climbs over the mountain.
After noon/high sun, the clouds start piling up around the mountain as the sun pushed ocean evaporation on it's move west. So all day the clouds keep piling up until the mountain vanishes in a massive cloud bank that can only "Go Around" not over...
As you get close to sunset the clouds are so thick they're coming down the mountain... If you look in some of the valleys alonside the steeper down slopes they clouds pour down the mountain looking a lot like a snow avalanche in the rockies...
As the sun gets weak near sunset around 6:30-ish PM... The clouds pour down the mountain because they're no longer pushed by the heat of the sun. Since there is no continental shelf out there, you get these few fleeting moments where the sun will shine through the ocean in a strange seafoam color, then it vanishes completely and the clouds finish pouring down the mountain and it rains.
When I was there, it happened every single day, like you could set your watch to it!6'4"
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"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting." The Buddha
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02-07-2013, 08:44 AM #1648
The sounds really amazing. Btw you have a style and skill with description in your writing. I can only imagine you like to write. Been doing it most of my life. Short stories, poems, or simply journaling and sending letters to my family. I am thinking of getting a dig-cam soon so I can download pics here. There is a park nearby where there are hawks and I saw a woodpecker the size of a good size raven. Never googled what it's name was. One time, sitting on a log in the woods I saw a squirrel foraging among the autumn leaves for food. Then a hawk landed and perched in a tree branch above the squirrel. The squirrel searched impervious to the glaring gaze of the hawk. This went on for a few minutes the Hawk looking away from time to time and then just flew away. I thought to myself it was the squirrel's lucky day On another note I think it was just not the squirrel's time. Things to ponder.
Hopefully you do climb next visit. I have thought of visiting Machu Picchu. Visitors may chew cocoa leaves on the ascent to help spare them the effects of altitude change. Explore and find the right spot to just sit, take it all in. The Holy Land is also on my mind. Bucket list.
Well coffee is going in and trying to get into hiking to the gym and laundromat before a snow storm hits here. Homemade protein shake timeLast edited by BobbyOrr1965; 02-07-2013 at 08:59 AM.
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