USMB Coffee Shop IV

[gallantwarrior]

Almost forgot to tell you a funny story! My neighbor loves his SUV. He is out there all the time washing it, rubbing it, whatever. Lol. He's kind of a cranky old man too (not to us, but to other people). Anyhow, he had been outside washing and tending to his vehicle and then went inside. All of the sudden, a huge gaggle of geese flew over, all squawking and obnoxious. Then a few of them pooped, and disgusting goose poop got all over the parking and all over his SUV.

Lol! I didn't get to see his reaction unfortunately, but I imagine it wasn't pretty. I can just picture him standing out there making fists at the air and cussing out the geese! I wish I could have stuck around to see his reaction.

It's an old joke against auto-owners, who let to signalling of their cars playing at nights wihout end... to drop a handful of corns on their car in sight of gaggle of doves Especially, when the temperature is below zero...

Or you could use a dust of valeriana else

So you Russians play practical jokes too. We do share a lot of common traits don't we. I am also impressed that you are yet another cat person. We seem to have a lot of cat and dog people in the Coffee Shop. (Plus bird, bunny, horse, and goat people and I think there is a turtle in there somewhere.)

Google "funny cat videos". Russians luvs dem sum cats!!!

 

[gallantwarrior]

I just took a shot in the dark and purchased a cd by Adele simply entitled '25'. I am listening to it on my computer while typing. So far I am impressed with her voice. I have never actually heard a record by her before but there was a snippet of her on TV and I liked her voice. So I gambled that I would like her record, and I do.

I'm hunting for new music, which helps me to work. Your idea is perfect for this day, let's enjoy Adele together! It's not a rock, I love, but seems pretty...
Do you love Oasis?

I have not listened to Oasis, I am well behind the times with my music. I mostly have records from my youth, like Pink Floyd. But I like Cold Play and have a couple of their CD's.

I just took a shot in the dark and purchased a cd by Adele simply entitled '25'. I am listening to it on my computer while typing. So far I am impressed with her voice. I have never actually heard a record by her before but there was a snippet of her on TV and I liked her voice. So I gambled that I would like her record, and I do.

I'm hunting for new music, which helps me to work. Your idea is perfect for this day, let's enjoy Adele together! It's not a rock, I love, but seems pretty...
Do you love Oasis?

I have not listened to Oasis, I am well behind the times with my music. I mostly have records from my youth, like Pink Floyd. But I like Cold Play and have a couple of their CD's.

I like Cold Play and Imagine Dragons...lots of other contemporary artists, too.

 

[gallantwarrior]

I just took a shot in the dark and purchased a cd by Adele simply entitled '25'. I am listening to it on my computer while typing. So far I am impressed with her voice. I have never actually heard a record by her before but there was a snippet of her on TV and I liked her voice. So I gambled that I would like her record, and I do.

I'm hunting for new music, which helps me to work. Your idea is perfect for this day, let's enjoy Adele together! It's not a rock, I love, but seems pretty...
Do you love Oasis?

I have not listened to Oasis, I am well behind the times with my music. I mostly have records from my youth, like Pink Floyd. But I like Cold Play and have a couple of their CD's.

Oh, a taste of youth... PF is good for the beer party with long talks about life... Damn, today is Friday, suitable day for it! But my sins don't let me to start a rest right now ))

I do like classical music too. My favorite symphony is Mahler's second symphony.

Ditto, just about anything Beethoven and Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus".

 

[gallantwarrior]

I just took a shot in the dark and purchased a cd by Adele simply entitled '25'. I am listening to it on my computer while typing. So far I am impressed with her voice. I have never actually heard a record by her before but there was a snippet of her on TV and I liked her voice. So I gambled that I would like her record, and I do.

I'm hunting for new music, which helps me to work. Your idea is perfect for this day, let's enjoy Adele together! It's not a rock, I love, but seems pretty...
Do you love Oasis?

I have not listened to Oasis, I am well behind the times with my music. I mostly have records from my youth, like Pink Floyd. But I like Cold Play and have a couple of their CD's.

Oh, a taste of youth... PF is good for the beer party with long talks about life... Damn, today is Friday, suitable day for it! But my sins don't let me to start a rest right now ))

I do like classical music too. My favorite symphony is Mahler's second symphony.

