so being the gullable...or is it really cupable individual i am i hopped a ride from south dallas (really round rock) and landed on south congress ave. ...austin,texas....south austin.....aka the continental club....for the midnight show with james mcmurtry....make no bones about straight bourbon whiskey is all he'll abide....so shall i recripricated and indulged myself as well....the man and his band is pure buisness....set it up...throw it down and rock the house......solid
set, solid mucisicanship....and midnight's late...but 2:45 bedtime and early to rise at 6:30 left a dent...the midnight show's truly mirror
what still makes this town cool...and what makes the continental club
still one of my favorite haunts.....good people, better music.....way laid back attitude.....no wharehouse district hipsters apply!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
my life
well i'm tired of feelin like a swelt up old toad.....burp........
so 2 glasses of happy camper a bowl of soup...visit mutha trucka and
big daddy....and off to bed early last night...for i have the first of i think
many more of these excercises in the dawn patrol....we had our first
frost on the pumpkin so this made the first dawn patrol of the fall more meaningful....i find it simply amazing how and what the world looks like from behind the bars of bicycle...especially in the world of dirt.....i was constantly being stalked by my shadow....my inner monster did not mind ....the monster seemed to out pace the shadow..all in all both shadow and monster are back in the closet....but there will be more...
so 2 glasses of happy camper a bowl of soup...visit mutha trucka and
big daddy....and off to bed early last night...for i have the first of i think
many more of these excercises in the dawn patrol....we had our first
frost on the pumpkin so this made the first dawn patrol of the fall more meaningful....i find it simply amazing how and what the world looks like from behind the bars of bicycle...especially in the world of dirt.....i was constantly being stalked by my shadow....my inner monster did not mind ....the monster seemed to out pace the shadow..all in all both shadow and monster are back in the closet....but there will be more...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
rotational mass
I think if there were memorable moments for me on this past trip ...it would have to be mornings on Shadow Mountain.....no hustle, no hurry, really no agenda...just muster my self out of the confines of the bag an off the deck of the RMS Ronald Reagan (a camping cot of extra large proportion) if I felt like it...but the pangs of the Grand kind of left me with a state of anxiety....I knew that this range of granite, rock, and glacier ( I think the dr referred that this glacier was more of a ice cube than a glacier) would be evolving into a myriad of colors, textures, hues and provide me a canvas that would be more of solitude, so the anxiety was being able to get myself up and out without missing any of the mountain kaleidoscope.
So with that I stumbled up the double track with camera and camp chair, blanket the g-dog....and the ball...and the stick....and waited for mother nature to perform her magic...once the sun began to crest the horizon on my back side the landscape on my front side evolved, re-evolved every minute or two. I cannot really recall how many frames I shot..But the horizon just seemed to be a steady stream of multi colored hues and textures, almost a 90 minute movie. The clouds billowed, dissipated, and became magenta and gold, lined with blue-black and mauve.
In retrospect I found these moments to have left my mind completely void of thought, of things at home, work, any of life’s demands and the world.
I do believe this was a first for me. One, that none of the day to day necessities ever crossed my mind. Even with my eldest son on his backside from a kidney biopsy (I thought about him, my wife, but never worried, I just had a gut sense all was well)
I don't know why, I would love to be able operate like this daily…
but I know that the process cannot be sustained.
For the world does continue to spin....but for me it never spins in the same direction....I just have to learn how follow regardless of the rotation or just make my own way.
So with that I stumbled up the double track with camera and camp chair, blanket the g-dog....and the ball...and the stick....and waited for mother nature to perform her magic...once the sun began to crest the horizon on my back side the landscape on my front side evolved, re-evolved every minute or two. I cannot really recall how many frames I shot..But the horizon just seemed to be a steady stream of multi colored hues and textures, almost a 90 minute movie. The clouds billowed, dissipated, and became magenta and gold, lined with blue-black and mauve.
In retrospect I found these moments to have left my mind completely void of thought, of things at home, work, any of life’s demands and the world.
I do believe this was a first for me. One, that none of the day to day necessities ever crossed my mind. Even with my eldest son on his backside from a kidney biopsy (I thought about him, my wife, but never worried, I just had a gut sense all was well)
I don't know why, I would love to be able operate like this daily…
but I know that the process cannot be sustained.
