Magic -

Glad to hear you might be attending this gathering of the brethren!  For that matter, I was also glad to learn about Pghportager & the half-dozen suckers - er, bushwhackers - that HE will be conning into this hootenannie, too.

Ok.  HoHo has the pink flamingo thing figured out... almost.  

At one point or another on this or that thread, we got to talking about "missing items" around the USA that might mysteriously re-appear up in Stumpy's marshlands.  Numerous such items were mentioned.  I simply observed something about "reports of Pink Flamingos" being stolen from "this neck of the woods".  A notorious instigator/troublemaker - either Old_Salt or YB or someone of similar ilk - THEN came out quoting me & adding some kind of crack like:

         "Neck of woods = Jimbo's back yard".

Since then, everybody & his brother has put me on a great safari to retrieve Minnesota's lost Pink Flamingo Flock, allegedly belonging to me & currently roosting somewhere near the Chub Pond.

Anywho, that's a loose derivation of this particular pointless "legend".

The Old_Salt Shrine, to be constructed up on Jimboree Lake, equally pointless, shall honor his holy quest in some simple(minded) manner, not yet disclosed to the general public (probably because I haven't entirely thunk it up yet).

However, now that I AM thinking, I'm thinking Message Cairns & Olive Jars.  [Yeah, that's the ticket!  Message cairn!]

THINK FAMILY-ORIENTED FUN & JAMBOREE (WHICH, BY THE WAY, IS ONLY 97.25 DAYS AWAY)!  COME ONE, COME ALL, OR... SIMPLY SEND ME SOME MESSAGES TO BE TUCKED AWAY IN THE (northern) CHUB POND MESSAGE CAIRN FOR ALL POSTERITY TO SEE!  SAY WHAT YOU WANT ABOUT OLD_SALT OR STUMPY, WE WON'T CARE!

Jimbo   8)