| This from a Buckaroo commander on a training event she attended
sponsered by the Boy Scouts of America:
One of the things our adult training course did to assist us in learning to tie knots is that they asked the Sr.Patrol Guide of each patrol to pick two members from their patrol. The two that were picked were told to tie a 100 foot rope around their waist using the bowline knot. One person at each end was securely fastened to this rope. Next they told us to stand opposite side of a tree. The Sr. Patrol guide was told to have his team members tie a clove hitch knot around the tree using their bodies. The two patrol members were forbidden to talk. Only the Sr. Patrol guide was allowed to give orders to the two people by saying, “ Jennifer walk around the tree once. Kevin walk over the rope and around once....” etc. If the Sr. Patrol Guide did not know the knot he/she could call on one other patrol member to take over as SPL.  The trick was to not only tie the knot but see how well the patrol worked as a team. (We were also not allowed to use our hands). It took our patrol about 15 minutes. —Cdr. Jen
|
| Page One
Page Two Page Three Page Four Page Five Page Six Page Seven Page Eight Page Nine Page Ten Page Eleven Page Twelve
|
A Christian wrote a letter to the editor of the newspaper and complained
that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. “I’ve gone for 30 years
now,” he wrote, “and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons.
But for the life of me I can’t remember a single one of them. So I think
I’m wasting my time . . . and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving
sermons at all.”
This started a real controversy in the “Letters to the Editor” column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: “I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall what the menu was for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: they all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me those meals, I would be dead today.” No comments were made on the sermon contents anymore. “The lips of the righteous nourish many . . . ” Proverbs 10:21a
|