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)