Sitting by the fire with an old coffeepot.

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NirreBosse

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The man feels the cold with his back but it starts to get warmer. Its morgning and the fog is leawing the swamp where he sits infront of his newly made campfire.
Hes been walking for some hours with his spitz (dog). The dog has been away for a while and the man knows this probobly means its in contakt with moose. He has to wait and see whats happens, and as hes hungry and sweaty he has found some tarwood, made some fussticks with his homemade knife with almost black blade from years of intense use.
He has found some water in a klear well near the place he sits. The place is choosen with great thouroghness to give sight in bouth ways if a moose appears.
The water now boils in an old coffeepot he has used for many years and he takes some coffeepowder from his birchbarkpot and puts in the boiling water. He takes his knife with the slightly upsvept point and holds it through the handle not to burn his hand when he lets the coffee boil up again. He then pours it into his cup made made by his father of curlybirch many years ago when he was still alive and they used to hunt togeter. The dark knife leys on the stumb beside him as he eats some bread and dryed meet with his eatingknife, a rather new, but wellused stockman. He is eating and drinking his coffee and thinking of old times. His old things carrys storys from another time and he is lost in good memories about previous hunts and friends when the dog barks in distance.
The man hurries to pour the last coffee over the fading fire and put his things in the backpack. He makes sure the old knife he made himself a long time ago sits in its black and somewhat weared sheat. He then takes his mauserrifle on the shoulder and starts walking towards the barking. The day is still young and it seams to get exiting.

Bosse
 
Great stuff, NirreBosse. Your snapshots are a very welcome addition to our little part of the Internet. :thumbup: :D
 
I'm gonna have to go over by you to live, Bosse. You make it sound like Marylands eastern shore marshes in the 1950's. We didn't have any moose though, just deer.

Why does coffee always taste best from a campfire and old blacked pot?
 
jackknife said:
I'm gonna have to go over by you to live, Bosse. You make it sound like Marylands eastern shore marshes in the 1950's. We didn't have any moose though, just deer.

Why does coffee always taste best from a campfire and old blacked pot?
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Its not the taste of the coffee that differs so much, but the taste of life itself.

When you have settled over here, make sure to give me a call so I can invite you to my campfire.

Isnt there any wilderness left in Maryland?

Bosse
 
Back when I had my first ever sips of coffee, it was from an old pot like that very early in the cold mornings camped next to a stream in the backwoods of the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania with my uncle Lew in the late 1960's. That was the very best tasting coffee I ever had, ever.. :thumbup:

It was only later that I found out the secret to his 'camp coffee' was the little secret ingredient he'd add to our cups from his ever present sterling silver flasks full of Italian Liqueur. :D

Good little tales from you here NirreBosse.



Anthony
 
Google on Digerberget 100 km south of Östersund you see the place where I grew up and now have a cottage or rather a small farm.

Or google on Fatmomakke (south lappland) 350 km north of Östersund and you see where we have our mountain cottage.

As I been around in sothern europe,lived in sothern Sweden and traveled in India I come tio realise that this is waste country. I will not move no mather what. I like the space.

Bosse
 
NirreBosse said:
Google on Digerberget 100 km south of Östersund you see the place where I grew up and now have a cottage or rather a small farm.

Or google on Fatmomakke (south lappland) 350 km north of Östersund and you see where we have our mountain cottage.

As I been around in sothern europe,lived in sothern Sweden and traveled in India I come tio realise that this is waste country. I will not move no mather what. I like the space.

Bosse
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Well, if you ever get to Prague, look me up. The first beer's on me!
 
It looks like NirreBosse is going to be a regular contributor to the folksy forum.

I certainly hope so, at least. We are the richer for his posts.

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Great little story. It reminded me of my old camp coffee pots that are blackened and cherished.
One day my son and I were at the local Sportsmans Warehouse and he spotted the nice new shiny coffee pots. Dad, you need one of these, they are a lot nicer looking than yours. I spent a couple minutes explaining why the ones I already have are better. Funny thing is, I think he actually understood.
Although when I told him that someday they would be his, he didn't look overly excited :D
 
Very nice story. :thumbup:

That coffee does taste better than anything you can buy at a cafe nowadays.

Peter
 
shaldag,
Ive been reading this forum on and off for years and more seldom other places on the general forums. I can talk english rather good and reed fair enough but writing has been hard and still takes some time. Around christmas there were some giveaways here that involved knifes I was interested in, patterns I reed about here but never seen in real life and brands like case that are almost unknown in Sweden, The givers rightfully wanted the participants to contribute to the forum. And just reading is no real participation, so I desided to write when interesting things came up for me to write about, and I also decided that 90% english was ok. Im a forigner to english and why try to hide it. I always liked the storys of jackknife and he has triggered my desire to talk a little about my environment and my memories. After that I wrote a little about my first knife and found out I liked to write and your answers on my writing. As I,m a father of two sons, building a house for the family and try to visit nature as much as possible, I will not ever be a great contributor but I will try to get regular.

