[Paddlewise] Pink Flamingos

From: James Tibensky <jimtibensky_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 10:35:40 -0600
Is there a pink flamingo support group forming?

On my second trip through the Grand Canyon [1986] I hid one of my lawn 
flamingos [I used to always put two outside my tent when I was teaching at 
the Madawaska Kanu Centre] in my dry bag.  On about the fifth night of the 
two week trip I put one in the middle of the camp circle.  The reaction was 
worth the trouble of carrying the thing.

He [the flamingo] got his side stove in when the hull got compressed from 
something I did in Crystal, but he lives on to decorate my campsites still.

There's someone in my neighborhood, not me, who, for Christmas, puts a santa 
and sleigh on his front lawn.  The sleigh is being pulled by a bunch of 
flamingos, the first of which has his beak painted bright red.

What joy kitsch can bring!

Jim Tibensky


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