Salmon Falls Ropeswing

Friday started out decent enough. Kirste dropped Tyler off at Pierres so I could watch him while she worked at The New England Shrimp Compny. She is a hostess there and works from 4-10 so sometimes she drops tyler off at Pierres so he can stay with me until I get out.
I got mad at him when he bought a 10$ swedish Limpa cake across the street at Simply Scandinavian. I had to explain to him that might not have been the best way to spend his hard gotten money. WHat are ya gonna do. I dropped him off at my house for an hour while I made an appearance at Bianca's birthday party.
Bianca was decked out fo sho. Brendan was looking as laid back as ever and there was lots of good food left. I didnt stay long. Checked out Santo's records that he bought whilst traveling in Germany. Some good shit.. lots of old skool hip hop. Pre-run dmc isht. AJ and Crissy's were there for a final appearance. I'll miss having her around... great girl. She would have been a nice momma for old man Shire.
I left Biancas and headed for home. I bought tyler and I a red bull and we stayed up watching simpsons futurama and the Chapelle Show.

Saturday morning was spent cleaning the apartment getting ready for Jeff and Meghans birthday party. Tyler and I went to WIld Oats and ate lots of good shtuff. Tyler noticed we could have eaten all the samples and gotten really full. Chip off the ol block ayuh.
Tyler and I convinced Jeff that he shouldnt go campaigning during the hottest part of the day and that he should go swimming at salmon falls with us instead. We made a mad dash for the water as the heat was starting to get to all of us. We had a nice drive out into the country. Took a few wrong turns on the way and ended up on a very long stretch out into the town of Buxton. We finally hit the Saco river and followed that back down to the Hollis-Buxton border where salmon falls is. It's nice to be able to depend on a river to help you find your way back. We headed up past the bridge on the Buxton side and traveled the mile up to the parking lot where everyone parks to go to the rope swing. The parking lot was full as Ive ever seen it. We headed up the trail to the 30 foot cliff where the swing USED to be. We could tell 100 feet before we reached the clearing that the whole tree where the swing used to be had been cut down. It had rotted out pretty fiercely and I guess it was the right thing to do. Thats the only time Ive ever been ok with someone knocking down tree that housed a rope swing. The swing that was anchored onto that tree was one of the best I'd ever been on in Maine. The swing was anchored on a tree that was 30 feet up on a rock ledge children under the age of 10 didnt dare jump off the cliff or swing of the rocky bank. The swing was tied 35 feet up around the girth of the tree. The bank angled sown so you could make a nice run down the bank swing 15 or 20 feet out and then drop 35 or 40 feet out into the cold deep saco river. The banks of the saco river were perfect for ropeswinging and diving jumping, etc... on both sides the banks were granite and slate dropping straight down 40 feet. I've never heard of anyone ever touching bottom.... and people definitely tried. So it was a sad thing to go there and see it gone. Tyler was going to try the swing for the first time. Shitty. He did jump off the cliffs a few times and swam across the river with Jeff and I. The current is pretty non existent in that particular bend of the river... another reason for that being one of the premier ropeswinging meccas of the maine woods. All the other great ones are in rivers with a much swifter current.
Afte geting back From the river Tyler Micah and I all went to see "The Bourne Supremacy". Great Movie!!!! We had a blast. Micah weirded out some froofy Falmouth girls sitting in front of us. He offered them some little lads popcorn... it was a nice gesture but people at movie theatres dont really want to get to know their adjacent neighbors... it's not like its a social activity... thats why you go to movies. you dont want to be social. You want to descend into your own psyche for a few hours and not be bothered by hairy missionaries with popcorn.

After the movie I drove Ty to my mothers house and micah to brentwood street. The party was already underway at my house and was about to take a turn for the worse. My landlords son came upstairs and bitched at us for being to loud... he wanted a physical altercation but i didnt give him the pleasure. HE knocked about 30 bottles off my stoop ledge onto his apartment.. breaking 30 bottles all at once! His fianceee called up to him to see what the fuck had happened... he had to tell her it was him. Pretty fucked up. After that the party got bigger and more drunken... i was ready to head for the beach. Trouble showed up and I got into some. Ended up staying up for about 30 more hours. I didnt sleep much till 4 pm on Sunday. I wanted to die. I met a crazy drummer from New Jersey and that was mildly amusing in my dopamineless state. I went home and went right to bed after reading the end of "wake up and smell the beer" by Jon Longhi. Fuck the bollocks.

I can't stand George Bush's daughters. They are 1000x coooler than him but they are still cyborgs. I watched them at work this morning and about 50 other brainless repubs talking about how mucht hey hate michael moore. Of course no one actually watched F911. Oh well. The apocalypse will come soon anyhow. too bad they will be feeling so safe with GWB

me goin off a rope swing at salmon falls



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