tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post116539824465663909..comments2024-03-29T06:35:11.321-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Winter in the North. Cartwright Labrador.Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-34393037663506831662010-02-10T19:02:43.351-05:002010-02-10T19:02:43.351-05:00So, you think that's bad?So, you think that's bad?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165431121534923912006-12-06T13:52:00.000-05:002006-12-06T13:52:00.000-05:00That's a fact--That's a fact--buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165423431589691392006-12-06T11:43:00.000-05:002006-12-06T11:43:00.000-05:00Old Walt could write out a picture with words as c...Old Walt could write out a picture with words as clear as John Ford could with film.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165417637626953252006-12-06T10:07:00.000-05:002006-12-06T10:07:00.000-05:00Nice piece of writing, Deuce. I'm reminded of ano...Nice piece of writing, Deuce. I'm reminded of another word picture of men in service to our nation. Let's take your post as an opportunity to remember those in the 1st Cavalry Division and other units currently in harms way in defense of freedom.<BR/><BR/><I>Cavalry Crossing a Ford<BR/><BR/>A LINE in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands; <BR/>They take a serpentine course—their arms flash in the sun—Hark to the musical clank; <BR/>Behold the silvery river—in it the splashing horses, loitering, stop to drink; <BR/>Behold the brown-faced men—each group, each person, a picture—the negligent rest on the saddles; <BR/>Some emerge on the opposite bank—others are just entering the ford—while, <BR/>Scarlet, and blue, and snowy white, <BR/>The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind <BR/><BR/>Walt Whitman</I>StoutFellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01484724005529442562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165415816750840552006-12-06T09:36:00.000-05:002006-12-06T09:36:00.000-05:00Desert Rat said, "An urban family the pushed the w...Desert Rat said, "An urban family the pushed the wilderness sightseeing envelope and lost."<BR/><BR/><I>The missing man is a senior editor at CNET.com, and he was sort of a techno-geek with the latest nav 'puter in his rig. The artificial intelligence told him to go ahead and turn on this or that road, and it would connect him to where he was going, but the road was a little country road at 3,000 feet in the Siskyous that doesn't get plowed and should have been closed. Shows how far HAL needs to go before he has the cracker-barrel folksy common sense of a girl scout, even.</I>Teresitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05528002521904908827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165415159925846592006-12-06T09:25:00.000-05:002006-12-06T09:25:00.000-05:00I read of duece's cold weather adventure, just as ...I read of duece's cold weather adventure, just as the story of the Kim family made it's turn in the rotation.<BR/>Mom and children, found after 9 days, having stayed with the vehicle. Dad has been in the woods, for 10 days, now. Most likely dead of hypothermia, not having mittens and mucklucs.<BR/>His "extra" pair of pants found last night, on the his trail, which was no trail all.<BR/><BR/>An urban family the pushed the wilderness sightseeing envelope and lost.desert rathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369546288659566961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165414192445029782006-12-06T09:09:00.000-05:002006-12-06T09:09:00.000-05:00gave me cold chills just reading it. Reminded me o...gave me cold chills just reading it. Reminded me of a few winters in the High Rockies, the world of ice and snow. So alien down hyar in de deep souf.buddy larsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17760847873026506988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-1165403064712725582006-12-06T06:04:00.000-05:002006-12-06T06:04:00.000-05:00Those days in your life gave the "Cold War" a very...Those days in your life gave the "Cold War" a very special meaning.<BR/>Thank you Sir for pulling duty where few would have the moxie to withstand the isolation and the elements.Habuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15883037170077821624noreply@blogger.com