Dear Forrest,
You have said in the cold months to wait for the snow to melt and the mud to dry. Considering much of the Rockies are subject to random and frequent bouts of precipitation, when is the mud ever dry? ~Thanks, I’m Inohury
Ha, elementary question my dear Inohury.
A friend’s six year-old daughter told me that mud can never dry because if it did it wouldn’t be mud anymore.
Please don’t ask me to argue the point. f
The above Featured Question is also Weekly Words from Forrest for June 24th, 2016. The complete list is here:
Weekly Words From Forrest Fenn
and the link to Featured Questions is here:
Best of luck with The Thrill of the Chase and all that you seek! Enjoy Life’s Adventures!
Thank you Mr. Fenn, Ms. Kile, and Inonury!
What is going on???? I Googled “dear Inohury” and this was posted on Nov 29, 2014.
https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=%22dear%20inohury%22
Excellent answer! I will have to use that line on someone sometime! Thanks for posting these Ms. Kile, and thanks for answering Mr. Fenn!
Kids can say smart things…I wonder if they think we are dum?
Mud could be a NA reference to grizzly bear…that’s probably irrelevant. Maybe mud is Adobe – wait until the snow clears off NM or CO where adobe’s are present. SiX see the X or si(yes) X; FX, etc.
Thank you Inohury, Jenny and Mr.Fenn,
.No need to harry the situation.
Kids have the best logic. It’s simple and goes straight to the heart of the matter. It’s easy to see why Forrest said to ask one. 🙂
https://servicemonster.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/mudinside-copy.jpg
Just recently I was driving with my wife and 2 (of 3) kids. My 4-year-old daughter said, “Dad is getting more and more gray hairs on his head. He could die any minute”. 🙂
She had no idea that what she said was “funny”. She was just merely stating the truth as she saw it.
And after all…her simple realization commands solemn reflection.
Laugh or cry, man. Laugh or cry.
Thanks again, Forrest and Jenny and…Inohury?
Sorry. I don’t mean to be disrespectful.
Thanks, Inohury.
Thank you Jenny, and thank you, my dear Forrest! Elementary answer, as well.
You are a great man, Mr. Fenn, don’t ask me to argue the point. I
I won’t, but I still have to figure the point out.
IW,
The point is clear as mud, same as its always been. These featured ?’s and weekly words are picking up pace, soon they will be daily. I am all in just to keep up or maybe I should say knee deep in mud.
Uh Irony? Thanks Jenny, Forrest and Inohury…:)
Hmmm I was thinking that Forrest was making up the names as a hint. But I guess NOT!
Well there is mud and dried mud. There you go.
Inohury, have you ever spent time at the Ritz Carlton?
-Chris
Thanks Jenny and Mr. Fenn. I hate to be a old stick in the mud, but this this featured question is as clear as mud to me. I’ll have to have a few toddies tonight and try and figure this one out. Here’s mud in your eye.
Reallyyyyyyyy And yet again another great question NOT!!!! Who cares about mud get your mud boots on . The weekly questions are getting worse by the week .
Maybe he can’t answer your question because you’re too close to finding it 😉
Agree Diggin. We need a mud wrestling event. Searchers vs Fenn, then maybe we can wrassle some real answers out o him. But then not everyone plays nice and it’s liable to turn into mud slinging. On second thought I’ll stick with the Weekly Words maybe we’re just all stuck in the mud. I don’t know but if I get mud on face, I’m going to just enjoy the free mud facial. Okay too much talk about mud now. Who wants to make mud pies?
Hi Diggin, Who cares about mud? Well, I do and always have. For me without much balance and physical abilities, mud can act like quicksand and take me in and not let go. It is like some slick creature that grabs my boots and pulls me in – deeper and deeper.
I might have cleared away the mud, and if so… thank you for that compliment.
Your welcome, it is I who should be thanking you. I think……..
As I have gone to get coffee,
And with my bike helmet on,
I can not argue any points,
And get to work in no hurry.
I’m too tired from my conference this weak.
