Squirrel Campfire - Friday Afternoon (After lunch)

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

There is no fire in the fire pit, it's the middle of the day and Pippi doesn't need to cook anything.

What she is doing is enjoying the day. There's a chance it will get cooler and rain, but right now it's quite nice in her opinion.

She's sipping a lemonade, and fiddling with a bit of rope that's different colors on each end and about six feet long.

Other then that, she doesn't seem to be particularly buisy.

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We do keep running into each other

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

oooh, rope, all kinds fun
"Hey Pippi." tim said, wandering up.

Re: We do keep running into each other

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Hey Tim." Pippi said and tossed the end of the rope, which was tied into a Monkey Paw knot (http://www.scoutxing.com/knots/monkeys_paw/monkeys_paw.htm) around a small rock, to him gently.

"Think fast."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

After sleeping most of the past couple days (other than going to class, that is), Demyx was feeling better and more up to talking to people (and his mun has the day off from work). He meandered his way out to the campfire and plunked down by Pippi, dressed in his old black Organization clothes. "What're you doing?" he asked curiously.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Practicing knots!" Pippi said. "It's a very important skill to have when you're a seafaring type person... And it's kinda homework for the Beach class."

Pippi held up the rope, which has various types of knots tied in it.

"Hello by the way."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"Interesting. I've never tried it." Demyx grinned. "Hi to you too. Been keeping busy?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes I have. And you should." Pippi said tying an angler's loop (http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm). "You never know when you'll need a good knot."

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

"I've never tried to tie anybody up before," Demyx admitted. "Though I have been tied up, myself. It can be fun." TMI? Probably.

Re: We do keep running into each other

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

He managed to not get hit with the rock, but wound up hitting it away rather than catch it.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim glanced at him. Not what he'd thought Pippi was getting at.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Silly, there's other things that can be tied." Pippi said not really thinking about the ramifications of the conversation.

She's also not bothered to think back to all those times she played "Pirates and... Other Pirates" with various members of her Papa's crew. (Kids who grow up on ships don't play "cops and robbers" or "Cowboys and Indians".) Because if she did it may occur to he as to why the men were so amused by that game.

[electric-sitar.livejournal.com]

Demyx smiled at Tim. "Have you ever tried it? It's fun." Then he returned his attention to Pippi. "Yeah, I know that. Like tying your shoes and all that." Not that his boots had laces or anything, but still. "Is the beach class fun? I thought about taking it, but I didn't want to overload."

Re: We do keep running into each other

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well... I suppose that's as good a reaction as any." Pippi said pulling the end back to her.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes." she said, undoing the monkey paw in the end of the rope. "We tried out kayaks, they were ever so much fun."

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

Seras came out of the cabin an plunked herself down near the fire.

"Hey," she said, "What're you up to?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Practicing knots." Pippi said, holding out the monkey paw knot she was just undoing. "Jarod went over them in Beach class today and I realized I was very rusty."

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"Neat," said Seras, examining it, "What would you use a knot like that for?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, it has several uses." she said. "Normally you'd tie it around a shot, or, if you have it, a small hollow ball. And this way, you can easily toss the rope up and over a boom or toss it from person to person in the rigging. I don't know if you've ever try to throw around a loose end of a rope, but it doesn't fly very well."

Re: We do keep running into each other

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim decided not to mention the fact that he'd been trying to catch it. "So you're training rocks?" he asked.

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"No," tim said to Demyx. "Can't say that I have." He found himself idly wondering what Teleri would have thought of that idea, but banished the thought quickly.

Re: We do keep running into each other

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Oh yes. As you can see, this one is particularly ferocious!" Pippi used the other end of the rope to whip at the rock on the ground.

"Down Simba! Bad rock! Back!"

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"I can't say that I have, no. But, that makes sense. And, this is for...rigging and sails and..stuff?"

Seras' nautical vocabulary was close to non-existant.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Well, some of these knots are for sailing, and some are for fishing, and some are for fishing, most of them are just useful." Pippi showed Seras the hand out (http://www.tollesburysc.co.uk/Knots/Knots_gallery.htm) from the class.

[union-jane.livejournal.com]

"I like the 'sheepshank.' If only because it is very fun to say."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It is isn't it?" Pippi grinned. "Sheepshank, it's very useful also. Sometimes you're stuck with damaged line and you don't know when you'll be able to replace it."

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hey Gwynn Seras."