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...
She's like a supervillain.
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ReplyDeleteOnly because I can't tell what her superpower might be from the video.
ReplyDeleteI'm assuming it's some kind of mind-destroying ray from her eyes but she never deploys it.
As someone who organizes other people for a living, this is like pornography to me.
ReplyDeleteThe one in the video is an actress. Still pretty entertaining.
ReplyDeletePaul V. aw seriously? That's too bad. She's excellent.
ReplyDeleteHer super power is putting on the greatest thanksgiving ever if only Lisa and Amy would contribute at the adult level.
ReplyDeleteActually I could totally sympathize with that point. I've had this done to us by younger family who were accustomed to skating by.
ReplyDeleteThat t shirt would not be Marney approved, since the casserole depicted is not stackable!
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