Gift wrap

Happy Anniversary to  you both , a toast to you.

Badeye     

Happy anniversary to you and wife Zurf! Funny I always imagined you as more folk or country...Never thought I'd hear of you rapping

Happy Anniversary to  you both. It takes a real man to use a 3'' tape gun. I have yet to pass my test on the 2'' model.

Have a great  anniversay Zurf,

Presents from the heart dont need wrapping . Heres a link to a song i used to sing a lont time ago now.
Your post reminded me of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wANfZoE5x_I

Old Doll.

I used to run a warehouse, so I've used all manner of tape guns.  The ones that always drove me crazy were the wide Mobil wrap guns.  Some of those went 12" wide.  There were bigger ones, but I didn't use them. 

Thanks all for your well wishes.  She's quite a lady.

Did the gift go down well?

Hi Zurf,

I have been accessing Chordie for approximately 2 years, and I have finally taken the plunge, and signed on.  I play guitar in a band called Pales by Comparison.  We are comprised of a ragtag bunch of guys in their 50's, who once upon time played loud and proud, and now are in search of the perfect sound, accentuating every wee nuance.  It's not that we are trying to rediscover our youth, but rather take great pleasure in playing every opportunity we get.

As you are a regular contributor to the Forum, I have always enjoyed your thoughts on a multitude of various subject matter.  I think your gift to the family of a GPS and its' application for Geocaching is brilliant.  The same lads (for the most part) that I play music with, are the same lads I do extensive paddling with in Canada.  Last year we marked 25 years together of paddling, drinking & critiquing single malts, laughing, utter silliness, and supporting one another.  Two of my friends date back to my formative years as a young child, and have been friends for almost 50 years.

You might wander why I am rambling on?  Well, on all our canoe trips we started a tradition that began in our very first year.  We have hidden a time capsule (large olive barrel - readily available at most Italian specialty stores) all over the wilds of Canada.  Each year every one puts inside the barrel something of heartfelt value that has deep meaning to themselves.  In addition we insert a fine bottle of single malt.

This past year the quest was to locate our first time capsule from 25 years ago.  After much searching, we unearthed the capsule and cast our eyes on the contents.  Nothing bonds friendship more than time.  The bottle of single malt disappeared after several toastings, and the friendship lives on.

I suggest that your family put together a time capsule and mark the way points on your GPS, and decide upon a time in the future that someday, you may wish to retrieve it.  Guaranteed there will be tears and laughter.

May the music flow forever through your veins, if not your brains.

Marc, of Pales by Comparison
From: Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
Posts: 1

Well, this has been interesting.  Topdown's into geocaching already, which is cool.  And how about Pales by Comparison?  What a kind and generous message!  Thank you, sir.  I'm completely honored that such a kind message would be your first and directed towards me.  I'm a paddler too, though I don't paddle with my youthful friends.  Your trips sound familiar to my long West Virginia weekends alongside the mythic New River. 

Curiously, I do have plans to get together with my youthful river rat friends over the winter and build a cardboard/duct tape canoe for us to enter into a specialty race next summer.  I wonder how terrible we will be - three paddlers in a homebuilt boat permitted to be made only of duct tape and cardboard.  Of the three of us, I think I am the only one to have been in a canoe in the past twenty years and I almost always solo - even in my enormous 17' Esquif Cargo (I put oars on it to make it easier).  One of the guys unearthed from his scrapbooks a picture of us in a homemade boat race back to when I was in the eighth grade and they in the ninth.  We are now in our mid-40's!  Three decades of silliness and fun (and a few somber occaisions as well).  I suspect there will be a little bit of whiskey consumed during the preparations of the cardboard canoe, though we prefer our whiskey with an "e" in it (bourbon) rather than Scotch whisky.  What do you expect from the grandson of a moonshiner? 

Anyway, here we all are paddlers, hikers, geocachers, and musicians, finding one another across state and even national borders to gab away. 

I love the family time capsule concept.  I will discuss it with my wife. 

- Zurf

Congratulations, Zurf and the wishes for many more anniversaries to come!