prairie

Last use was cutting sealing foil on restricted use herbicide jugs a few months ago, I mostly brought this up because I hate to use a good knife on nasty stuff like that and then carry it around in my pocket. Pulled the quickly rusting blade out, rinsed well and put the rest in work jeans pocket and ran it through the clothes washer.

No broken ropes just poorly placed stakes, and maybe some hooliganisum. Definatly, just one pole, no ridge line, did have a line or two at the back to keep the tent off your feet, sorta. Ropes were natural fiber. Tent was of light canvas, might still have weighed over ten pounds. Only place you could sit up was right next to the pole, a three or four section aluminum job, do remember they would store inside each other if not bent up. These had some use on them when I first saw them in 1971, could be as old as 1965. After using my Clip Flashlight by SD I would not want to go back except for nistalga reasons.

Check with your local Lions Club, with a motto of "We Serve" they can be a great choice. Draw back is little chance of club owned storage space for troop gear however they might know someone who would store it as a comunity service.

What do the boys do? Back in the early 70s our troop used a BSA tent with a single pole, no floor, guy line over the door and grommets for stakes around the edge and I think a snap front, maybe it was tied, I want to say it was called an Explorer. My only real proablem with it was my feet usually ended up outside the tent by morning. What really bugged me was when the wind and rain came up somebodys tent would fall down and they would just move in on me, kinda strange to go asleep alone and wake up with two others in your tent. It never crossed my mind to do such a thing, if your tent starts falling down it's time to go put it back up. I didn't mind sharing a tent, just seemed I was the designated odd man out for the unit.

I have read the thread about some councils dislike of the sheath knife, how do they feel about assisted opening locking blade knives like the Calillus Robo series? While not perfect the 3 inch one I have is real handy. I often have only one hand free in the work I do. BTW, the other style of knife I carry sometimes is the cheap snap blade style sold in home improvenent stores, if I have to cut into something toxic I can throw the blade away.

Wrong search box? please delete thread prairie

Consider the pipe passed and gratefully accepted. I have been an amature astronomer for years now, many great quotes but this is my favorite: We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. - Tombstone epitaph of two amateur astronomers and this one is 2nd, swipped from another site. The world famous pink clubhouse at Stellafane quotes the beginning line of the 19th psalm "The heavens declare the Glory of God". But the whole psalm has a neater meaning: "The heavens declare the Glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge." The night sky is there to give us knowledge, if we'd only observe.

When I was young, the pills didn't work. Neither being told not to do that any more. Nor did being forced to eat pickles. Sears used to sell a electrical device that would quickly train a child to wake before a wetting incident. It had two metalized sheets with an insulating layer between them that the child slept on, under the regular sheet, when wetted enough current would flow to set off a battery opperated LOUD alarm. This unit could train a child in less than a month and I have heard of no relapses. Why put up with pills for who knows how long when this works?

The point I was trying make was one should do the job as well as you can the first time, even if it takes too long, is still better than first doing it poorly and then trying to do it over in a time frame far longer than doing it right the first time would have taken. Kind of a long way of saying: Haste makes waste. Another one from that schools wall: Your mother does not work here, clean up after yourself.

This hung on the wall of my voc-tech class: Why is there not enough time to do a job right, but always time to do that job over?

Sure hope somebody plays Amazing Grace on the pipes during that campout, always bring a lump to my throat.

This is not how I wanted to start posting here and I can't find the other thread on this proablem either. When I was young, the pills didn't work. Sears used to sell a electrical device that would quickly train a child to wake before a wetting incident. It had two metalized sheets with an insulating layer between them that the child slept on, when wetted enough current would flow to set off a battery opperated LOUD alarm. This unit could train a child in less than a month and I have heard of no relapses. Why put up with pills for who knows how long when this works? If somebody wants to attach this to the other bed wetting thread thats fine by me.