Did you ever wish that .....

“Well that was a little longer than I realized!

Sorry about that but Newgirl's comment to TommyT reminded me of this song.”

“newgirl-
Hey, I'm hip!”

“I saw this show on Home and Garden TV a few weeks ago. The show in part was about a guy who lived in the Boundry Waters of Minnesota. He lived by himself, he had no job and lived off the land. He hunted, fished, canned his own fruits and vegetables and made canoes from wood and sold them for the little money he did make. He had a nice three story cabin he built by himself. He had no running water and the only electricity he had was supplied by a generator when he absoulutely needed it. He chopped wood for his stove to keep warm in the winter and had no TV.

That would be the life. Work for yourself in the wilderness, just like our ancestors. I feel I would do alot better at something like this. I hate trying to keep up with the Joneses.”

“I've taken a leak while holding a baby.

When ya gotta go......

Its a bit of a challenge to "one hand it" with a fat baby boy in the other arm.

As soon as the tinkling sound starts, they always lean over to see what's happnin',("huh, what's that sound?") and ya gotta compensate or lose your balance, or drop the kid in the toilet, or piss on your shoes.

They were large babies too~~~%^]”

“Jeez, you leave a good misanthropy thread to go and exercise, and when you come back, it's all babies and showtunes!

What the heck is this board coming to?”

“Golly Moses, naturally we're punks”

“LOL!!! My babies use to put their feet to my stomach and launch off. Even while I was walking down the stairs while carrying them. Who needed to go to the gym back then, my kids were my personal trainers. Of course I never was standing up, holding them and peeing, so who knows what that is like. You must have used those baby wipes to clean the bathroom a lot, eh?”

“Dang right!

They nearly launched themselves into the toilet quite a few times!”

“Oh so now I'm misanthropic am I? hurries, gets the dictionary, and then looks up a few more choice words

I liked that show about the man who lived out by Boundary Waters by himself. I missed the first half and want to see it again.”

“you could be sitting next to your tent listening to the morning birds, while your stove quietly boils some water for your morning coffee, and the roar of the stream in the distance is muted by the evergreens surrounding you? You make your coffee and then stroll over to an overlook where you can see more mountains in the distance while you sip your brew. The fog in the valleys is thinning out, and you know that it is time to pack up and head on down the trail towards new vistas and creeks with hidden waterfalls. You take out your journal and make a few notes. Finish your cup of coffee and head back to the tent.”

“That paints a nice picture LyndyS. If only Angelina Jolie were in there somewhere, I'd say it was perfect. ;-)”

“LOL, not in my daydreams but to each his own ;-)”

“I guess once in a while I think that would be nice to just leave everything behind, but then reality sets in, and nope, I need people around me. I would go crazy without them.”

“I have a strong suspicion that I will end up as a hermit somewhere. It depends on my wife, I guess. If she should die before me, my house will become "The Crazy Old Man's Place", lol...”

“"No man is an island."

There's some truth to that, but only some.”

“Ahhhh they've brainwashed some of us into thinking that we need to be social lemming-like creatures. Where is that Marvins Turnip guy to explain this phenomena to us? I don't want my daughters to become Stepford wives or Madonna/Britney wannabes. I want them to hike with me.”

“Whoever said that never met Jerrold Nadler.”

“His wife said when she gets on top, hers ears pop.”

“By nature, I am a solitary soul. That's one reason I do so well on the long hikes. I get a little bit of people and a whole lot of solitude. My husband is more social and has local family, so we can't be quite as reclusive as I would be if it were not for him. I know a couple of real hermits, who live in the desert and have very little interaction with others. I can't go quite that far, not yet. Especially since there is also that part of me that wants my life to have 'meaning' -- which mostly comes from doing something with or for others, not living a selfish solitary life. When I see the reality of the hermit life, I am glad that I do have my friends and family around me -- but there are times that I would love to shuck the whole thing and go back to the mountains and never come out again.”

“LMAO@TILT”

“That's a shame that your scout group doesn't want to hike Lyndy. Crafts are OK, I suppose, but scouts should get out and hike. That's part of the problem with kids today, little exercise and the health problems that come later as a result. Here's a good opportunity to get them active and moving by hiking and they blew it.”

