Well..., come Sunday I will chalk up trip number 74 around the sun..., and I plan to celebrate it with some Mexican beer that I acquired a taste for on a little vacation down that way. That's not the way I used celebrate back in the day..., when I used to buy a keg of beer and give away free kisses to all the girls..., and invite all my friends to an outdoor party at Fraser Park in Idaho where I was born and raised. Those days ended when I moved to Forks, WA in 1987. After I "retired" from logging in the late 90's and found employment that offered more benefits..., like paid vacations..., I used to take a week off to cross the Cascade Mountains back to Idaho and celebrate with all my friends and family back in Idaho..., and buy a keg of beer..., and dozens of fresh oysters to share with all those old friends..., but I did have to curtail the free kisses since I was hooked up with Julie by that time. I documented the history of those parties on this Blog a while back...,
https://scottrthequillayutecowboy.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-birthdays-party.html
Here's a picture from one of the later parties when the venue was Dave and Kathy Daniels' Ranch at Heywood Meadows.
Hope this rainbow view from The Front Porch is a good omen for the next trip around the sun for this old cowboy. Things are shaping up good around The Ranch..., the grass is greening up..., the daffodils are blooming..., the apple trees and rhodys are budding..., the geese are squawking north in good numbers..., The Garden is shaping up..., Charley Horse is shedding his winter coat..., and the dogs won't let a bill collector on site 😀
I tried hard to find a Sam Neely song on Youtube for your Friday Nite Music Video...,
Young and Free
How many ties have you leaned on back
Dreamed about the days
Knowing you can't turn back
And sit in the sun
Waiting for the night to come
Knowing you're still so young and alive
Lord it's a shame when you ain't got the time
To drift on back to the nursery rhymes
Cause those were the times
That are best in my mind
Lord it's just a crime to let them die
(Chorus)
And I want to live the life I used to live
And I want to be always young and free
How many years have you wasted away
That you wouldn't trade for just one day
To be in the past but still it couldn't last
Cause you can't take back what's here today
(Chorus)
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but I couldn't find it..., so I will settle for this one..., Rosalie.
Those certainly were the daze. Good times, great friends...thought life could never be better. But as we both know, nothing lasts forever. The good and the not so good. And here we are, still circling the sun. Life is good today and I appreciate it all. Maybe a little slower but still enjoying it. Happy birthday my dear friend. It's about time you caught up with me!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ellenor..., those bottles of Pacifico are chilling in my "office" fridge now and I may start the birthday celebration this evening instead of waiting until tomorrow :). Yeah..., it's been quite a ride so far..., and it isn't over yet !!! I could change a few words in this Hunter S. Thompson quote from "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" to reference Clearwater County in the 70's to describe that era...,
ReplyDelete"“It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era — the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run... but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning...
And that, I think, was the handle — that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply PREVAIL. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high water mark — that place where the wave finally broke, and rolled back.”
👍👍👍👍👍 Butch
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DeleteHappy Birthday Scott!🎂🎉
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DeleteThanks Jim and Debbie. :)
DeleteHappy Birthday, Scott R. Here's to another trip around the Sun! You do realize you're almost 4 months older than me. On a lighter note; I watched a special on Jerry west The Logo, on Amazon Prime last night. If you get a chance check it out!🏀
ReplyDeleteThanks for the birthday greeting..., and the head's up on the Jerry West special..., ???? anonymous ????..., thinking maybe Big Jer..., the only August birthday I can think of right now :)
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