[Rhodes22-list] Treasure Island - part one

Hank hnw555 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 9 07:49:07 EDT 2009


Great story! So when can we expect part 2?

Hank

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM, <cjlowe at sssnet.com> wrote:

> Two weeks ago our grandsons were to come over and spend the night and the
> next day ,go for a sailboat ride and a picnic on the boat. I thought we
> should spice it up a bit,and turn it into a treasure hunt. Carol (my wife,
> hereafter known as Grandma),went to the local party center and found a
> small plastic treasure chest,a lock,a bag full of gold foil covered
> chockolet coins and 2 pirate rings,and two Canadian coins,gold in the
> middle and silver on the outer ring.We stuffed everything in the chest and
> put it in a baggie and grabbed a shovel and headed to the lake.
>  There are three islands on the lake,but only one that we can get within
> wading distance with Country Rhodes,so that one we named Treasure Island.
> TI is about half the size of a football field. While we've been on the
> beach(all 30 square feet of it),we had never ventured in any farther.We
> couldn't have designed a better spot for our plan. Ten steps up the path
> the trail split with a tree that had four trunks coming into one on the
> right path.We started drawing the map. The next fork in the trail had a
> fallen tree on the left side,duly noted on the map.Then when I could see
> we would soon be running out of island,I spotted a tree with a trunk that
> split into two trunks about 3 feet off the ground,and a branch that had
> fallen into the crotch of the split and stuck out about 2 feet.A well
> hung maple tree,if you will.I promptly named it --the tree with a
> weiner--,something a 2 and 4 year old would understand.I was even more
> promptly --VETOED-- by Grandma.It will be named and duly noted on the map
> as --the tree with the elephant nose--. At the end of "the elephants
> nose", I dug the hole and planted the treasure chest.
>  We went home and Grandma drew up the map on a paper shopping bag to make
> it appear old and wrinkled.She handed it to me for my approval,and I said
> looks good,and then I got --THE LOOK--.Being male,I grasp for the most
> common answer to the look. "What",I said.The reply went something like
> this "you know your teaching your grandsons to steal". Well,I thought I
> was teaching them to be pirates."I'll take care of it" reasoned
> Grandma.And thats how the note(on parchment paper,no less) got in the
> baggie with the map and put in
>  a bottle,well,okey,a Mirical Whip jar.Pics of map and note @ bottom
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