Tag: colorado
member name: Ron Hall
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July 08, 2006 11:40 AM EDT --
Getting good wireless access in the boonies is tricky. In our Grand Island motel room we were able to post several photos, and it took, but when it came time to do this week's To Buy or . . .
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January 31, 2007 08:51 PM EST --
You’ll have to understand that I had two brothers, five and ten years older respectively. Both were excellent students even as gradeschoolers. Both graduated valedictorian of their classes. . . .
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April 27, 2006 08:26 PM EDT --
I was going to dig for old bottles in the dead of winter. There was a good foot of snow on the ground, which itself was frozen down a good eighteen inches. I couldn't wait.
The ground . . .
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May 08, 2006 05:45 PM EDT --
The previous ten about my workspace were pretty tame. When I think about driving, things get considerably more "interesting".
1) I once had both front wheels over a cliff. Had I not bottomed . . .
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March 20, 2008 08:18 PM EDT --
I never knew Hal Hall to utter a word of profanity. Well okay, "crap" once, "hell" twice, but you get the idea. He had me for a son. Such self-control under . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:36 AM EDT --
Perhaps you wonder what it is Janie and I do with all that stuff we buy at yard sales.
We do keep a lot of it - all our clothes and stereo equipment and furnishings and cookware - anything that . . .
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August 11, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
If someone tells you they grew up in Ouray, Colorado there's one surefire way to tell if they're on the up and up.
Draw Mt. Abrams.
An image of Mt. Abrams is burned into the consciousness of . . .
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January 08, 2008 07:42 PM EST --
I am a singer songwriter who also loves to take frequent dips into the world of writing. I am so very appreciative of Gather because it gives me a ready platform for both of these pursuits. . . .
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September 18, 2008 08:49 PM EDT --
One night last month, while Janie and I were sitting around the fire in back of my mom's place in Colorado, some folks joined us. We'd bumped into one another several times over . . .
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August 28, 2008 09:47 AM EDT --
Would You Buy This or Not has been on the road for a couple of weeks, but the spirit of yard saling can't be left behind. We did manage to find a few good buys.
Buy of the trip: . . .
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April 01, 2007 09:06 PM EDT --
Long ago, my dad found a dinosaur track somewhere in the 4-corners area. It was in a different time, when anyone could go out into the desert and load up a pickup of rocks. I wish I knew where . . .
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July 18, 2007 09:03 PM EDT --
My brothers and I were browsing around behind the abandoned Red Mountain Lodge, a business our family sold over a quarter century ago. It had gone slowly downhill since then, and now pretty . . .
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December 04, 2005 01:01 PM EST --
A while back I received word that former snowplow driver Lloyd Barry had died. I was a friend of his kids and sent his son Dean the following condolences. Lloyd deserves a presence here on . . .
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December 22, 2005 04:44 PM EST --
Janie and I go to a lot of yard sales. I've always wanted to make a living going to yard sales, and I've come close, but never quite close enough.
Oh yeah, there was that time . . .
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January 28, 2006 02:30 PM EST --
People would stop and look over my family's 1970 Toyota Crown station wagon.
"What is it, a Volvo?" No, Volvo wouldn't depart that far from their signature look. . . .
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March 04, 2006 01:48 PM EST --
Throughout the 50s, 60s and 70s Hal and Liane Hall ran the Red Mountain Lodge in Ouray, Colorado. My parents had thousands of guests, hundreds of them return customers. Find one and they'll tell . . .
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August 30, 2006 09:18 AM EDT --
There's a certain satisfaction to be had in doing something you know few others would do. This is assuming of course you chose to do what you're doing, and not just being driven to do it . . .
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November 24, 2006 10:57 PM EST --
A typical wind is dead air where I’m from. We’re used to it. We like it that way. Great for playing frisbee and having late night picnics at camp by candlelight.
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February 28, 2007 10:48 PM EST --
This is a draft chapter of Hall's wood, a memoir of when I cut firewood back in the early 80s.
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Back when I hauled wood into Telluride, I made pretty good money, grossing . . .
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August 10, 2007 09:07 PM EDT --
Cottonwood seeds drifting up valley.
Ash in the slow summer air.
Why do they move me?
Am I not sitting still?
Why do they seem to flow through me,
These August explorers set free?
And what good is . . .
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