Survival 5 .... the book

 It's hard to describe just how much time and effort went into this book but looking back and seeing the manuscript and art works brings it all together, and you never know if there will ever be another one in the pipeline.

Can you see the constellations?

 Sometimes when you're at at night and you get a lovely clear sky, you can see some magnificent constellations, problem is its hard to get a good picture with just your phone, but maybe you'll be able to pic out one or two from these pics..what can you see?

If you wait long enough you can even see them moving through the sky..what glory in the heavens.

Coming soon - SURVIVAL 5

How Great Thou Art

 

 

I cannot fathom how someone can spend time in creation and not see the hand of the creator, it is always there in the visible and invisible. 

And although this world grows evermore dim and darkness encroaches, we can still see the works of the savior in the nature around us. We need not fear that which opposes us, we just need to see that Christ has dominion over all and all will be done according to his will. When I stand in the midst of his creation the only words that echo through my mind are "How great thou art".

If you have not asked Christ to be your saviour, now is the time. 

Can the Kephart fillet a fish?

 So I'm still using this new kephart knife and my interest in it has not worn off, I've put it through it's paces on a number of tasks and it has performed perfectly on them all. However, there is one task a lot of bushcraft knives fail on and that's filleting a fish, so can it do that?, pics below....

How about that? Absolutely no problem at all, it seems old uncle Horace knew what he was doing after all..my impressions of this knife just keep getting better.

How to make Sumac lemonade

 We were fortunate to find some sumac horns recently while out on a forage and I thought I'd show you guys a very simple way to make sumac lemonade 

First, pick a couple of nice ripe sumac pods, make sure it's not poison sumac!

Put them in a pot and slowly bring up to a very low simmer

As soon  as it starts to simmer take it off the heat and let the pods sit in the pan for 24 hours, then strain.

After pouring through a muslin cloth, squeeze the berries to extract any remaining juice

Add a little sugar syrup if its too tart, chill in the fridge and enjoy, this is a really delicious drink somewhere of a cross between lemon and buckthorn.. 

Quick cooking tripod

 This is a very quick to make and disposable tripod to use with a pot or pan. No need to suspend it from a large tripod just cut three green sticks, hammer them into the ground, put your pan on top and place your fire between them. Of course they will eventually burn through but there's usually about 45mins to an hour of potential use before they do that and that's plenty of time to cook your food.