For the world does continue to spin....but for me it never spins in the same direction....I just have to learn how follow regardless of the rotation or just make my own way.
Monday, September 21, 2009
the still bottoms
well I’m currently trying to reacclimatize to the environs of my home, and my family.....granted I love my wife, children, family ....but life on the road regardless of amount of time away leaves me feeling saddened...the spirit that was liberated with total freedom for 6 days
has to be captured and retrained to the confines of the real world....I’m thinking not much different than a pet needing to be trained.....
it can be a really dark and painful time to reacclimatize myself.
yet when I look back at the time away...it ... reminds me that all mountain top experiences require the daily travels through the valleys of the mundane....
.the saving grace to all of this is I have my family of whom I love and
missed,
In a nut shell....3 years off the road....has left me out of shape traveling,
out shape in chronicling what’s inside my head....I need to
Poke it and let it out......it needs to be subject to regimented hard training lest it becomes all noodilly.....
So with much ado...not that I’m a goal oriented/motivated type....I need to push my inner being. A little harder...a little further....
Push the envelope. And live life to the utmost....regardless of how far or close to home I may be
So thanks to my family, and my good friends here and abroad for sharing there individual pieces of themselves......
has to be captured and retrained to the confines of the real world....I’m thinking not much different than a pet needing to be trained.....
it can be a really dark and painful time to reacclimatize myself.
yet when I look back at the time away...it ... reminds me that all mountain top experiences require the daily travels through the valleys of the mundane....
.the saving grace to all of this is I have my family of whom I love and
missed,
In a nut shell....3 years off the road....has left me out of shape traveling,
out shape in chronicling what’s inside my head....I need to
Poke it and let it out......it needs to be subject to regimented hard training lest it becomes all noodilly.....
So with much ado...not that I’m a goal oriented/motivated type....I need to push my inner being. A little harder...a little further....
Push the envelope. And live life to the utmost....regardless of how far or close to home I may be
So thanks to my family, and my good friends here and abroad for sharing there individual pieces of themselves......
texas rain lilly
and then we were graced with rain, and with the rain came flowers.
i think this has to be one of the most humbling periods of drought i
have personally experienced, both as a human, and the world.....i have often deliberated why would both the world and man be put through such natural disasters....but with the rain everything has come of age, and renewing of the earth and the mind....thanks for the rain from the world and from my noggin...
i think this has to be one of the most humbling periods of drought i
have personally experienced, both as a human, and the world.....i have often deliberated why would both the world and man be put through such natural disasters....but with the rain everything has come of age, and renewing of the earth and the mind....thanks for the rain from the world and from my noggin...
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
mmmmmmm toozdee
she just kind of jumped on i guess, but she's welcome...she even
had mamma's with me.......
had mamma's with me.......
Friday, March 13, 2009
how do get from here to there?
Well a month has lapsed since our journey to the Big Bend....and the current state of economic affairs has still proven to be both toxic and lethal. God save the queen, and my kingdom for a shrubbery!
Standfast...anchors away, onward and upward...thar shee blowz...
Well at least we have been granted some precip...its so needed, and summers lakes and creeks are but ponds of muck and mire...
I do ask myself, when, and where can i get away again.....its looking like early May....i do miss the high deserts of the Chihauha..maybe its
time for little drive out to the Western Slopes before it becomes to
hot....as for today, i really like to gray, cold, damp....makes dominoes
and beer delicious....
Standfast...anchors away, onward and upward...thar shee blowz...
Well at least we have been granted some precip...its so needed, and summers lakes and creeks are but ponds of muck and mire...
I do ask myself, when, and where can i get away again.....its looking like early May....i do miss the high deserts of the Chihauha..maybe its
time for little drive out to the Western Slopes before it becomes to
hot....as for today, i really like to gray, cold, damp....makes dominoes
and beer delicious....
