Friday, April 18, 2008
tent setup option on Friday, May 2nd
Whoever wants to come up Friday afternoon/early evening and setup their tent and organize a nice personal area for your family is welcome to. Anything you set up will be safe overnight. Of course don't leave guitars. Don't leave food that would attract raccoons; but your camping gear, toys, decorations etc. will be totally safe. I think it would be smart to do. Think about all the time and energy you'd save on Saturday if you could just arrive and move into your new outdoor dominion. Any agitation from tent setup problems or general camping gear malfeasance would safely be a day behind you. Plus you'll get a really good look at the situation so you'll see the five critical things you've forgotten and can bring them the next day. Note: a trip to WallyWorld is politically incorrect yet almost inevitable.
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We'll have lots of things available to share with our visitors. Like:
Rakes, cart (to carry things from car to more remote campsites), hammer (for tent stakes), trash cans & bags, dish and hand soap, spices, condiments, and paper towels, plates, bowls, cups, and flatware (donations welcome - but I buy massive amounts at Sam's), cooking and serving utensils, spray bleach and 409.
Facilities: sink with running water (wash hands, dishes, good to drink), famous 1950's port'o'potty, lots of uncomfortable chairs we bought at a school auction, picnic tables, multiple bbq pits, a few electrical outlets, 32 acres of beautiful land.
Everybody needs to bring: insect repellent (Cutter is recommended)& a flashlight.
Good ideas: tarp to go under tent (protects floor), lanterns, comfy folding chairs, personal ice chest (for stuff you don't want to share).
Optional and fun things: hammocks, cameras (please share your photos on the blog later), games and guitars. Banjos will be confiscated (not really).
Please make a comment with any other ideas/needs.
I was just tuning up my banjo!
I'll be there with the boys Friday afternoon to erect Allantown. Lynne is quite fond of the idea of her villa waiting for her when she arrives.
I am setting up Camp Fletcher on Friday as well, I will try to inform you of where the claymore mines and trip wires are located, and hopefully
Ill have the weapons cache and fox holes dug by then for the machine gun
placement, M60 or 308 saw? hard to decide, I just love this hippie thing! I will place flowers and peace signs all over everything
, mind you. MRE's any one?
I love Banjos! They make great pinatas! They make great targets, and can be used as campfire kindling in a pinch! Wonderful invention
hardly a dull moment around this blogspot. I'm laughing everytime I come. The woodzie seems to be multi-cultural. or maybe I'm missing something and not everybody's serious.
Ohhh Ted,
who could be serious at a time like this? That might be dangerous!
Mike, stop scaring the hippies! :)
John,I am a converted hippie now, I just haven't read all the way through the manual, it gets very technical, but I am getting there. I think I am doing really well, I just can't quite lock into the tie-dye thing.
For those who don't know Mike, some of his camping experience was in the jungles of foreign lands as an Army Ranger. He's going to set a perimeter around his camp "Delta Foxtrot Charlie, we have hippies in the wire". In Mike, we're adding another very unique character to the Woodzie mix. I love it! :)
Mike says he can make a latrine out of a card board refrigerator box. I want to see it. As a matter of fact, I would think Mike's campsite will be something everybody is going to want to take a look at. Sneak up on him with flowers and feathers and body paint.
Such an interesting mix of people come every year to create the gathering. The track record is that once somebody comes, it hooks 'em and they come back every year.
It's not 100 personalities cut from the same cookie cutter. The Woodzie chick doesn't choose friends just like her, she chooses friends who are interesting. From hippies to lawyers, 7 year olds to 70 year olds, banjo playing I gave my love a cherry folkies to Sex Pistol cover bands... pay attention to that aspect when you get here; we don't look like repetitive row after row of shinny new Ford Escorts at Red McCombs, it's a happy parade in all shapes and sizes off Lucky Larry's used car lot on the Westside.
I know I ramble on, I'm a Rambler, but what's best is that it's a small enough crowd for everybody to interact with everybody. Know what I mean? Once something gets to be a couple hundred or more people you don't get that. People will come and go in a big crowd and you won't know they were even there. Here, it's just small enough and goes just long enough that it's really like a little mini community for a day. When you're here, jump into that aspect of it. It's where it's at.
