The literal leftover taters and sweet taters that I carried out of the Lonesome Holler with me two months ago. I could take them out again with me right now and prepare meals with them if I wanted to.
Now do you see why root vegetables are so amazing for backcountry cooking? They can survive all the abuse you can throw at them, they’re incredibly versatile, and they stay fresh for longer than you’ll ever need them to stay fresh.
Making content for YouTube is so strange. So often, I do videos that I’m really excited about sharing with others, and when I upload them, they just sit there and nobody watches them.
Then a year passes…
All of a sudden, hundreds or even thousands of people begin watching some video I did a year ago - a video that I’ve long since moved on from. My emotions and hopes are all on the video I posted yesterday! But what everybody is watching is the video I did a full year or more ago!
And the strangest thing about this is that I have absolutely zero way of knowing what people will latch onto. So many of the videos I do that I think people will love get no love at all. They will sit out there forever with no more than 90 viewers. But videos I do that I think nobody will care about inexplicably become big hits!
It’s a very odd way to work.
I throw my heart into almost all of the videos I put out there, but these two realities - the year long delay before a video gains traction, along with ...
This guy commented on one of my videos on YouTube, so I went to check out his channel. He has a very modest, small channel where he talks about vintage things, like fedoras and ball caps.
I really like his taste in baseball caps, and I admire his modest nature, making videos for a pretty small audience. So I thought I’d share him here for anybody else who might find this sort of thing interesting.
