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Happy Surprise 50th Pat!
I wish I could have been there to share in your special day reaching the big 5-0. Here’s to the next 50! All the best my friend: Cheers!
And to you Pam:
Thank you for allowing me to provide you with this one of a kind gift for Pat. I enjoyed reading your e-mails and sentimental memories. I feel as though I’ve shared in your lives trying to create this image. From you first meeting one another to your first date, the list goes on, so let’s take a trip down Memory Lane.
- The posted sign “Summit 2000 miles” representing the bar the two of you first met in
- The cowboy hat on top of the rug sack along with cowboy boots and gun case, represents Pat’s enjoyment for country, hunting, and the end of a successful hunt where he returns to you
- The cabin as you know, is one of the lodges Pat hunts at that he helped build
- His initials are inscribed in the main top beam, the one he helped set it in place
- You mentioned a lot of beer was consumed while installing the railing on this cabin so I placed a case of “Labatt’s 50” beer on the deck
- Some of the railing went in crooked hence the name above the doorway “Good nuff’ Camp” as it was for the owner, good enough
- There’s a horseshoe above the doorway, good luck to all
- The open door on the cabin is to represent ‘welcoming’
- The connected batteries? You wrote of your attraction to Pat’s gentleman trusting nature when you heard the story of when he lent his jumper cables to a lady he did not know that required them to get her car started. Pat’s request was for her to just drop them off at the next town’s hardware store. What a guy!
- The very important unicorn story! Pat’s harvest of a moose in 2000 with one long horn on the right side is being told here at the campfire. Pat’s guide Bert, to the left, is mocking Pat by gesturing the unicorn moose by holding up his right hand to his forehead with his index finger extended. Pat, to the right, is holding up a bottle of black velvet (drink of choice) in celebration because in 2004 he came back for more and redeemed himself by harvesting a much larger moose
- To the right of the cabin hangs Pat’s moose that helped redeem him
- I was able to get a cap on Pat with part of the words you mentioned that made up his favorite cap. (Best B#$*&@^)
- 50 is carved into the stump Pat is sitting on
- The drift boat you spent your first date on with Pat is down by the river tied to a post
- Take enjoyment in the license 5574129 carved into the front of the drift boat (55…May 5th, your wedding day), (74…July 4th, your birth date), (129…December 9, Pat’s birth date)
- The 16 lbs. salmon you caught on your first date with Pat is hanging from the same post the drift boat is tied to. The scale the fish is attached to reads 16, just so we know who caught this one Pam!
- The name on the side of the boat? Your nickname Pam, “Wildbabe”
- And for the record, this naturally shed moose antler came from the same camp you redeemed yourself at Pat.
Enjoy your today and your tomorrow as it creates behind you, a Memory Lane. Happy 50th Pat!
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