Yah.. look closely... There is a Flamingo lurking up there...

One of the two Flamingo's (The proud one) riding along in the bow of my boat is now stuck in the dirt next to the rock garden out back at the end of Fernberg.  I double checked on my last visit last week to see if it had not flown south. It had not of yet. The other (The Shy one) rode home with me, lost one of it's eyes somehow and still hasn't ventured out of the house as of yet.  I need to fix that.  Any-one know where to find a Flamingo Eye Doctor?

I did hear a new add recently.  Something about Voo Doo DR. Jimbo Rap Cure All.  Or is this something thousand of bug bites will take care of.  Enough of those little things and the big things don't matter anymore?  

Small Tid Bit for yah.  Stumps won't wear bug dope.  Now does this bring eventual imunity or is it just plain insain?

I'm only asking.

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I just had to add this photo to this thread.  The photo is a nice shot however there appears to be something unusual within it's contents.  I think the shadow in the front of the canoe is a dead give away.  Some birds fly north in the summer then back south in the winter. But this bird is just in for the ride.   Pink is just one of those colors you just don't see that often in the northwoods.  And when you do, you know, Jimbo had something to do with it.
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pennpaddler,

Why not?

This year I hauled a dozen large lawn ornaments across every godforsaken wet & ugly portage to be found on Cutty Creek. How much more trouble can it possibly be to drag around a basketball, the  backboard, a rim, & a bucket of paint (to do the foul line, sidelines & such)?  Heck, why not make it TWO of them?  That way we can run full court... you young bucks against me, Stumpy, & all the old codgers who limp their way into whatever tick-infested hole-in-the-hole that you guys pick for your next event.

We may be old but we're slow.

penn, I'm sure as heck glad I didn't challenge you to a stock car race!

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YB -

Seems to me the Bannock Bird Hat would be a good "conversation piece" & sure-fire way to meet strangers out there in the Park. 

FWIW, my son agrees with me on this point (to the extent that those I meet would be very "strange" indeed... most likely "aliens", outer space aliens).

He, too, refuses to get into the canoe with me IF I wear the Bannock Bird Hat.

Party-poopers!!!

Jimbo   8)

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Are you serious Jimbo?  For next year?  I thought you had a group trip in mind, but hey, maybe solo is your thing . . .

If anybody has a reason to sport one of those hats, it would be Pascannel.

And DD, you might not want to say too much about your "problem" with pink.  You have to sleep sometime you know.  It might be a humbling experience to thumb a ride out of the park vs. paddling out a pink canoe.

-YB

Ok, Jimbo

you're on, basketball that is....

Since we get to pick the place, I guess you have to bring the ball and hoop.

I figure if a moose can get through those woods you should be able to get a backboard through......

This is what you meant, right?

Now if I can just find that lake with a fair sized flat surface for the court......we will know where jamboree 2010 will be.

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Stumpy,

I am sure you never heard ME say anything about being too old anytime this side of the year 2025.   [Even then, by that time I should have my sons trained-up well enough to "assist" with the tougher portages & bushwhacks!]

The way I look at it, it comes down to desire & know-how.  Like I've said before, pghportager, hex, pennpaddler & the boys got to Sucker Lake by virtue of their smarts, not their obvious youth.  I'll pit my daily exercise routine OR play one-on-one basketball (alas, I no longer dunk) against any of them or ANYBODY on this board on a wager (one case, beverage of choice).  Nevertheless, THOSE GUYS made it to the goal and I did not.  My assessment?  They were motivated & prepared.  I was not.

What pghportager & Snow_Dog have both said about Jimboree taking some of the "reward" out of Jamboree is quite true & very insightful... at least for me.  The "risk" somehow seemed less worth it AFTER Jimboree.  Indeed, hex & the boys were working off of a different equation.  This includes coming in with confidence gained from past orienteering experience & similar ventures.   

Their achievement is inspiring... MAYBE enough so that I will look at my equation differently next time.

Then, again, maybe NOT.  Sometimes the risks seem really daunting.  Consider....

Does anyone know if they've found the body yet of that experienced but presumably hypothermic hiker/camper whose clothes were abandoned?  Also, how about that kid who found his father unconscious (bad staff infection) and had to get him into their canoe & paddle most of a day in order to find help just in the nick of time?  Both of these events happened around the same week as Jamboree (the first in the Park & the other not so far away).

Or, suppose I'm in a party with a guy who has just hurt his back pretty bad??  Do I risk moving on?

What I do is: I look my paddling partner in the eye, I gauge what I feel from that connection, & then I decide.  It is very much a "real-time" versus a "pre-meditated" thing.  Stumpy, YOU must have gone through a very similar exercise, I'm sure.

Anyhow, this is all just "talk" (albeit fun talk) at this point.  The guys who "made it" inspire us to shoot for a goal.  Many of us will, I'm sure.   However, I, for one, won't know if I'll make it to the next Jamboree until the moment I arrive.

Later,

Jimbo   8)

Call it something else if you meet every year....The Bushwhackers Jamboree (meeting of the BUGBIT club (which I'm not even a member of yet) ), was suposed to be every 5 years....That's how I laid it out, over 4 years ago..the wait is good.

But who the hell am I.... ???

Stumps

Get off your arse?  Twas a great plan.

I'm 44 and had the tar whooped out of me by better men (and gals) this year, but I learned.  You folks keep me younger than others but with improvement required.

This is a unique thing and should be pursued more often than every five years.  I'm up for it again..even if I fail again.

See you next year?  Hex decides?  Spose that would be correct, providing time permits.

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Yep,....That would've been me......ARRRRGGG !

I feel like the band and/or ring bearer that did'nt show up for the wedding.

I had lots of plans....forming a secret society (BUG-BIT Club), and such....etc, etc,......Now, I don't know if I have any say left in this thing that I started....?

But here's my advise....
Pick a lake and 2 nights for June 2010.
Don't reveal them until December 7th (easy date to remember) 2009.
See you there...........this time (honest Injun)


And to those who think they're getting too old to make it (Jimbo, DD, Natty, etc...)....Team up with me (only if you're committed), I'll be going on 50, and the Over The Hill Gang will charge into Bushwhackers Jamboree 2010* with canoes ablazing. I'll get that Grumman to any lake they pick this time !......God help me, so far I'm all talk

    * Might as well go back to calling it a "Jamboree" since my fears of a BIG "party" out in the woods were obviously unfounded.