Oh, classic music remembers me about elementary music school, which I've finished. I love it too, but prefer baroque style - Bach, Gendel, Vivaldi and so on... Listening them and reading "The Island of the Day Before" of Umberto Eco - what could be more athmospheric?

Do you like Tchaikovsky? How about Holst?

 

[Ringel05]

Well, it's official...current temps are in the "witch's tit in a brass bra cup" cold. Nothing all day and last night that didn't feature a minus sign in front of the number. Expected to go down to as low as -20 here tonight. I wish I didn't have to go to work and I hope no airplanes require oil service or maintenance. It's so cold, the tears freeze before they roll down your cheeks, and your eyes will tear because the cold just rips them from you. Your nose hairs freeze when you inhale and if you try to breath through you mouth, your teeth hurt! At least it won't snow, and with some luck, airborne moisture will remain low and we won't get ice fog.

Maybe you should move in with me and mrg, GW! You, partner, goats and all! If I ever get my own place...Y'all would be very welcome. At least you would be warmer. Alaska is beautiful, but the cold? Shudder.[emoji33]

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The little dog and the cats, I'm sure you'd be fine with. But goats aren't housebroken and unless you'd sacrifice a little warmth for a compost heap...think twice about the goats. I do feel mondo sorry for them right now though. We have four hot-boxes and heated water buckets, but it's still brutally cold. I assure you, inside the cabin it stays between 65 and 70 degrees warm. Sometimes, it gets warmer, but that's too much for me so I regulate the heaters pretty closely. Nothing more cozy than looking out the window and knowing that it's killer cold in the heartbreakingly beautiful landscape.

You're right! I've learned it in Siberia - the main thing is to keep warm inside houses, and any temperature outside would be non-significant addition to nice view.
Otherwise, in 90x, when the crazy Greens, using hystery after Chernobyl, cancelled a building of nuclear heating station, about decade or more in all our town the temperature inside houses was very low, at "european style" - and the temperature about -10--15C seemed really catastrophic...

There's always some question about what "greens" really want. No nuclear power, no drilling for oil or natural gas, and right now we're having our annual battle about pollution caused by burning wood for warmth. Solar power is extremely limited in extremely high, and low, latitudes. Wind power is also pretty intermittent. Both solar and wind power are limited and not suited to power for larger, urban areas. I suspect supporters of non-petroleum-based power prefer fewer people but most decline my invitation that they lead the way.
I am currently researching using composting to heat water and possibly a year-round greenhouse.

If everything goes as planned and we end up in Arizona we'll have major solar power options. not so much electricity production but water/home heating options.

 

[gallantwarrior]

You know that Lady Gaga is a really talented vocalist too. I really like this song.

Given recent current events, I have a choice, and I have chosen to forgo most of the so-called "artists" who are so obviously against everything I have ever worked for. Sorry, gang...

 

[gallantwarrior]

Well, it's official...current temps are in the "witch's tit in a brass bra cup" cold. Nothing all day and last night that didn't feature a minus sign in front of the number. Expected to go down to as low as -20 here tonight. I wish I didn't have to go to work and I hope no airplanes require oil service or maintenance. It's so cold, the tears freeze before they roll down your cheeks, and your eyes will tear because the cold just rips them from you. Your nose hairs freeze when you inhale and if you try to breath through you mouth, your teeth hurt! At least it won't snow, and with some luck, airborne moisture will remain low and we won't get ice fog.

Maybe you should move in with me and mrg, GW! You, partner, goats and all! If I ever get my own place...Y'all would be very welcome. At least you would be warmer. Alaska is beautiful, but the cold? Shudder.[emoji33]

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The little dog and the cats, I'm sure you'd be fine with. But goats aren't housebroken and unless you'd sacrifice a little warmth for a compost heap...think twice about the goats. I do feel mondo sorry for them right now though. We have four hot-boxes and heated water buckets, but it's still brutally cold. I assure you, inside the cabin it stays between 65 and 70 degrees warm. Sometimes, it gets warmer, but that's too much for me so I regulate the heaters pretty closely. Nothing more cozy than looking out the window and knowing that it's killer cold in the heartbreakingly beautiful landscape.

