BS: Miccas Great Adventure

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 12:36 PM

Micca is off with Jacqui after a Bacon Butty at Thornton's. He is very happy to be "home". Apparently KT, Ebbie and Roger and Miss Kitty took very good care of him as did a number of friendly strangers on buses, planes and trains.
Part III of the epic begins...

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 10:54 AM

Micca-

We must go down to Amato's again,
Down to Amato's sandwich shop...

A little rhyme my brother and I used to recite when we were looking forward to the annual trip to Portland, the big seaport city.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 10:46 AM

Hey, Micca!

Believe it or not, I've actually got a COLORADO souvenir for you!

See you manana (or maybe even tomorrow).

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 10:16 AM

Did you get the cottonwood cotton cleaned out of your system, Micca?**bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 31 Jul 08 - 12:25 AM

well, after a very full day of flying from Denver and arriving at Boston(Yecchhhh) and a fast coach I have arrived Chez Sinsull tired but intact (ish) and I was starving, the ONLY place within reach of the bus from Logan for its 15 mins at Boston South was, guess what, McDs and many of you know that I dislike them rather a lot.. so it was wait until Amatos in South Portland. So I am here at Sinsulls I will add more as things develope.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 11:59 PM

Here! He's here!
Fed and wined and I am ready for bed. Micca will play on the computer.
Nite

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 11:58 PM

Micca called and he is on a bus headed to Maine. Now if I can figure out which bus terminal...

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 11:25 AM

Denver Colorado
The Train from Grand Junction (California Zephyr, SF to Chicago) was on time at EVERY stop on the trip and outside Denver at 19.10 for a 19.40 arrival!! then the Union Pacific Gits in Omaha decided to play silly buggers and we finally arrived at the platform at 20.25.45 minutes LATE!! as I was getting to the end of my "safe period" without food, it was a fr5antic dash to the hotel and a quick sprint to a local restaurant for food and meds, Kat the food wasn't as good as the Winery. So, here I am waiting to catch the shuttle bus to Denver Airport in about 45 mins for the flight to Boston and on to Maine, where, I understand, The Apocslypse will begin on Saturday!!! (or is that just the opening Band), Morty, your lFU wishes he could have fitted you in the luggage too, you would have enjoyed this sooooo much, as someone said in a PM(or post) I am having WAY too much fun, and all because Morty talked me into looking at this website in August 99, Still Sailor vie as the French say!! gotta go and pack
HLVB Micca

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jul 08 - 01:07 AM

I know what you mean, kat- his is a large presence. We're just going to have to make him do another round.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jul 08 - 01:05 PM

Bekka, thank yew, from Kipling and me! He thinks he's quite stunning, too!

Micca should be boarding the train in about 30 minutes, off to denver and parts East. The train is even on time! I miss him already.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Tinker
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:39 PM

Now SINSULL, I'm not sure, but I don't think this sounds particularly well behaved..... but it is a present, but it sounds like a threat.... Just beware spaw...

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:38 PM

Just heard from Micca. He is in love with Alaska, colorado, the West, the East, and in his ever so subtle way - like a hyperactive two year old deprived of his meds. He is even in love with Miss Kitty's cat. Alice will be jealous.
SO he arrives some time Wednesday night in Maine. Hopefully to clean sheets and towels but I am promising nothing.
Spaw - I know where you live. heh heh heh...these things must be dome delllllicately.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:34 PM

I have a change of address.........Send to:

Spaw
Inhabitant Regulator
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Leadfingers
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:11 PM

And NEVER think that SINS doesnt have your address - She will subvert some unsuspecting visitor to deliver - even across the pond !!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: ranger1
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 08:37 PM

Run, Spaw! I think I know what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 07:49 PM

It is kind of like being on a diet. I try very hard and succeed for two weeks at a time (sometimes) then...

So unless I am led astray by evil companions I will fit in nicely at this dry Christian camp...unless of course they toss a plastic covered hand full of spaghetti on my plate. Then all bets are off.

