Scooter Photo Scavenger Hunt Week 8: Scooter Picnic

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:52 pm

Here's my new entry!!

Lots of points.

Christy · Post by **Christy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:59 pm

Yesterday we had some friends over and grilled and had a real-life picnic. outside, grilling, sitting on blankets, everything except the scoot, but I could have brought that in if we were doing it tonight instead of had-it-already-last-night.

oh well, I'll try to get the hubs to have a picnic lunch with me one day this week.

kazoo · Post by **kazoo** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:28 pm

Congrats sikken;

NSR, but you might want to check the bbq hose. The tank appears to be stressing it out. THen again, in the US alone there are probably half of the bottles hanging just like that one and they are doing just fine.

Geez, I hope you don't get offended by my suggestions.

Kaz

sikken wrote:<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/3867/p7180015av9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/></a>

HAHAHA, i'm first! YAY

sikken · Post by **sikken** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 8:33 pm

kazoo wrote:Congrats sikken;

NSR, but you might want to check the bbq hose. The tank appears to be stressing it out. THen again, in the US alone there are probably half of the bottles hanging just like that one and they are doing just fine.

Geez, I hope you don't get offended by my suggestions.

Kaz

Thanks for the heads up Kazoo... It isn't normally like that... It looks like that because i had to drag it over to be in the pic...

OScoot! · Post by **OScoot!** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:35 pm

ScootLemont wrote:participating in a picnic
+2 points if your eating a Hot Dog, Baked Beans, Blueberry (product), or ice cream

SL....can I assume that FRESH BLUEBERRIES are acceptable? Or must it be blueberry pie, blueberry muffins, or something made with blueberries?

Before I head out for my entry...I want to be ABSOLUTELY certain fresh blueberries will not get kicked out!! The "product" word has me wondering????

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:02 pm

Fresh berries work

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:37 pm

And here we go again. Everything except FIRST. 13 Points.

Here's the photo of my scooter picnic. They didn't like the urban picnic, so her is another national park - World's End - part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Park. Here's the link to their brochure. Worlds End is the part on the bottom right that isn't actually an island but is still part of the national park. Looks like an hour glass. http://tinyurl.com/6bybmv

The sign - proves where I had the picnic.

And the picnic itself. LARGER bear, scooter, national park, grill, ice cream, me.

I hope that's Rockwell enough for those picnic purists about.

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:38 pm

Yes, Pooh Bear has a can of OFF in his right paw just in case the bugs came after me.

MikieTaps · Post by **MikieTaps** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:43 pm

i think that counts! good work!

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 11:56 pm

MikieTaps wrote:i think that counts! good work!

Thank god. If I had to keep going to picnics I was going to get really fat.

sikken · Post by **sikken** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:03 am

you gotta admit... that pic is waaaaaaaaaay better than your original post...

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:08 am

sikken wrote:you gotta admit... that pic is waaaaaaaaaay better than your original post...

The first one had a gritty realism (and laziness) that you can't buy at Rite-Aid.

But I GUESS this one is a LITTLE bit better. Now if I could stop felling like bugs are crawling all over me.

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:28 am

Thanks for the retake
That looks like a picnic. So glad you braved the rugged elements.
I hope you didn't spend a long time sitting on the ground. There are probably a lot of tics this time of year...
Ya know they burrow into your skin.
Did you check when you got home?
I wouldn't worry about it... Forget I brought it up.

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 2:29 am

Haven't been posting the last few hours because I I've been scrubbing every inch of my body with wire brushes.

I've also bathed in some kerosene and took a handful of Cipro.

I should be fine once the double vision goes away and the top layer of my skin grows back.

Stupid ticks.

Thanks for bringing it up.

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:47 am

Right now I am up at my place in Wisconsin for the weekend.
Deer, coyotes, coons, wild turkeys and a variety of bugs large and small.
Does not sound like your kind of place sotied.

Daisyscoot · Post by **Daisyscoot** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:54 am

5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+2 points if your eating ice cream

8 points for me

I forgot to take the grill with me.

