tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post7257114292091699411..comments2023-10-30T10:45:45.193+01:00Comments on Sort of San Francisco Fan Club: Farthest north .... for a brief moment ....Fram Actualhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-52295131822484648372017-06-08T03:33:05.724+02:002017-06-08T03:33:05.724+02:00There was a time when I was having difficulty reac...There was a time when I was having difficulty reaching your blog, Anna. I mentioned this to Smareis, and she furnished me with a link .... so, I think she has earned a few kisses from you, too ....<br /><br />I want to thank you, as well, Anna, for your visit to me and for your comment here. I hope life is treating you well ....Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-6753866977508498142017-06-07T22:49:10.298+02:002017-06-07T22:49:10.298+02:00Hola paso por agradecerte tu fidelidad en mi blog....Hola paso por agradecerte tu fidelidad en mi blog.<br />Gracias.<br />BesosANNAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08905807142320309825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-60731690610153339182017-05-22T23:11:03.314+02:002017-05-22T23:11:03.314+02:00I think it is wonderful that you should have such ...I think it is wonderful that you should have such a memento of your ancestors. I have a few items as well, including a large, leather-bound Bible in the German language. It was published in 1882. I also have some "cabinet" photographs and letters written by a great-grandmother to my great-grandfather -- and, somewhere back among the posts I have published, is a photograph of my maternal grandfather and a friend when they were nineteen or twenty. <br /><br />Strangest of all, perhaps, one of my ancestors was killed on or about July 2, 1867, on the Kansas plains by a war party of Sioux and Cheyenne. He was among those in a patrol from the U.S. Second Calvary tasked with searching for George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Calvary, who were out and about "hunting" Indians. As it was, Custer found the bodies of the troopers a number of days after they had been killed. The "battle site" is on private property and well off the "beaten path." I went there a few years ago and actually slept for two nights in the "buffalo wallow" where most of the men had been killed.<br /><br />Anyway .... thank you, Liplatus, for your return and for the information. I will write a response to your last comment on my May 1 post, too, but it might take me a day or two before I manage it ....Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-75972678433485068312017-05-22T11:24:32.876+02:002017-05-22T11:24:32.876+02:00Hey,
You will find some pictures of US immigrants ...Hey,<br />You will find some pictures of US immigrants on my blog.<br />I have a thick photo album from the 19th century.<br />They brought it to Finland.<br /><br />https://askeleet-tarja.blogspot.fi/search/label/Amerikan%20siirtolaisetLiplatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14581769073394394105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-37460236040066856632017-04-30T02:55:03.394+02:002017-04-30T02:55:03.394+02:00As some say, in the springtime a young man's f...As some say, in the springtime a young man's fancy turns to ....<br /><br />You read between the lines quite accurately, Anita. I miss many things about the days which have come and gone. I probably still would be living in my house on a hilltop in Dakota if it were not for the fact my former wife No. 2 did not enjoy life in the country and did not like her work and missed her family and was having health problems. She left. A year later, after she had been diagnosed with cancer, I followed her.<br /><br />It is more complicated than that, though. I am thinking about and visualizing many events in my life going back to childhood and continuing up to the present. When I say visualize, it is like I see a still photograph of a place or a person at a particular moment in time. Anyway .... some day, I think I might write a post about what I am experiencing.<br /><br />As for the future, that is the one and only question for which I do not seem to have an answer. I am working on it .... thinking about it every day. In a way, I sort of am waiting for an epiphany ....<br /><br />The weather has been absolutely lousy here most days. Snow is in the forecast for Sunday and Monday -- May Day snowstorm -- and, the temperature has been hovering around the freezing mark every night for a week now. I remember a spring like this a few years ago -- then, about the middle of May, the temperature went into the nineties (Farenheit) and seemed to stay there all summer.<br /><br />Thank you, Anita, for your visit and your words. I enjoy "talking" with you, too ....Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-67000216679848457332017-04-29T08:07:41.246+02:002017-04-29T08:07:41.246+02:00Goodmorning Fram.Yes I am early birdy today.Got th...Goodmorning Fram.Yes I am early birdy today.Got this dog Pelle for the weekend and he has got me awake the whole night..You know..girls in the air!<br /><br />I think Fram.You miss your earlier life..So it seeme when i read behind the lines...<br />I thought you had bought your self a beautiful house on the country..and welll satisfayed..<br /><br />So..where do you head for the future?<br /><br />We got sunny but very cold winds from the north here at my place..<br /><br />How is it in America??