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Message 1906934 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:00:25 UTC

I guess I don't know everything by a lot. LOL
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Message 1906936 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:17:34 UTC - in response to Message 1906931.  

Is an Echidna the same thing as a spiny anteater?

Yes Angelia, and it's best to let them go where they want to (much to Dog's pain and the holes in my yard). ;-)

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Message 1906937 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:21:55 UTC - in response to Message 1906933.  
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My mom taught Me, and I have a merit badge in cooking too, those aren't just handed out, one has to earn that.

Awesome! I think that all young people should learn some basic cooking skills.

Vic, what did you have to master in order to earn your merit badge?

Cooking My breakfast over a brick stove outdoors at 6000' in altitude. Similar to this one, and yes I was the one who got the fire going. I was 12yrs old too, later I aced a First Aid badge, in 1 hour.

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Message 1906938 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:22:49 UTC
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Wiggo, I had the pleasure of visiting your lovely country once. It was an amazing trip! I didn't see any echidnas though.
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Message 1906939 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:29:06 UTC

I see them far too often out here in the bush.

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Message 1906940 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:34:57 UTC

Cooking My breakfast over a brick stove outdoors at 6000' in altitude.

Wow! High altitude cooking is tricky stuff. Boiling water isn't the same temperature up there and anything baked in an oven needs some adjustments.

Years ago I made a friend's wedding cake in a cabin at Lake Tahoe (also around 6000 ft. of altitude). The cakes all came out fine, but thank goodness for whipped cream frosting! It hides lots of imperfections, and it tastes good too. What you can't hide with frosting, you can always hide with some strategically placed wrapped bundles of spray-free flowers.

I've made 5 wedding cakes in my life - a practice cake which I fed to my family, a cake for my friend Annemarie and her husband Rob, a cake for my friend Louis and his wife Colleen, a cake for my friend Linde and her husband Bob and a cake for my friend Maryellen and her husband Mario. All four couples are still happily married and they all have beautiful children. (I'm sure all that is because of the cakes...)

Vic, did your merit badge requirements include any regular cooking, or were the requirements only for camp-cooking?
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Message 1906941 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:39:29 UTC

It must be like putting your hands on a barrel cactus in the dark? LOL
I did once in New Mexico, picked prickers out for days.
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Message 1906944 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:51:00 UTC - in response to Message 1906937.  

Cooking My breakfast over a brick stove outdoors at 6000' in altitude. Similar to this one, and yes I was the one who got the fire going. I was 12yrs old too, later I aced a First Aid badge, in 1 hour.

Ah. The Grill.
Yes. I like outdoor cooked meals as well.
But in the morning first starting a fire for making a breakfast...
In this time of year when the snow/rain is falling...
And it's dark outside...
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Message 1906945 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 4:53:19 UTC - in response to Message 1906940.  

Cooking My breakfast over a brick stove outdoors at 6000' in altitude.

Wow! High altitude cooking is tricky stuff. Boiling water isn't the same temperature up there and anything baked in an oven needs some adjustments.

Years ago I made a friend's wedding cake in a cabin at Lake Tahoe (also around 6000 ft. of altitude). The cakes all came out fine, but thank goodness for whipped cream frosting! It hides lots of imperfections, and it tastes good too. What you can't hide with frosting, you can always hide with some strategically placed wrapped bundles of spray-free flowers.

I've made 5 wedding cakes in my life - a practice cake which I fed to my family, a cake for my friend Annemarie and her husband Rob, a cake for my friend Louis and his wife Colleen, a cake for my friend Linde and her husband Bob and a cake for my friend Maryellen and her husband Mario. All four couples are still happily married and they all have beautiful children. (I'm sure all that is because of the cakes...)

Vic, did your merit badge requirements include any regular cooking, or were the requirements only for camp-cooking?

No, they didn't specify, most Men back then in My experience at least, couldn't even wash dishes, much less boil water...

My dad had to come to Me, to ask how to wash dishes by hand, I've made cookies from scratch, pies, cooked a turkey, beef stew, and yes I can cook whole eggs, bake cakes, if I wanted to, it's cheaper not to anymore.

I've known how to wash clothes since I was 10yrs old.

My extended family considers Me bright, why? I don't know.
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Message 1906946 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 5:31:07 UTC

Vic, you got me curious about current merit badge requirements, so I googled the cooking badge.

Looks like many things have changed since you were 12, and for the better I would say. A merit badge in cooking now requires more than just cooking on a camping trip. There are requirements for food safety knowledge and there is an emphasis placed on health and nutrition, which is certainly important!

I'm pretty impressed with what scouts have to accomplish these days to get this badge.

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Message 1906950 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 5:51:30 UTC - in response to Message 1906946.  

Vic, you got me curious about current merit badge requirements, so I googled the cooking badge.

Looks like many things have changed since you were 12, and for the better I would say. A merit badge in cooking now requires more than just cooking on a camping trip. There are requirements for food safety knowledge and there is an emphasis placed on health and nutrition, which is certainly important!

I'm pretty impressed with what scouts have to accomplish these days to get this badge.

