2020 Mississippi River Rendevous - Cancelled

[HABBERDABBER]

Originally Posted by fudge_brownie

I like it. What if one were a wine drinker like myself?

Those 750ml bottles come in a bit different sizes (I know because they do not play nicely when I put them in my wine refrigerator).

Ahoy, Paul,
We'll need a Zoom consultation to determine your preferred layout, accoutrements, bottle sizes and desired accessories for this useful & necessary appliance.


With luck, we can get into a spat about trifles & details, just like with my previous client. I'll get my gnomes working the task ASAP. Next year, you'll be graced with the 2021 Mississippi Rendezvous "Cheesy Windsor Wine" tray, in thanks for yours & Janet's efforts.


Send me a CAD drawing, if you please, of this contraption you're envisioning, so I can study it in depth. I'll cobble something together; you can be sure.



bon voyage,

[HABBERDABBER]

I was planning on leaving yesterday and visiting with old friends along the way.

Alas, I had the pleasure of having an emergency root canal yesterday. Still drooling and smarting, but time heals most things, I trust. Weather looks to be downright HOT this week.



Look me up in site #43 if you want some golf-ball sized tomatoes. I got a bucket load.

[1Oldman]

Originally Posted by HABBERDABBER

I was planning on leaving yesterday and visiting with old friends along the way.

Alas, I had the pleasure of having an emergency root canal yesterday. Still drooling and smarting, but time heals most things, I trust. Weather looks to be downright HOT this week.



Look me up in site #43 if you want some golf-ball sized tomatoes. I got a bucket load.

A few of us are beginning to appear on their sites. Water levels are down and no wading between sites is needed. See you soon.
Enjoy soft food on the drive here. 😉

Dan

[LuGreen]

We won’t be joining you this year after all. Hope to join up next year though...

[Iowa Dave]

Hello Habberdabber
Eagerly awaiting our next meeting. If you get a chance could you pick up
Some high grade furniture polish and replace the Pledge. I got nothing against Pledge but such a fine furniture accessory certainly deserves the best polish on the market
Iowa Dave

[HABBERDABBER]

Ship me the polish of your choice. No C.O.D.'s deliveries accepted.

Swell weather here at the non-rendezvous. Maybe a dozen Escapes; we dearly miss the rest of the contingent.
Next year.....I trust.

[mtnest]

Glad you got there, Tom. What great weather to be camped beside the river. Meg and I would like to be there with you all. Fingers crossed for next year.
-Tom

[Steven M]

A Friday night sunset over the Mississippi River. And not a drop of rain.

[Iowa Dave]

Nice photo Steven. We will be there next year and maybe we will be able to celebrate.
Iowa Dave

[debcost]

Thank you to everyone at Thomson ACOE for allowing me to view your Escapes. Hopefully I’ll be joining you someday.

[Mary O]

Deb, it's always good to meet new friends.

[HABBERDABBER]

When, OH WHEN? will the folks hoping for an Escape 23, or MEGA 26, or.... bigger ....see the light?


At Thomson COE campground, this rig showed up. I did speak with the builder. He was fixing on building a longer rig in a couple of years, by 6 more feet, in length, thankfully, not in height. Wisely, he was deleting the loft. This rig can be a bit too tall in some locales, and a potential problem in crosswind trailering. He HAS to think in 3D when moving down the long, lonesome byway.



I mentioned the "back porch" as a tad bit impractical. He agreed. It has never been used as intended or envisioned.



I get it. Build and learn. The builder of this rig did everything...welded & made the trailer frame and the rest of it from the frame on up from there.



The "Mark 2.1" version will be better, no doubt. No loft in that one, as he indicated.


In fairness, they were pretty local folks, living near Clinton, IA, just across the Mississippi River from this cancelled rendezvous. Winds did pick up to 30 mph plus around the time they were there and leaving, but he did have a big, bad Boy RAM truck for towing.


I have sunset images, similar to Stevens, but I reckoned this one might be of more interest to YOU 26' hopefuls.

[Iowa Dave]

Hi Tom
That’s quite a rig. I know a fellow who built something similar and he uses it in the late fall and early winter for a fairly unknown practice called “state hopping”. It is the practice by “long liner” coyote, bobcat, fox trappers who follow priming fur from say North or South Dakota then down into Nebraska and Kansas and finally Texas and or Mew Mexico and Arizona. He calls it “The trappin cabin.” Then there’s the guys who get double duty out of those fancy ice fishing houses. With the hydraulic wheel mounts on the axles. You’ll see them in campgrounds once in a while.
Iowa Dave

[HABBERDABBER]

'Da 'ya use it for ice fishing? Naw, he said. But he sure could. Catch 'dem lunkers....perched right off 'da back porch, tipping a brewski or something !


Now......'dat would be HEAVEN!


But alas, I'd rather be poked in my eye with a sharp stick.....than go fishing. That's just me.

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by HABBERDABBER

'Da 'ya use it for ice fishing? Naw, he said. But he sure could. Catch 'dem lunkers....perched right off 'da back porch, tipping a brewski or something !


Now......'dat would be HEAVEN!


But alas, I'd rather be poked in my eye with a sharp stick.....than go fishing. That's just me.

Ice Fishing
Certainly not everyone’s cup of beer.
There are a number symbiotic relationships that I find pleasurable in ice fishing.
My favorite is having a warm six pack that needs cooled, just as the manual auger cuts though the ice and a SMALL hole allows a burst cold water and ice chips come up into the ice cylinder. Drop your beer in that hole and go cut the next one. Scoop the chips out
And go back to the first hole. Your beer is already cold and it’s time for a break. Going to be a good evening. Those $30,000 units are about like staying in an Escape. And all that for some 6 inch bluegills.
Iowa Dave

[HABBERDABBER]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

Ice Fishing
Certainly not everyone’s cup of beer. And all that for some 6 inch bluegills.
Iowa Dave

Exactly my point.

Poke me, ASAP in the eye, with a sharp stick, but please, not my one good eye, or my 3rd eye.

Eh. Fishing is not my forte, ice, salt or fresh water.

And so it goes.

But I sure do enjoy a fine Friday fish fry, Atlantic Cod, if you please. But even with those, it is all about the quality and style of the cole slaw.
Oh well.

But we digress, vastly.

[Iowa Dave]

If you’re on the Mississippi you are not an American if you don’t like catfish. In Wisconsin they are considered rough fish. But in Iowa, Illinois and Points South they are king.
I am a cat fisherman. I use bluegills for bait
Iowa Dave

[HABBERDABBER]

I guess I just ain't from around those American parts of the territory.

It all sounds fishy to me.


I guess I'll cut bait for now.

[Bill and Earline]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

If you’re on the Mississippi you are not an American if you don’t like catfish. In Wisconsin they are considered rough fish. But in Iowa, Illinois and Points South they are king.
I am a cat fisherman. I use bluegills for bait
Iowa Dave

Dave,
You're looking happy and healthy, not so much for your catfish. Deep fried, or broiled in butter?

Now that looks like a prosperous neighborhood, and exceptionally weed-free turf. You must have had a hand in that.
Bill

[cpaharley2008]

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