Re: [Paddlewise] Speed of Touring Kayaks

From: Mark Zen <canoeist_at_netbox.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:05:35 -0700 (MST)
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

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Thu Aug 21 2025 - 16:29:52 PDT