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Boundary Waters Quetico Forum Listening Point - General Discussion Please Forgive Me - I Have Sinned |
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09/25/2016 06:22PM (Thread Older Than 3 Years)
Light hearted here. May have previously had a thread like this before. Not looking for PC comments. Just reality.
1. I confess to having peed in the woods less than 150 feet from a lake.
2. I also confess to having burned a cellophane cigar wrapper in a fire grate.
3. I confess to having done a header into a tree one night after dark after too much brandy. The tree bark, and my forehead suffered a minor "ding". I apologized to the tree the next morning, and taped up the missing piece of bark with duct tape to make things right.
Tomster
1. I confess to having peed in the woods less than 150 feet from a lake.
2. I also confess to having burned a cellophane cigar wrapper in a fire grate.
3. I confess to having done a header into a tree one night after dark after too much brandy. The tree bark, and my forehead suffered a minor "ding". I apologized to the tree the next morning, and taped up the missing piece of bark with duct tape to make things right.
Tomster
09/25/2016 06:49PM
1. I used a barbed hook in Quetico.
2. Since lead may be banned, I have experimented using worn out AA batteries from my locator as trolling sinkers.
3. To protect Canada's beloved smallmouth bass, I have targeted summertime, deep-water lake trout with great success.
4. I washed my whiskey cup in the lake.
Our trip motto... "If it's fun, it's probably illegal"
2. Since lead may be banned, I have experimented using worn out AA batteries from my locator as trolling sinkers.
3. To protect Canada's beloved smallmouth bass, I have targeted summertime, deep-water lake trout with great success.
4. I washed my whiskey cup in the lake.
Our trip motto... "If it's fun, it's probably illegal"
09/25/2016 07:05PM
quote bobbernumber3: "1. I used a barbed hook in Quetico.
2. Since lead may be banned, I have experimented using worn out AA batteries from my locator as trolling sinkers.
3. To protect Canada's beloved smallmouth bass, I have targeted summertime, deep-water lake trout with great success.
4. I washed my whiskey cup in the lake.
Our trip motto... "If it's fun, it's probably illegal""
#4 would probably be OK as long it is "Canadian Club"
"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday.” ~A.A. Milne
09/25/2016 08:15PM
I foolishly took some chicken in for the first night in it's original grocery store packaging and put the blood soaked foam thing in my garbage (which is mostly plastic bags). By about day 5 the entire garbage was so stinky that I built a big fire and burned the whole works.
09/25/2016 10:01PM
quote marsonite: "I foolishly took some chicken in for the first night in it's original grocery store packaging and put the blood soaked foam thing in my garbage (which is mostly plastic bags). By about day 5 the entire garbage was so stinky that I built a big fire and burned the whole works."
Wow! The only thing I think could have smelled worse would be trying to pack out fish guts!
May God grant you pardon and peace.
Jv
09/26/2016 07:50AM
quote marsonite: "I foolishly took some chicken in for the first night in it's original grocery store packaging and put the blood soaked foam thing in my garbage (which is mostly plastic bags). By about day 5 the entire garbage was so stinky that I built a big fire and burned the whole works."
For your penance, say one Hail Mary and stuff sixteen pine scented air fresheners in your pack.
I will paddle eternal, Kevlar and carbon.
09/26/2016 03:17PM
My husband actually made a list this year of infractions I committed while out. I'm glad to see I'm not the only offender on here. I stand accused of the following:
- Left a trace (made an opening under an exposed tree root to drain water from tent pad).
- Practiced "catch and eat" rather than "catch and release" x1 (with legal fish though of course).
- Chastised a toad, and mocked a group of mergansers by calling them "pig ducks".
- Endangered group safety by declining to put toothpaste in the bear bag (twice).
-Burned 2 used tea bags.
- Attempted to hasten geological change by throwing five pebbles into the lake.
I plead guilty as charged.
- Left a trace (made an opening under an exposed tree root to drain water from tent pad).
- Practiced "catch and eat" rather than "catch and release" x1 (with legal fish though of course).
- Chastised a toad, and mocked a group of mergansers by calling them "pig ducks".
- Endangered group safety by declining to put toothpaste in the bear bag (twice).
-Burned 2 used tea bags.
- Attempted to hasten geological change by throwing five pebbles into the lake.
I plead guilty as charged.
09/27/2016 01:26PM
I slapped perfectly innocent mosquitoes who were simply trying to exercise their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even as I was.
aka HermitThrush "Such sights as this are reserved for those who will suffer to behold them." -Eric Sevareid
09/27/2016 06:52PM
quote scat: "Sexual congress on a rock on Seagull... Never heard of that. The congress part anyway. Is that a group thing? Going to need more info to determine if you truly have sinned. Please elaborate."
Basalt is very uncomfortable.....and poison ivy must be watched at all times...
09/27/2016 07:19PM
rt - I blessed two slices of white bread, anointed them with Jim Beam bourbon and ironed my vestments, knelt down and prayed for a long time to come up with the proper penance for your sins. You must have some pull with the big man, because I have been instructed to pardon you for your act was deemed worthy if not downright courageous by my angel advisors. And they wouldn't give me any details either... Alas, life just ain't fair. All I got was soggy bread and a strange, unexplainable urge to scratch my butt with a rock.
But, thanks for the laughs!
But, thanks for the laughs!
09/28/2016 12:07PM
quote SaganagaJoe: "I slapped perfectly innocent mosquitoes who were simply trying to exercise their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even as I was.
"
My son was actually on a canoe trip where they were told in all seriousness by the group leader not to slap mosquitos for the same reasons that you (I assume sarcastically) are stating. If they did not want the mosquito to bite them they were to blow the critter away with a gentle breath so as to give it a chance at continued life!
09/28/2016 12:13PM
quote yogi59weedr: "I sin every time I look at that old Farrah faucet poster still hung up on my garage "
Her red swimsuit from that poster is now on display at The Smithsonian in DC. My kids just could not understand what the big deal was and why I just had to go see it when we were there!
09/29/2016 08:09AM
quote rtbaum: "quote SaganagaJoe: "I slapped perfectly innocent mosquitoes who were simply trying to exercise their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even as I was.
"
Wrong....Mosquitoes are members of a terrorist conspiracy"
Sometimes feels like it doesn't it. Man I wish Noah had slapped those 2 mosquitoes.
aka HermitThrush "Such sights as this are reserved for those who will suffer to behold them." -Eric Sevareid
09/30/2016 07:11AM
quote bottomtothetap: "quote SaganagaJoe: "I slapped perfectly innocent mosquitoes who were simply trying to exercise their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even as I was.
"
My son was actually on a canoe trip where they were told in all seriousness by the group leader not to slap mosquitos for the same reasons that you (I assume sarcastically) are stating. If they did not want the mosquito to bite them they were to blow the critter away with a gentle breath so as to give it a chance at continued life!"
Well, I "Sinned" when I blurted out "You're sh!++ing me" when I thought of someone telling me to "Gently blow a mosquito" (LOL)!
And someone called mergansers "Pig ducks?" I've "Sinned" and called them a lot worse, but usually just call them "Fish ducks."
"Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain
09/30/2016 07:14PM
quote bottomtothetap: "quote SaganagaJoe: "I slapped perfectly innocent mosquitoes who were simply trying to exercise their right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness even as I was.
"
My son was actually on a canoe trip where they were told in all seriousness by the group leader not to slap mosquitos for the same reasons that you (I assume sarcastically) are stating. If they did not want the mosquito to bite them they were to blow the critter away with a gentle breath so as to give it a chance at continued life!"
Some sort of pro-life Christian cult?
“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” -Edward Abbey
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