Thread: How to clear out a bath house 101

Originally Posted by hidestoart

EDhewitt,
I hear what you are saying,
I guess I am a dinosaur when it comes to things. I still stop to help a strange on the side of the road at night. I see a stranger struggling with something I walk over and offer to help. When a neighbor is splitting wood I grab my ax and walk over uninvited and join in while not saying a word at all, just working. This is also the case with the people I call friends. I suppose I am crazy for not fearing the unknown. I prefer to live my life boldly and intentional than as a sheep. I was raised that a stranger was nothing more than a friend I didn’t know, until they proved different.

I have never feared a knife or gun as I understand they are nothing more than a tool. It is my quest to find out does the person behind any tool have knowledge that I could benefit from. I suppose it is how one is raised. Myself I was raised from Alaska to Puerto Rico in a 4th generation military family. I can remember my buddies and I in the 10th grade getting on the school bus in Alaska on Wednesday in 1974 with backpacks and rifles to go on a hunting trip over the thanksgiving weekend. No one thought a thing about it. We just had to leave the rifles in the principles office until we got out of school. In today’s world many choose to fear than learn.
If a man shuffles his feet outside a bathroom because he has to pee instead of coming in while another is shaving – well the world has one heck of a problem. The point I am trying to make is ask your grandfather if he would have turned around. Then examine what has changed since that time and don't blame it on Gillette.

When I was 8 I had a bb rifle and by the time I was 10 a Marlin lever action 22. By 13 I had a 20 guage shotgun single shot.In High school we were required to complete hunters safety and boaters safety courses. My buddies and I spent our youth up in Northern Michigan shooting squirrel and we had a "lodge" in the woods wich consisted of an old ripped up army tarp stretched out as a leanto. we hammered alligator clips into a tree and that is where we skinned our varmints. We found a deer carcass in the woods and took the head and stuck it on a pole in front of our lodge. For fun we used to try and cross swamps on foot without getting wet(we usually lost) and my first car was a 40 horse inboard outboard boat.Canoeing was our exercise and wintercamping was fun whooo ! Chopped wood for the woodstove in our house and spent winters in waist deep snow shoveling and snowblowing. Old school and very happy to be so. Love yer story ! +1 sir