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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Classic Boys Camp at Manitoba Pioneer Camp: Aug. 3 - 17/24

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Playlist of MPC 2024 videos (beginning with a brief one from the Spring Celebration in Winnipeg in March)

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Sat., Aug. 3 Highlights: Drove to MPC. Boys Camp Mtg led by Grader (BCD) & Bugsy (PD). Supper, sat with Regehrs & Trevor D. LIT Welcome, T-Shirt Making.

A young lady staff member (LIT?) was on the cabin line with her mother (moving out?), and she spontaneously gave me this four leaf clover:

Temp (Troy) whetting his knife:

Shared #13 with Apollo & Sterling for one night, because #11 was still occupied.

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Sun., Aug.4 Highlights: Chapel, moved to #11, Boys Camp Meeting, campers arrived (rotations done during EP time). "The Magical Fish" at Songs & Stories. Songs led by Temp unless otherwise stated. All stories read by Grader.

My arrival & camper arrival:

The Losing and Finding of Boys Camp: a rather long skit, but included here because "Peps" as a character was portrayed by Farman:

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Mon., Aug. 5 Highlights: First Holy Grail Table Talk, Bible Study prep during Boats Out, visited Music Club, first Bible Study (led songs for Int & Jr.), Royal Roll, "The King's Song" at Songs & Stories.

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Tue., Aug. 6

I caught a fair-sized walleye (released it, of course):

Drove camper along with Levi M to Kenora Hospital for a tetanus shot. Back at the end of supper (chili).

EP: Markers, Story: The Sleeping Bread.

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Wed., Aug. 7 Highlights: Played harmonica in "Knights of the Round Table", visited Sully's Theatre Club, led Little Cabin after lunch, EP: Flamethrowers(?), led songs in S & S, which story?

The Knights of the Round Table:

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Thu., Aug. 8 Highlights: Olympics, Olympic-themed Banquet (which also functioned as EP), Bone Button Borscht, Boys Two Candlelight

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Fri., Aug. 9 Highlights: Bugawump nest in playing field, Boys Two campers left, EP: Phobia, led songs for S & S, which story?.

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Sat., Aug. 10 Highlights: Pike took my lure and leader (morning), pike broke hook (evening), led Bible Study prep in Temp's absence, EP: Kick the Can, led songs for S & S, The Wemiks.

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Sun., Aug. 11 Highlights: Chapel (harmonica), led the Juicy Moose after lunch, led Bible Study prep, Olympics, joined in Evening Dip, The Emperor's New Clothes.

Misc. #1 Video, including waiting for chapel to begin:

An embarrassingly small fish:

Clues to the Bugawump Mystery:

This appears to be the only Christmas mug left:

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Mon., Aug. 12 Highlights: I think this was the day I led Juniors only singing & they were very enthusiastic, guitar on Sundeck with Senior Camper A..., Dido's Head-Shave, LOTR Heart of Darkness, almost had pike in net, led S & S, The Ragman.

Barrett as Gollum in LOTR Heart of Darkness Skit:

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Tue., Aug. 13 Highlights: Senior Day (after Juniors left), annual catch-up chat with Pam by Waterfront, met with Pete in Staff 1, to landing with Pete to put laundry in van, he was picking up Cindy & training Hailey, saw bear on the way there.

The clues come together:

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Wed., Aug. 14 Highlights: Bugsy caught in the Bugawump trap (which was assembled during EP), The Happy Prince.

Even punier (the fish):

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Thu., Aug. 15 Highlights: Coffee w Pete in D.Hall after Staff Devos, Puzzles With Peps, Robot Bugsy at lunch, rescued and cured him, Western Banquet, final scores & snacks, Candlelight.

Playlist of the Mystery of the Bugawump:

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Fri., Aug. 16 Highlights: LIT Prank (outdoor breakfast), campers leave, Clean-Up Draft (I was drafted 2nd last, but then traded for by the Dining Hall team), Nachos & Debrief.

Misc. #4 video, includes outdoor breakfast:

This was fish was not a bad size, but still not a pike:

Camper departure and mine:

The waterfront Friday night:

I left before breakfast Sat. Aug. 17.

This is why pike approve of my buying lures from Dollarama:

Four times I had a pike on my lure close enough for me to see it, but each time they got away.

The purple canoe is "Grace" a cedar strip being refurbished by Olivia K. and her gang:

Changes Observed at MPC in 2024:

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One thing I did NOT do this year was walk the Island Trail. I was fighting plantar faciitis in my left foot the whole time & so attempting the trail just seemed like foolishness. Maybe next year.

MPC DYI staff shirt 2024. 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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