Spaw - you are overdue for a giftie from Maine. And I have winner here.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: GUEST,KT not logged in
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 11:40 AM

"Not I...I am on my best behavior this year."   ---

Whatever for? That's like laughing without snorting!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:54 AM

LOL Spaw - too bloody true!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:50 AM

Just an aside here, but Kat...Kipling is a stunning kitty!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:43 AM

"Not I...I am on my best behavior this year."......Sinsull

Nowadays I just spend most time just reading, but when I encounter such incredible bullshit as the above, I have to call it out! Now seriously Sins, have you ever been on anything resembling "best behavior?" I don't think you'd know it if it bit you in the ass!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: jacqui.c
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:38 AM

Not I...I am on my best behavior this year

Now, how often have we heard that..........

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 09:36 AM

Not I...I am on my best behavior this year.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: GUEST,KT not logged in
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 02:40 AM

I can see it now....the Saturday night performance of the Dry land Synchronized Swim Team- led by Sinsull & Micca. Who else is in? Jacqui? Mick? Surely Tinker and Dani & Janie would be game.....and of course, Bobert!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Jul 08 - 01:28 AM

Get him to teach it to you, Sinsull. It is very educational. Just because one does not have a swimmng pool doesn't mean one need be deprived.

(Actually it was hilarious.)

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 10:52 AM

Getting his lordship's room ready. Great pictures, Micca. Will you be conducting a Getaway workshop on dry land synchronized swimming?

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Charley Noble
Date: 27 Jul 08 - 10:31 AM

Happy trails!

Nice pixs!

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 06:41 PM

Well, well, seems Western Colorado has some passable wines! After visiting a few wineries...dear Micca has had a good snooze on the sofa. we're about to order pizza for a birthday party for my brother at which the grandson and daughter will also be. It is wonderful having Micca here!!**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 26 Jul 08 - 11:58 AM

Just got back from a ride in a genuine 1914 Model T Ford!!! with the top down and the wind in such hair as I have There are pix of the car in my Adventure thread Here

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 03:53 AM

I have added some more pix including some of the "farewell Alaska" party. Today I spent a lot of time just relaxing as it is very hot here,and visiting with Kat and her brother and her Grandson and some mogs.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: KT
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 02:30 AM

That's more than double our current temp, kat!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 12:21 AM

We're headed back to 103 this weekend, if you want to cook him some more. It was a mild 95 today.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Jul 08 - 12:10 AM

99 DEGREES and it is awful!! Had a wonderful day!!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: GUEST,kt not logged in
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 09:29 PM

Micca, I'm thinking about the pictures of GOLD CREEK. Those are the ones I'm anxious to see.

90 degrees? sounds like heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: ranger1
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 06:24 PM

Micca, I can promise osprey chicks (well, osprey teenagers at this point) and if you come with us to meet Jay's dad, we'll go out in the boat and look for the many loons on Little Sebago.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:37 PM

Don't worry SINS I have found the guy that was doing the Rain Dances and I have kicked his Butt!!! I am here happily ensconced at kats computer and being attacked by her moggies, This morning I have met her brother and I saw Peaches and apricots "on the hoof" as it were, I had never seen them "in the wild" before, it is about 90 degrees outside but the a/c is keeping me comfortable. KT I have the pix of Monday night and will put them up when I can think of words to describe whats going on, especially the "swimming" ones.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:31 PM

Yahoo!!!!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 09:20 AM

NO RAIN ON AUGUST 2!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: jacqui.c
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 08:41 AM

Mind you, if he's travelling with the rain do we really want him here right now? It's chucking it down with thundery bits as well. Maybe he'll get it all out of his system before he hits the East Coast.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: SINSULL
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 07:41 AM

Wait until they advertise that movie The Gladiator on TV at every break. Major earworm.

I too saw Micca, the Terrorist picture and did a double take.
Send him on to us unharmed, Miss Kitty.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: GUEST,KT not logged in
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:20 AM

Hey Micca! What about the pics from the little camera?