Those of you who have been for several years, I bet you can name off a bunch of the regulars, many of them you only see each year at the Woodzie. Right? One of my favorite parts is seeing those people come back together and pick up where we left off. Like people returning from the outside world for a day of getting recharged by spirit of the old Indian campground before going back out. :)
Playing, eating, visiting, camping... none of what happens at the Woodzie alone would be that special - it's the ceremony of doing it every year together.
I just re-read Jimmie's thing at the top and I must defend the funky old yellow chairs. Raymond and I bought two truckloads of those at the surplus auction, something like 300 for 7.50. This was longer than five years ago but when we first thought of the Woodzie, Raymond said "Well.... we have the chairs for it". And I said then that's that, lets do it. Those are the most comfortable 2 and half cent chairs you ever sat in and part of the Woodzie tradition. They don't have four pointy legs but a nice bar across the bottom so they don't sink into the ground. Raymond, of course, knocked off the benefit of that and encouraged the purchase.
We have experienced a decline in yellow chair population.Many have been given away to hippies who love them. But also they are somehow naturally aerodynamic in that they tend to become airborne when you try to transport them in the back of a pickup truck. We've set many of these old chrome and yellow plastic chairs free up and down Hunter Rd. over the years.
I just got home from a three year old's birthday party. I was having a conversation with one of the other dads about living in various parts of the country, traveling, meeting lots of people......and the bottom line is that people are relatively the same no matter where you go and what environment they come from.
Hippies, Rangers, Rednecks, Muses, Musicians, Stock Brokers....(The last two were me and that other dad.)
People are people and at the root of it we're all quite similar and we all get along. Wouldn't it be mind numbingly boring if we all had the same opinion on everything?
I agree Glen, I am of the EXACT same opinion as what you just said, and my mind is kinda numb now that you mention it....cant feel a thing
My banjer will take care of that for ya!
"lots of uncomfortable chairs we bought at a school auction"
I agree with John - it wouldn't be the Woodzie without the yellow molded plastic chairs!
Michael isn't that tough to sneak up on...just wait till Old Crow comes on duty...bag a patrol in a heartbeat, GI... :)Scouts Out!19D30
I agree, I don't think sneaking up on Mike would be hard. It's what would happen after you've snuck up on Mike that would be hard. :)
Point duly noted and taken, John... were one to bring MORE Old Crow, might not the welcome be gentler? Either way, I ain't eatin' no more MREs, T-rats, nor C-rats (Ks were before my time) 'til every last ounce of boot leather has first been consumed... :) Alright, Charlie-Fox, what's the max effective range of the M2 .50 cal. MG? If you answered 1830 meters, you are a) correct, and b) still too sober... continue mission, out... :)
Pat: I believe I said Id mount a saws-
The M249 replaces the two automatic M16A1 rifles in the rifle squad on a one-for-one basis in all infantry type units and in other units requiring high firepower. Fielded in the mid-1980s, the SAWS filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (M14 Series/M16A1 Rifles) had failed as viable "base of fire" weapons.
Primary function: Hand-held combat machine gun
Manufacturer: Fabrique Nationale Manufacturing, Inc.
Length: 40.87 inches (103.81 centimeters)
Weight:
With bipod and tools: 15.16 pounds (6.88 kilograms)
200-round box magazine: 6.92 pounds (3.14 kilograms)
30-round magazine: 1.07 pounds (.49 kilograms)
Bore diameter: 5.56mm (.233 inches)
Maximum effective range: 3281 feet (1000 meters) for an area target
Maximum range: 2.23 miles (3.6 kilometers)
Rates of fire:
Cyclic: 725 rounds per minute
Sustained: 85 rounds per minute
Just a little Woodzie Trivia! If one were to sneak up they should be
Female Personell and bearing flowers or feathers, and the welcome would be most gentle I assure you, as per Woodzie regulations
...sounds like a souped-up hotrod Belgian M-16 for folks who rate 'Sharpshooter' or below...could come in handy at a Who concert, though... :) ...ain't gonna study war no more, no more...hey! when's chow? :) Would fajita meat be good to bring?
