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Cranberries and Chanterelles
Cranberries and Chanterelles Cranberries ripen at the height of chanterelle season. It was inevitable eventually I would try cooking them up together. I'm only surprised it took me so long to get around to it. Ingredients chanterelles wild cranberries...
Dutch Oven Cornbread
This is a variation of the cornstick recipe I posted earlier. Cornbread recipes are pretty flexible. You can start with equal parts cornmeal, flour, and sugar Use more cornmeal and less flour for more texture; proportionally more flour than meal yields...
Campfire Chili Dinner
Until recently, I seldom used a tripod for anything more than boiling water. Why go to the effort to make a tripod when you can cook directly over the coals? But I have come to appreciate the heat control a tripod affords. You can hang your pot high over a flaming...
Beer Bandoleer
Carhartt 276100 - 6 Pack Beverage Sling - essential summer equipment. Brown polyester exterior, with an adjustable web carry strap and silver insulated inside, the bandoleer fits six cans of beer. We were out for 4 hours in 95 degree(35c) heat. The beer was cool, but...
Cornbread and Blackberries
I enjoyed a relaxing morning, another day off, due to The Contagion, with Dutch oven cornbread and fresh blackberries for breakfast. The cornbread was left over from a recent camping trip; the blackberries were picked this morning. I tarted it up with butter,...
Good Morning
10/5/25 Good morning. 6:00 and cold enough to see my breath but comfortable by the fire. I am not sure if I hear Walter or Jason, but someone is snoring in the tipi, loud enough to scare the bears. Sipping my tea and listening to the brook babble stories to me,...
Good Evening
10/3/25 8:30 Clear sky cool, temperate weather, The moon waxing gibbous and approaching full. Just got home from the deep, dark forest. Mike and I drove north, looking for someplace we hadn't camped before. ...
Outhouse Camp August 2025
My brother Andy, my friend Jason, and I all had our birthdays within a week of each other. Obviously, a birthday camping trip was in order. It would take some effort to work out the logistics. Jason is employed at an orthopedic clinic, with weekends off. Weekends are...
Good Afternoon
Walter accompanied Michael and I into the woods to look for mushrooms. Even though we have had recent rainstorms, it was too dry and we didn't collect many specimens for the amount of ground we covered. We did find a few rubbery chanterelles, a small chicken of the...
WAAAM Fly-In 2025
My friend Russ Noe suggested I help him ferry people around the air show with our sidecars, so I did. We had a lot of fun, met some great people and saw a bunch of interesting machinery. Here is a photo dump. I may add captions later, when I have more time. ...
Good Morning
2/20/26 5:30 28F (-2C) Dark, frozen, and windless, with broken clouds overhead. The sky was quite dramatic early this morning. Starry patches of dark blue separated by opaque tufts as soft and fuzzy as lint. As I finish my tea the clouds have...
Good Morning
2/19/26 7:00 33F (0.5C) Cloudy and wet. Currently no wind and no precipitation. My weather app sez it is below freezing and snowing but I am not seeing that. ...
Good Morning
2/18/26 6:30 26F (-3.3C) It is a windless morning covered in lumps of ice, clear but for a few wisps of clouds. A brief squall of freezing rain passed through last night, followed by clearing and plunging temperature. The apparent tranquility of a...
Good Morning
2/17/26 6:00 27F (-2.7C) Cold, still, and dull gray. A dim, frosty morning. Not actually snowing but ice crystals brush my face. The cat's water is freezing. I break through the thin crust so she can drink. By 6:30 Amy is up making the bed. Birds...
Good Morning
2/16/26 6:45 40F (4.4C) it's raining like a cow pissing on a flat rock. The rain is pounding straight down with an incessant, rattling tattoo. The dog is hiding undercover of the front porch, studiously ignored by the cat. Or so I assume. I haven't...
