Started the process of updating all of my electronics last weekend, and it has been such a mess that I’m still completely without the tools I use to do Practical Woodsman stuff. All I have currently is my phone, and it can’t really handle the heavier tasks.
Hopefully all will be worked out before next week gets too long in the tooth!
Indian Summer thought
Good afternoon gentlemen. Today is a beautiful day in Hamilton, 26C/78F the day before my 61st birthday. It's been a hell of a year. Building a studio, business almost tanked in Q3, my Mother at 89 looked sketchy there for a bit and everything bookended with warm weather opportunities to get outside. I'm reminded of that lyric from Gord Downie 'Happy I was here'
With the advent of backwoods chairs, and tarps, and mattresses, and all sort of highfalutin thingamajigs, it’s easier today more than ever before to never have to come into contact with the ground in the woods.
Just last week I had hundreds of folks in a fever over the fact that my preferred shelters don’t have floors in them. “You’d stay warmer if your shelter had a floor!” some opined rather strongly. They’re wrong. A floor doesn’t have anything at all to do with the temperature inside your shelter. A floor on a shelter is just unnecessary added weight, and for some, psychological comfort. But if you’ve weaned yourself out of the need for the psychological comfort, then it’s just unnecessary added weight.
Well, I ain’t no angel. I’ve fallen into using chairs and that sort of thing. Some of them have become so light and compact, and offer so much comfort for so little a price, it sort of becomes a matter of “why not?” Why not throw this thing in my pack and carry ...