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
a room with a view
well i left behind the digs and confines of home for some alone time...alone time is all fine and good...for a small bit of time....after hiking up to Emory Peak by my lonesome...sitting at an empty campground with a cocktail and not a sole to converse with was all the solo i needed...i think there is a song that speaks to drinking alone....come to think about...i did'nt much care for that song or that artist.....nor do i really enjoy imbibing privately.....i have thoroughly enjoyed the company of my various friends on a myriad of trips....sitting somewhere...anywhere...rehashing the events of the day....in a nut shell and in retrospect i say that this solo trip has given me healthy dose of how much i love and appreciate my family and friends....both of which i would nor could be nothing without.....cheers to both...my family and my friends...i love you all!
Monday, February 18, 2008
the monsters out of the closet
well tis been a while since i've been out and about without the family...but twas time...i packed up the ss puerco and headed west for big bend national park....agenda...not really...but a few things in mind...with no set in stone itinerary....so i unload numero uno son at school and i'm off.....customary stops along the way...beverage barn..food land etc....then its onward to Interstate 10 and 80mph bliss...2 1/2 hours from Junction puts me in Ft.Stockton, Texas...kind of an armpit of place.....make a run into the Walmart for last minute schtuff....hit the food king...scary place...lights are low so you can't see the flies...yuck...then southbound for Persimmon Gap...skip the C.d.'S in the dash...and jump to Radio K.A.O.S. in Marfa...their playing
anything from Sam Bush to Bottecelli...i like it until NPR comes on and off we go on the Obama/Hillary rompathon...so back to the deck...
i'm spinnin Rodney Crowell, Bob Dylan's the times are a Changin...and so on....kind of fitting for the country side...the weather is inpeciable...sky blue sky....Marathon's on the horizon and it's time for beer.....and lo i'm at Persimmon Gap...20 bucks and i'm off....towards the Chisos for the night....i'm running short on time but darned if i can't help stopping to take in the scenery.....the drive up to
the Chisos is going slower than expected due to my stopping and taking multiple pictures...some good some not so good...but the air is clear, brisk, and cool....the smell of juniper, and pine are wonderful.....well seems as though the newest and most prevelent occupant of the Chisos are Javelina's.....seem's they enjoy rumagaging campsites for viddles....as well as skunks...they seem to mind their business if you mind your own.....well i have located me
spot at the lowest part of the Chisos Camp Ground and am fairly secluded sans piggies...set up camp...start the stove...pop a beer...and veg.......tomorrow is a new day...
anything from Sam Bush to Bottecelli...i like it until NPR comes on and off we go on the Obama/Hillary rompathon...so back to the deck...
i'm spinnin Rodney Crowell, Bob Dylan's the times are a Changin...and so on....kind of fitting for the country side...the weather is inpeciable...sky blue sky....Marathon's on the horizon and it's time for beer.....and lo i'm at Persimmon Gap...20 bucks and i'm off....towards the Chisos for the night....i'm running short on time but darned if i can't help stopping to take in the scenery.....the drive up to
the Chisos is going slower than expected due to my stopping and taking multiple pictures...some good some not so good...but the air is clear, brisk, and cool....the smell of juniper, and pine are wonderful.....well seems as though the newest and most prevelent occupant of the Chisos are Javelina's.....seem's they enjoy rumagaging campsites for viddles....as well as skunks...they seem to mind their business if you mind your own.....well i have located me
spot at the lowest part of the Chisos Camp Ground and am fairly secluded sans piggies...set up camp...start the stove...pop a beer...and veg.......tomorrow is a new day...
Thursday, January 17, 2008
la maison des dee de dee de Madame de la hanche et des cheveux éclectiques
la maison des dee de dee de Madame de la hanche et des cheveux éclectiques
Originally uploaded by schmarkolus
and yarn was spun.....in addition hair was shorn...straight from the
madam dee dee's house of hip and eclectic
hair
Monday, November 26, 2007
vaya con el dios joseph
my father law of 20 years has passed on today, you have reared ten children, grandfathered nineteen grand children, survived the depression and world war ii. you served your community, family,and
friends.....i hope and pray your suffering, has ended and you find peace,
i'll see you in the here after...
vaya con el dios
friends.....i hope and pray your suffering, has ended and you find peace,
i'll see you in the here after...
vaya con el dios
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
good therapy
back in the saddle...times a changin...and the weather has popped...
i'm officially back on the bike as much as possible or as time and priorities allow...damn prioriites.....oh well i'll keep it short n sweet...
and report back on my thursday troll...going to play a little mtb hookie
in honor of another cool front that bring us back down under the 80
mark.....so long for now....
i'm officially back on the bike as much as possible or as time and priorities allow...damn prioriites.....oh well i'll keep it short n sweet...
and report back on my thursday troll...going to play a little mtb hookie
in honor of another cool front that bring us back down under the 80
mark.....so long for now....
