Always looking for a way to raise interest and support, I thought about the fluttered pulses beaver hero Skip Lisle generated when he shirtlessly installed the flow device at the beaver dam. Receptionists, litigators and project managers flocked in droves to the windowsills to watch muscles ripple in the water and I don’t think the appreciative sounds they were making were all based on the relief that the beavers would be safe. Mind you, Skip is a family man, married with children, and devoted to his school-teacher wife. But there is not a single event where the scrapbook is displayed that at least three fondly remembering women do not approach the Gazette photo page and wistfully recall their admiration.
Knowing this, I personally added a shirtless man with a shovel to the beaver diorama that Jon made for last years’s earthday event and was very pleased with the effect. Once at a Farmer’s market display the former photographer for the Gazette told me that they jokingly discussed using the photos of Skip to “make a calendar” to raise money. Hmm…. Recently I approached the photographer to dig up a photo or two, and wrote Skip to see whether he’d be willing to grace it with an autograph. I’m very pleased to announce that both said yes, and we will offer a lovely framed photo of the hero at work in the silent auction.
Let the bidding wars begin!
If seven maids with seven mops
Swept it for half a year.
Do you suppose,” the Walrus said,
“That they could get it clear?”
“I doubt it,” said the Carpenter,
And shed a bitter tear.
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