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10/20/2006: "What I Did on My Holidays"
Camping - Brother T packed up me & the family and we took off to Burrill Lake Dolphin Point, South of Ulladulla, Jewel of the South Coast, or such... This involved much setting up of such as tents, collecting of firewood and barbecuing.
There are several clickable maps here
and a super-duper zooming one here
Boating - first time I've been on the water in years! In a little 14 foot tinny - learned how to float one, and how to pull one out. Pounding across t' lake only inches from the water at a heady 8 knots! It's a crappy photo but it really did look like this - pelicans & all!
The collective noun for these birds is either a brief, a flock, a heave, a pod, a pouch, a raft, a rookery, a scoop, a squadron, a rookery - or something else...
Fishing - closely related to Boating. I watched Brother T & his daughter throw in lines and guarded the fish-finder device:
"Big black one at 18," I shouted; "little white one at 12" I whispered...
I taught Young Miss T to cast her line, then to bait her own hook; which left me relax & enjoi the tranquility. We threw back about 10 fish-tank-sized things & went in as the sun was going down.
Reading - I borrowed a copy of Sterling's The Artificial Kid and managed to get through about two pages. Still, I hadn't opened a book since that wonderful sprawling epic Los Gusanos...
Sleeping - how I love to sleep! One avoids the commotion & squabbling of the morning and emerges refreshed in time for breakfast and the first tasty beverage of the day! I had gone out & purchased 6' x 3' foam mattresses for everyone, which kept us all warm, dry and comfortable, and we all slept like logs. I am seriously considering replacing the Rectory futon with a slab of this stuff! More importantly, it harkened me back to my time in The Land of the Chrysanthemum Throne!
Guitaring - Brother D came down on Saturday & we hooked up for the night. He had a Yamaha G-100A & a fine finger-picking style. I can never play after I've had a few drinks & looked quite foolish...
Relaxing - lounging in a slightly wing-backed chair, tasty beverage in hand, surrounded by trees replete with attendant songbirds - it's goo to get back to Nature!
didn't look a thing like this though...
lerevdr on Fri 20-Oct-2006 @ 22:48 e.s.t [permalink]
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On Monday, October 23rd, at 16:06 e.s.t, Marvin T. Pringle said:
Sirs,
I am an attorney representing the Hallmark Card Co.
Would you mind stepping over here for a moment...
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On Monday, October 23rd, at 22:35 e.s.t, Le Rev Dr said:
Sir, surely this is out of copyright..?
A famous limerick about the pelican is often erroneously attributed to Edward Lear or to a more modern poet, Ogden Nash. But The Pelican was actually written in 1910 by Dixon Lanier Merritt (a Southern newspaper editor and President of the American Press Humorists Association):
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I’m damned if I see how the helican.
I thought 'twas one o' Milligans.
Blessings!
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