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shadowcatcher... thanks for sending this pic to me to post on the blog
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ok I go there every NITE after work.. Me and Broken Arrow with 4 leggs. Nice Pictures and thanks for sharing..
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Wow where is this. Its so pretty.Looks like a place me and my girl could cuddle at.How do I get there once I leave the entrance and the policemen? Can anyone have a picnic here? Looks like a great place for Jackson family reunion next year.
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How to get to top of the old ski slope?
Turn right at Guards House and go up Alpine Drive turn left on Anemone and go to almost the end of the street and turn on gravel/grass road to the left. BTW.. Its ok to go there at night and view the stars. Security chased my daughter away Saturday Night and looked inside her car with Flash Light. I was appalled and called Fuzzy and he assured me that its ok to view the stars at dark. She was there about 8pm and was sitting on picnic bench. Shame that city girl comes to visit her Mom and gets treated with a guard saying no funny business. She was doing nothing wrong. Although I appreciate Security checking and patrolling don't get me wrong. After all our assessment money is paying for it.
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Thank you for the directions. i know the guards well. they let me in to fish out the lake. I cant believe they did that to your daughter. that had to scare her.Maybe she would like to meet old terra Alta ted aometime. i am a very nice west Virginia boy.
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Where do you live? I'm a nice WV Squaw..LOL
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The gazebo at the top of the ski run is not open to non-property owners. This is a feature which was paid for by hard earned fund raising by the property owners and erected by members of the property owner's Carpenter Club. As such, it has been deemed an amenity just for Alpine's property owners and guests. That is probably why security is patrolling that site.
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Hello Judith, Maybe I don't understand. I am a homeowner here. And I feel my guest and my daughter can go to top of the ski slope to view stars at night. There is nothing wrong and it doesn't cost anything to view the stars. Especially when my guest are eating at the lodge and helping to bring money into Alpine.
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Land belong to my tribe. many moons ago Chief Alta Ugh sit from top of mountain and view his land. chief say his family still own land. chief say nice girl welcome on chiefs hill. Come and smokem peace pipe with chief. Chief takem care of Alpine highway patrol. Putem arrows in their backside and sent them and there green jeeps into lake. Heyyaheyyayayaheyya. chief now puttem on warpaint. Hey wait minute. If this chief squaws daughter then she my daughter. Heyyayaheyyaheyyaheyaheya.Chief now declare war on pale faces in little shake with little men in customes.Chief at war.heyyaheyyaheyaheyayheya
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Im with you chief. For once! How dare they do that. Ill be sure to take a bite out of their tires should I see em coming.Old Bearwalker will make them run to Kingsville.There will be a new song called the Alpine police went over the mountain!
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OK, everybody, cool your jets (or peace pipes!) Reread what I said....it is for Alpine Lake property owners and their families and guests. So, in the case of Chief Woman Squaw's daughter, she had every right to be there. So, if you are a property owner, then please enjoy; take your guests there; smoke peace pipe while watching the sunset; have a picnic. That's exactly what it is for. Please let me know if you do have other questions.
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Hey Judith.. Thanks you are a nice woman.. My life here is good.. But listen to this song.. My Life is such a hurry.. So some times I listen to this song.. Me and my Husband listen to this song.. it makes me feel good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZR1YPRim_Y
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Hi Judith,
Whats the latest leaf report. I sure hope when I come up in 5 days they will still be in all their glory. tell me they are not at peak or 100% yet.
Is there anyone on the blog who can post some fall pictures?
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Hello Gary, I just got off work and need to go to post ofc. Will take Rudy James for a run at top of the old ski slope and take pictures. Very sunny and pretty.. I will email you pictures and send to Diana. I think we are close to peak but should be beautiful next Wed when you get here.
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Gary, I believe we are close to peak now. The dryer leaves are dropping fast, but the view of the lake is spectacular.
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Alpine Lake Nights.
There are some nights when i cannot not sleep.
There are some nights when my mind refuses to go to the unconscious deep.
What do I do with the time I wonder?
To waste this serenity would be a blunder
Ive got the night watch dont you know.
Tonight for a while I get to watch the moon and stars as westward they go.
Ill hear loudly the silence of the night.
It will be that way until first light.
Ill visit with Orion, the Big Dipper and Mars
Ill try to catch and thank God for seeing the rare falling star.
The night sky is the biggest thing I know.
Yet with all its movements so quietly it goes.
With my window raised , ill listen for night sounds.
Off in the distance I hear the farmers hound.
Yet outside my window as close as anything can be,
There is the sounds of acorns hitting the limbs as they fall from the trees.
Ill hear the wipperwill far off in some hidden tree
Ill listen to the wind as it gently moves the leaves.
Ill hear, I think the deer in the woods scurry.
Tracing its progress by the crunch of the limbs, wondering why it is in such a hurry.
Ill hear the walnut fall from above.
Ill hear two distant whipperwills and assume they are in love.
And then there are sounds I cannot identify.
Cracks and screeches that make me want to escape under my covers and hide.
In the spring night the frogs chorus is loud.
In late summer, the katydids and crickets make up the forest crowd.
In fall, its the owl who makes me stay up late.
But in winter, its the silence with whom I have a date.
In the night watch I can pray.
It is easier without the distractions of the day.
I can focus my attention on heavens eternal light.
While I lay in thick darkness of earths night.
I often discover that the night doesnt last long.
The prayer I so wanted to pray wasnt all that strong.
I see through eyelids, the sun now does shine.
It was hours ago that the night drifted away and I fell asleep and now its daytime.
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TERRA ALTA, NO WORDSWORTH HERE
4/4/2004 6:34:26 PM
Through quaking pines,
low white sun
paints the child who wears your face.
The April winds,
the tears of May…
Spring.
At our summer place…
Wandering lonely in the fog
that drowns our lake, I go.
Flurries throttle daffodils,
I’m gray
against the snow.
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Hey folks!
You asked for pics of the autumn leaves at alpine and they are being posted right now... all the way from the beach in SWFL.
After all, that's what the blog is here for ~~ ENJOY!
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