Like that grampster?
I read everything Ruark wrote. The first thing I did when a Field & Stream came into my possession - was to read Ruark's page. Then I read Tarpley's Tips.
I had a real good time as a kid ...I sure do not remember Ruark depleting the hedges - one switch at a time tho'.
I always wondered if Tarpley ever got switched for using his Mom's lipstick to color fishing lures...I mean it works really well, just you have stand up to fish, butt too sore to sit down on the bank to fish...
After reading sm's post I have a lot of catching up to do. Can I do it in 12 years?
NO!
Like I mentioned I am 50, and I do not plan on "being old". Like the man said " Youth is wasted on the young".
Art puts it very well - " I didn't grow up - I just got bigger".
Anyone ever tie flies for flyfishing? You want to "impress your wife and her friends"? Use the Krups Coffee Bean Grinder to blend the squirrel's hair...forget to clean it ou, and just leave it on the counter. The wifey just stuck it in the cabinet without looking. That afternoon her co-workers come over and she makes coffee...or attempts to...Ewwy, Boy was wifey and her friends "impressed".
I " got to" [ like in right now] buy another Krups for the kitchen, as usual the hubby [me] gets the "old used stuff".
Her daddy thought it was a great idea...me using Black powder to rid the back yard of Fire Ants. Seems his wife was as impressed as mine was. Next visit to In-laws wife and her mom first thought to send us out back...then second thought hit we might scheme or come up with something else. Somehow we ended up doing the cooking and the wife and mom got visit...they kept checking on us and everytime we opened a cabinet..."You don't need nothing from there", 'Put it back whatever it is you are getting out', then we spied the Raccoon that had been getting in the Garden. [out in the Country mind you]
FIL yells "Fire in the Hole"
I fired off a round from the back door with the 30-30 he kept behind back door.
Stepson is impressed...
Wife and MIL answered the phone that rang..." yeah that was Steve...about that Raccon, it won't be bothering the garden anymore".
FIL tells stepson/grandson "your daddy never taught you stuff like that...pay attention and learn from Steve.
We didn't even burn the Fried Chicken , mess up the mashed 'taters , goof up the gravy, or forget about the Peach Cobbler. Even made a extra pitcher of tea...during all the fun.
Moans and groans from wifey and MIL " Lord help us all ...and you boys cannot go play with the dead Raccoon until supper is finished, and the dishes are washed and dried.
Women...they just don't understand "guy stuff".
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Anyone else ever impress your mom by putting the fish you caught in the bathtub for her to see?
Way I figure it , since it was my job to clean to clean the tub anyway - what should she care?
Maybe the part where I put little brother in tub with the fish is what got her all riled up. I thought it was a good idea, little brother thought it fun, playing with the fish and all...kept him occupied while I changed baby sister's diapers, and entertained her while cooking supper.
And just what is so wrong with taking the Corning Ware Coffee Perculator outside, running an extension cord, and putting bike parts in it to clean them? HOT Spic&Span does a real good job of getting bike parts clean.
Oh by age 10 I could take a bike all apart , I mean a-l-l apart and back together. All the kids brought their bikes over for me to fix. I mean I really did fix them correctly and all. Always fun to have a flat to fix and to lit the glue for the patches...
I 'fixed' the lawnmower all by myself by age 11, I really did. Freaks out a mom to see the lawmower all apart, she was not impressed to see it on the kitchen table tho'. I used newspapers to protect...it was raining, and it did entertain the sibs.
Every have to get Jello out of a gas tank? I have...it aint easy,little brother was "helping"- but using baby sisters baby bottle brush works pretty good. Tip: don't leave sitting in the sink , Moms 'just think' all is okay when you drag all the lawnmower stuff to covered front porch...STEVE!!! carries thru the walls of a wood frame house, and closed froint door really well and onto front porch. I knew I left that gas tank somewhere....
Switches don't break off any easier in the rain btw...