<br /><br />Ok..I just wanted to talk to you a bit..Have a good weekend Fram!<br /><br /><br />AnitaAnitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296393166114580709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-52339950316049633962017-04-24T00:11:18.027+02:002017-04-24T00:11:18.027+02:00In addition to winter camping in tents and ice-hut...In addition to winter camping in tents and ice-huts on land and on frozen lakes, Liplatus, I used to run on frozen lakes at night. The lakes and the ice, at times, talk to anyone who ventures out on them -- often rather loudly. There are moments when it would seem the ice is about to open up and swallow anyone who is upon it. Sometimes, a cracking, rumbling sound will begin a long distance away and move quickly toward you and pass beneath you and continue on until it can no longer be heard.<br /><br />Many lessons for today and tomorrow can be learned by studying the past. If I could "bend time," I would choose to witness the past rather than the future: That is how much it fascinates me.<br /><br />Thank you, Liplatus, for your visit here and your comment for me.Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-717742170886968822017-04-24T00:00:18.008+02:002017-04-24T00:00:18.008+02:00My "break from blogging" is not a tradit...My "break from blogging" is not a traditional one in which I stay away for an extended, often announced, period of time. In my case, I have very mixed feelings about the blogs and about my own life and what I am doing with it, so, until I "get my act together," I will not post very often -- probably once or twice a month.<br /><br />The leader of an expedition usually gets most (if not all) of the credit -- or, the blame, if things go wrong. It is those who go with him who make me most curious. There are about two hundred unrecovered bodies on Mount Everest, for instance, and as a once-upon-a-time journalist, I would like to have interviewed those individuals before they set out for the "top of the world."<br /><br />Thank you, CiL .... it is nice to see you here again.Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-61623629160253734552017-04-23T23:55:04.248+02:002017-04-23T23:55:04.248+02:00If you want to meet a genuinely "nice guy,&qu...If you want to meet a genuinely "nice guy," Anita, you should meet my son. He is polite and well-mannered beyond belief, and has more friends than anyone I know. Beside that, he has movie-star looks. Right now, though, he is deeply in love and probably will stay that way.<br /><br />I have written three novels, and a well-known novelist sent one to his agent. She read it and gave me some recommendations, but I never have followed up on them. I also have ghost written a few things and published short stories. My basic problem is that I have a tendency to begin projects, but not the patience to complete them. Someday, maybe, when my life becomes calmer.<br /><br />Thank you, for urging me onward, Anita. Someday, maybe ....Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-27982637814979238392017-04-23T15:19:16.836+02:002017-04-23T15:19:16.836+02:00It has not been easy to live or travel a hundred y...It has not been easy to live or travel a hundred years ago.<br />Courage has been needed.<br /><br />I've probably watched a document on TV just for this tour.<br />It is interesting to know the history of earlier times.Liplatushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14581769073394394105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-36455842360750439282017-04-23T11:23:04.414+02:002017-04-23T11:23:04.414+02:00Wish you a good break from blogging. I have always...Wish you a good break from blogging. I have always had a soft spot for expeditions leaders. They dare to go where no one else did or wanted to. Great post.<br /><br />Greetings from London.A Cuban In Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16423293358605007539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-3941865374767982952017-04-23T06:42:46.788+02:002017-04-23T06:42:46.788+02:00Hello Fram
Always nice to hear from you and you ar...Hello Fram<br />Always nice to hear from you and you are such a nice guy..I have said i t before..you know how to put your words and make people happyYou should write a book..sincerly I mean it<br />I am still at work and writing from.my cellphone.Thanx alot for kind greetings on.my blog<br /><br />Thinkin g about you<br />😊😊😊Anitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296393166114580709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-66996343449254538162017-04-22T04:33:13.640+02:002017-04-22T04:33:13.640+02:00I will be completely fine when I have resolved my ...I will be completely fine when I have resolved my residency situation, Anita. I continue to search for the "sunny side of the street."<br /><br />I wore "shades" day and night when I was in high school and college, Anita, but at some point I realized how often I was losing them and having to replace them and how much money that was costing me .... so, essentially, I stopped replacing them -- which means I stopped wearing them for a few years. Since that time, I have returned to wearing them on sunny days and my favorites are designed for use in the desert and have USMC on the upper corner of the left lens.<br /><br />Thank you, for your visit and your comment, Anita. I really do enjoy your company ....Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-23185984698608753232017-04-21T11:11:06.289+02:002017-04-21T11:11:06.289+02:00Hello!