You're right! I've learned it in Siberia - the main thing is to keep warm inside houses, and any temperature outside would be non-significant addition to nice view.
Otherwise, in 90x, when the crazy Greens, using hystery after Chernobyl, cancelled a building of nuclear heating station, about decade or more in all our town the temperature inside houses was very low, at "european style" - and the temperature about -10--15C seemed really catastrophic...

There's always some question about what "greens" really want. No nuclear power, no drilling for oil or natural gas, and right now we're having our annual battle about pollution caused by burning wood for warmth. Solar power is extremely limited in extremely high, and low, latitudes. Wind power is also pretty intermittent. Both solar and wind power are limited and not suited to power for larger, urban areas. I suspect supporters of non-petroleum-based power prefer fewer people but most decline my invitation that they lead the way.
I am currently researching using composting to heat water and possibly a year-round greenhouse.

If everything goes as planned and we end up in Arizona we'll have major solar power options. not so much electricity production but water/home heating options.

Solar and wind both work so well in the area you are considering.

 

[gallantwarrior]

t's a strange... My cat is dreaming to walk, sitting at window, when I open it to air a room - when it's about -5--7C outside... One day he will decide to jump

Bonsoir, still very cold in France my cat pomponette Still if She as a lot of fur is not going outside now to cold.

It's a strange... My cat is dreaming to walk, sitting at window, when I open it to air a room - when it's about -5--7C outside... One day he will decide to jump to compel me to seek him at park and return

Cats are sometimes strange my pomponette does not like when the doors are closed.
And she always eats the same sort of cat paté and for her water she always drinks in the same bowl I wanted to change her bowl she did not want to drink in it.
I bought the same bowl of the same color but new she took time and she Ultimately drink in the new bowl

Cats can be pretty particular, that's certain. Too bad Pompette cannot have kittens, if that's what you would have wanted. Here, we try to discourage kittens because there are so many unwanted cats and kittens who need homes.

 

[peach174]

Almost forgot to tell you a funny story! My neighbor loves his SUV. He is out there all the time washing it, rubbing it, whatever. Lol. He's kind of a cranky old man too (not to us, but to other people). Anyhow, he had been outside washing and tending to his vehicle and then went inside. All of the sudden, a huge gaggle of geese flew over, all squawking and obnoxious. Then a few of them pooped, and disgusting goose poop got all over the parking and all over his SUV.

Lol! I didn't get to see his reaction unfortunately, but I imagine it wasn't pretty. I can just picture him standing out there making fists at the air and cussing out the geese! I wish I could have stuck around to see his reaction.

It's an old joke against auto-owners, who let to signalling of their cars playing at nights wihout end... to drop a handful of corns on their car in sight of gaggle of doves Especially, when the temperature is below zero...

Or you could use a dust of valeriana else

So you Russians play practical jokes too. We do share a lot of common traits don't we. I am also impressed that you are yet another cat person. We seem to have a lot of cat and dog people in the Coffee Shop. (Plus bird, bunny, horse, and goat people and I think there is a turtle in there somewhere.)

Thank you for mentioning my turtle Michelangelo.

I don't have any turtles at home, butI have three snails instead. Two snails live with my fishes, cleaning an aquarium, and one live in glass can, eating cabbage leafs and growing...

I had snails in my aquariums also.

 

[gallantwarrior]

Oh, and we watched the inauguration. No other comment about that though. [emoji16]

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At least not here. Glad you guys didn't suffer more damage from the heathens.

 

[peach174]

Hubbie loved his dinner tonight.
Mixed rice and Alaskan wild salmon.

 

[peach174]

Hubbie says to thank you all for everyting, including your continued prayers.
He says thank you all ,for you helping and supporting me.
This little coffee shop with your help and support has so far kept me sane as much as possible.
Considering I'm crazy most of the time anywho!
Most thought I was crazy to have married him with health problems to begin with.
We have had an incredible life together and we both feel like it's not over yet.

The coffee shop has always supported its friends. You have been there for many of us as we dragged ourselves through life's tribulations. Speaking for myself, my continued prayers for your husband's recovery feel wholly inadequate compared to what you've done for me.