😊
Thanks Jenny and Forrest. Argue has a root word of chatter. And point root word means prick. I know there is a term in geology called chatter marks. They where made when glaciers started to recede and left chatter marks in the rocks. Usually at the end of glaciers or terminal moraines. Hmmm, very interesting.
MUD+HAP (first letter of each sentence) = Duh Map…………..solved!! You’re welcome.
P.S. I forgot to say thank you Jenny for the Weekly Words and Featured Questions. Thank you Mr. Fenn for always keeping it interesting. And thank you Inohury for asking your question.
and 14th!
From the mouth,s of babe,s.
My most embarrassing moment was when my in-laws invited us over for dinner and while at the dinner table my five year old just blurted out,” grandma,you look like a cow”. Got us all by surprise. I just wanted to die. In the next month all the skin hanging under her chin was gone. Tuck at its best. 🙂
Thanks Forrest for another Friday gathering.
Mr Fenn & Jenny, thank you. Your Friday remarks are a welcome reminder of continued interest in-all-who actively follow ttotc. I’m typically clueless about intended meanings here and appreciate others comments too. Let’s hope the mud clears, and rivers are fishable soon. When you were a teenager Mr. Fenn, would you have been guiding by this time in June? Such a wonderful family history filled with memories which have inspired so many others to make their own memories.
Early 50’s and the family is off to see some of the beautiful wonders in Seattle, Washington in our brand new Plymouth. Sweet!
After a few hours, this little one, (me), asks: ” Dad where are we going?” “Well, dear, we’re going to Seattle!” I thought about it for a bit and then replied: “Well, Dad I sure do hope Attle’s home after all this.”
Forrest called a searcher with a question on weekly words a couple months back Madam. Now he calls Inohurry dear. Yet he doesn’t know if the searchers are a man or woman. Why does he use the terms dear and madam? Interesting also is that the root word for mud is mudd as in the Mother of Vinegar. Mother, very interesting indeed??? Hmmmm
Forrest was just imitating Sherlock Holmes calling Watson “my dear”. He has had alter egos as clandestine bloggers in the past however….
-C
Sorry, death is a natural part of life – I think the window for communication has passed
Fate deals you four cards and a JOKER and YOU play wether YOU like it or not!
http://www.costume-works.com/holmes_and_watson.html
Just got out of work… Ouch. Seems like the jokes on us.
No “r”
Hello Mindy. It is true, there is no “r.” When one listens, they’ll hear “noir,” meaning black in French. Also, did you notice in the name and in Mr. Fenn’s response, there are other missing letters? There are no “I, M, and N.” In this post, “elementary” caught my eye. Still trying to figure out “point.” Perhaps a direction or peak? In Spanish, Negra means black. I don’t know if there are many Spanish names in the four states, but I would assume there are many in New Mexico. One I found is Sierra Negra. Is this a good spot to check? I have no idea. I really don’t know much of New Mexico.
This link is interesting. Also enjoyed the paintings towards the bottom, too.
http://newmexicooutdoor.com/Sierra_Negra.html
No “n” In no hury. Sumbody is taking their sweet time
Perhaps, they are a little leary of the centrifuge! 🙂
There is always the possibility that the finder, is not ready for it to end! The thrill is in the chase! !!!!!
Or maybe the finder is in a quandary over how others will react when the chase comes to an end? Just a thought.
Chesney and Inde…barring life’s obstacles, I can only guess the finder will move forward when they can or, who knows, even ASAP.
As for any other concerns…as in life…it is all in how we choose to live our lives…if with honestly, respect and humility, etc. then, that will have an effect on how others react sometimes.
Not in a hurry could mean that it is recognized that it takes time (after all I thought the chest is not in a hurry). To solve is one thing; to retrieve could be another. Perhaps others’ reactions could be interfering. Everything it good time. The solution might require patience. Besides, things that take work usually take time, too.
Previous week “sedan” get off your seat
You always seem to keep me on my toes…Mr.Fenn!!!!
Tarry scant with marvel gaze, …
Children have such wonderful perspectives
A duck is a duck!
