Freddie P's Blog

May 25, 2009 @ 22:42

Thanks to the shitty weather we've had this May, this was the first weekend we actually stayed at the trailer and it was productive.

I finished getting my lot in shape, and we decorated the Tiki Bar for another season. This year's most notable addition is a Blue Marlin that Dan Duran picked out of someone's garbage.

It looks like it's made of styrofoam but it's actually made of some kind of a plaster which makes it a lot heavier than you'd think. It's rather large, but it looks great.

Other than that, the Tiki Bar features the same multitude of lights hanging in basically the same places this year and although we put most of the other junk back up, there were several pieces that looked too weathered so the call has been put out for replacements.

If you're a fellow trailerite, you know the feel, so keep your eyes open for anything that will fit.

It was a gorgeous weekend, especially Sunday, so we wasted little time making our way down to the beach to play bocce. It was more or less spring training with most of the guys getting the feel for the ball and not really partaking in the usual immaturity of insulting each other through some creative trash talk.

The only real drawback to our bocce session was the goose shit. As I told you many times over the past few years, Canada Geese have invaded the Kawarthas and they're getting out of hand.

The beach was covered with crap which made me go into one of my anti-Canada goose rants. It was rather colourful and once again included my insistence that I would offer no mercy while strangling one of the shit machines with my bare hands.

There should really be a culling of the bastards with the meat used to feed the helpless, homeless and hungry. But of course, that makes too much sense.

Speaking of the homeless, Dan Duran almost lost his summer home.

Dans's trailer is rather aged and he arrived this year to discover the front end of the prick had pretty much rotted through to the frame.

Anybody else would have dragged it out the park and lit a match to the fucker, but not Dan.

Where others see work and aggravation, Dan Duran sees challenge and purpose. He literally gutted the thing and rebuilt it.

Have a look. I shot this video just before Dan took some goose off the barbeque.