On Fri, 30 Jan 1998, Larry Bliven wrote: >> >>from mark >> >>and on the non-paddling side, larry, some years ago, i picked up an >>expression of "st. bliven's day" meaning, "never" as in "i doubt i'll get >>it done before st. bliven's day" ... i picked it up from a friend, who got >>it from a grand parent... is there some kind of truth/history behind that, >>of which you are aware?? >>============== >>well mark, what can i say, >> >>st. bliven's day is news to me. however, sounds like someone could have >>been talking to my wife. i'm going paddling... painting can wait... clean >>what up? when? >> >>as for dragonflies... a few years ago while driving across the bay/bridge >>tunnel at Norfolk va, i watched a huge swarm of monarch butterflies make >>the ~25 mile open water crossing at the mouth of the chesapeake bay... does >>that count? i don't remember exacly where, but i sure remember driving my motorcycle around in north carolina, and having a dragonfly hit me in the chest, except i was wearing my dogtags, and it hit the tag. goo all over the shirt, and a big welt that looked like a dogtag [wonder why??] on my chest!! >> >>i'm still trying to have a bird land on either my canoe or kayak while >>afloat. i think that baiting them might help. anyone had success at that? >> >>bye bye bliven >> moths, bugs, a frog once, never a bird though bye bye birdie ;-) mark #------canoeist[at]netbox[dot]com-------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [\_| [\_\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.diac.com/~zen/cpr [Colorado Paddlers' Resource] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmskc [Rocky Mtn Sea Kayak Club] http://www.diac.com/~zen/rmcc [Rocky Mtn Canoe Club Trip Page] http://www.diac.com/~zen/mark [personal] -- Fortune: "You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do." *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Jan 30 1998 - 13:06:33 PST
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