Please Please Please!
Go view Lori Durocher’s ‘I feel like dancing’ image…......UPDATE! Please? don’t even bother as she stole this image as well as a couple others that she’s posted…....
TWO feature images this week! go check out ‘Rocks and Bones’ and ‘Live, Love, Dream’ groups!
Just lately I’ve had some amazing luck while on my hikes. I was on my favorite trail inside Jackson Park in my hometown and was almost out of battery power on my camera when I happened to glance down and found a quarter. I was thinking ‘hmmm…what state has the eagle on it?’.....when I got home and got a closer look? It wasn’t a ‘modern’ quarter? but a Liberty quarter! unfortunately the date has been worn off but I do know it was made around the 1920’s as the design is one of the updated ones with 3 stars under the eagle and Liberty has her breast covered in armor. AWESOME find! To know that someone back in the 20’s dropped this coin enjoying nature on this same trail area as I was is a huge inspiration!
I’m going to start leading some small hikes around my town here pretty soon….does anyone have any suggestions or tips for things like safety issues or group sizes? I know how long it takes ME to hike and what I look for? But…then…I’m not exactly the typical hiker either.
Along with the ‘awesome finds’.....please go and see my ‘Under the Salmon webbed-cap’.......the inforamation about this mushroom is that it’s a rarety for my area? And so far I’ve seen a total of 11 of them…very exciting especially considering how beautiful I find them.
And…last but not least? When you find mushrooms/fungi….....may I make a great suggestion? Do not lick them to see if they’re the ‘Pepper’ variety of milky? My tongue is still trying to fall out…. :o)
Outdoors2, 3 months ago
What a special person you are Carla. Given your knowledge and seemingly wonderful personality you have all the attributes of being a fantastic mentor.
Here is a link I think will help you get started with ideas and necessary skills to lead a small group. Perhaps you would be interested in becoming a “Den Mother or Scout Leader” to help the youth in your area. Something I never had time to do as a sole supporter working to excesses. This link is just a start for your ambition and there are numerous others among the pages.
Sincerely, Roy
Boy Scouts of America
Lenny La Rue, IPA, 3 months ago
Incredible finds, babe! It takes a particularly observant person to spy the things you do! Makes me wonder if I’m living in a sterile void or am I stepping over all sorts of treasures and not knowing it????
By the way, I thought of you while watching the latest (newest) Indiana Jones movie. As you probably know, Indiana is extremely afraid of snakes. I’d say more but can’t without ruining the scene so just remember I thought of YOU, Snake Woman, when you either see the scene or the entire movie. :-D
The only things I can see you need to be careful of while leading people on organized hikes are their safety. When I was escorted around the Sutter Buttes, there were three guides for the 10 hikers. This ratio seemed ridiculously high until I saw the amount of people who needed to bail out of the hike long before it was over. And there was nothing that could hurt us up there except a great deal of wind. LOL! YOU, on the other hand, will probably be going places where snakes bite and various other creatures can cause serious harm to the uninformed and less alert. Also, everything changes when you charge money so that’s another good reason to be a Scout guide working with THEIR insurance and THEIR back-up group leaders.
But no matter what, you are a guide anyone would enjoy following into new environs! You just may have literally stumbled over your calling. LOL!
Carla Jandelle... in reply to Outdoors2’s comment, 3 months ago
u know Roy? an excellent endeavor! especially since i’ve a 9yo son! thanx for the idea…
Carla Jandelle... in reply to Lenny La Rue, IPA’s comment, 3 months ago
lol…something about ropes that move eh?
saw the movie and liked it a lot…..... :o)
i hear what u’r saying…..big reason this is a volunteer service with no money expected.
I’d actually considred making hikers sign something before anything starts? something like ‘I’m not responsible for any of YOU’RE idiocy or fears or falicies’........but…didn’t think that’d work.
ps. I found out today who complained about the black snake in the flowers at my park. interesting who it was.
Lenny La Rue, IPA, 3 months ago
Yup, you got the scene and it was a WILD movie with a lot you’d love in it – including that “rope”! I didn’t notice but did you see a line in the credits about no animals being harmed during the filming of the movie or can you actually DO that with a rat snake???
Someone COMPLAINED that a snake was AT HOME and…. and what? Asked to have it evicted and relocated? If you tell me anything that has Black Lagoon in it, I’m going to come down there and personally open a fresh can of Whoop Ass for that woman! >:-(
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ps. I found out today who complained about the black snake in the flowers at my park. interesting who it was.
Carla Jandelle... in reply to Lenny La Rue, IPA’s comment, 3 months ago
no no…that lovely female has now decided to start have siezures….....i guess she’s not getting enuf attention in her life as it is soooo…..
the snake complaint? i found out was made as a ‘general observatin’.......and the people who then mowed the place down? took it as a complaint. the fellow who made the reported sighting is one of those ‘weekend frisby golf’ people…and he called them to say ‘hey, u need to groom u’r flowers a bit since i can’t get thru them to the next hole and i saw a black snake…people may not like that’.........so…they plowed down the whole area.
and no…u definately CAN’T pull on a snake like that…their vertebret isn’t that strong
Lenny La Rue, IPA, 3 months ago
Ah, I see. A classic overreaction by someone who wanted to “protect” people from their own dumb butts. :-X
I didn’t think the snake would LIVE if that was tried but I’m not even sure if a snake’s physiology could withstand the pressure even if it died. Knowing that fact could possibly save a snake or two when large groups of people suddenly find themselves sinking in dry sand while running from ticked off indigenous human tribes… Hehehehe!
Carla Jandelle... in reply to Lenny La Rue, IPA’s comment, 3 months ago
especially if they should happen to be in a country like..um..Borneo or something. did u know? they have an aligator/caimon/crocodile that actually can bark like a dog? it’s learned that to make that sound brings ‘food’.....as in? a rescuer in the dark? for it to eat…hmmm
Lenny La Rue, IPA, 3 months ago
You have GOT to be kidding me. Tell me you’re lying like a rug. Please. Lie if you have to. If a reptile with so little brain matter that it will hold its mouth open until something touches it’s tongue can learn how to make an unnatural sound, what about bears? Lions? Tigers? Freaking SPIDERS????? :-O
Carla Jandelle... in reply to Lenny La Rue, IPA’s comment, 3 months ago
have u heard the frog that meows? i believe it’s from cuba….but people have brought it into the pet trade and they’ve learned to make a ‘kitten in distress’ sound when their in trouble…..so people try to rescue THEM….and find out it’s a fat frog instead of a helpless kitten…lol