Friday, July 6, 2007
mongolian hoof
straight from area 51....you know roswell, new mexico....jethro...as in bodene...trench foot...neanderthall...sascquatch.....
too much beast...not enough daylite and vegetables.....
well in the real world this the hoof of randall...real man of 'NB'....terrorist set free in the land of the free.....if the folks in the hood ever get a glimpse of this hoof they will surely run for the lives....
this was the hoof of a foot model but after a life threatening accident with ill placed cases of beasts...this hoof remains permantely maimed.....here's to you mongolian hoof of texas!
too much beast...not enough daylite and vegetables.....
well in the real world this the hoof of randall...real man of 'NB'....terrorist set free in the land of the free.....if the folks in the hood ever get a glimpse of this hoof they will surely run for the lives....
this was the hoof of a foot model but after a life threatening accident with ill placed cases of beasts...this hoof remains permantely maimed.....here's to you mongolian hoof of texas!
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
trade in...
well with all the precip we have recieved of recent...i've traded my wheels for something that floats......did'nt get rid of the wheels but added some much needed balast to the bubble in the level....lord with the heat and humidity coupled with the heat index the week before last sent my needle to sticking......so i've decided when heat+
humidity+heat index=century mark plus...its time to find something
more liquid...you know what i mean....float the boat....soak the toes...
sit and chill a spell....so i "won a kayak" (you do pay for winning on ebay) but i did stumble across the USS Lucy (named after the wifes kitty) she's a twelve foot long Wilderness Tarpon 120 sit on top...no need to sit in the big ole state of Tejas...its to hot...so why not roll on off get fully dipped!...Went out last Sunday with a cooler...a spinning real with a spinner bait and scrounged up a few fishies...twuz truly
quite, peaceful...and darn enjoyable....so hoist your drinks matey....and throw one down in honor of the summer and the USS Lucy...
humidity+heat index=century mark plus...its time to find something
more liquid...you know what i mean....float the boat....soak the toes...
sit and chill a spell....so i "won a kayak" (you do pay for winning on ebay) but i did stumble across the USS Lucy (named after the wifes kitty) she's a twelve foot long Wilderness Tarpon 120 sit on top...no need to sit in the big ole state of Tejas...its to hot...so why not roll on off get fully dipped!...Went out last Sunday with a cooler...a spinning real with a spinner bait and scrounged up a few fishies...twuz truly
quite, peaceful...and darn enjoyable....so hoist your drinks matey....and throw one down in honor of the summer and the USS Lucy...
Monday, May 7, 2007
hoofs
well i've officially been on every over the counter medication for,
flu, cold, allergy, snotty nose, sore throat, watery eye's remedy
available from every CVS on every corner anywhere....so know that
my blood pressure is good and high....lets go jump the fence..and
chase pigs.....man o man...at first no signs of life....and around the corner and in the middle of mud a puddle....three lil piggies were a wollerin away...
oh to be a pig wollerin in the mud looked kind of fun....although i will say the hole they were makin swine time in smelled the high heavens....
speakin of pigs...had a mighty fine lunch courtesy of their cousin's baby back jalepeno ribs....with tatertot casserole..after the morning lap at Muleshoe....
Riding Muleshoe was pleasant change of pace...got to ride with ole friends recently relocated back to the 'A' town.
God they have to be sufferin mightly with the humidity that has beset us here of recent...but it's here and Summer is on the near horizon.....time to reaclimate to heat, humidity, dawn patrols, late night rides....swimming holes......back yard parties...bbq's on the
porch....movies with the kids....days in the park....walks with the dog...
walks with the wife....swings on the porch...post ride beers with my friends o many....i'm looking forward to a wonderful summer....
flu, cold, allergy, snotty nose, sore throat, watery eye's remedy
available from every CVS on every corner anywhere....so know that
my blood pressure is good and high....lets go jump the fence..and
chase pigs.....man o man...at first no signs of life....and around the corner and in the middle of mud a puddle....three lil piggies were a wollerin away...
oh to be a pig wollerin in the mud looked kind of fun....although i will say the hole they were makin swine time in smelled the high heavens....
speakin of pigs...had a mighty fine lunch courtesy of their cousin's baby back jalepeno ribs....with tatertot casserole..after the morning lap at Muleshoe....