Well Ernie, I would never just walk by like the rest of the many people there and just let you drown.
Your second nostrial wasn't far away from gurgling too.
It was more shocking to me as a naive 16 year old kid ,people could be so uncaring about life.

I remain eternally grateful for your actions that day and for the Coffee Shop where I was finally able to connect with the angel that more than likely saved my life way back in August of1969.
For so many years, I was resigned to the fact that the anonymous girl who pulled me out of the mud would likely never be acknowledged.

It has been so long and we have so many new family in the Coffee Shop now, you ought to tell the story again Ernie.

I suppose I should. Hopefully, my angel will jump in and fill in the blanks in my memory.
Let's go way back to August of 1969. I had just turned 20 years old. I was living in Western Connecticut and as many of my generation had a love of contemporary music and truth be told, one hell of a crush on Janis Joplin.
I came by tickets to Woodstock that July and unfortunately, my future in-laws wouldn't allow my girlfriend to accompany me. In her place, I took a friend.
If you're a Woodstock fan, you've heard stories about traffic jams and rain. The stories are grossly exaggerated; it was much worse than you can imagine.
I could tell a cool story of how I made Yagsur's farm hours ahead of people I passed along the way, but I came to talk about an angel
Friday night it RAINED. Torrential rains left water flowing down from the ridge towards the stage. At times the water running down the hillside was several inches deep and flowing pretty quickly.
As you've likely heard, there would be around a half million people on that hillside. As they walked through the rain water, of course they created mud. LOTS AND LOTS of mud.
I remember listening to The Grateful Dead while partaking of a couple different less than legal substances. When the music ended I moved from very close to the stage to about half way up the hill to try to catch some sleep,
A person not stoned on opium would likely have noticed that although the water was no longer flowing down the hill at 25 MPH, a lava-like flow of mud 6. 8 or in places 12 inches deep was slowly flowing towards the stage.
At some point the next morning, (best guess 10 AM?) I was awakened by a small girl with dirty blond hair who had pulled me by the shirt out of the mud that had covered all but one nostril, half my mouth and my eyes.
I really don't remember what was said and have but a fleeting memory of the face, but for 45 years, whenever I talked about Woodstock, I talked about the little blond who more than likely saved my life that day. Since I had no name, she was always "my angel".
Fast forward 45 years. I related the story here in the Coffee Shop and I soon got a private message from another member who requested a photo. She told me she remembered my eyes and build and that it was, in fact, she who had pulled me out of the mud at Woodstock.
For a couple months, she asked that I didn't acknowledge her publicly. I was disappointed, but I honored her request until she was comfortable.
Thanks to the Coffee Shop I now know that Peach174 is my angel. My gratitude to her for her selfless deed and to the Coffee Shop for allowing me to find her knows no bounds.
Thanks for listening.

The reason I was so reluctant, I got verbally attacked by many people, throughout the years, when they found out I was at Woodstock.

 

[saveliberty]

Google "funny cat videos". Russians luvs dem sum cats!!!

Clearly you have not met my friend serious cat.

 

[Ringel05]

Maybe you should move in with me and mrg, GW! You, partner, goats and all! If I ever get my own place...Y'all would be very welcome. At least you would be warmer. Alaska is beautiful, but the cold? Shudder.[emoji33]

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The little dog and the cats, I'm sure you'd be fine with. But goats aren't housebroken and unless you'd sacrifice a little warmth for a compost heap...think twice about the goats. I do feel mondo sorry for them right now though. We have four hot-boxes and heated water buckets, but it's still brutally cold. I assure you, inside the cabin it stays between 65 and 70 degrees warm. Sometimes, it gets warmer, but that's too much for me so I regulate the heaters pretty closely. Nothing more cozy than looking out the window and knowing that it's killer cold in the heartbreakingly beautiful landscape.

You're right! I've learned it in Siberia - the main thing is to keep warm inside houses, and any temperature outside would be non-significant addition to nice view.
Otherwise, in 90x, when the crazy Greens, using hystery after Chernobyl, cancelled a building of nuclear heating station, about decade or more in all our town the temperature inside houses was very low, at "european style" - and the temperature about -10--15C seemed really catastrophic...

