Bruce,

PJ welcomed me to a "regional" QJ chapter meeting nearly two years ago with a bagpipe solo serenade.  It was as fine a performance as anyone in the North Country could ever hope to hear.

The man is a true professional & artist with the pipes.

Sure, I give him a lot of crap about the occasional pig-strangling sound qualities of those pipes in general (in the hands of an amateur) AND of their serving double-duty providing a "sonic cone of protection" against bears, bugs, & such.  Nevertheless, I fairly often DO think about something PJ posted, many moons ago.  In that post, PJ set up an intriguing Quetico fantasy scene at twilight.  He asked us to imagine the somber, wavering chords of "Amazing Grace", reverberating across the waters in evening stillness as the sun went down.

IMHO, there could be no more fitting way to end a first day of Jamboree than to hear him play that tune.  

In fact, I hope my kids hire the guy to do JUST THAT when they scatter my ashes over Cirrus Lake (somewhere west of the birch bark beetle "infestation" area, of course).  They would be doing us BOTH a big favor.

PJ has always DREAMED of writing off Quetico as a "business trip"....

Jimbo   8)