Stuff for Abby's 11th birthday, and stuff for me courtesy of Source Comics and Games.
Stuff for Abby's 11th birthday, and stuff for me courtesy of Source Comics and Games.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
They were out of Pocket Ogre when I went looking for it. Had to order straight from SJG.
ReplyDeleteDo you have an application for the military books, or just general curiosity?
They had a bunch now. Total impulse buy. I buy Osprey books when I've read the period in fiction, usually. I've read all the Aubrey and Maturin books, so I've got a bunch of Royal Navy Ospreys, and I'm reading Flashman at the Charge, hence Balaclava.
ReplyDeleteSee I was not going to prejudge and presume that the Ogre set was not for her. I was going to say you should get her the Car Wars set to go along with it.
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