Will probably repost later in the week. It got dark a little quicker than I thought it would too

Oh Well not to bad of a picture... I could eat my homemade orange ice cream all the time, so maybe another picture isn't such a bad thing

sailortot · Post by **sailortot** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:46 am

slow down, friends...

this hunt has only been up for two days, now. relax. take your time.

good picnic pictures, by the way. i think these are going to be some of my favorites.

addictionriot · Post by **addictionriot** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:06 am

Do you get extra points for having a REAL bear in the picture?

EDIT: This by no means, go and get eaten by a bear, I would be sadden.

jsprandel · Post by **jsprandel** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:24 pm

Well, I guess I'd better post something since this week's topic was my idea....

Here I'm having a picnic in the Fort Washington National Park.

+5 points me and my scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point for teddy bear
+3 points for National Park
+2 points eating hot dogs, baked beans, and blueberries
+2 points for grill in picture
total 13 points

This was interesting getting to. I actually had to drive 4 miles on the interstate and cross the Woodrow Wilson bridge (large busy bridge over the Potomac on the Beltway(I495)).

My scooter didn't have much of an appetite for the hot dogs, baked beans, and blueberries, so afterwards I took her out for dessert - of the premium high octane kind. She seemed to enjoy that - even though she didn't consume much.......

OScoot! · Post by **OScoot!** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:38 pm

Wow!!!! After last week’s anxiety-filled hunt dodging security, this one was a “walk in the park” <pun intended>

I actually got to visit a couple of places nearby that I’ve not been to in the entire 30 years I’ve lived in this area. I spent Saturday cruising to and around two battlefields in the Richmond National Battlefield Parks units. So, here’s my entry for this week … me eating blueberries with the Pinkster, two bears and the grill at Cold Harbor Battlefield.

PLUS… for all you history buffs, I even put together a bonus video! Keep in mind… Richmond was the Capital of the Confederacy, so all you “damn Yankees”, please don’t be offended!

Bonus video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5pF3zbVD_4
(Sorry, some of the info markers are really small, but if you view in full screen mode, you can read parts of them.)

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture (two teddy bears in fact!)
+3 points if it’s in a NATIONAL park (two different Battlefields)
+2 points if you’re eating a Hot Dog, Baked Beans, Blueberry (product), or ice cream
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture
13 points TOTAL

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:49 pm

OScoot! wrote:

Were I a bitter scooterist (is there such a thing?) I might call OScoot on the large amount of pavement in her 'picnic' photo. Especially after my first URBAN picnic was run out of town on a rail.

BUT, as OScoot has done the entire Mission Impossible/Ocean's 11 and Thomas Crown Affair rolled into one when she avoided being caught during last week's hunt, I won't say a word other than,

"good work. And two bears is going above and beyond! Kudos."

StacyB · Post by **StacyB** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:53 pm

These are all great pics!

I checked the National Parks link provided and there is not a one around me.... or at least not one within 100 miles...

OScoot! · Post by **OScoot!** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:01 pm

sotied wrote: Were I a bitter scooterist (is there such a thing?) I might call OScoot on the large amount of pavement in her 'picnic' photo.

Oh sotied, sotied, sotied ....did one of those bugs you sat on crawl up your #$%?

Sorry I couldn't face the other direction with the park behind me and still get the sign in the photo...but I can assure you it's IN the park....just at the entrance. In fact, here's the park ranger and the spot circled in yellow where the photo was taken.

Now, you poor thang......go get that bug outta your hind parts!

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:26 pm

Well you can still do a pic...
The national park is only for 3 bonus points

Everyone gets that right?
Your photograph does not have to be in a national park.

StacyB wrote:These are all great pics!

I checked the National Parks link provided and there is not a one around me.... or at least not one within 100 miles...

StacyB · Post by **StacyB** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:49 pm

Si! Yo entiendo! (Yep, I understand!) Thanks!!!

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 10:13 pm

OScoot! wrote: Now, you poor thang......go get that bug outta your hind parts!

Hoping week 9 is a photo with the longest street sign or town name sign. Point for each letter.

Or a photo of your scoot on the longest stretch of open road with no other vehicles in sight.

