Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Day 3664: A pumpkin boat and tubing.

  

 

"Invasion": junk mail collage, digital.




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A Nebraska man paddled 38 miles down the Missouri River on Saturday in a "boat" made from a hollowed out pumpkin to celebrate his 60th birthday and set a Guinness World Record.


Duane Hansen set out from the public boat docks in Bellevue, Nebraska, at about 7:30 a.m. in the 846-pound pumpkin and arrived in Nebraska City just after 6:30 p.m., according to a post on the City of Bellevue's Facebook page. Hansen had asked Bellevue city officials to serve as witnesses for his record-setting attempt.
 


 
"They say if you stay in your job long enough you might see just about everything and this morning was one of those days!," a city witness said in the Facebook post.
 
 
Mr. Hansen is a long time Nebraska resident who enjoys growing large pumpkins, gourds and other vegetables as a hobby. He came up with this idea when visiting Ohio and seeing another person attempt to set this record which is currently right around 30 miles. Seems like a unique if not slightly crazy 😂way to celebrate his 60th birthday, which was yesterday.
  



 
Howdy from Henderson, NV
 
 
 
The foursome got off the ship today and went river tubing in Seven Color Lagoon and shared photos.
 

To be continued.


 
 
 
A   3-minute video, skating on  ice!here.


 
Just because ...
 
 
Athletic pigeon


 


Smiles for Wednesday ...
 
 

 
 

  
 


 






 
 
 

                             Thanks for coming by today

6 comments:

john said...

Wow! I was recently looking at a map of the Ukrainian/Russian war and who occupied what area. Your piece is a great abstraction of that map. I do not know if that was your thought process….just my interpretation. Probably the white dotted arrow helped with that interpretation. :-)

jacki long said...

Thanks, John. Sometimes I take an old piece and play with it to make it new, this was was an as is. It seemed to convey what I wanted?

elenor said...

You do have it quite hot there. This year we had as many days with temperatures over 90 F as never before. Today it was 73 F and finally raining which is much needed.
Loved your collage, Jacki!

jacki long said...

Thank you Elenor!
Yes it is hotter everywhere it seems. Luckily we have a/c here.
Nevada is known to be hot, though it can snow in the winter.

Irene said...

You do it so well!

jacki long said...

Thanks, Irene, that means so much to me, coming from you.
I don't know that it justifies two+ hours a day,
but it does keep me on duty and showing up?