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 _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
Excellent inspiration! Now I would like to know what you did in Crystal to wreck that flamingo ;-) Diane > 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. > *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
I would have told the whole story if I knew it. All I know is that I had a clean run at Crystal [as I, thankfully, have always had], surfed a few waves, peeled out into the edge of the big hole, played around in the eddies on the left side of the rapid, and when I unpacked to camp, the pink bird had its left side sitting where its middle used to be. It makes it possible to tell the two apart, and the injured one is now 20 years old, so I guess no animals were harmed in the production of this non-epic. Jim Tibensky *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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