Where the Hell are you people

[JEnfield]

I can here the crickets churping and a damn echo is this the end. The only other site I have seen go this dead was the rocker site.

Jimmy

[Hedge]

Jimmy my Brother - I have no idea what anyone else is doing but I'm working my fucking tail off trying to save my ass! That's why I'm MIA! As soon as I almost have ShitStorm Part 2 contained and when I do I will move onto upgrading our present infrastructure. After that I will be so fucking highly trained that they will either leave me alone or I can simply move on. Anyway, believe it or not I am so fucking looking forward to meeting up with you at Valley Forge. I hope all is well with you and the family.
Brother Hedge!

[mark]

I hope it's quiet here simply because everyone's busy riding.

--mark

[b_mason]

Jimmy, between work, getting ready for my moose hunt, taking the classes for my CCP (which I just sent all the info for) My kids have been training for a Tri-athalon, I have been unable to spend any time on any website. Plus the time I am online it is spent taking some business classes for a venture I am trying to determine if it is feasible.

I too have thought it was very silent here. The MEME board and flyfishing boards are pretty slow also.

[JEnfield]

I understand the busy working shit trust me I wish I was out riding. One of my close friends got his back broke and some of us picked up his clients and are sending him the money. So my busy season got even busier. I hope you all are haveing plenty of ride time and family time. May will be here before we know it after all the fuckin cold snowy weather LOL.

Jimmy

[Speedblastr]

For the love of God Jimmy , don't say snow. I wonder what happened to Mr.Mellow,Whisperinsmith,Robin,Paul and all the rest ? I wonder if she had sold the cafe ?
I have a feeling that when the weather turns foul as in change of seasons there will be more input on this site. Some of us still check in. Billy, Benny,Brett and Hedge.
Hope your buddy gets well. (Broken Back) Ouch ! Speed.

[bonniegirl]

i have been busy selling the cafe. the closing in tues 26 aug
and planning the b'ham move
and coordinating the ride down with rndtaylor
and other related things

[bennybmn]

So who's buyin the cafe?

I've been busy pimping my table saw. Basically spent all my random free time (aside from a couple random scoots) building an outfeed table, setting up dust collection, and making an overhead blade guard/dust collector. All because I keep convincing myself these things will make it easier to build a simple set of shelves... Well I finally got started on the shelves tonight. 4 hours, got all the wood cut and holes drilled. Tomorrow I need to cut a few dados and round some edges with the router. Then it's glue n screw time! The shelves are for a friend for her baby shower NEXT weekend. I hope I can stain and poly them in time!!

Here's Das Sawncuttinwood.

[bonniegirl]

a youngish (early 30's) local couple that have been customers since they moved here 6-7 years ago. nice peeps, community minded.
mid september i'm off to be a southern housewife
bake biscuits and peach pies in the morning and sit on the porch swing and drink mint julips in the afternoon.

[matts1050]

Getting ready for the Nor'East Rally, of course!

[bennybmn]

That's great Robin, glad it's working out for you!!

[drlapo]

I'm out riding my bikes
I'll come back here when the snow flys

[bruce19]

Well, I've been to the Britjam rally, riding my bicycle about 100 mi. a week, went to a riding buddy's surprise birthday for his wife in Attleboro, MA, preparing for a week in Quebec, making arrangements for a reunion in Truro, MA with a bunch of guys I played football with in college, planning a motorcycle trip in late Sept. to Button Bay SP in VT with my main riding group the Hudson River 7 and just generally dealing with life. BTW, anyone who wants to catch up with us in VT is welcomed. Just e-mail me or post up here for details.

[modre]

this summer I shut the tv and computer off because the buzz was interfering with clear thinking as concerns real/unreal perception.

read some Allan Eckert books on the Indian/White transition of SW Pa and have been visiting the watersheds that determined location before roads and towns became the reference points.

Pittsburgh gets a lot of the attention, but it was never more than a meeting place/baggage depot pre-steel. The real story was Wheeling with it's Fort Henry (named after "give me liberty or give me death")...and the real stand out guy was Lewis Wetzel...a young impressionable lad who grew up under Indian attacks and became THE mercenary/Indian commando...the Indians called him "Death Wind" ...which I translate as "Tornado Insane Motherfucker"

http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/spring97/wetzel.html

now here's a guy you can sink your teeth into...tho more popular during the era than in our PC version of history.

I run down these factory waste site stream courses and see juat what the white folk pigs have done in 200 years of conquest and have to side with the Indians whilst I shed a tear for the pristine of what once was.

one of the day trips I did was to Wheeling to see the cliff Sam McCullough rode off to save his ass...and yes, he was a geniune maniac...his horse hated him...the spot is the last hill a spit before the original Rt 40 crests and drops into Wheeling...and the cliff was a "I'd rather die now than be captured by Indians" sort of thing...when he was spotted riding off up the creek at the bottom, the Indians just cheered the sheer balls from the top of the hill...I had to applaud it myself...all in all, an impressive display of insanity...tho a few years later they caught him and ate his heart...hoping some of it would rub off.

http://www.wvculture.org/hiStory/journa ... vh1-2.html

on the bad side...the word leaked out I can fix and biker folks with no hands have been hanging around with pouty faces and poor running bikes wishing I would save them and make them look good.

on the good side, after 6 years of a hatchet in my back and dead legs, my wife fixed that in a surprise miracle...so life is good.

it's nice to dress like a bad biker type...or a Power Ranger if that's your gig...but them guys who preceded us were the unvarnished real "Bad to the Bone" deal.

I don't know beyond written history what happened on the east side of the mountains (Bennington, Green Mountain Boys, polite European style war) circa 1776-ish, but I'm pretty sure the lunitics over here (Ohio Valley) were not dabbling in polite society and getting press...tho there were reputations being made that you wouldn't want to get on the bad side of...even if you fancied yourself grande macho by common standards.

...so this summer, I've been immersing myself in education and letting the art flow over me...I hope everyone else has been similarly productively employed.

I think every now and then you have to shut off the hype and do a little soul searching for good mental health and perspective...the gem is always inside...not external.

[bruce19]

............I think every now and then you have to shut off the hype and do a little soul searching for good mental health and perspective...the gem is always inside...not external.

Couldn't agree more. You reminded me of the reading I've been doing. Got back into some of the Carlos Castaneda books along with "The Four Agreements" by Don Miguel Ruiz, "To Be Human" by J. Krishnamurti, and a few others in the vein of philosophy or "ways to understand the source of existence." Also read "The Secret", "Dancing Wu Li Masters" and "The Power of Intention."