Lamb’s quarters is a spinach-like plant that most folks consider a weed found in cultivated crops, gardens, pastures, vacant lots, waste ground, and other disturbed soils. Lamb’s quarters has a few different nicknames like pigweed, goosefoot, white goosefoot, wild spinach, and lamb’s quarter (singular), depending on where you live. It is not related to “lamb’s [...]
Charcloth is a main element in creating fire using the flint and steel method. It is carbonized cotton that captures the spark produced when carbon steel is struck on the sharp edge of flint or other silicate based glassy rocks. Traditionally small pieces of cotton fabric (I use 100% cotton jeans) are placed in a [...]
Last Saturday night I was treated to a surprise dinner by my youngest son Grayson. We pulled into the parking lot of “Big Tom’s Wings and Pizza” located in town. Unknown to me it was the Grand Opening with “Big Tom” of “Survivor Africa” appearing in person for a “Meet and Greet”. He was very [...]
When disaster strikes and the electrical grid goes down, how are you going to see in the dark? Without a backup generator It boils down to two ways: battery/dynamo powered lights - or - fuel based flames. An exception to these two catagories would be a cylume stick which is a safe, self contained, luminecent [...]