Thank you for nice greeting on my blog
Abou...Hello!<br />Thank you for nice greeting on my blog<br />About the sunglasses..They are Ray Ban..so I was thinking Vip people!!<br /><br />Hahahha ..no just kidding..Here around everyone wear shades.no matter weather or pretty or ugly<br />Nice to hear you are doing fine.I like that.<br /><br />Greetings AnitaAnitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296393166114580709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-67420455679552304672017-04-17T04:11:44.486+02:002017-04-17T04:11:44.486+02:00It was a hard and a dangerous life for those who d...It was a hard and a dangerous life for those who dared challenge the far north or the distant south one hundred or more years ago, Anita. Today, a person would have to be extremely unfortunate to venture in those directions and suffer tragic consequences.<br /><br />The Polar Regions lose their allure when, if weather and ice conditions are right, it is possible to fly over the North Pole, parachute out and the aircraft will land, furnish lunch, and pick you up, all for a price .... and, as for the South Pole, it becomes equally the case when there are permanent, year-round bases in the Antarctic, and cruise ships come and go. These are the circumstances of life today.<br /><br />Mount Everest loses its appeal except as a personal challenge when an eighty-year-old and a thirteen-year-old make the climb, and a double-amputee is literally carried to the top. And, at last count, about four thousand have successfully completed the climb, some of them multiple times.<br /><br />My legs are past the stage where they are eager for personal challenge, so, perhaps, that is why I find life rather tedious and why I am so easily bored. Also, I have entered the stage where mental challenges are more appropriate.<br /><br />Yes, I have read a number of books/accounts of North Polar expeditions and attempts to find a Northwest Passage in particular, although expeditions to reach the South Pole often have been as desperate. That is why I was, shall I say, "desperately" interested and attracted to them as a boy and a young man.<br /><br />Thank you, Anita, for your visit and your comment. Enjoy your journey to Svalbard .... yes, see you, and you stay young, beautiful and healthy !!Fram Actualhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01540773153894050197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8989613902205547683.post-1069909919929971062017-04-16T14:54:28.758+02:002017-04-16T14:54:28.758+02:00Goodmorning Fram.Or shall i say early afternoon .V...Goodmorning Fram.Or shall i say early afternoon .Very nice post this time.Good to read.You should go up north sometime.It was ahard life for those people living there ..Best book ever I have read is men under the north light(True stories) by Mikkjel Fønhus.Wow.Men captured in the ice up there.No onecomes to rescue.Can you imagine the feeling.No seals.No Icebears nothing to eat.Thers nothing up there in 50 minus.Some of them cooked some raindeer skin and ate it for weeks.Many died.<br /><br />Planning a trip to Svalbard .<br /><br />See you and stay healthy.<br /><br />AnitaAnitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16296393166114580709noreply@blogger.com