<div>Thanks. Sweet.</div><div>Steve Eide<br><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Bill Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:canbelto@gmail.com">canbelto@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">Would Steve be hopelessly offended if I took a crack at this too?
<p class="MsoNormal">(To the tune of “Good King Wenceslas”)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Tara, Kitt and T.S.B.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Sat at Beehive, hoping</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Indicators soon to see;</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Lacking one, they’re moping.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Then across on Channel 4</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Came tidings so surprising</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>That it made their spirits soar:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Mastiff’s water’s rising!”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Geyser gazers near and far</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Too numerous to mention</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Ran to Upper
Basin’s star</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>With their full attention</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Focused on good things to come:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mastiff, Bijou, Feather</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>All behaving, bringing some</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Gazing friends together.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>But alas, it didn’t go;</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Giant still lay sleeping.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Gazers’ faces filled with woe;</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Some were even weeping.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>But as the excitement died,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>With Feather growing shorter,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>More ecstatic gazers cried,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“Look!<span> </span>There’s Fan
and Mortar…”</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i> </i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>So, our moral’s plain to see</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>As we face the New Year:</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Long years after you and me,</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Geysers still will be here.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Yellowstone, we love you
too</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>For the joys you give us.</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Happy Holidays to you</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>And a Merry Christmas!</i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">-- Bill Johnson, with thanks to all of the above, and many more who've made this relative newbie to geyser gazing feel welcome.</p>
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