Visual Description: Despoilers of God’s Green Creation!
ZAREC = CRAZE, MEHET = THEME, NREYDT = TRENDY, LAVSUI = VISUAL — Giving us: RAEEMETRENVSU
Clue/Question: Turning their property around the creek into a campground created a – – –
Answer: REVENUE STREAM
(Hopefully, they can prevent the RVs from dumping their waste into the creek! You need to be oh so careful when it comes to our precious waterways. Clean water is soon going to be the most valuable natural resource. We already have too many pipelines transporting filthy crude oil in this country. Very soon we’ll be needing pipelines to transport water from the Great Lakes to the western states, because the Colorado River is drying up! And, the western coastal states will probably need to build desalinization plants too.
All of today’s clue words are already on the ralis95 clue word database. Two of the jumbles appear to be new, but we’ve definitely seen “zarec” and “mehet” before. The answer letter layout was a remarkable thirteen letter jumble. Marvelously cryptic. The Clue/Question and the cartoon’s dialog made for a quick solve though.
Nice creek scene cartoon. I don’t know if Otyokwa Creek is a real creek, but that is what the sign appears to say. Sounds like it could be a Native American word, but I don’t know. Do we have any Native American’s in the house??? Maybe David or Jeff will give us some kind of explanation? Be well and do good, friends.) — YUR
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Happy birthday to John Lombardo, of 10,000 Maniacs!
Unclerave's Wordy Weblog 
UR,
I was “Up the Creek” looking for my “REVENUE STREAM”…….Tra La La La Zip, Life is but a…….
Latter…Issues (?)…….k
Did the name of that particular creek start with an “S”, Ken? — YUR
Otyokwa Creek is a shout out to Camp Otyokwa. The camp is owned by WIlco bassist extraordinaire, John Stirratt. It was an old-time camp in Maine with all its original cabins and structures. John has been preserving them and offers lakefront cabins, farmhouse and floating cabins. There you go.
Very cool. Knew it had to be something. You can’t make up a name like that! — YUR
Unc wrote: “Did the name of that particular creek start with an “S”, Ken?”
Really, Unc ? Emoji