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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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 Posted - Mar 28 2007 : 1:37:23 PM
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"All secrets are witnessed," writes Barbara Kingsolver in her novel, Prodigal Summer.
The day my husband Chris bent to his knee, wildflowers in hand, and proposed marriage at the foot of Montana's Mormon Peak, I would never have guessed that anybody was around to hear me cry. But as we hiked on, hand in hand, we nearly stumbled in to a bull moose calmly grazing behind a veil of saplings at the edge of the trail.
As far as I'm concerned, his holiness married us right then & there!
(It wasn't until years later, in a southern Missouri courthouse with a fussing toddler, that we tied the knot on paper)
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Meg
Moderator/MaryJane's Farmgirl
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Meg
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Posted - Mar 28 2007 : 3:53:19 PM
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Jen~ how beautiful...made me smile picturing all THREE of you.
My hubby asked my dad's permission to marry me while on a backpacking trip with my family. We all hiked about 6 miles in, this was his first hike with my family. The two of them ventured off the next day to find a good fishing hole. On the walk back (he recalls it being one of the longer walks he's been on getting up the nerve to ask) he tried to casually bring it up. My dad was in front and my hub recalls seeing him flex both hands before responding. He thought for sure my dad would arrive back at camp with no recollection of what had happened to my boyfriend. Needless to say he got an approval. But looking back at the pictures from that trip it is quite noticeable that the pack my dad lent my hubby was about twice the size as everyone elses and I would imagine the same in weight as well. My dad still thinks he's pretty funny loading Lucas up with most of all our meals and the tents too. Guess he passed the test!
MaryJane's daughter,
Meg
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Mar 30 2007 : 2:38:29 PM
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How funny, Meg! I'll bet our husbands will be at least as tough on the next generation of suitors, don't you?? Chris already bristles at the thought!
The View From My Boots
www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
"The earth is your grandmother and mother, and she is sacred. Every step that is taken upon her should be as a prayer." - Black Elk, Lakota |
Edited by - Jen on Jan 30 2008 11:55:22 AM |
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blueberries in alaska
outstepping
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Jo
hillsides of the Chugach
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USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2008 : 7:44:28 PM
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Oh gosh........ the first day I went out with my husband we went to the Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau Alaska. I was not really up for a relationship but I was definitely in his sights. Anyway, a lone black wolf walked towards us and stared me straight in the eye. He was not a regular there at that time. I'm not sure why, but I felt at that moment we were really meant for each other..... that it was some kind of totem, message.
He (the wolf) is known as Romeo these days...... he frequents the glacier, alone.
Paul is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I got him and Alaska and the wilderness. He is my best friend!
I love your stories!! jo
there's no place like home....
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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Elizaray
outspoken
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Elizaray
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Posted - Feb 09 2008 : 9:58:07 PM
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I don't think my husband ever asked my Dad's permission to marry me, but when we moved into our first place away from home, my Dad and then boyfriend had a chore to do- make us a bedstead for the mattresses that we brought. Take about tense at first! Then I came in to the room to see how they were doing, and my dad asked me what I thought of the bed as it was coming together. I said "Great", and he said "I think we should add some more cross-bars so it can hold more weight and motion- what do you think"! Talk about an embarassing moment! But that bed certainly was well built. In fact we could have stood it on end, encased it with dry wall and it would have been strong enough to be a load-bearing wall! LOL
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Feb 10 2008 : 1:38:57 PM
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Ha!!! That is too funny, Elizaray! My dad never gave us permission either, but it wouldn't have done him much good to say no after we'd already been traveling the wild west together for 5 years 
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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blueberries in alaska
outstepping
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Jo
hillsides of the Chugach
AK
USA
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Posted - Feb 11 2008 : 4:56:31 PM
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Over the past four years Romeo has been "acclimatized" to humans. People come out to see him and sometimes even let there pets play there...... too weird. It was another wolf that was thought to be Romeo that was killed. The person who shot him was prosecuted, as to Romeo...... he still roams the glacier. We were one of the first few people to see him, but I regret that he has become too accustomed to folks. He is a beautiful little wolf though..... jo
p.s. I think that people that take their little dogs there are quite nuts, they're just part of the food chain to him, no more no less!
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Edited by - blueberries in alaska on Feb 11 2008 5:00:00 PM |
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Jen
Expedition Leader
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Jennifer
Calico Rock
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USA
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Posted - Feb 12 2008 : 08:38:14 AM
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Exactly! I remember reading that, too, as if they think it's some sort of mystical experience to watch their dogs "play" (and get eaten by?) a wolf.
So neat that you guys live in an ecosystem where big predators are still free roam. Long live Romeo & all his kind.
Jen
Farmgirl Sisterhood Member #9
The View From My Boots: www.bovesboots.blogspot.com
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