This weekend

tracker · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject: This weekend

Going on a little camping trip with my grandson and a buddy of his, we have a three day weekend. Here's a link with a couple pictures of the spot. The only thing missing from my camp will be a certain woman from Montana Very Happy

the photos of White Lake and Rainbow Falls is where we'll be.

www.manitobaphotos.com...eshell.htm

keetoowah · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

Oh yea babe rub it in. Sad

you get to go camping, I get to work and hopefully go kayaking sunday.
rather be camping with you again for sure.

gelandangan · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

Oi... now that is a beautiful country...

ElyBoy · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 8:29 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

I'm jealous.
I have hunted Manitoba for Geese and Ducks many times, and always dreamed of hunting in Northern Manitoba.
If there is one place that I could live in, and be a citizen of, it would be Manitoba.
It has the ABSOLUTE NICEST people in the world, and the most diverse and beautiful country that I have ever seen.
Heaven must look like Manitoba.

Eric

keetoowah · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 9:16 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

Manitoba means where God sits.

1895ss · Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

www.saskschools.ca/~gr...ms/mb.html
www.namedevelopment.co...y_mea.html

keetoowah · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

God I wish he was back from camping feel so left out.

Sad

keetoowah · Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 2:50 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

This is my backyard and where I want to take you(Tracker) camping and not too far from here is where we will be hunting.
Manitoba is nice but here is breath taking

www.nps.gov/archive/gl...cent06.htm

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:14 am Post subject: Re: This weekend

three frozen days:

First morning up and out of tent...greeted by the snow
No ten heater, not propane or kerosene gas
They say that the Creator sat here, I don't know
But if He did...He froze his ass

Manitoba=manito: spirit, api: sit, awa: right here, actually is a reference to the Narrows between Lake Winnipegosis (little dirty water lake) and Lake Manitoba
The name for God/Creator is Kitse (Great) Manitou (in Ojibway would be Gitche Manitou and sit would be abin, with the "n" barely heard, there are a lot of similarities between Cree and Ojibway and actually quite a few between Cree and Blackfoot (the Assiniboine are a subgroup of Blackfoot) farther west. The Cree enunciations are usually softer than the Ojibway (ie K or G, ts or ch)

Just if anyone was wondering. Anyway, it was the worst spring weather possible for camping but we had a great time. I left my grandson in charge of the camera so I suspect all of the pictures are going to be of these two girls they met in a neighboring campsite. Sure did miss that gourmet camp cooking I was so spoiled by on last year's camping trip.

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:39 am Post subject: Re: This weekend

so...the words when spoken would have been kind of conjoined...run together quickly....sounding like manitoapwa. What's really cool is Winnipeg, it means dirty water. I always imagined the first European explorers asking their guides, "what's this place called?"

"Dirty water"

"Great! Let's build a city here!"

It might explain a lot about the way that 1895 and I both feel about that city in modern times Very Happy

Dimitri · Super Member Joined: Nov 25, 2005 Posts: 5946

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I left my grandson in charge of the camera so I suspect all of the pictures are going to be of these two girls they met in a neighboring campsite.

Well your grandson at least has his priorities straight. Very Happy

Dimitri

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 10:15 am Post subject: Re: This weekend

Oh yes, he certainly appreciates natural beauty Very Happy

tracker · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: This weekend

ElyBoy wrote:

I'm jealous.
I have hunted Manitoba for Geese and Ducks many times, and always dreamed of hunting in Northern Manitoba.
If there is one place that I could live in, and be a citizen of, it would be Manitoba.
It has the ABSOLUTE NICEST people in the world, and the most diverse and beautiful country that I have ever seen.
Heaven must look like Manitoba.

Eric

Thank you for the kind words, sir. I think you like my fellow Manitobans more than I do, Very Happy