“I agree 100%! It is much better to be with a few quality people then a whole crowd of judgemental strangers :)

I'll have you know I very much enjoy being a judgemental stranger

:)”

“Did you ever wish that .....
"you could leave the world of people behind and just go off and live by yourself in peace?"
LyndyS

that is the purpose and what i LOVE the most about yoga.....
a state achievable anywhere anytime.
inquire within....heh

its a beauty of a day here....how bout you?????”

“We have a kind of pretty fog out there today. With the snow still on the ground, everything looks really white.

Well I like yoga, but when I get really upset, I have to be energeticly moving. My house has never been so clean as it is now. I've been beating up the fake hills at the Y and punishing the weight machines. The best thing is that I don't have all the aches and pains that I used to get when I worked out on machines in the past. Hiking really is a cure for the body, and I will be out there again soon.”

“Isn't it?! The fellas I work with think I'm nutsy for doing what I do. They all snowmobile, camper camp etc. I tried to explain to them the thrill of getting somewhere by my own power, the joy I get from crossing a creek or climbing over a fallen tree.”

“Ah, the joy of getting cross with a fallen tree and climbin' out after fallin' in a creek.”

“For me, hiking has opened up parts of me that have allowed for the solitude to become a necessity in my life. There are times when I NEED to be alone. I never did understand the importance of solitude until I started hiking. The need to be around people and the need to have solitude are balanced. I am not trying to attain anything while I am out there. I am just enjoying my Self and the peacefulness of it all. I once thought life had to have meaning but have since changed my mind. As long as there is substance in one's life, who cares what its meaning is? Meaning takes too long to figure out but substance can be there consistently. Children and other people give us substance, too. I have a nephew I would like to join me in hiking when he gets older. Only because I want him to know that in his life, there was/is more than concrete, amongst other things. IMO, hiking has been one of the greatest things I have ever discovered.”

“I would never live like that guy in Montana. I spent all of my childhood summers in a log cabin my great uncle built. In the beginning, there was no water and no TV's or radios. It now only has a few extras. I know exactly how tough a life that is. Halling water, cutting firewood everyday. I do love backcountry living, but don't ask me to give up my HBO.”

“BigPoppa, that sounds just like what a farmer told me once when I said that is must be great to own a farm. Everything has it's negative aspects. I guess that is why I like to backpack for a few days, but not for a week or so. Maybe someday I will want to go longer, but I miss hot showers too much after a few days.”

“FOr the record, we did a lot of science and math badges as well as outdoors badges in our Brownie meetings. I just felt that it was time to get out there and DO some real outdoor stuff. Most of the girl scout leaders just have the kids "camp" in their basement or in other artificial environments. I wanted to get the kids out to become comfortable with the woods, bugs, animals etc. My co-leader (a Dad) also hates to camp and hike, which made things even tougher to sell to the parents.”

“We're lucky here, Lyndy. The GSA organization has a camp near here with a "lodge" of sorts. The perfect sort of "in-between" experience for younger girls. Getting permission to actually take a Brownie troop to a real campground, though, is apparently difficult. My wife looked into it, and found it was easier to just take the girls to this camp they have near here.

I can't imagine what sort of paperwork there would be for a backcountry expedition.”

“Actually I couldn't interest them in camping in a girl scout camp with showers and toilets. Or the local state park with outhouses (personally I hate outhouses except the nice ones in Maine). The boy scouts in the area go camping every month. Sometimes they are in tents and sometimes they are in a lodge or cabin.”

“LyndyS, as a girlscout I never got to go camping, ever. I was in scouting for five years or so. We went to a lodge once. I was always very envious of my boyscout brother. Kudos to you for trying!”

“Lyndy, you could lodge a protest.”

“My daughter's already been once (lodge stay) and I think they're planning a second trip but I'm not sure.”

“A protest is not going to change the parent's attitudes towards their girls. I think that it is better to let it go.”

“When I was a girl scout we went camping every year at least once, and my grammy sent us to girl scout camp for one or two weeks each summer. Every time I open a can of vienna sausage I think about girl scout camp. :)”

“I wish a lot of things, but probably the biggest wish is: I could wish upon a star....Starlight, starbright, the first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have this wish I wish tonight....LOL

No really I wish people would get along a lot better than they do and stop criticizing each other. World peace man!!! Yeah that's wishfull thinking.”

“I could end all the problems in the world and then after that be able to go backpacking when ever I wanted.

8)”