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    • StalkingTortoise wrote:

      LIhikers wrote:

      Here's wishing everyone at the Cafe a great holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. I hope you have miles of smiles in 2024.
      Amen! Best wishes for a healthy and happy 2024!
      Yeah, healthy at most of our ages is the key, after that everything else will fall in place. :)
      The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
      Richard Ewell, CSA General
    • Merry Christmas!
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      Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
    • The ATC has blogged an article about birding on the trail, which is a good read for those interested in the subject.

      appalachiantrail.org/official-…on-the-appalachian-trail/

      But wait! There's more!

      The ATC has also jumped on the Taylor Swift bandwagon and released a TikTok video about "Appalachian Trail Birds as Taylor Swift Albums." I like Taylor but this effort misses the mark. Maybe they should pay her to date Warren Doyle. Or me. :)

      I don't have a TikTok account but I was able to view the video on my computer. On my cell the video was bigger than the screen so not a good experience. (New phone; maybe I need to tweak some settings?)

      It's only 16 seconds long...

      tiktok.com/@appalachiantrail/video/7336293072709405994
      2,000 miler

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    • IMScotty wrote:

      Sure has been quiet in here this week.

      I hope that means you are all out there hiking!
      I was thinking the same. We were in Key West for spring break. Then got busy getting caught up due to being gone for a week doing taxes, grading papers, balancing checkbook, orchestra concert, etc.. (but not hiking)

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    • IMScotty wrote:

      Sure has been quiet in here this week.

      I hope that means you are all out there hiking!
      I got out to hike, we’ve had beautiful weather.

      My international sock knitting competition has started so I’m focused on that, made it through qualifications and round 1. Trying to plan a backpacking trip between rounds 2 and 3 but the timing may be too tight.

      Also busy fiddle playing…I have a new teacher for private lessons but he’s expensive so it’s only twice a month plus a weekly 2 hr jam class then random jams throughout the week.

      busy busy

      hope everyone is well
      Lost in the right direction.
    • Four of us went to SID Richardson Scout Ranch, Bridgeport Texas, Saturday 3/16/2024. We were deploying the orienteering control equipment for our two day meet, which is next weekend. I didn't run any track on myself. Rain was due and by 11 it was rumbling. By 11:30 it was raining off and on the rest of the day. We all got pretty wet. But all but 7 of the controls (of 83 total) are deployed out in the forest (Control bag, plus electronic timing device at each location, tied to tree or something). I slept well last night.
      Pirating – Corporate Takeover without the paperwork
    • In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I pulled "Ireland In Pictures" off our shelf, a book I bought at a used book store quite a few years ago. It is a "Coffee Table Book" with 400 pages of beautiful large-format photographs of Ireland. What makes it remarkable is it was published in 1898 in America. At that time, there were millions of 2nd-generation Irish-Americans whose only knowledge of their ancestral homeland was what their immigrant parents may have told them. This book was produced to show them their heritage. Some of the pictures show cities and towns. Some show the countryside, cultual sites, or scenes of everyday life. But most fascinating are images included to raise awareness and money for the Irish battle for independence from the UK that was on-going at that time, such as the army using a battering ram to take down a cottage of tenant farmers being evicted by English landlords. Be sure to read the captions. Most contain stories of Emglish oppression. It's an amazing window on the country from 125 years ago.