Scouting merit badge in cooking

Back then I could not advance farther than First Class, why? I could not swim, and to become an Eagle Scout, one would need to know how to swim, My dad moved us too much, and the last place He moved us to, had no pool anywhere nearby, but then He couldn't swim, and He suffered from sea sickness(motion sickness today), My mom had enrolled Me in a YMCA swimming class, but soon enough dad moved us, mom gave up after that. Today the unfair swimming requirement is gone, sure it's a good idea to know how to do that, but not everyone has access to swimming classes.
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Message 1906952 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:00:51 UTC

Today the unfair swimming requirement is gone, sure it's a good idea to know how to do that, but not everyone has access to swimming classes.
Swimming is a big survival skill.
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Message 1906955 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:13:13 UTC - in response to Message 1906952.  

Today the unfair swimming requirement is gone, sure it's a good idea to know how to do that, but not everyone has access to swimming classes.

Swimming is a big survival skill.

Yeah, for some, the lack of an ability to swim never hurt Me.
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Message 1906961 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:38:54 UTC

One of my cousins is an Eagle Scout. He was required to do a community service project. He organized work parties to clear an over-grown trail in the Sierra foothills. He and his team worked many days on this project.

The son of a family friend also was required to do a community service project to become an Eagle Scout. He organized the construction of special playground equipment in a park. The equipment was intended to be used by all children, but it was designed to be especially inclusive for children with special physical needs. The Eagle Scout raised funds to pay a contractor to make sure the structures built were safe, but the Eagle Scout did all the planning and project management himself, and he and a team of helpers did much of the construction work.

It is not easy to become an Eagle Scout these days and I am so impressed with both of these young men and the service they have provided to their communities.

I don't know if there is a girl scout equivalent of Eagle Scout, but I sure hope there is!
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Message 1906962 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 6:38:56 UTC

I was 9 years old and didn't swim yet but when I almost drowned I made it a must before the summer was over. I did it, the next year I save a girl from drowning.

Years later I met her husband and he said, "at this time I don't know if I should thank you or punch you in the mouth". LOL (true story)
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Message 1906971 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 7:12:46 UTC

First time when I as a kid was about to learn swimming we had to do it in the Atlantic Ocean.
No warm pools here at that time.
And even in the summer it's almost always freezing cold (not more than about 14C brrr) in the water in the Nordic Countries.
Not only that.
We have plenty of Lion's mane jellyfish as well!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion%27s_mane_jellyfish#Sting_and_human_contact
Needless to say but I didn't learnt to swim until I was 12 I think:)
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Message 1906982 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 7:50:50 UTC - in response to Message 1906961.  

One of my cousins is an Eagle Scout. He was required to do a community service project. He organized work parties to clear an over-grown trail in the Sierra foothills. He and his team worked many days on this project.

The son of a family friend also was required to do a community service project to become an Eagle Scout. He organized the construction of special playground equipment in a park. The equipment was intended to be used by all children, but it was designed to be especially inclusive for children with special physical needs. The Eagle Scout raised funds to pay a contractor to make sure the structures built were safe, but the Eagle Scout did all the planning and project management himself, and he and a team of helpers did much of the construction work.

It is not easy to become an Eagle Scout these days and I am so impressed with both of these young men and the service they have provided to their communities.

I don't know if there is a girl scout equivalent of Eagle Scout, but I sure hope there is!

The closest the GSA has is the Gold Award, at least according to this site Here, which I searched for using part of your last sentence Angela.

The Gold Award and Eagle Scout are roughly comparable on the "merit" level -- but, the Gold Award has much less value on the "demonstrative"/recognizability sid.

Putting the boys-achievements-get-more-recognition-than-girls issue completely aside, a lot of this is due to major PR blunders on the part of the Girl Scouts, including: (1) Eagle Scouts have always been Eagle Scouts -- which has built up a history with the award; however, Girl Scouts have changed the name of Gold Award many times, and the name (if not the program) is pretty new. and (2) Eagle Scouts are something you become. The Boy Scouts publicize and promote the idea the being an Eagle Scout is a lifelong part of who you are. The Gold Award, on the other hand, is something you earned (i.e., in the past).

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Message 1906987 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 8:06:35 UTC - in response to Message 1906961.  
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"Be Prepared" Scouting are some of my fondness memories. Cub Scout, Life Boy Scout just short of Eagle transitioned to Explore Scouts and then Sea Scouts.

Forgot to add Order of the Arrow too.
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Message 1906989 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 8:14:58 UTC - in response to Message 1906986.  

Oh yes good old 10W-40W to get your started in the morning. LOL
LOL. Oh yes the good old days of 20/50 for the summer and 10W-40W for the winter. With modern synthetic multi-grade motor oils, no garage fees for needless oil changes any more. Days were you could buy straight 50 grade agricultural oil to put off re-ringing a worn engine. One car I had was a total animal in that area, so relevant in a critter thread :-))

Ford recommends 5w/30 in My car and in the Mustang, a synthetic, I buy 5qts of Royal Purple 5w/30 synthetic motor oil, the car doesn't smoke anymore, whatever the prior owner had in there was cheap junk, and Royal Purple works great.
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Message 1906990 - Posted: 14 Dec 2017, 8:18:34 UTC - in response to Message 1906987.  

"Be Prepared" Scouting are some of my fondness memories. Cub Scout, Life Boy Scout just short of Eagle transitioned to Explore Scouts and then Sea Scouts.

Forgot to add Order of the Arrow too.

This honor camper was too old at 12yrs old to join the Blue Plague(Cub Scouts), neat uniform though.
I did get to be a Junior member of Tribe at Camp Tahquitz, which is right across the street from the Girl Scout camp up in the mountains near Big Bear CA.
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