Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! There are so many new members of the Old Hippie’s Corner (OHC); I thought it might be fun to compile Colonel Possum’s ramblings and tall tales from 2006. New and old members are encouraged to submit their Holiday thoughts and images to the group. I f you include the group acronym OHC in your title you will be automatically included in a special ”New Years Eve Shout Out” from the OHC remote Headquarters in Eureka, Nevada!
The Old Hippie’s Corner Philosophy
Welcome to the OHC: Any Time Frame, Any Frame of Mind
Ten Thoughts after Working Many Years for Others
Tale Tales from the 1960s
The Colonel’s "Weekend in San Francisco" is drawn from his experiences in the 1960s at the so-called dawning of the Age of Aquarius. The seven part series spans the years 1965 and 1966. For my younger audience, this is the Rock N' Roll Pleistocene Epoch when small rock bands first roamed the earth.
Links are provided below for the series. If you've run into Big Molly and Sage at the OHC, this series will give you some insight into some of their Sixties' escapades along the Hippie Highway
Preface When Small Rock Bands First Roamed the Earth
Part I Have You Seen Ken Kesey?
Part II Riding the Hippie Highway
Part III The Plaskett Creek Casanovas
Part IV Jesters Do Oft Prove Prophets
Part V Day Dreaming about Wild Mustangs
Part VI Itchycoo Park, Janis Joplin and the Western Dream
Part VII Texas Bluebells in Big Sur
Big Parties at the OHC
The First Gather Fourth of July Picnic: Welcome to Gatherstock!!!
The Possum Ball Run 2006 (Paris, Texas)
Colonel Possum’s Dogs and Cats
My Dogs Still Love Me and That Is Why the Gather Concept Works
What if a Computer Mouse were a Cat?
Colonel Possum Cooks
Zatarain’s, A Great Box Dinner
Early Possum
Lunchbox Full of Memories: John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row
A West Coast Kid in Massachusetts (Four-part Series)
The Dumbest Thing I Ever Did with Fireworks
Here's to a great 2007 on Gather!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
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Comments: 27
And, of course, Merry Christmas!
Thank you. I've been busy building a new porch behind the OHC kitchen. Now that winter is setting in, I look forward to jumping back on the saddle.
How's your music? You new icon looks great!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
Heh heh -- the icon -- Bart gave me a makeover, so it's like Pinocchio becoming a Real Boy... insofar as we get real online, I guess.
Looking forward to your New Year's plans -- sounds like another party?? Or just a howdy-fest?
Hmmmm...we're getting whacked by an El Nino rainstorm tonight and my new porch roof leaks! Maybe there is a little more work for the ole Colonel.
I think it the Holidays will be a Hey-Howdy since I'll be on super slow dial-up in Eureka, Nevada (mining town at 6500' with about 400 local folks, lots of charm but not a broadband world).
Better check the roof...
Colonel Possum
Thank you! It is good to be back. How's your trusty mule, "Roscoe"?
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
:)
Thank you for your cheery thoughts.
I've framed a lot of diminutive objet d'arts and have my best luck with toothpicks. Try the flat variety, lay two side-by-side but in opposite directions. This takes out the taper and now you have a nice little plank. Glue your little sticks to a bit of cardboard cut to the size of the frame. You have just completed the first side, now repeat three times for a completed frame.
Take a Q-tip and apply a little brown shoe polish to wooden pieces. Rub off the excess with a dry Q-tip and you are ready for mounting your minature postcard. Stick some chewed gum on the wall and squish your mounted artwork in place.
I suggest you mount these small pieces several inches higher than the stretch of your largest cat. At this height the gnomes and druids can enjoy still your exhibit and the cats won't ruin the show. A box of toothpicks and a pack of gum is quite sufficient to do an entire gallery for your little friends.
Cheers & Wiggles,
Colonel Possum
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Cheers,
Colonel Possum
Thank you! I keep waiting for that marvevously blue colored hat to magically turn a crimson red for the holidays. If you're dressing up your place for festive gnomes you might check out my comment to Juniper. Gnome's love a bit of art on the walls and a bit of ale in their cups!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
Thank you! Your are truly an OHC charter member!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
i've only been a member of ohc for a few days. i just read your tales from the 60's. FANTASTIC!!!!!!(i think i got high just reading your story) keep on writing! i would love to have my kids (now grown) read this, but dont want the questions that would surely come with it. hendrix performed in kc the weekend of 2/22/69. my boyfriend (later husband) got to go to the hotel room after and meet him. though it was only for a second. sadly i wasnt there. it was his last performance in kc.
Your comment warms the ole Colonel's heart! I missed Hendrix at Devonshire Downs in the San Fernando Valley and have never forgiven myself to this day!
Thank you for reading my stories of yore. Sage and Big Molly are still rocking and hopefully you'll have a chance to meet them at the next OHC party!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
What a December treat to hear from you! I just threw another log on the fire at the OHC and fell into some SFV memories. Inside or outside trays? Double cheese? Let's leave Bob's and go over the hill, I think Morrison is at Gazzarri's this week....
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
Always good to hear from from the Bayou Queen! How are things in the land of gators, tombs above water and a fisherman's paradise beneath?
Cheers,
Colonel Possum
I was just kidding-ha! How about posting an image of your finished piece to the OHC for a Possum Posse Premium Member upgrade?
C & W,
Colonel Possum
Geez, we haven't chatted in a while, and I hope all is well on the farm..... ;-)
I want to wish you a Merry Christmas, as well as your whole family too. I've had a blast of a time in your group this past year, and no doubt will have another in 2007.
Old Hippies never die, ........ they just fade away...... ha ha. Peace...
Take care.
Thanks and you're so right on! A recent SFV adventure....after all these years I finally got a birth certificate from St. Joe's in Burbank. I guess I'm real afterall!
Have a great holiday in the Arizona sun!
Colonel Possum
Anyway, good for you, and take care now. Thanks.
PS- by the way, for years I got by with a neat form filled out by some Nuns there, volunteers I guess? It wasn't until later that an employer said I had to have an "official" one on file there by government regulations because of security issues and the DOD. The company even paid for it, and got it with my approval, which was cool.
Later.
I do remember your story! I have had a U.S. Passsport for years and traveled all over hell and to this day can't figure out how I got it without a birth certificate. Since my mother and I applied at the same time (1960s), I'm guessing she just vouched for me. Can you imagine that post-911!
Cheers,
Colonel Possum