Mek & Dar's Pics: Canoeing

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Not sure where this was taken -- Sugar Creek, perhaps, in Indiana? Mom, Dad, Moss & Me (probably looking for Peerls!)

At 6:22 PM, Anonymous said...: Yup, Sugar Creek. We saw it just a few weeks ago, after all the years since the pic was taken [by Larry Hackstoff, philosophy prof who died soon after], and it seemed unsullied still. Our friends confirmed that.

Yes, it is on this river, tho 4-7 mi upstream, that the urchin here and I were canoeing, and I was totally mystified as to what on earth Mek meant by Peerls -- he was studying the bottom as I toiled upstream, hoping to spot Peerls. Finally I realized he was after oysters, which contained peerls. Readingis a great way to learn, but it is NOT the best way to learn pronunciation.