Riding Muleshoe was pleasant change of pace...got to ride with ole friends recently relocated back to the 'A' town.
God they have to be sufferin mightly with the humidity that has beset us here of recent...but it's here and Summer is on the near horizon.....time to reaclimate to heat, humidity, dawn patrols, late night rides....swimming holes......back yard parties...bbq's on the
porch....movies with the kids....days in the park....walks with the dog...
walks with the wife....swings on the porch...post ride beers with my friends o many....i'm looking forward to a wonderful summer....
Thursday, April 26, 2007
pirty white's
lord i sucked today......did not have any gas on the bike......i really looked forward to absorbing some terra firma this afternoon...but
the best i could muster were the flowers pre-ride....once i was wheels down on the trail..fodder set in......oh well i could have been
at work...so i'll try again on sunday..
kind of weird going these days...all trippy feeling....feeling a need to
be at home or at least a presence at home for the mrs....itchy, scratchy....don't know why...just do...so i'm sticking with the feeling...
sad news...my dogs best buddy and my close dog friend was sent to that dog park far far away....i'll never forget the day i saw him...i called my neighbor 'smitty's house
to say...i found you a dog.....smitty replied multiple expletives.....but
mrs. smitty sez....lez go...20 minutes later there on the outbounds of
petco an signin up for the ozzy tour....smitty's giving me the bird as i
drive by merry christmas!
......one of my fondest memories of ozzy will be this past sunday morning when he and rebel are being tormented by the killer squirrels ...the two tenor's yappin.........
happy trails ozzy...
Monday, April 23, 2007
pigs, trains, flowers and windmills
Well needed to stretch out the dogs Sunday...they were feeling quite
wooden after Saturday's lil drubbing....so I stayed close to casa and
hopped over the fence...yeah...trespassin..fence jumpin...violators will
be shot ...forget about the danger think of the fun......really kind of
nice monochromatic day...lots of grey clouds...really making greens green....
I'm making skippity doo dah...and stumble three lil piggies...sep these ain't your ordinary wilbur piggies...they are the pig's gone wild
variety...and three of them are quite large with littler piggies in tow...
kind of fun seeing how pigs gone wild live.....
onward up cow trail...and i come across a pond with a windmill that
has grapevine enveloping its base.....really quite charming...
and as the photo depicts that there is a train crain with my good ole
bicycle hoisted .....dinked around a while....looked at some
blue bonnets...and ventured back towards my starting point via
different route...came across a really cool remains of a cow....i
think i might have to go back and reclaim the cow....talk about scare
the kids.....
well the wood in my legs has been nicely removed...and i now
have a hankering for some sausage an ribs....
you can link the rest of the photos via....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schmarkolus/sets/72157600112093320/show/
thanks for visiting...yall come back...
wooden after Saturday's lil drubbing....so I stayed close to casa and
hopped over the fence...yeah...trespassin..fence jumpin...violators will
be shot ...forget about the danger think of the fun......really kind of
nice monochromatic day...lots of grey clouds...really making greens green....
I'm making skippity doo dah...and stumble three lil piggies...sep these ain't your ordinary wilbur piggies...they are the pig's gone wild
variety...and three of them are quite large with littler piggies in tow...
kind of fun seeing how pigs gone wild live.....
onward up cow trail...and i come across a pond with a windmill that
has grapevine enveloping its base.....really quite charming...
and as the photo depicts that there is a train crain with my good ole
bicycle hoisted .....dinked around a while....looked at some
blue bonnets...and ventured back towards my starting point via
different route...came across a really cool remains of a cow....i
think i might have to go back and reclaim the cow....talk about scare
the kids.....
well the wood in my legs has been nicely removed...and i now
have a hankering for some sausage an ribs....
you can link the rest of the photos via....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/schmarkolus/sets/72157600112093320/show/
thanks for visiting...yall come back...
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