Pat: I was scheming with Captain John
on having a mini ( I mean Micro) Woodzie, code named "Hoot", I later learned, by Glen and John. A small gathering of whoever with lawn chairs, tents and acoustic guitars, old crow and yes, fajita meat, and tortillas this saturday, are you game? Say around 1600 or 1700 hrs?
MF: msg. @ YourSpace... :)PS
don't get him going or Evan will break out his paint ball guns and take the ridge. turn every shirt into a tie dye.
Miss Jimmie, that sounds awsome. That beats the old fashioned way of making a tie dye shirt! And you get take home big red welts! Is that covered in the Hippie handbook? I am still only on page three, it's a tough read.....I have been trying to find the cliff notes. I have some birkenstocks in the closet somewhere.....
What a sea of boys, Jimmie!! Now that Casey has her own place you have to be surrounded by testosterone most of the time. At least the Woodzie will bring you some wood nymphs, muses and other sisterhood out there for a little break!
Yes, I am lost in a sea of boys. All conversations include a reference to bodily fluids and their respective organs. There is a great deal of pummeling (verbal and physical) with high levels of all manner of Jackasserie.
Now you can see why I enjoy working alone in the woods.
:-)
Boys? or Men? Woodsie Muse #1 do like single men!!!!......without guns please. I gave those up when I couldn't stop shaking after chopping firewood with my ouzie. Powerful little suckers! Although, like riding a motorcycle, the vibration was relaxing in the end.....like sitting in a massage chair!
Jimmie....may I offer you a massage in the Woodzie Muse's Pagoda? I have some terrific de-testosterone oil!!!
Whoa, settle down there Patrice!
Don't worry Glenn....I am a tree hugger now....as a matter of fact, I hug just about everything!!!....except guns
Patrice: I only use guns when I am robbing liquor stores and such....and I only post on here when I am joking around, there aint gonna be a single gun at the Woodzie I am pretty sure...unless there is a liquor store on the way...besides....as woodie Guthrie said : a Guitar can be a lot more powerful sometimes than gun....he wrote on his guitar.." this machine kills faciasts" I am sure there will Be a lot of tree hugging, and whatever else that gets to close gets hugged too....
we need a Woody Guthrie song swap
Woodzie Guthrie?
I like Woody Guthrie's sound....wonder if I now any of his songs, hmmm...isn't City of New Orlean's one of them? Don't have time to look him up. Anyone have a Woody Guthrie song book they can bring? I am bringing a couple....60's Songbook, Sarah McClaughlin, Johnny Cash, ...and of course my fav...Judy Garland hee-hee-hee
No Problem Michael....it is pretty easy to decipher between the gruff, the fluff, and the real stuff here!!! But, as a psychologist, I wonder....when was the last time you went in for psychotherapy???????
Patrice:
I wonder how flourishing your practice is when you determine an individual needs psychotherapy based on a couple of humorous posts on a blog. One can only speculate which mail order service provides such degrees. Perhaps the same ones that can make you an ordained preacher by sending 29.95 check or money order. My psychotherapy comes in a bottle and the other half has strings on it, thank you for your concern, me and the voices in my head think were ok....except for ned, my alter ego, he thinks we need to stop talking to trees. Wow, you were right....we are dialouging! I feel better allready!
Thanks!
It was his son Arlo Guthrie who had the hit with it but "City Of New Orleans" was written by one of our favorites, Steve Goodman.
Woody wrote hundreds of songs like "Hard Traveling", "Vigilante Man" and "This Land Is Your Land" in the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
Know what I'm thinking? I'll ask Pat to take over the Townes Van Zandt song circle... I'll do Woody Guthrie and say my little say on what I think are the similarities between the two. I have what is maybe a unique view on that. It's a hot button topic for me. :)
I'll email Jason Wilber and see if he'll be in that song swap. And everybody else, start picking your favorites.