There's always some question about what "greens" really want. No nuclear power, no drilling for oil or natural gas, and right now we're having our annual battle about pollution caused by burning wood for warmth. Solar power is extremely limited in extremely high, and low, latitudes. Wind power is also pretty intermittent. Both solar and wind power are limited and not suited to power for larger, urban areas. I suspect supporters of non-petroleum-based power prefer fewer people but most decline my invitation that they lead the way.
I am currently researching using composting to heat water and possibly a year-round greenhouse.

If everything goes as planned and we end up in Arizona we'll have major solar power options. not so much electricity production but water/home heating options.

Solar and wind both work so well in the area you are considering.

If the conditions are correct in your area a Pelton turbine could work for you.

 

[Ringel05]

The coffee shop has always supported its friends. You have been there for many of us as we dragged ourselves through life's tribulations. Speaking for myself, my continued prayers for your husband's recovery feel wholly inadequate compared to what you've done for me.

Well Ernie, I would never just walk by like the rest of the many people there and just let you drown.
Your second nostrial wasn't far away from gurgling too.
It was more shocking to me as a naive 16 year old kid ,people could be so uncaring about life.

I remain eternally grateful for your actions that day and for the Coffee Shop where I was finally able to connect with the angel that more than likely saved my life way back in August of1969.
For so many years, I was resigned to the fact that the anonymous girl who pulled me out of the mud would likely never be acknowledged.

It has been so long and we have so many new family in the Coffee Shop now, you ought to tell the story again Ernie.

I suppose I should. Hopefully, my angel will jump in and fill in the blanks in my memory.
Let's go way back to August of 1969. I had just turned 20 years old. I was living in Western Connecticut and as many of my generation had a love of contemporary music and truth be told, one hell of a crush on Janis Joplin.
I came by tickets to Woodstock that July and unfortunately, my future in-laws wouldn't allow my girlfriend to accompany me. In her place, I took a friend.
If you're a Woodstock fan, you've heard stories about traffic jams and rain. The stories are grossly exaggerated; it was much worse than you can imagine.
I could tell a cool story of how I made Yagsur's farm hours ahead of people I passed along the way, but I came to talk about an angel
Friday night it RAINED. Torrential rains left water flowing down from the ridge towards the stage. At times the water running down the hillside was several inches deep and flowing pretty quickly.
As you've likely heard, there would be around a half million people on that hillside. As they walked through the rain water, of course they created mud. LOTS AND LOTS of mud.
I remember listening to The Grateful Dead while partaking of a couple different less than legal substances. When the music ended I moved from very close to the stage to about half way up the hill to try to catch some sleep,
A person not stoned on opium would likely have noticed that although the water was no longer flowing down the hill at 25 MPH, a lava-like flow of mud 6. 8 or in places 12 inches deep was slowly flowing towards the stage.
At some point the next morning, (best guess 10 AM?) I was awakened by a small girl with dirty blond hair who had pulled me by the shirt out of the mud that had covered all but one nostril, half my mouth and my eyes.
I really don't remember what was said and have but a fleeting memory of the face, but for 45 years, whenever I talked about Woodstock, I talked about the little blond who more than likely saved my life that day. Since I had no name, she was always "my angel".
Fast forward 45 years. I related the story here in the Coffee Shop and I soon got a private message from another member who requested a photo. She told me she remembered my eyes and build and that it was, in fact, she who had pulled me out of the mud at Woodstock.
For a couple months, she asked that I didn't acknowledge her publicly. I was disappointed, but I honored her request until she was comfortable.
Thanks to the Coffee Shop I now know that Peach174 is my angel. My gratitude to her for her selfless deed and to the Coffee Shop for allowing me to find her knows no bounds.
Thanks for listening.

The reason I was so reluctant, I got verbally attacked by many people, throughout the years, when they found out I was at Woodstock.

How dare you do something you wanted to do.........

 

[gallantwarrior]

You know that Lady Gaga is a really talented vocalist too. I really like this song.

Don't you love her hat? That is a kick ass hat.

And for 2016 the best National Anthem sung at a public event ever was Lady Gaga. The lady can sing.

She can indeed belt out a tune. Too bad she won't just leave things there. She has to vomit her political vomit all over the place. Too bad, I do like her music, her art. It's just a shame she fails to understand me half as well.

