From now on, on Fridays, I propose we share something special: A comfort food we are enjoying, or one that we wish we were enjoying. I’ll kick us off…
I wish I had taken a picture of the late supper I had today, but it didn’t occur to me until I had already gobbled it all up. It was outstanding.
I had something off the menu of my favorite local restaurant called General Tso’s Chicken Sliders (with slaw on them), sweet tater fries, and a small bowl of green beans (cooked with bacon). All of it was exceptional.
The pictures I got here off the internet are only approximations. The presentation and the taste of what I actually enjoyed today was much, much better. I can’t find any perfect representation of it on the internet.
Gettin’ outta the glorious rain in the glorious backcountry with my glorious dog
I found this video interesting as it relates to conversations we have about the true nature of things, what is really important and what is not, and how little importance some things have depending on the needs of the moment.
For example, this guy and his fellow soldiers, while being shot at would just dump their blankets - the blankets were totally unimportant to the immediate goal of staying alive. This meant later suffering, but at least they were alive.
I think about this sort of thing all the time when seeing guys building elaborate, beautiful shelters in the woods. When you’re hungry and lost, or simply traveling through the wilderness, nobody is going to care about building an elaborate shelter. You’re only going to care about conserving energy and using energy for only things that are absolutely necessary in any given moment.
This means sleeping under a rock outcrop, or a fallen tree, or just trying to get through the night under your sweater and some leaves you scrounge ...
