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46+ Year Husband, Decorated USAF Veteran. Retired (Engineering). The Grateful Dead, Buffalo Sabres - New York Yankees - Buffalo Bills #BillsMafia

Fort Collins, Colorado
Joined September 2010
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There are 2 Kinds of Men in This World. Those who have a crush on Linda Ronstadt and those who have never heard of her. - Willie Nelson
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Willie Nelson spotted this 9-year old fan wearing a Willie Nelson shirt, stopped his truck, called him over and gave him a bandana that was on the seat of the truck..... How cool is that?
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Happy Birthday Helen Mirren Any 78 year old who wears a Grateful Dead shirt is OK with me
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This Guy Passed Out And Missed His Chance To Meet John Paul Jones and Dave Grohl
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4 years
At the gas station a guy not wearing a mask says to me "real patriots don't wear masks" I held up the dog tag on my key ring and asked Mr real patriot which branch he served in. Cat got his tongue real fast, don't mess with us old guys
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@StephenKing You are the word smith not me What would you call someone who attacks a Veteran who passed away 7 months ago on the anniversary of his 1973 release from POW camp?
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Grace Slick painting Jerry Garcia
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Colorado Senator John Hickenlooper and Bobby Weir before last week's Dead & Company shows
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Zucchini crashes, pouring its light into ashes
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When he was 9 he could out play his teachers. When he was 10 he fronted his own band. At 12 he was playing with Buddy Guy and B.B king.
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@StephenKing Wife's company requires a shot as of Nov 1st We are both Veterans and have had every shot known to man. We got our shots back in March
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Happy 80th Birthday Jerry Garcia (RIP) (My photo - 3 Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh, Pa 1990)
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RIP Sabre
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@damocrat @BeechieD President Obama's visit
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@ChicoSexProf @klynng17 when we had a fire near us (High Park Fire, Colorado) I put out a 5 gallon bucket of water every night, it was empty every morning
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When one is too many and a thousand is never enough.
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"M-O-O-N that spells moon"
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Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame is a bad joke at this point Still no Little Feat too
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Carlos Santana, age 62, standing where it all began, the spot of the Woodstock stage, this his very first time back since that life-changing day in his life 41 years earlier at the very young age of 22.
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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@StephenKing Now we can go back to your books being scarier then the news
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Nearly half of all concert-goers at Red Rocks traveled from out of state last year to see their favorite musicians, spending $305 million in the Denver metro area before and after concerts, according to the first-ever economic impact study of the amphitheater.
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@drsanjaygupta You are doing a great job of informing the public Dr. Gupta. To quote Paul Simon "our nation turns its lonely eyes to you" I thank you
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I took this photo on this date in 1990 3 Rivers Stadium Pittsburgh, Pa
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Nice shirt Michael J Fox.
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On this day in 1964, The Beatles played at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre
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got a new shirt
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Good Morning From Colorful Colorado (Red Rocks Amphitheater)
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Fifty-five bald eagles in one tree, by the Nooksack River in Washington state.
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50 years ago tonight I attended my 1st Grateful Dead show.
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Lowell George of Little Feat
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@markknoller Honda builds them in Marysville Ohio My Toyota Tundra was built in Canada
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@StephenKing we went from someone who has a reading list and used words I had to look up to someone who doesn't read and makes words up
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Happy Birthday Bonnie Raitt
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Jerry Garcia at his prom in August, 1959.
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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@StephenKing Loved your books for decades but sadly I don't think you can write anything as scary as the news
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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43 years ago tonight I met @nicolson1232 in a California bar. The rest as they say is history
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@brieannafrank @azcentral I had someone at our Fort Collins, Co gas station tell me yesterday that "real Patriots don't wear masks" when he saw mine showed him my dog tag on my key ring and asked him which branch he served in, that shut him up real fast.
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44 years ago tonight was @nicolson1232 and my very first date. She took me to dinner in San Francisco then to Winterland Area to see The Grateful Dead, she even drove
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35 years ago today Grateful Dead 6.27.85 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs NY. Awfully clean that late in the tour, we did the whole tour
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Letchworth State Park, New York
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49 years ago tonight I went to my 1st Grateful Dead concert. No idea at the time that they would take me from Alaska to Maine
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@StephenKing Never new that Steve Buscemi directed one of the best episodes of The Sopranos ever, the one where Paulie and Christopher are lost on the snowy NJ pine barons. 20 year old this week
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Happy Birthday Croz (RIP)
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You have to wonder what happened to these two guys in Grateful Dead history Naked pole guy in Oregon and Chiclets guy from Winterland in the GD Movie
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48 years ago today I went to my very first Grateful Dead concert
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Live your life that if it was a book Florida would ban it
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Not photoshopped, they are a silly breed
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@thedavidcrosby because you know how to put boiling water through coffee grounds at home? We have this basic concept down
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Up on Cripple Creek, she sends me If I spring a leak, she mends me I don't have to speak, she defends me A drunkard's dream if I ever did see one
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Just came from finding out that it's not cancer !!!!!! At my age combined with where I grew up that is excellent news
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49 Years ago today The Allman Brothers released one of the best live albums ever
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Happy Birthday Phil Lesh (84) (Here shaking hands with our son Lowell)
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Bobby & Natascha Weir on the red carpet at Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday bash.
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Every time I wear my beat up old Yankee cap to the grocery store the older lady who works in the deli tells me "I want that cap" Today I gave it to her, she stopped waiting on customers and came out of the deli to give me a big hug "this is the only Mother's Day gift I will get"
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3 years
Still no Little Feat, Warren Zevon, or The Guess Who nominated for the rock and roll hall of fame
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Good Morning from Colorful Colordo
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Denali National Park, Alaska. When The Grateful Dead played 3 shows there in 1980 I went up a week early to check stuff out and this was one of the places I went
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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@DoggoDating "furry speed bump" we have one, if I had a dollar for every time I step over her
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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@ananavarro Life long NY Liberal who is a fan of you, see left and sane right can get along just fine. Wish the rest of GOP was like you
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Lowell at Springsteen ground zero The corner of 10th Avenue (freeze out) and E Street (Band) Neptune, NJ
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Giving the surround sound speakers a work out after the Sabres game Let the good times roll
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We are watching All In The Family reruns on Metv Our son Lowell can't believe this was on TV in the 60s
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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I'm not the only one with a Birthday today Roger Waters turns 80 today! Last year on our birthday we were seeing him in Denver
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Get pulled over and searched much?
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Getting pretty excited to go see Jerry Garcia's buddy Bonnie Raitt Saturday night. Is it date night if you tale your grand daughters with you? haha Have never missed her since the 1980s one of the best slide guitar players going (Derek Trucks to the white curiosity phone please)
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@funder @michellegrace54 or at the very least throwing out the first pitch at Washington Nationals home game (1st president in 100 years not to) I apologize for the mental image of him trying to throw a baseball 60 feet
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@GratefulDead named our daughter Ann Marie (Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY 1989)
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@stevesilberman First thing I thought of when I saw that video
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Sunwapta Falls in Jasper National Park-Canada.
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Joni Mitchell, Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia, September 1972 - From the For The Roses photoshoot. Photo by Joel Bernstein
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I may be old but I saw all the cool bands (12th row Memorial Aud Buffalo, NY 1968)
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@MichaelSkolnik After speaking to 45,000 at Colorado State right here in Fort Collins. The blue sky and the changing leafs are what makes me like this photo
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@RealRonHoward he bragged on air about now having the tallest building in lower Manhattan the day after 9/11. Told me all I needed to know about him
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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Good Morning from Colorful Colorado
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My brother came to see me last night
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