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Fifteen Steps to Building a Scout Campfire
1) Split dead limb into fragments and shave fragments into slivers.
2) Bandage left thumb.
3) Chop other fragments into smaller fragments.
4) Bandage left foot.
5) Make structure of slivers (including those embedded in hand.).
6) Light match.
7) Light match.
8) Repeat "a Scout is cheerful" and light match.
9) Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments and blow gently into base of flames.
10) Apply burn ointment to nose.
11) When fire is burning, collect more wood.
12) Upon discovery that fire has gone out during your absence, soak wood from can labeled "kerosene".
13) Treat face and arms for second degree burns, and relabel can to read "gasoline".
14) When fire is burning well, add all remaining firewood.
15) When thunderstorm has passed, repeat steps 1-14.

I hope that you will enjoy the site, it's dedicated to my family and my amateur radio, sailing and scouting friends who have encouraged and supported me with this little project.

Your comments and/or suggestions on the website, or on amateur radio, sailing or scouting certainly would be appreciated.

"If a man must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything. Perhaps a bit better than most. A sailing vessel is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise........" E.B. White, from The Sea and the Wind that Blows