Hound Dog
Nov 6, 2009, 8:45 AM
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Re: [gbatrucks] USAA expands membership eligibility
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The trouble with life is there's no background music."
I wish you success with your event Trucks although I´m not sure what USAA is even though I´m a Marine Corps veteran who lucked out and was too young for Korea and missed Vietnam by the hair of my chin by joining the Marines in 1960 when Vietnam was just a splinter in John Kennedy´s eye. Whew! Does this mean I could join despite never having been on the business end of another soldier´s bullet? I was on standby for an expedition to Cuba for a while but as you know, when you are young and gung-ho that means your guys whip their butts and we then spend our nights carousing on warm Caribbean or Atlantic beaches with hot Cuban mamas and Cuba Libres or Mojitos. I guess the reality is a bit different. Anyway, in those days (the 60s and 70s) they almost never called up reservists as they started doing in the last decade so I escaped the planned but never executed invasion of Havana since JFK figured that that was not such a good idea.
But the real reason I am posting is to take exception to the notion that there is no background music in life - at least in Mexico and by that I mean pleasant, life-affirming music since we are forunate to have a large mature garden just off Lake Chapala and I have never lived anywhere with anything approaching the numbers of songbirds we have here despite having lived in rural and sem-rural environments before. Actually, in the Mayacamas Mountains of Northern California way back in the forest where we lived, the morning peace was broken by the shrill screeches of jays (of which there appear to be none around here at Lake Chapala) attacking our pets in order to steal their food and those jays were good at their trade. I wouldn´t mess with them.
Then, in the urban environment of San Cristóbal de Las Casas there is the municipal marimba orchestra or military band concerts in the morning about 8:00AM and there is nothing like that sort of live music, especially, the haunting sounds of the marimba, to make walking the other Dawg a fine experience in the crystalline morning light.
Anyway, as I said earlier good luck on your event but how would Dawg get there?
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Nov 6, 2009, 8:51 AM)
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