[jeallen01]

So much disrespect shown here for the hot dog!!!

These hot dogs helped save the Western world from the Nazis.

"Political expediency" rather than "culinary excellence"

[Racer X 69]

Photos or it did not happen!

The first exploratory drive up into the hills above the river was on the Duncan Creek Road. This is the end of the road at about 2 miles as the crow flies up a twisty country lane to an altitude of about 975 feet (the river is about 14 feet).

Looks like a mermaid crossing at the end of the county road.




The Bonneville Dam.





One of many highline towers.




Saw a nest full of peregrine falcon chicks in Bingen, but I neglected to pack a proper lens before leaving, so, no pics.

[Parallax]

I've hopped into Google Streetview just now, and boy, that does look beautiful!

How did you manage to quote Racer but attribute it to me?

[Parallax]

I paid a bit extra for it...as it had the autographs of both Meriwether Lewis and William Clark...in ballpoint.

Contact me.
I own a bridge in Brooklyn I'll sell you really cheap.

[Racer X 69]

I've hopped into Google Streetview just now, and boy, that does look beautiful!

How did you manage to quote Racer but attribute it to me?

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ What he said. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

[RoxnDox]

You looking for existing houses, or a chunk of real estate to build your own again? Some mighty 'gorgeous' country there! (pun intended)

[Racer X 69]

"Political expediency" rather than "culinary excellence"

A shrewd and cunning man, and a master at diplomacy.

But.

We cannot get into political discussion.




I did find this interesting in the article about the picnic:

Another attendee was Daisy Suckley. FDR’s distant cousin has since become known as his “Closest Companion,” as illustrated in Geoffrey C. Ward’s book of that title. At the time, their relationship seemed simply professional; she worked in his library and did some secretarial tasks for him. But after her death, letters were discovered that revealed they were extremely intimate emotionally; FDR unburdened himself to her as he could to almost no one else.

“They had a hook-and-eye relationship, they understood each other perfectly,” says Cynthia Owen Philip of Rhinecliff, the author of Wilderstein and the Suckleys (Black Dome Press, $17.95). Did they also have a physical relationship? “Who knows what they did,” says Philip, who was a friend of Suckley. “It would not be spoken about in those days. But he took a photograph of her on a tiger rug, which he kept in the Oval Office, and she took one of the few pictures ever taken of him in his wheelchair.”

“The public has a hard time understanding this, but both FDR and Eleanor had their own circle of friends,” Woolner adds. “They tended to relax with others, and had more of a policy relationship, much like the Clintons today. Daisy was part of his circle. People also don’t understand how they could be emotionally intimate but not physically intimate. She loved FDR, but so did a number of other women. He was incredibly charismatic. What’s most important about Daisy is that, through her diary and correspondence, we have almost the only picture of the private FDR. She was someone he could express his most intimate feelings to.”

Suckley was two tables away from the head table at the picnic. She didn’t think it was such a big deal. “I saw them bring a silver dish with two little hot dogs on it to the king and queen. But I was not near enough to see whether they ate them. It’s all so silly,” she said at the 50th anniversary of the event, when she was 98.

Extraordinary people living ordinary lives.

And what a last name, Suckley.

If it were mine, I would have it changed.

[MarkJerling]

The first exploratory drive up into the hills above the river was on the Duncan Creek Road. This is the end of the road at about 2 miles as the crow flies up a twisty country lane to an altitude of about 975 feet (the river is about 14 feet).

Looks like a mermaid crossing at the end of the county road.




The Bonneville Dam.





One of many highline towers.




Saw a nest full of peregrine falcon chicks in Bingen, but I neglected to pack a proper lens before leaving, so, no pics.

Looks real purty!

[MarkJerling]

Extraordinary people living ordinary lives.

And what a last name, Suckley.

If it were mine, I would have it changed.

What about Lewinsky?

[bertwert]

How did you manage to quote Racer but attribute it to me?

Yeah? How did you do that?

[Racer X 69]

You looking for existing houses, or a chunk of real estate to build your own again? Some mighty 'gorgeous' country there! (pun intended)

The former rather than the later, but at this point we are open to both options. Or, even something that has an existing shop, and RV pad or single wide already there, and build once again, although much more conservatively this time.

[MarkJerling]

No idea!

[bertwert]

The former rather than the later, but at this point we are open to both options. Or, even something that has an existing shop, and RV pad or single wide already there, and build once again, although much more conservatively this time.

What's wrong with where you are, if you don't mind me asking?

[bertwert]

You gotta be careful with quoting, as sometimes it seems as though the person never actually said what they said...

Good point Mark!




Now click the arrow in the quote box too....

[FantasticMrFox]

How did you manage to quote Racer but attribute it to me?

^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ What he said. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Fellas, I have absolutely no idea - and linking back to a completely unrelated post of yours over a day old even

You get the gist though - trees nice, river nice, mountains nice, build home, be happy.