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Ok, so we all know the Toronto bluebirds are playing in the special baseball series or whatever it is - and between the silly games and your addiction to the Circus (which I recognize is a terribly disturbing and distracting clown show at the moment) I understand that your attention is...

Love the guerrilla tape patch job. Glad to see that’s an internationally known solution!

It's certainly an acquired taste. Luckily, my mentors instilled the crack-of-noon paddling discipline into me in my formative years, so Recped and I jived at first blush. Been duck-soup since...

Ditto. Definitely looking forward to hearing about more Megiscane misadventures!

Ah, well. Perhaps best left to our imaginations…

No pictures of the two jet skiers….???

In Maine, you only have to register a boat (of any kind) if you are putting an engine on it. It's like a license plate - they want to be able to id the person who was being irresponsible with the motorized craft. Hard to be much of a danger in a canoe. I certainly never registered a...

Me and Duke in his prime - on the St John 2006, Bonaventure 2007, New River Gorge 2007

If they send you the serial #, the last two digits will be the year it was produced, and you could probably determine the model with a little research. I'd ask for pictures of the boat sitting right side up, and ask for shots of the hull's interior. It looks like a royalex Tripper, and if so...

Just finished Is A River Alive? , recently published by Robert Macfarlane. He seeks to answer the title’s question from a philosophical perspective by traveling to rivers in Ecuador, India, and Quebec and immersing himself in three different rivers’ stories. Fascinating & thoroughly enjoyable...

Have always just stirred coffee into a pot of boiling water, let it steep a few minutes, then thump the pot on the ground, give it a minute to settle, and its coffee. Simple as can be.

Food is love, brother.

You could have boiled the bird carcass down and made a nice chicken soup stock to go with the tiny ziploc bag of pasta I'm sure was floating around in your supplies...

The St Croix is bumpy - lots of rock dodging. But a 'long' rapid there is maybe 100m - not very long, and it's typically pretty shallow, and barely classifies as C2 water. I suspect the head injury was the culprit.

Clocks, schedules, timetables.... Recped dismissed all such nuisances once he had his chicken and apple pie in hand.