Nice pics of your last couple of days. Maybe somewhere on this adventure you'll see a real loon! A live one!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: GUEST,KT not logged in
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 03:14 AM

Oh thanks, Mary. I'm about to go to bed and now that song is stuck in my head.....AGAIN! Yes, he sang it, and got us all going, too!

Micca, you're quite welcome! It was a pleasure! (May I eat your left-over steak or would you like me to pack it up and have it waiting for you upon your arrival in Maine?)

Yesterday, the temp at the glacier was 39!! Summertime.....and the livin is easy......

Micca, don't forget to deliver those hugs to kat for me!

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 01:35 AM

I have added some of todays Rocky Mountains Pix to the set, I nearly forgot, I have to say a Big Thank you to KT and Ebbie (and the Bevelannes) for a wonderful visit to Alaska they made me fell both welcome and at home and cared for too, Thanks Ladies, The pix are safe at the moment,

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:57 AM

Meant to start that out with:

I have met the Mighty Patterson!**bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:40 AM

Well! Didn't take him long to get his laptop fired up. I only dropped him off about 30 minutes ago! What fun!! Finally, to meet the wonderful Micca...all I expected and more. What a lovely man/friend. Rog and I had a blast over dinner with him; the two of them killed a largish bottle of wine while the cats, dog and I drank water. Well, I had my chocolate rice milk, too. Oh, and the dog didn't even bark, Trystan offered his cathole for a lick or sniff, which Micca declined, and Kipling-shy cat even came out for a sashay round. More fun, tomorrow!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Bert
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:33 AM

"It is raining here also in Tokio"

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Micca
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:19 AM

Well, Here I am in Grand Junction, Colorado,after an "interesting" journry!! the train was 55 mins late, and KT Guess what ? it is RAINING!! as we speak, I met alot of interesting folks on the train including a few who were interested/knowlegable about Folk Music, The journey through the Rockies was stunning and I will put some pix up as soon as I can sort them. I have finally met Kat and Rog after 10 years of waiting and planning, we had dinner together, more tomorrow, it is now 10.15 0n a day that started at 5am!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Ebbie
Date: 24 Jul 08 - 12:06 AM

A little aside here while we await the gentleman: Stilly, I found that Devils Club is handy for making one's way through the boggy stuff. You need boots, of course, but if you step on the devils club near its base it lies fairly flat and will displace your weight in preparation for your next step. Much easier to navigate than the wimpy but rebellious alder hells we have here.

Of course, if the Club swings at you and connects---! I remember one time when I worked at the house museum a park ranger stopped by and asked if I could get some spines out of his head. The problem was that the ranger's hair, while short, is very blond so the almost-transparent spines didn't show.   I didn't really help him at all.

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:44 PM

Devil's club, by the way, while a tad frightening to look at, has medicinal properties, and has been used for a long, long time by folks native to the region.

KT--I grew up in the Puget Sound area, north of Seattle. We have very healthy crops of the stuff in the understory, and I've had to let more than a few of the spines fester before they finally worked their way out of my hide.

Bert, it looks like Micca had a good visit--and the kids look great! Such sweeties!

Kat, we have an Amtrak station here in Fort Worth. If you'd just send him on down the line, we could use the rain. Looks like Hurricane Dolly isn't coming anywhere near us. (And you can remind him that my daughter Moonglow was his secret Santee one year, so there is a good reason to visit!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 11:03 PM

Now that is one blissful Micca nursing that beer. What a great picture.

Speaking of pictures, Micca is toting a good sketch of himself done by a local artist. Maybe he can copy it and post it on the Cat?

(Micca, I don't know how to say this (sob. choke.) If you had stayed just one more day... You know how you wanted to see a bear and none came to haunt thee? Well, tonight Meggie and I ran into a bear. No, not literally. The bear ambled across the street and then back in front of us. Meggie raced down the sidewalk (pavement) after it while I shouted 'Stay on the sidewalk!' She did but she had a grand time.)

Subject: RE: BS: Miccas Great Adventure
From: Bert
Date: 23 Jul 08 - 10:13 PM

Is he there yet?