When I lived in Seattle, when I was 14 I got my patriarchal blessing (this was in the old Renton ward of the Seattle Stake -- there are now 2 or 3 stakes in the region that old ward covered, which dates me!). The patriarch asked me if I wouldn't please try to friendship his son, who was going inactive. I tried but we didn't have much in common -- his favourite hobby was shooting sparrows with his BB gun from his bedroom window. Ironically I was pretty good with a BB gun and a pellet gun, although I never actually owned one. But my cousins had them, also .22's. They lived on a farm in Saskatchewan and were used to shooting vermin around the granaries, and they first taught me to shoot. They would put an old ace of spades card or something like that on a clothesline, and we'd use it for target practice. They never killed animals needlessly -- not even grasshoppers. The hardest thing my older cousin Donnie (who's about 4 years older than me) had to do was about when I was 9 or 10. A chick was born with its head on the front of its thorax instead of on top, and would die of starvation or asphyxiation. My uncle told Donnie to kill the chick to put it out of its misery, and I came along out of curiosity and to lend moral support. We were both crying on the way back -- Donnie whacked the poor critter against a fence post to kill it.
Paul Osborne wrote: > >Till, who hopes he hasn't offended > > Of course not. I'm the one around here that probably is the most > offensive. When I was a kid I use to through rocks at beehives and shoot > my bee bee gun at the neighbors windows. :-) > > Paul O > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Marc A. Schindler Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada -- Gateway to the Boreal Parkland �We do not think that there is an incompatibility between words and deeds; the worst thing is to rush into action before the consequences have been properly debated�To think of the future and wait was merely another way of saying one was a coward; any idea of moderation was just an attempt to disguise one�s unmanly character; ability to understand a question from all sides meant that one was totally unfitted for action.� � Pericles about his fellow-Athenians, as quoted by Thucydides in �The Peloponessian Wars� Note: This communication represents the informal personal views of the author solely; its contents do not necessarily reflect those of the author�s employer, nor those of any organization with which the author may be associated. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^^=============================================================== This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^^===============================================================