 

[gallantwarrior]

The little dog and the cats, I'm sure you'd be fine with. But goats aren't housebroken and unless you'd sacrifice a little warmth for a compost heap...think twice about the goats. I do feel mondo sorry for them right now though. We have four hot-boxes and heated water buckets, but it's still brutally cold. I assure you, inside the cabin it stays between 65 and 70 degrees warm. Sometimes, it gets warmer, but that's too much for me so I regulate the heaters pretty closely. Nothing more cozy than looking out the window and knowing that it's killer cold in the heartbreakingly beautiful landscape.

You're right! I've learned it in Siberia - the main thing is to keep warm inside houses, and any temperature outside would be non-significant addition to nice view.
Otherwise, in 90x, when the crazy Greens, using hystery after Chernobyl, cancelled a building of nuclear heating station, about decade or more in all our town the temperature inside houses was very low, at "european style" - and the temperature about -10--15C seemed really catastrophic...

There's always some question about what "greens" really want. No nuclear power, no drilling for oil or natural gas, and right now we're having our annual battle about pollution caused by burning wood for warmth. Solar power is extremely limited in extremely high, and low, latitudes. Wind power is also pretty intermittent. Both solar and wind power are limited and not suited to power for larger, urban areas. I suspect supporters of non-petroleum-based power prefer fewer people but most decline my invitation that they lead the way.
I am currently researching using composting to heat water and possibly a year-round greenhouse.

If everything goes as planned and we end up in Arizona we'll have major solar power options. not so much electricity production but water/home heating options.

Solar and wind both work so well in the area you are considering.

If the conditions are correct in your area a Pelton turbine could work for you.

Oooh! Neat. I'll have to do some more research. Thanks.

 

[Ernie S.]

The coffee shop has always supported its friends. You have been there for many of us as we dragged ourselves through life's tribulations. Speaking for myself, my continued prayers for your husband's recovery feel wholly inadequate compared to what you've done for me.

Well Ernie, I would never just walk by like the rest of the many people there and just let you drown.
Your second nostrial wasn't far away from gurgling too.
It was more shocking to me as a naive 16 year old kid ,people could be so uncaring about life.

I remain eternally grateful for your actions that day and for the Coffee Shop where I was finally able to connect with the angel that more than likely saved my life way back in August of1969.
For so many years, I was resigned to the fact that the anonymous girl who pulled me out of the mud would likely never be acknowledged.

It has been so long and we have so many new family in the Coffee Shop now, you ought to tell the story again Ernie.

I suppose I should. Hopefully, my angel will jump in and fill in the blanks in my memory.
Let's go way back to August of 1969. I had just turned 20 years old. I was living in Western Connecticut and as many of my generation had a love of contemporary music and truth be told, one hell of a crush on Janis Joplin.
I came by tickets to Woodstock that July and unfortunately, my future in-laws wouldn't allow my girlfriend to accompany me. In her place, I took a friend.
If you're a Woodstock fan, you've heard stories about traffic jams and rain. The stories are grossly exaggerated; it was much worse than you can imagine.
I could tell a cool story of how I made Yagsur's farm hours ahead of people I passed along the way, but I came to talk about an angel
Friday night it RAINED. Torrential rains left water flowing down from the ridge towards the stage. At times the water running down the hillside was several inches deep and flowing pretty quickly.
As you've likely heard, there would be around a half million people on that hillside. As they walked through the rain water, of course they created mud. LOTS AND LOTS of mud.
I remember listening to The Grateful Dead while partaking of a couple different less than legal substances. When the music ended I moved from very close to the stage to about half way up the hill to try to catch some sleep,
A person not stoned on opium would likely have noticed that although the water was no longer flowing down the hill at 25 MPH, a lava-like flow of mud 6. 8 or in places 12 inches deep was slowly flowing towards the stage.
At some point the next morning, (best guess 10 AM?) I was awakened by a small girl with dirty blond hair who had pulled me by the shirt out of the mud that had covered all but one nostril, half my mouth and my eyes.
I really don't remember what was said and have but a fleeting memory of the face, but for 45 years, whenever I talked about Woodstock, I talked about the little blond who more than likely saved my life that day. Since I had no name, she was always "my angel".
Fast forward 45 years. I related the story here in the Coffee Shop and I soon got a private message from another member who requested a photo. She told me she remembered my eyes and build and that it was, in fact, she who had pulled me out of the mud at Woodstock.
For a couple months, she asked that I didn't acknowledge her publicly. I was disappointed, but I honored her request until she was comfortable.
Thanks to the Coffee Shop I now know that Peach174 is my angel. My gratitude to her for her selfless deed and to the Coffee Shop for allowing me to find her knows no bounds.
Thanks for listening.