Or "quality time with your scoot" - a photo of you making a repair or adding some groovy new schwag to your scoot.

Or even Scoot in a drive-through. No McD's or BK's, but anything else goes. One point for each food item in your bag.

Hmmm. Maybe a photo of me with my scoot in the psychologist's chair/couch.

brape · Post by **brape** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:11 pm

did we ever hear what siobhan got her ticket for?

sailortot · Post by **sailortot** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:39 am

reaching for my spoon to dip into some yummy baked beans...mmm...warm night for a picnic. wish i had the ice cream instead, but my beans and hot dogs werent so bad, either. even though i had this same meal last weekend on the river. it was just a little warm standing over the grill. if you dont see it...look harder.

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+2 points if your eating a Hot Dog, Baked Beans, Blueberry (product), or ice cream
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture

=10 pts

OKBubbles · Post by **OKBubbles** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:32 am

Allow me to introduce Dorothy! I'll post "the rest of the story" in the discussion pages but, in the meantime, here's my entry for this week!

+5 pic of me and Doro picnicking
+1 teddy bear along for the ride
+2 eating blueberry jam
+2 barbecue grill (thanks to Tulsa Parks Department!)

Total: 10 points

Woohoo -- it's great to be back!

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:10 pm

If any one has any suggestions for a song for this week's video... please PM me - I am stumpped
Thanks!

Edit - a few people have already suggested the teddy bear picnic song... so no need to send me that - but if anyone has any others...

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 6:10 pm

sailortot wrote: it was just a little warm standing over the grill. if you dont see it...look harder.

Nice pic - hey... if you put a steak on that thing when you leave home, will it be ready when you get to your picnic?
That should be an item in the scooterworks catalog

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 3:50 am

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+2 points if your eating a Hot Dog, Baked Beans, Blueberry (product), or ice cream
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture

Total = 10 pts

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 2:28 pm

MarsR wrote:

Holy Crap. Your Buddy looks brand spankin' new.

How do you do that?

I'm thinking Scootle might need to scrubbed. She's an '08 and all my black areas look grayish. Not like corned beef, but still kinda gray.

Any tips?

MarsR · Post by **MarsR** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:04 pm

sotied wrote:Holy Crap. Your Buddy looks brand spankin' new.

How do you do that?

I'm thinking Scootle might need to scrubbed. She's an '08 and all my black areas look grayish. Not like corned beef, but still kinda gray.

Any tips?

Well, yeah, Redbud is still pretty new. I've only had it for about 14 months and just under 3000 miles. It got really muddy from all the road construction around here so I had to take the hose to it last week.

Oh, BTW, I saw an actual BUG ON OUR BLANKET while we were picnicing! Hugme Bear was soooo distressed...

--Roy

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:18 pm

MarsR wrote:Oh, BTW, I saw an actual BUG ON OUR BLANKET while we were picnicing! Hugme Bear was soooo distressed...

--Roy

Oooooooooh...that was not nice!

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:33 pm

Only 10 players so far this week?
It's going to be a short video!
Come on.... two days left - lets see those scooter picnics!

sikken · Post by **sikken** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:42 pm

Okay, so I am giving up my "first photo" point to Orange Guy...
Here is my resubmission. I took this picture at the trailhead of the Florida Trail, one of the National Scenic Trails...

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+3 points if its in a NATIONAL recreational area (Nat'l Scenic Trail)
+2 points if your eating Baked Beans
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture
=13 points total!
<img src="http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7544/vespa012cu9.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>
Closeup of the sign for proof...
<img src="http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5542/vespa013fm9.jpg" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/>

bunny · Post by **bunny** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:26 pm

My pic came out very small. I can't seem to make it bigger. I have another couple pics on another person's camera, so I will post those after I get them...

Or I can just post this link to the photo album of my birthday picnic and y'all can judge for yourselves...the very last picture is the one for the scavenger hunt...all the others, you can just enjoy the good food and good company!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10477616@N ... 267140871/

+5 - Bonheur and I at the picnic.
+1 - teddy bear - mini Pooh in my right hand
+2 - eating baked beans - forkful in my left hand and mouth
+2 - grill in pic - lower portion of picture is the closed grill.