So maybe wood is what it is and not an anology of something else? Maybe the question and answer is simply just straight logic and that’s what is needed to finish the poem IMO
This brings back memories. My first job while in high school was working at Flynns nursery in Alamogordo. He always called me “mud”. I never knew what it meant until years later. Too funny. Thanks.
Well…..
6 this year old has some insight, I’ll run the poem again past my son . 😀
Mud is made of water and earth. To dry it out you need air. That’s leaves fire, hot….
Friend
This 6 year old…..
TGIF!
Friend
Is the chase 6 years old now?
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Perhaps we should focus on the missing “X” instead of these phantom clues and hints.
Elementary colokidd, the missing X is not missing but hiding in plain sight. The siX year old daughter is in charge of it.
I guarantee you Sir, that Indulgence was not left in “Plain Sight”! There is a reason that Mr. Fenn says he views his poem as a challenge. The person who finds it is going to work for it, indeed! Not to mention, be in a very awkward and uncomfotable situation they have not been in before , to claim it. All is in my humble opinion, and with all due respect, Sir! It is Hidden Well!!!
I don’t like yo-yo’s
sometimes they don’t come back to you!
I do not argue either!
as I
(pull off into the sunset on my horse trigger)
*rules are made to be broken*
Chesney,
I am intrigued, how can you possibly guarantee something like that unless you know precisely where it’s at?
colokidd and JL…perhaps the missing “X” speaks to both the heart of the poem AND the significance of the location. If I drank beer…I would be thinking of a round of Dos Equis (smile).
Even the most interesting man in the world had a shelf life, how can that be? Stay thirsty my friends…………..
dos omegas
Alfa y Omega para ser preciso.
Ever quest….
Yikes, that sounds like the X lazy F Ranch in CO…
-C
Say that 3 times real quick and wadda u get?
Sleazy French?
Say “From there it’s..” 3 times fast and what do you get?
-C
Thanks Jenny
Thanks inohury
I have found sometimes in life the hardest questions to ask, are the ones you already have the answers for.
Sincere apologies
I hope they are excepted.
I miss the boiled water from the creek.
I was born 100 years to late.
Please don’t argue that fact.
If I was born before they invented superglue I would be happy with that.
Sounds to me “I’m Inohury that you need to put a fire under it. From reading this post and the last post it appears you need to drive your white minivan to the chest and look a round in the mud.
He may have driven a white minivan there, but wd have “not far, but too far to walk”!!!!!!
that’s for sure
first letter of each response paragraph
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hap?s=t
https://translate.google.com/#sq/en/hap
crudexample
One thing is certain. If you’re having an adventure, and there’s no mud involved, you’re not doing it right.
Stuck in the mud is like being in a pickle, no matter how you stretch it out your much better off gunning it back and forth.
6th Clue. If the end is ever drawing nigh, it can’t ever be the end.
-C
Good c all, Passenger. The possibilities are Infinite.
IMO I solved the poem months ago and then I just got carried away and crossed a line.That line is not who I am and for that I apologize to all. I wish the best to whoever finds the ending to this amazing story. For me it’s just to far to walk now…
Six years since June 24th 2010 when he started mudding the thoughts of people.
So the stirring continues as more moisture is added.Punctuation my dear Inohury. 🙂
“A friend’s six year-old daughter told me that mud can never dry because if it did it wouldn’t be mud anymore. ”
Although, on a trip to the Smithsonian yesterday, we ran across this:
http://naturalhistory.si.edu/exhibits/mud-masons/
.
Did you see Fenn inside of the airplane on Eric Sloane’s Earth Flight Environment mural there? There’s a nice rainbow in that mural.
-C
I just love these weekly words, and everyone’s comments! I thought I had made a comment the other day, but I guess it didn’t go through. My thought was that if you’re going to be waiting for the mud to dry, you’ll be waiting a very long time! Plan accordingly.
Can’t wait for my vacation! 🙂
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I shall have to up my pace and change my name.
It’s time to up the ante in this game.
Some brights minds coming together.
No wonder it feels like a fire being lit on my back side.
Time to take a ride…
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