Open Mic at The Foundry: Sept. 12/26

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I sang 3 Blue Rodeos and one Dylan:

Hasn’t Hit Me Yet,
Bad Timing,
Lost Together, and
Make You Feel My Love.

Highlight: Reaction to “Lake Ontario”.

Open Mic at Lakehead Beer: Sept. 10/26

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I sang Blue Rodeo songs:

Hasn't Hit Me Yet ("Lake Ont-aaaaaario!!"),
Bad Timing, and
Lost Together.

Highlights:

Audience member spontaneously joining me on "Lost Together",
Child stand-up comedian,
Logan's fingerpicking in "Big Love" (Buckingham),
Tash (first timer), and
Lots of chances to play harmonica, including on "Danny's Song" (Loggins) (pictured).

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Campfire o' Friends: Sept. 6/26

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I sang:

I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You (Creatore/Weiss),
The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Solomon Linda/The Tokens),
Don’t Be Afraid (Pepper),
Make You Feel My Love (Dylan),
Folsom Prison Blues (Cash),
What a Wonderful World (Theile/Weiss), and
I Will (Lennon/MCCARTNEY).

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Food Day at FWHP: Sept. 6/26

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Lawrence Road Song Circle: Sept. 5/26

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Organized that day. I sang:

Helpless (Young),
It Hasn't Hit Me Yet (Keelor/Cuddy),
Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan),
At This Moment (Vera),
The Biggest Toy (Pepper),
Bird On the Wire (Cohen),
One (Cohen), and
'69 - '74

Review: "That song ('69 - '74) has a lot of words." - One of the guys who left for the washroom partway through, and on return, I was still singing.

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Bike Ride: Sept. 1/26

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Marks, Walsh, Alma Adair Park, Ford, Isabella, Victoria, Neebing River path, James, Edward, Woodlawn, Wiltshire, Westminster, Westbury, Churchill, Ford, Neebing River path, Tarbutt, IFG, Victoria, Selkirk, Walsh, Marks.

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Lawrence Road Song Circle: Aug. 29/26

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I sang:

Three Little Birds/Rivers of Babylon (Marley/Dowe/Farian/Reyam/McNaughton),
9 to 5 (Parton) (twice!!),
I Threw It All Away (Dylan),
Don't Be Afraid (Pepper),
Monsters In the Sky (Pepper),
Make You Feel My Love (Dylan),
Eight Days a Week (Lennon/McCartney),
If I Had a Hammer (Seeger/Hays),
I'm Too Old (For the NHL) (Pepper),
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Kennedy/Simon), and
Hurtin' Unit Blues (Pepper).

Actually, because it was a song circle, I sang & played along with almost all the other singers, and they with me.

Highlights: The people beside me harmonizing along with Don't Be Afraid, even though it was new to them.

Other instrumentalists, esp. Frank's harmonica and Barb's flute.

Picture by Larry Dustin, who invited me & MCed. Thank you.

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Open Mic at Lakehead Beer: Aug. 27/26

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Last night (Aug. 27/26) at Lakehead Beer Open Mic I sang some country songs:

9 to 5 (Parton)*,
Hey Good Lookin'/Jambalaya (Williams Sr.), and
King of the Road (Stevens).
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Folsom Prison Blues (Cash), and
Roseville Fair (Staines).

* with April. Thank you.

Review:
"Great job!" - Ryan McD
"Great job!" - Cale
"Great jorb!" - Coach Z (hypothetically)

Pictured: David and Peter. The latter is from Australia & has lived here 12 months so far.

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Country Marriage at FWHP: Aug. 27/26

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Mr. McKenzie is being sent back to Montreal to live in luxury, but Mrs. McKenzie, whose home is the interior where they met, does not want to go. They argued in a restrained manner before an audience, and then she marched out of the Great Hall into the rain.

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Goo and T Birthday: Aug. 21/26

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Fort with Goo, chips, salsa & Coke with K, Tam etc.; pizza, mac salad, cake & prezzies with all plus Aunt S & A, Gramma B, and 2 friends:

Played in the fort with M; chips, salsa & Coke with K,M,A,Tam,Gramma Bev; pizza, mac salad, cake & prezzies with all plus Aunt S & A plus 2 adult friends.

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Open Mic at Lakehead Beer: Aug. 20/26

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I sang songs in D I had sung at MPC:

Here By the Water (Croegart)
It’s a Beautiful Day (Jermaine), and
I Can’t Help Falling in Love With You (Peretti/Creatore/Weiss).

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Not sung at camp: Don’t Be Afraid (Pepper).

Highlights: Jaedon on violin.
Visiting with the Norrises from the 80s ISCF days.

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Supper With Family: Aug. 20/26

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Pigs at Old Fort: Aug. 17/26

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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

2025 Staff

2026 Staff

2026 Jesse Matthies Memorial / Fundraiser for Jesse's Place

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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:

2025 Self-Made Staff shirt

2026 (No Self-Made Staff shirts, except by LITs)

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Early 80's

It even still fits perfectly!!

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