And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
12 Year old master plan, Friday after school fishing trip. Best friend, 'appropriated' beer ( I left the money-won't tell you where I hid the beer all week), 'borrowed' Daiwa millionaire reel and loaded tackle box (my friend did not leave his old man a note) old canvas tent down by the Withlacoochee.
Started raining as soon as we got there. We tied the beer to a rock to cool in the river and tried to build our tent.. which then took flight to parts unknown.
We wrapped ourselves in garbage bags and hunkered by a tree on the bank by our gear. It was cold, wet, and miserable. We decided to run through the lightning storm and the blowing rain to broken down cabin we knew about.
We found the cabin and like good scouts (well we sort of scouts) lit ourselves a fire in the old fireplace....without checking the flue! Smoke ran us back down by the river where we found his father's expensive tackle box heading rapidly down stream and a broken string where our beer used to be!
Yeah, that trip was a bust. We shivered and groaned under our garbage backs and hit out for a phone to call my uncle as soon as dawn broke. Funny we never went camping again after that...hmm.
mo' 'squitos guaranteed
ReplyDeleteWhere's Bob??
ReplyDeleteThere are people who build houses that close and are subsidized in doing so by taxpayer-supported federal flood insurance.
ReplyDeleteYou're full of shit.
DeleteGlad you took care of that.
DeleteWhole towns were moved out of the Mississippi River flood plain.
Deletelooks like the delaware river.
ReplyDeleteMust have a vehicle nearby. That is a heavy canvas tent and some type of chest inside…
ReplyDeleteGood place for bears. They like tents, too.
ReplyDeleteHope the stream doesn't rise as well.
Delete12 Year old master plan, Friday after school fishing trip. Best friend, 'appropriated' beer ( I left the money-won't tell you where I hid the beer all week), 'borrowed' Daiwa millionaire reel and loaded tackle box (my friend did not leave his old man a note) old canvas tent down by the Withlacoochee.
ReplyDeleteStarted raining as soon as we got there. We tied the beer to a rock to cool in the river and tried to build our tent.. which then took flight to parts unknown.
We wrapped ourselves in garbage bags and hunkered by a tree on the bank by our gear. It was cold, wet, and miserable. We decided to run through the lightning storm and the blowing rain to broken down cabin we knew about.
We found the cabin and like good scouts (well we sort of scouts) lit ourselves a fire in the old fireplace....without checking the flue! Smoke ran us back down by the river where we found his father's expensive tackle box heading rapidly down stream and a broken string where our beer used to be!
Yeah, that trip was a bust. We shivered and groaned under our garbage backs and hit out for a phone to call my uncle as soon as dawn broke. Funny we never went camping again after that...hmm.
I’ve done that when it has on the Buffalo River never saw four guys move so fast before they break
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