Bosse
 
NirreBosse said:
shaldag,
Ive been reading this forum on and off for years and more seldom other places on the general forums. I can talk english rather good and reed fair enough but writing has been hard and still takes some time. Around christmas there were some giveaways here that involved knifes I was interested in, patterns I reed about here but never seen in real life and brands like case that are almost unknown in Sweden, The givers rightfully wanted the participants to contribute to the forum. And just reading is no real participation, so I desided to write when interesting things came up for me to write about, and I also decided that 90% english was ok. Im a forigner to english and why try to hide it. I always liked the storys of jackknife and he has triggered my desire to talk a little about my environment and my memories. After that I wrote a little about my first knife and found out I liked to write and your answers on my writing. As I,m a father of two sons, building a house for the family and try to visit nature as much as possible, I will not ever be a great contributor but I will try to get regular.

Bosse
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NBosse,

Speaking for myself and many others I'll wager, I am quite pleased to read your fine threads/posts here, and you ARE a great contributor and frankly one I look forward to reading every time I get the chance. :thumbup:


Anthony
 
Thank you very much, sir.
This very folksy forum is my favorite place to read on internet and its as much for the friendly atmosphere here as for the interesting threads.

Bosse
 
Bosse, I hope you continue to post as I like the view of Scandinavian culture. I have a feeling that you all over there have done a good deal better than, us at preserving a way of life that respects nature and wilderness. Besides, if you do continue, your writing will get better as you get more used to writing in English. They say practice makes perfect. You're allready light years ahead of me; there's no way I could post in Swedish.:D

I'd love to hear more about Swedish knife and gun laws, culture, present day knife use and public outlook. Is the mora still a popular knife over there? Do Swedish boy scouts still carry a knife? Over here they've practicly disarmed the scouts.:mad:

In answer to your earlier question, no there are no real wilderness area's in Maryland, or east of the Mississippi river. There are some National parks, and some state parks that are big, but nothing you can't walk out of in a day, two at the max, if you hold on a steady compass bearing. Where I live, it's on the edge of suburbia. To the north is rolling wooded farmland, with a few parks here and there with some hiking trails. But civilization is never far away. Not like I see on an atlas looking at where you live. I'm very envious of you!

Where I used to roam the woods with a .22 when I was young, are now either housing developments, or shopping centers, office complexes. It makes me a bit sad that my grandkids will not know the freedom that we had when I was thier age.

That's a very big lake you have there on the west side of Osterland. If I'm measuring right, about 40 miles end to end. Gee, with water and woods, I could make myself at home there!:)

Please keep writing.
 
NirreBosse said:
shaldag,
Ive been reading this forum on and off for years and more seldom other places on the general forums. I can talk english rather good and reed fair enough but writing has been hard and still takes some time. Around christmas there were some giveaways here that involved knifes I was interested in, patterns I reed about here but never seen in real life and brands like case that are almost unknown in Sweden, The givers rightfully wanted the participants to contribute to the forum. And just reading is no real participation, so I desided to write when interesting things came up for me to write about, and I also decided that 90% english was ok. Im a forigner to english and why try to hide it. I always liked the storys of jackknife and he has triggered my desire to talk a little about my environment and my memories. After that I wrote a little about my first knife and found out I liked to write and your answers on my writing. As I,m a father of two sons, building a house for the family and try to visit nature as much as possible, I will not ever be a great contributor but I will try to get regular. And I will pick him up at the aipport this weekend for a longe vesit

Bosse
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Have a good friend from Sweden and you remind me of him
He now lives in Canada and either we go up there or he comes to Texas every year. When I first met him he was living in Houston TX and we met at the range we got to talking he was just learning English But spoke German
fluently I also speak German as that is where my grand parents were from as we talked he said he missed the hunting as he did not have a place to hunt hear so I invited him to come with me when I went to our place in east Texas and that was the start of our friendship.
When he finally moved to Canada we kepi in touch and visited one another when we could The day he left he gave me his Norwegian kreg in 6.5 by55 and I gave him a Remington 700 in .375 as he would need it where he was
going north Ontario He still has the old Remington an I the Krag the start of this was 45 years ago.
 
I spent many a morning brewing coffee over the campfire. Nothing tasted better on a cold Adirondack morning. Thanks for reminding me.
 
knifehunter50 said:
Have a good friend from Sweden and you remind me of him
He now lives in Canada and either we go up there or he comes to Texas every year. When I first met him he was living in Houston TX and we met at the range we got to talking he was just learning English But spoke German
fluently I also speak German as that is where my grand parents were from as we talked he said he missed the hunting as he did not have a place to hunt hear so I invited him to come with me when I went to our place in east Texas and that was the start of our friendship.
When he finally moved to Canada we kepi in touch and visited one another when we could The day he left he gave me his Norwegian kreg in 6.5 by55 and I gave him a Remington 700 in .375 as he would need it where he was
going north Ontario He still has the old Remington an I the Krag the start of this was 45 years ago.
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Really fine freindships seem to arise from our basic deep seated love of the great outdoors. Thank you for sharing that one too, knifehunter50.
 
I hope nobody minds a little nip of bourbon or brandy while we sit, relax and unwind...

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