Fish and whistle

Posted by: ShenValleyFlyFish, 2:42 PM GMT on April 24, 2012

Here bygynneth the Book  of the tales of Caunterbury

1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

When April with his showers sweet with fruit
The drought of March has pierced unto the root
And bathed each vein with liquor that has power
To generate therein and sire the flower;
When Zephyr also has, with his sweet breath,
Quickened again, in every holt and heath,
The tender shoots and buds, and the young sun
Into the Ram one half his course has run,
And many little birds make melody
That sleep through all the night with open eye
(So Nature pricks them on to ramp and rage)-
Then do folk long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in sundry lands.

Well folks, it's April and I'm off on a pilgrimage, a quest if you will. It will take me away from the blogs and internet for at least the next 3 months. I will return with tales of wonder I hope. Till then, be safe, kind to each other and fight the good fight.

Thanks for the fellowship.

I will be closing the blog to comment as I will not be able to monitor it.
Any reports on my demise or other conditions are bogus unless posted here.

Sorry to be so cryptic but don't know where this is headed or how it will turn out. Suffice to say. "It's a good thing"

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Posted by: ShenValleyFlyFish, 7:09 PM GMT on March 06, 2012

When I worked at the one machine shop a local trucker, who was a notorious shyster brought in several of his cattle haling trailers to have the king pins (attach the tractor to the trailer) replaced. The minute that it got out that one of his trailers was on our lot the boss got calls from all over The Valley warning him to cover his butt. Boss decided that no one could collect anything if the man couldn't hall, so told him cash only. Whenever we finished one we...

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Native wood

Posted by: ShenValleyFlyFish, 7:17 PM GMT on July 10, 2011

This is in response to some stuff over on Orca's blog so if you want to know what sparked this off (other than random firing synapses) check it out. Its a fun blog. If you lack a warped sense of humor don't bother, but then again you probably wouldn't be checking in here.Trees and folks I have KnownRe: ChestnutI grew up on Chestnut Ridge. Used to be if you hiked back in far enough you could come across trunks of old trees that had toppled over. Any time an old s...

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Last Blast

Posted by: ShenValleyFlyFish, 6:55 PM GMT on July 08, 2011

I swore I was going to let this place die of neglect. However it doesn't seem quite fair to keep dumping the products of my compulsion to rant on other folks blogs. So here it is the latest rant.**********Reflection on ReflectionsA long time ago in a place far far away, when I was just a wee lad, my DDD (dear departed dad) was friends with an eccentric genius who was in charge of the planetarium at the local Mennonite church college. There was a great hullabaloo ab...

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I'm back/ ARKANSAS TRAGEDY

Posted by: ShenValleyFlyFish, 12:08 AM GMT on June 12, 2010

Hi all. I think this air card contraption may work out. I've been playing with it for about a week now and while it isn't broadband and it sometimes gets V E R Y slow think its as good as it gets in this hole between the hills and dependable enough to venture out in public. A lot has happened and I'll do a post about that but thought I'd start back with something Weather related.I posted this over on Dr Jeff's bolg but then decided I had worked enough for one eve...

Updated: 12:13 AM GMT on June 12, 2010

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