Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/09/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Looking forward to both books Ted! Of course you need to sign them please!! Unfortunately my accountant stories are few and far between ;-) And none with images to punctuate them! Best, Bob Sent from my iPad On Sep 16, 2012, at 10:46 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: > Robert G Adler OFFERED: > Subject: Re: [Leica] Sheep Farm #20 - The two-hole outhouse! > > >> That's a helluva great tale!<<<< > > Hi Bob, > The tales and stories from 63 years of assignments to just surviving are > endless! Everything one can imagine or never believe happened! However, > the biography being written by a lady author as we speak, published by > Heritage House Publishers for release next year in the fall will have a > few or whatever the author will write. > > I eventually will do another book of stories myself as I've been told > dozens upon dozens of times... "You must do a book with all the stories > and a few pictures." > > So I've been writing and keeping notes & collecting them over the years. > So one of these days I suppose I'll put them all together and do book. :-) > > cheers, > ted > >> On Sep 16, 2012, at 12:48 PM, <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi CREW! :-) a two holer story... and no I left the Leica's behind! :-) >>> >>> You guys want to be on a cattle round-up out in the back country with a >>> 2 holer about 2 a.m. on a pitch black night and you are "somewhat under >>> the influence of the toxic liquid known as alcohol! :-) !" >>> >>> Then in the dark step in a hole in the ground, fall, get the wind >>> knocked out of you to the extent you can't get up because the toxic >>> liquid isn't allowing any sense of body, legs, balance to function and >>> about an hour later in the cold of the fall night. The cowboys came out >>> looking for me with a candle lamp for fear I'd fallen in one of the >>> holes? Or I had fallen in the rather large creek flowing by the >>> round-up camp. >>> >>> They did a semi-carry dragged me back to the bunk house where they just >>> threw me on my bunk along with a blanket where it seems I immediately >>> peed myself and wasn't aware until I was awakened at 4.30 a.m. to get up >>> to feed my horse I would ride later in the morning at sunrise. Or that I >>> may, "hopefully die before if only!" >>> >>> Cowboys thought the whole episode hilarious for a city-slicker and I >>> never heard the end of it for the following ten days during the >>> completion of the round-up! >>> >>> Aaahhh!! Another one of those fun assignment moments never to be >>> forgotten! And followed with the usual forgotten promise of..... "OH my >>> God I will never drink again in my whole life!" :-) Then immediately >>> forgetting it the next evening at days end! :-) Oh well it was a time! >>> :-) >>> cheers, >>> Dr. ted :-) >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerry Walden" <gerry.walden at >>> me.com> >>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:25 PM >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Sheep Farm #20 - The two-hole outhouse! >>> >>> >>>> The story makes the image Chris, although the look of isolation begs >>>> the question of who the hell shared it, maybe one of the sheep. >>>> >>>> Gerry >>>> >>> On 16 Sep 2012, at 03:40, Chris Crawford <chris at >>> chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote: >>>> http://chriscrawfordphoto.com/chris-details.php?prodId=1504&category=44 >>>>> Chris Crawford >>>>> Fine Art Photography >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information