The 9-Day Green River Adventure

I wasn't there, I simply construe

what was told to me

by Amy, Brent, Jan, and Amanda Hugh

 Anderson Bottom

Jeanette Hugh: I can see no place for the people in the canoes.

Amy Hugh: People are optional. They just float along the sides or flop anywhere along the top. I wish we would have gotten a t-cat when we took you--so much easier.

Jeanette Hugh: Maybe when I'm 100, I'll go again and we can use the t-cat.

Amy Hugh: When you're 100, we'll all be dead from air pollution and the Green River drained and sold to oil and gas following Trump's America. The Doll's Head may still be around however, there is that. . .

                                   

Doll's head from Doll's Head Island

No bugs (including mosquitoes) this year, much to their glee. Why?

  

 Purifying water system

Big Horn Mesa

  

Canyonlands

Riding the Jet Boat back.

The Duel was a great favorite of ours

when the children were growing up.

I still recite  it silently now and again -

especially  "The truth about the cat and pup
is this: The ate each other up!

(The Old Dutch Clock it told me so,

And that is how I came to know.)"

The Duel

Eugene Field

The gingham dog and the calico cat

Side by side on the table sat;

‘T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!)

Nor one nor t’ other had slept a wink!

      The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate

      Appeared to know as sure as fate

There was going to be a terrible spat.

            (I was n’t there; I simply state

            What was told to me by the Chinese plate!)

The gingham dog went “Bow-wow-wow!”

And the calico cat replied “Mee-ow!”

The air was littered, an hour or so,

With bits of gingham and calico,

      While the old Dutch clock in the chimney-place

      Up with its hands before its face,

For it always dreaded a family row!

            (Now mind: I’m only telling you

            What the old Dutch clock declares is true!)

The Chinese plate looked very blue,

And wailed, “Oh, dear! what shall we do!”

But the gingham dog and the calico cat

Wallowed this way and tumbled that,

      Employing every tooth and claw

      In the awfullest way you ever saw—

And, oh! how the gingham and calico flew!

            (Don’t fancy I exaggerate—

            I got my news from the Chinese plate!)

Next morning, where the two had sat

They found no trace of dog or cat;

And some folks think unto this day

That burglars stole that pair away!

      But the truth about the cat and pup

      Is this: they ate each other up!

Now what do you really think of that!

            (The old Dutch clock it told me so,

            And that is how I came to know.)