"Come all of you cowboys all over this land,
I'll teach you the law of the Ranger's Command:
To hold a six shooter, and never to run
As long as there's bullets in both of your guns."
From Woodie Guthries' "Rangers Command"....I love that song!
Woodie Guthrie had Huntingtons' disease, and was institutionalized at
Greystone Asylum in 1956, and Bob Dylan went to go see him. Woodie lost his battle with his psychological pathology in 1957. He was a tortured soul, perhaps thats where his genius came from, so it's a compliment Patrice thinks I need therapy....lol
...hey, John, ...appears we be toilin' but half-a-day tomorrow, and Saturday not a'tall... need anything fetched, toted, dragged, chopped, or burned? (I'm also a natural nurturer, but there's probably not a lot of stuff that needs to be fed, stroked, loved, healed, or understood in prepping the campsite...) I drive an itsy-bitsy Saturn wagon, but a surprising volume of haulage can happen in/on it. It'd make a good clowncar @ the circus... 'Woody @ the Woodzie' is a stone champ... let me know what I can do to help that happen... and, my dear, bittersweet Anon, I pray each day for the wisdom not to judge anyone, especially women... :) Peace, Patrick
As was said earlier (by you Michael, "who could be serious at a time like this?" I apologize if I offended you! 'Twas not my intent to make a serious assessment of you or anyone else....matter of fact, I feel like I am back home with my three brothers with all this canter!!! Kinda fun! But NOT SERIOUS!!!!
BIG HUGSSSSS
Yer all nuts!
Yes we all are. And what nuts like to do is hang out in the trees.
EEE...EEE...EEE...AAAA....AAAAA....got a banana?
I was just practicing a baker's dozen or so Woody songs. Fun.
Watch your bananas boyz, P-Woody is in town!
Well!....on that note...adios bros!!! Actually, it's off to worksy tomorri...so you won't hear from me until you see me Saturday, the 3rd. I know you'll miss me....but I'll make it up to you ... at..... WOODZIE!!!!!!!
See you there!
BIG HUGS TO ALL
Luvsya.....Woodzie Muse, the First
John and Glen: In regards to the Woody G circle, I will do pretty boy floyd, I flatpick that one, used to do it in the bluegrass jams, and Rangers command if thats all right with ya'll.
I'll do "Hard Travelin'" and "As I Go Rambling 'Round".
Taylor knows "This Land Is Your Land" so we can get him to lead that one.
Yeah I love that Woody Guthrie sound, I think I'll do Alice's Restaurant...
Ahhh Mikey, you got one of my fav's, Pretty Boy Floyd. I particularly like the Byrds version with Gram Parsons singing.
Ok, lemme go through my list here as long we're checking in. Aside from PBF I've been prcticing 1913 Massacre, Gypsy Davy, Deportee(Plane Wreck at Los Gatos), Hobo's Lullaby, Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad and Ramblin' Round (which I believe John already mentioned).
So put me in for a few.
Being a Native New Yorker, I came up with the whole Guthrie, Dylan, Seeger, Baez school of Folk Music.
Although I moved to Tejas while Townes was still alive, he was living in Nashville at the time and I didn't get hip to him until after he was dead.
Since my 4/20 theme sing song at Riley's was a bust (Blind Melon Mississippi Brad Sausage Finger Lightnin' Poor Boy Slim Guitar Red Sauce was the only one hip to that) I'm really looking forward to this one.
Peas Out!
He's someone who deserves to be honored.
"I hate a song that makes you think you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim. Too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I'm out to fight those songs..."
Woody Guthrie
I missed that song because I was engaged in a peace keeping mission out back, Mississippi Brad squirt was
positively enthralled with that evenings performance. "you can have anything you want at Alices' Restaurant..." always that had some kind of double meaning. I heard this old guy at a bluegrass jam do that song on a 1934 00 Martin that was the coolest thing I ever heard, hands down. I am glad an offhand remark I made got John fired up to birth another song circle. Are you comming to the micro woodzie saturday?
"Oklahoma Hills"
Words: Woody Guthrie
Chords: Jack Guthrie
There's my pick, y'all... :)
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