+10 points!

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 8:08 pm

bunny's pic

+5 - Bonheur and I at the picnic.
+1 - teddy bear - mini Pooh in my right hand
+2 - eating baked beans - forkful in my left hand and mouth
+2 - grill in pic - lower portion of picture is the closed grill.
+10 points!

sotied · Post by **sotied** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:55 pm

bunny wrote:My pic came out very small. I can't seem to make it bigger. I have another couple pics on another person's camera, so I will post those after I get them...

Or I can just post this link to the photo album of my birthday picnic and y'all can judge for yourselves...the very last picture is the one for the scavenger hunt...all the others, you can just enjoy the good food and good company!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10477616@N ... 267140871/

+5 - Bonheur and I at the picnic.
+1 - teddy bear - mini Pooh in my right hand
+2 - eating baked beans - forkful in my left hand and mouth
+2 - grill in pic - lower portion of picture is the closed grill.

+10 points!

See? Mini Pooh qualifies as a full-fledged bear.

Mmmm. Now I'm hungry. May need to go find some Big Macs. No, they're not food for bears, but I couldn't bear it if I didn't have one...or two.

YUM!

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:59 pm

I know... not much of a picnic...
just the essentials - yes thats a "cold one" I am holding (when is national beer month?)
5pts
Thanks again to jsprandel for the subject & bonus points this week

BiscuitHead · Post by **BiscuitHead** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:18 pm

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+2 points if your eating ice cream
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture

Total 10 points!

No national park, but I did manage to wrangle a couple mountain lions into the picture. And no fat comments, they're sensitive about that! That goes for me too!

Tried to get them to "ride" the scooter, but they wanted nothing to do with it... or the teddy bear for that matter.

brape · Post by **brape** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:08 pm

BiscuitHead wrote: Tried to get them to "ride" the scooter, but they wanted nothing to do with it... or the teddy bear for that matter.

shoulda put some of that ice cream on the seat

I know that would have done it for our kitty.

ScootLemont · Post by **ScootLemont** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 11:16 pm

BiscuitHead wrote: but I did manage to wrangle a couple mountain lions into the picture.

Are you holding the one by the tail?

siobhan · Post by **siobhan** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:30 am

+5 for me & scooter having a pic-a-nic
+1 for a teddy bear (MY original teddy bear who was also both my older brothers' teddy bear)
+3 for a National Park (this is at the Roger Williams National Memorial which is located in the John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor which is a "non-traditional National Park" http://www.nps.gov/blac/)
+2 for me eating Jersey blueberries
= 11 pts

My first real job (the kind that requires paperwork and W2 forms and stuff) was working two years on a blueberry farm in New Jersey. I made sure the blueberries in the picture are from a Hammonton, NJ co-op. I used to pack them by putting the rubber band over the cellophane cover (remember when?). What an awful job.

view across the street

siobhan · Post by **siobhan** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:31 am

brape wrote:did we ever hear what siobhan got her ticket for?

Hey brape,

we have very stern officers here in Probbydense. I shouldn't be riding the neighbor children up and down the street even though they had helmets and good shoes

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:01 am

+5 points for picture of you with your scooter participating in a picnic
+1 point if there's a teddy bear in the picture
+2 points if your eating ice cream
+2 points if there's a barbeque grill in the picture
---
10 points

KRUSTYburger · Post by **KRUSTYburger** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:11 am

It finally stopped raining!!! ...(sort of)

Me & Bud have a Picnic: 5 points
With Teddy Bears: 1 point
Blueberry Nutri-grain Bar: 2 points
Barbeque Grill: 2 points
EDITED TO INCLUDE TOTAL: 10 points!

Yeah, so I'm by myself eating 2 large Hungry Howie's pizzas... What's the big deal?

sikken · Post by **sikken** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:11 am

Syd, your teddy bear is HOT...

Syd · Post by **Syd** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:15 am

sikken wrote:Syd, your teddy bear is HOT...

You've never had stuffed bear? Awesome!

Modern Buddy

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