Redundant

I can't get enough of this song.

It makes me happy and sad... sad mostly. Reminds me how short life is, not that I need to be reminded because I think about it often.

Hope you all are well.

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No, I'm not colorblind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind
But I just can't sleep on this tonight

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?

Don't know how else to say it
Don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can't
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game
To find a way to say that life has just begun

Had a talk with my old man
Said "help me understand"
He said "turn sixty-eight
You renegotiate"

"Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
And don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train"

Once in awhile, when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark
Singing

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train

Got Land?

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I know the sellers personally. This is a great investment if your investment portfolio includes land.

If you know anyone who might be interested please pass this on.

Thanks.

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CO

I have Colorado on my mind. I'm want to go back already. I simply can't get enough of those mountains and just being in CO.
I've also been wasting a lot of time (relatively, actually only about an hour total) the past week looking at/for Harleys. Daydreaming about the day I can actually get one. I wouldn't have time to ride one right now if I had one anyway... but that's not going to stop me from putting in a lowball offer on one today on ebay anyway!!! I'll know by Thursday if I'm the proud owner of a new Harley and on death row in my house via A.

On the way home Aug. 3 we went through Spearfish, SD which is only 17 miles from Sturgis. I haven't ever seen so many bikes and bikers in one place. It looked like a lot of fun and I will partake in that event one of these years to come.
After Spearfish we stopped at this little gas stop/convenience shack that looks like something out of the movie Dusk till Dawn. I have actually joked to A about how there is probably a pile of cars just over the side of the hill of all the naive travelers who have stopped. This place is in the absolute middle of nowhere and there usually isn't any cars parked in the lot - and there wasn't this time either. BUT, this time we had to stop because McK had to use the "potty".

It was a very pleasant experience and the ladies working there were very nice. I asked them how business was and they said sporadic. They told me that usually if one person stops and other people see the vehicle sitting out front, others will stop as well. I had parked our vehicle kind of in the back, so I went out and moved it to the front well within view of the highway. Sure enough, 3 more vehicles of people stopped and came in. I bought several items more than I needed just to support their cause and out of gratitude for the restroom. A had a turkey sandwich which was nothing fancy, but it was good she said.

Those of you who have travelled the lonely stretch between Bowman and Belle Fourche know the place I'm talking about and I would say you shouldn't be afraid to stop.

Here is some interesting history I found on the buttes and this place is right at the foot of the Buttes.

"CROW BUTTES - Crow Buttes located in Harding County, SD;at this point, was the scene of a bizzare battle between the Crow and the Sioux Indians in the summer of 1882. Sioux men ravaged a crow camp, destroying it. Crow warriors fled to the top of the buttes with the Sioux chasing them. Without water, the crow warriors died of thirst. Subsequently the nearby 'Canyon of the Skulls',to the northwest was filled with skeletons of the Sioux who died after contacting a fever from the Crows."

Stop This Train

So, I listened to this song for the third time since my last post. That makes a total of three times ever.

This song is amazing. I stumbled upon that song by pure luck and I'm so impressed with John Mayer that I want to start listening to him nearly all the time (again).

This song brings up a lot of emotion and I realize that it relates so much more to my last post than I originally thought.

Life is so damn short!

On a complete side note, I find it very interesting that all my posts revolve around music. Posting videos, commenting about how they make me feel... or something.

Better than my attempt at video blogging I guess :)

Dreaming with a broken heart

"See the thing is no one really knows what they have till its gone, and these things are so complicated, I mean we wake up one day and things are not the same..."

I saw the above quote as a response on a lyrics page for this song. I can't fully express the understanding and connection I feel with that statement in regard to life, but it's strong. It is something that I have realized before and tried to explain to a few others, but never this concise.

Sometimes it's not even waking up and realizing it. It's sitting at a stop light and having the realization that nothing and everything has changed. It's knowing that someone you love is dying. It's the moment you receive news that someone you cared about has unexpectedly died and they have been dead for hours and you didn't even know it. It's that moment you fully realize there are no guarantees in life and anything can happen at anytime - including your own mortality.

I guess the longer I live, the more I realize things have been the same since our grandparents were our age. The same problems with love and marriage. The same problems with kids and teenagers. The same problems with politics and taxes.

Life is interwoven with pain and happiness. We (or at least I always have) seem to think that everything is constantly evolving and the problems we have now are so different than anytime before.

Sometimes I wonder how much control we really have over our own fate. Sometimes it seems like you step off the tracks of one train and on to the tracks of another. Eventually one of these trains is going to hit us.

The worst of it is when you can see the train coming and no matter how hard you try to get off the tracks, all you can do is run down them, away from a train that's moving 5 times faster than you can run.

Don't be alarmed, I'm not relating to anything in particular here. Just past observations/realizations.

Anyway, this is a really good song. John Mayer is an awesome writer and musician.

I know you rider

This is a great song.

Awesome cover, I like it as much as the original by the Greatful Dead.

This song is served best on a warm Sept./Oct. day on a rural gravel road in Southwestern ND or a fall day in the mountains anywhere.

The Morels

My dad and I had a great day on Sunday.
132 Morels in about 2 hours.

One thing that I really enjoy about this state is the opportunities available to live off the land.

By the way, Morels grow pretty much throughout the US, and NOW is the time to find them. Most of you still have a few days to a week left I would imagine.

They are a fantastic tasting mushroom that sells for about $20 a pound at your local co-op.

Make sure you know what you have before you eat them though.
Check this site for proper ID. Do not eat a false Morel.

To my knowledge, a true morel is completely hollow from the stem into the cap. The cap and the stem are one, unlike other mushrooms.