Firestarter

Firestarter

I experimented with making firestarter today.   First, I filled the cups of a cardboard egg carton with dryer lint, scraps of paper, and wood debris from the bottom of my firewood box.                     Then I...
Social Distance Monday

Social Distance Monday

They didn’t need me at work Monday, so I did the responsible thing and stayed home and messed with my dugout canoe project. I am just at the beginning stages of burning out the cottonwood log. Using birch bark, pine pitch, dried grass and a ferro rod, I got a...
Cottonwood Tinder

Cottonwood Tinder

  https://adventuresidecar.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/20190531_185458.mp4 This time of year the cotttonwoods shed seeds encased in fluffy dander. This cotton litters the forest, coating the ground in white, drifting in heaps alongside the roads and paths....