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The wife and I did our annual camp at Rend Lake. Got there Saturday evening, around 4:30. Set up camp, and just relaxed around the fire all evening. Did some hot dogs over the fire for supper. Just relaxed and didn't even bother taking any photos.
We slept to some nice 32° weather. Slept like a baby. That was the quietest this campground has ever been. The government shut down was probably the culprit. Even people with season passes had to leave. They probably didn't bother coming back. We had the tent camping section to ourselves.
Got up Sunday morning and got a fire going:
Wife got her morning java going, in her one cup pot:
Perkage attained:
Man's best friend for a fire. I love my fire tongs. Makes log placement a breeze:
Wife started cutting up apples. She used her Mora Companion, the first knife I gave to her. I asked her why she always chooses that knife, and she replied that it was thin and slicey, and she usually uses knives for food prep anyways, and it worked well for that. I need to get her a BK15:
The start of homemade apple sauce:
I was practicing feather sticks with my Vic Camper. I never was too good at it:
Anywhos, the wife commented that she wish she would have brought a wooden spoon from home, for the apple sauce. I thought to myself, this sounds like a job for the BK2. This is the devirginizing of my second BK2. If one is to devirginize, it's always best to make sure your wood is hard. In this case, it was oak.
:
I started thinning down one of the batonned pieces, with a fore hand grip:
Meanwhile, the apple sauce was cooking down. I was hoping to have the spoon done by the time it was ready:
Using the chest lever grip:
A little more fore hand:
I found that making a series of small chops down the handle:
Then making chops more downward, was a good way to remove stock fast:
Starting to take shape:
The apple sauce is cooking down pretty good now:
And of course, bacon:
Using some push cuts, or smoothing strokes, to shape out the spoon a bit more:
Finished spoon. Rude and crude, but, my first, and did was it was supposed to. Quite a pile of wood chips:
Back to the stove. Freshly grated hash browns:
The spoon was done in time for the apple sauce, my intended goal. I didn't time it, but started when she put the apples on the fire, and finished when the meal was done. Perhaps 45 minutes to an hour:
Warm homemade apple sauce, fresh grated hash browns, and bacon for breakfast. Good stuff:
There was a cedar sapling laying on the ground next to the camp site when we got there. The wife wanted to take some home, to try her hand at wood carving. She wanted to make some of those little thingies that makes the drawer smell good for her daughters. BK2 for the win. I prefer to use my forefinger, and thumb for the grip:
Cedar sure is some beautiful wood. Smells good too:
More chopping:
To be continued...
We slept to some nice 32° weather. Slept like a baby. That was the quietest this campground has ever been. The government shut down was probably the culprit. Even people with season passes had to leave. They probably didn't bother coming back. We had the tent camping section to ourselves.
Got up Sunday morning and got a fire going:
Wife got her morning java going, in her one cup pot:
Perkage attained:
Man's best friend for a fire. I love my fire tongs. Makes log placement a breeze:
Wife started cutting up apples. She used her Mora Companion, the first knife I gave to her. I asked her why she always chooses that knife, and she replied that it was thin and slicey, and she usually uses knives for food prep anyways, and it worked well for that. I need to get her a BK15:
The start of homemade apple sauce:
I was practicing feather sticks with my Vic Camper. I never was too good at it:
Anywhos, the wife commented that she wish she would have brought a wooden spoon from home, for the apple sauce. I thought to myself, this sounds like a job for the BK2. This is the devirginizing of my second BK2. If one is to devirginize, it's always best to make sure your wood is hard. In this case, it was oak.
:
I started thinning down one of the batonned pieces, with a fore hand grip:
Meanwhile, the apple sauce was cooking down. I was hoping to have the spoon done by the time it was ready:
Using the chest lever grip:
A little more fore hand:
I found that making a series of small chops down the handle:
Then making chops more downward, was a good way to remove stock fast:
Starting to take shape:
The apple sauce is cooking down pretty good now:
And of course, bacon:
Using some push cuts, or smoothing strokes, to shape out the spoon a bit more:
Finished spoon. Rude and crude, but, my first, and did was it was supposed to. Quite a pile of wood chips:
Back to the stove. Freshly grated hash browns:
The spoon was done in time for the apple sauce, my intended goal. I didn't time it, but started when she put the apples on the fire, and finished when the meal was done. Perhaps 45 minutes to an hour:
Warm homemade apple sauce, fresh grated hash browns, and bacon for breakfast. Good stuff:
There was a cedar sapling laying on the ground next to the camp site when we got there. The wife wanted to take some home, to try her hand at wood carving. She wanted to make some of those little thingies that makes the drawer smell good for her daughters. BK2 for the win. I prefer to use my forefinger, and thumb for the grip:
Cedar sure is some beautiful wood. Smells good too:
More chopping:
To be continued...
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nice spoon too!
Great job on the quick and dirty spoon, looks way better than my first (and second, and third) attempt. Thanks for sharing!