Gloves Off: Aug. 20/24

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Bike Ride: Aug. 29/24

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Bike Ride Aug. 29/24: Marks, Walsh, Selkirk, Victoria, Int'l Friendship Gardens, Chapple's, Ford path, Con College, LU, Oliver, Machar, Wilson, Court, Pearl (to do vacuuming for Gathering Table Church), then down to the very empty Marina Park. Back home via Pearl, Court, John, Oliver, High, Beverly, Winnipeg, Dog Walk Path, 8th, Carrick, path, May, William, Syndicate, Northern, Vickers, Walsh, Marks.

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Goo Birthday: Aug. 25/24

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Make-believe games with M in back yard, E's Loki drawing, tried bum drops (bumped heads with M), chips, veggies & dip, pizza & cake, gave M Dino card game, bubble blaster, pencils (& E. pad & pencils).

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Open Mic at Lakehead Beer: Aug. 22/24

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My theme was Beatles songs I sing in C, even though they weren't originally in that key:

I Will, Yesterday & Ob-la-di Ob-la-da.

Highlights:
John P-W's daughter & niece singing "Flowers".
The return of Bernie!!

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Cambrian Players' Open House: Wed. Aug. 21/24

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I sang:

Cal(i)purnia's Dreamin' (my parody)
Three Little Birds/River of Babylon (Marley/Dowe/Farian/Reyam/McNaughton)),
Make You Feel My Love (Dylan),
My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors (Moxy Fruvous),
Friends Theme/Smelly Cat,
Happy Together (Bonner/Gordon),
Bird On the Wire (Cohen),
Yesterday (Lennon/MCCARTNEY),
Eight Days a Week (Lennon/McCartney),
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life (Idle), and
Farewell Shanty (verse 1).

Review: "My mother liked your music." - Cheryl S.

Photo: Thomas McDonald

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Evil Odometer: Aug. 21/24

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Visit With P-W Fam: Aug. 18/24

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M drawing triangles in school book, timeout, videos, E's Stylusphone, veggie burgers in gazebo, inflatable dog with M, and making "cajita dough" with M (pictured):

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Manitoba Pioneer Camp Shirts

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Links to all my MPC Boys Camp sessions

2003

2004 Staff

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011 Staff

2012 Staff

2013 Camper

2013 Staff

2014 Camper

2015 Staff

2016 Staff

2017 Staff

2017 Camper (bought in 2018)

2018 Camper

2019 Camper

2022 Camper

2023 Camper

2024 Camper

2011 Self-Made Staff Shirt

2012 Self-Made Staff Shirt

2012 Back

2013 Self-Made Staff Shirt, complete with coffee stain

2014 Self-Made Staff Shirt ("Peps" in Greek)

2015 Self-Made Staff Shirt

2016 Self-Made Staff Shirt (using musical symbols)

Back

2017 Self-Made Staff Shirt (not my best work!)

The back has red splotches (from the front) which look like gunshot wounds!

2018 Self-Made Staff Shirt (still not my best work!!)

2018 Back

2019 Front

2019 Back

2022

2023 (No Self-Made Staff shirts)

2024 Self-Made Staff shirt: Note that we used cardboard instead of the proper stencil paper with messy results. So I used an improv principle of leaning into "mistakes" and outlined the blobs as well.

I outlined the blobs on the back as well:

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Early 80's

It even still fits perfectly!!

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