Cwtf London long spurs

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The OFAH is looking to fill two Waterfowl Unit Technician positions, one at Long Point Provincial Park in Port Rowan and one at Darlington Provincial Park in Bowmanville, for the fall hunting season. Duties will include managing hunter access and permits, repairing and maintaining hunting blinds and signage, providing customer service, and other duties. These are both full-time positions and dependant on funding yet to be received by the OFAH. Learn more and apply by the August 5 deadline at https://archive.ofah.org/jobs/

One of a few versions, of The Origin of America’s Favorite Nursery Rhyme. I do know that the Indians hung the papoose carriers, with babies, in the trees.

Davy Crockett's older sister, Effie Crockett was invited to help some mothers in the Muskogee Tribe. Once she arrived in camp, Effie laughed at what she saw. The Muskogee Tribe had a custom of cradling their pappooses among the swaying branches of birch trees. This protected their babies from ground insects, the sun, and wild animals.

After first finding it funny, she soon learned all the great reasons for this practice and marveled at the beauty of it.

Effie watched the swaying and soothing motion of the topmost branches of the trees. She loved how each baby enjoyed nature, how they listened to the songbirds, observed every ladybug, and smiled at the colors of a butterfly, every little breeze was felt and enjoyed by these young ones; each babe seemed perfectly content.

One of the Tribal mothers began to sing a song to the children in her native tongue. As the Muskogee mother sang, Miss Effie observed a small tear running down the mother’s cheek.

Effie translated the words and kept the tune. She shared it with everyone and it soon became a wildly popular nursery rhyme among the Colonies.

The English translation:
Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

Why did the Muskogee mother cry?

A “bough” is simply a tree branch, and its breaking was used by the Muskogee mothers as an analogy of their little baby growing up.

Their little baby would soon outgrow his cradle. With each gently rocking wind, time was passing. One day, little baby would no longer need the protection of his mother. One day, the “branch” would break because her little baby had become too heavy. The “cradle” would fall to the earth – the child, no longer a baby, would dust himself off and grow into a man.

The now famous lullaby was first printed in Mother Goose’s Melody.

The rest is history.

CWTF London Long Spurs banquet will need to be cancelled .
Unfortunately they can’t find enough people for the committee or help to set it up .

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The CWTF London Long Spurs Banquet is June 1st , right around the corner, only 81/2 weeks away .
Tickets should be available soon .
Support your local CWTF.,
Get involved .
Get a membership.
Become a part of the team .

Here we are down to the last 17 days to the 2024
Spring turkey opener .
We’ve been patterning and checking our fi****ms , picking up some last minute ammo and doing some adjustments.
We got a full schedule this year and doing last minute arrangements.
But we’re pumped .

Well we made it to the sportsman’s show on Saturday with Phil Clarke and his wife Cheri
and filled our list of items required for this year .
Rihno blind , an Altan blind , 12 new Rapala fishing lure and a new bait casting rod .
Met up with the great folks from Delta water fowl and picked up a ticket to win a custom built Benelli
, a cooler bag by Avery and had time to shake hands with Brian McRae and his awesome crew from the Sudbury chapter .
Slid on over the say hi to the folks at CWTF
and check out the new line of engineered and designed fi****ms from . O'Dell Engineeringfrom right here in Ontario
Got in got what we needed and rubbed shoulder till about 12:30 pm and then it was getting really busy .
We finished up .
Great time with great people

Ladies and gentlemen.
The stage will be set this weekend.
Heres a chance to show everyone what it takes to bring in them big boys.,

The CWTF London Long Spurs , Dinner and Banquet is June 1 2024 .
We’re looking for sponsor , volunteers to set up and take down as well as new board members .
Anyone interested please contact me .
Thanks

Well we’re almost ready .
Hoping to get out next weekend to service the duck boxes . We’ve got 6 at our Glencoe location and 8 at the Aylmer location . Hoping we get a freeze at night so we can walk on the water .
We’ll be changing the bedding and replacing any damage or broken boxes for repair and put up 1 new box in a new location the year .
Hope to find some antler sheds in the process .

Soon to be announced .
Dinner , banquet and auction for the London Long Spurs .
Yep first one ever for London .