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I'm sitting outside enjoying a Scotch and a cigar, taking in the amplified breeze from a nearby tropical storm. There's just something about it.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I enjoy it with the rain both in the Hill Country and here in Idaho. I did have a large cottonwood branch drop and hit my shop here. Fortunately no damage and the tree is now gone.
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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I've loved to watch storms as long as I can remember.
Patriotism (and religion) is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Jesus: "Take heed that no man deceive you."
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I used to live on a fairly large sailboat in the Keys. Nothing like going out enjoying a day and then anchoring offshore.
Comfortable breeze... mild seas... a good cigar and a glass of black rum.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Campfire Kahuna
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I'm sitting outside enjoying a Scotch and a cigar, taking in the amplified breeze from a nearby tropical storm. There's just something about it. No. Not the kind of storms we have around here. If they're rains from a spent Gulf Storm, then yeah, especially after a long, dry spell when its been terrible-hot.
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I know what you mean,i like it.
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Not since I rode out a Hurricane in a soft top HMMWV. I have a new respect for Mother Nature after that adventure.
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Yes. Think its instinct that energizes animals when prior to when storms roll in.
"Put none but Americans on guard tonight." -George Washington
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Used to love to go down to the shore when the winds were blowing in SoCal.
I left once when they palm trees were bent WAY over.
Found out the 90mph gusts blew out condo windows on Coronado Island that night, the area I had parked was littered with palm fronds and junk out of the bay.
I'm not as fond of stuff over 60MPH as I used to be, too much of my stuff can get ruined.
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
member of the cabal of dysfunctional squirrels?
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A good blow is invigorating. .
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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I'm sitting outside enjoying a Scotch and a cigar, taking in the amplified breeze from a nearby tropical storm. There's just something about it. Enjoying a north breeze here in Northern California.......... Cheers!
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Love thunder and lighting. Watched a continuous light show for 4 hours rolling in here from Montana. Was still going on when I hit the sac. Edk
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hold up a 1 iron, should be safe...
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Ebens Head on Duck Harbor on Isle ah Haut Maine.
In Acadia NP. Drambuie is drink of choice. Till driven indoors.
If you look on the park map of Isle ah Haut there is a small white rectangle on Duck Harbor.
Not part of the park. Though government keeps trying to take it.
2 minute walk to Ebens Head. Rock point looking out.
Teeth to the wind.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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nice and cool today, stayed in the seventy's all day, wind wasn't bad here.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I tossed a yield sign into a tornado once.
Guess I was throwing caution to the wind.
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I'm sitting outside enjoying a Scotch and a cigar, taking in the amplified breeze from a nearby tropical storm. There's just something about it. If I had some good scotch and a fine cigar, I wouldn't give a damn if someone farted in my general direction. But yes, watching a storm roll in from the west over the Big Lake is something to behold.
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