The reason I was so reluctant, I got verbally attacked by many people, throughout the years, when they found out I was at Woodstock.

Way back in the past, I got called hippy and took flack, but these days, people look at me as some kind of superior being when they find out I was there.

 

[esthermoon]

Hubbie loved his dinner tonight.
Mixed rice and Alaskan wild salmon.

Tasty!

 

[Ernie S.]

Well Ernie, I would never just walk by like the rest of the many people there and just let you drown.
Your second nostrial wasn't far away from gurgling too.
It was more shocking to me as a naive 16 year old kid ,people could be so uncaring about life.

I remain eternally grateful for your actions that day and for the Coffee Shop where I was finally able to connect with the angel that more than likely saved my life way back in August of1969.
For so many years, I was resigned to the fact that the anonymous girl who pulled me out of the mud would likely never be acknowledged.

It has been so long and we have so many new family in the Coffee Shop now, you ought to tell the story again Ernie.

I suppose I should. Hopefully, my angel will jump in and fill in the blanks in my memory.
Let's go way back to August of 1969. I had just turned 20 years old. I was living in Western Connecticut and as many of my generation had a love of contemporary music and truth be told, one hell of a crush on Janis Joplin.
I came by tickets to Woodstock that July and unfortunately, my future in-laws wouldn't allow my girlfriend to accompany me. In her place, I took a friend.
If you're a Woodstock fan, you've heard stories about traffic jams and rain. The stories are grossly exaggerated; it was much worse than you can imagine.
I could tell a cool story of how I made Yagsur's farm hours ahead of people I passed along the way, but I came to talk about an angel
Friday night it RAINED. Torrential rains left water flowing down from the ridge towards the stage. At times the water running down the hillside was several inches deep and flowing pretty quickly.
As you've likely heard, there would be around a half million people on that hillside. As they walked through the rain water, of course they created mud. LOTS AND LOTS of mud.
I remember listening to The Grateful Dead while partaking of a couple different less than legal substances. When the music ended I moved from very close to the stage to about half way up the hill to try to catch some sleep,
A person not stoned on opium would likely have noticed that although the water was no longer flowing down the hill at 25 MPH, a lava-like flow of mud 6. 8 or in places 12 inches deep was slowly flowing towards the stage.
At some point the next morning, (best guess 10 AM?) I was awakened by a small girl with dirty blond hair who had pulled me by the shirt out of the mud that had covered all but one nostril, half my mouth and my eyes.
I really don't remember what was said and have but a fleeting memory of the face, but for 45 years, whenever I talked about Woodstock, I talked about the little blond who more than likely saved my life that day. Since I had no name, she was always "my angel".
Fast forward 45 years. I related the story here in the Coffee Shop and I soon got a private message from another member who requested a photo. She told me she remembered my eyes and build and that it was, in fact, she who had pulled me out of the mud at Woodstock.
For a couple months, she asked that I didn't acknowledge her publicly. I was disappointed, but I honored her request until she was comfortable.
Thanks to the Coffee Shop I now know that Peach174 is my angel. My gratitude to her for her selfless deed and to the Coffee Shop for allowing me to find her knows no bounds.
Thanks for listening.

The reason I was so reluctant, I got verbally attacked by many people, throughout the years, when they found out I was at Woodstock.

Way back in the past, I got called hippy and took flack, but these days, people look at me as some kind of superior being when they find out I was there.

And YOU, Peach?
If you were to show up at Doc Holliday's. you would be treated as a goddess. Most everyone I'm close to there has heard about the mud and the angel that pulled me out of it.. You have no idea how grateful I am to have found you. You and Mr P couldn't buy your own drink here for days.