I apologize if I have mentioned this image before, but if I have, I cannot find it on the blog. I recently ordered a duplicate of my Junior Girl Scout guide to connect with it again.
The image below is all I remember of being a Junior Girl Scout.
It’s the image of the ideal campground. I was hypnotized by this image. The pulley system with the soap on one end and the washcloth on the other. The clever way the backpack and first aid kit are lashed to the tree. And a tent just for your sorted firewood? Come on.
I needed to get this image because I want the heroine of Jerry’s book to have a similar pulley-intensive cunning setup during the dark night of her soul.
I am glad I was absorbed by that page and not the disturbingly sexist one below.
“You make yourself useful not only at home and among your friends but wherever you see a chance to help. Ask yourself what you can do to help at home. Can you set the table, wash dishes, make your own bed? Is there something special you can do to help your father?”
Liiiiiike … get him a beer? Help with the taxes?
Do you remember what the box on top of the horizontal ladder between two trees is for?
(I have some doubts about tying a string around soap and a washcloth and them always weighing the same so as to not flip over the tree limb. But that may be entirely unfounded. And if one just said "a pulley system" then it would totally work because you can have pulley systems that basically hold light-ish things in place until you tug.)
Posted by: KC | July 10, 2021 at 08:26 PM
KC - I imagine the food is in a box and raised off the ground to protect it from raccoons and bears. And are you taking into account the weight of the rope on the side of the lighter object? The odd this is that in my memory that’s a bar of soap on one side and a jug of water, on the other, which makes more sense.
Posted by: TheQueen | July 10, 2021 at 09:21 PM
But bears are tall enough to just take the food out of that box, if girls are tall enough to just take food out of that box, and raccoons would surely not be flummoxed by the ladder? (unless extremely pregnant; they do get slightly less dexterous when extremely pregnant) Maybe this camp site has some sort of more on-the-ground animals like rats, though, I guess. Maybe also it'd keep out ants, if you had the poles covered at some point with an anti-ant-traversing substance...
Posted by: KC | July 11, 2021 at 12:14 AM
KC - maybe that vague circle drawn on the lowered lid is a combination lock.
Posted by: TheQueen | July 11, 2021 at 06:54 PM