Grumble Weed: 01/26/12

"Rooted" may be a better choice of words. What you see above is the top of an actual fence post that used to sit on my property.

The photograph above represents what I eventually came to see whenever I paid it a visit. So I brought it to life with my camera and some computer software simply as an exercise in creativity.

I can only attest for the 23 years I have lived here but local historians believe it's a good bet this post was probably placed in the ground over a hundred years ago. The general consensus is that it was set where it shouldn't of been; just outside my property line.

So last spring when the city of Alpine was reassessing it's property the location of my errant post was duly noted.

When I took down the fence [by demand] this post was so stubborn I had to pull it out with a tow chain hitched to the chassis of my truck. Apparently it was placed in the ground when it was still alive and as a result of an apparent "last gasp" effort, it sprouted roots. Seriously, a fence post with actual roots.

My wife has labeled me as a know-it-all (and as she is one herself she must certainly be correct). Know it or not it's her rhetoric reference to the the fact that my opinions are rooted in 62 years of experience. The fence post story illustrates the fact that right or wrong, in the end, even the most established and rooted of "whatever" can be dislodged with proper persuasion. So please feel free to attempt to dislodge any of my opinions that follow if deemed necessary.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

Spring / Summer 2011

I like to play around with my video editing software. I film these clips in HD but in order to post a video of such length to this blog I have to dumb down the resolution to conform to file size restrictions. Very disappointing. What follows are some highlights of a few of my outdoor hiking adventures during the spring and summer of 2011. Harley, the black and grey dog is my regular hiking buddy. Abigail, the cream colored Carin Terrier is along as a rare treat, for her. Small as she is she's basically a pain in the ass because her terrier instincts kick in and she becomes an unruly wild dog.