stabman
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Here the bowl is looking pretty much ready. The exposed ring on the D'Eskabar was awesome for scraping and smoothing to produce that round, splinter-free interior you want on a bowl:
Here's a bunch of daytime Tarp Cabin pics.
Ian talking to his wife; note the mud around the fire area, where the ground has thawed:
Another shot that shows the camp area:
Boiling water for oatmeal, and cooking the rest of the sausages in the pot (don't worry about the plastic bag there; it got packed out as did all garbage :thumbup:
Oatmeal! The first bowl I ate was "dino egg oatmeal" that Ian had brought. It has little round egg-shaped white things in it. The boiling water melts the marshmallow/sugar/whatever away leaving you with hard candy dinosaurs to eat.
Stirring and eating it with my balisong spoon (can't have a butterfly knife here, so why not a spoon?
):
My brother's twig stove he made heats up water for his breakfast:
Don't forget to eat your fruit, an essential part of a healthy breakfast:
After eating, I washed out the bowl with boiling water, then used coals from the fire to dry it out. I then took a rock I had been heating for hours out of the coals, and used it to dry and scrape the bowl's bowl, making it ever more "bowlish." I had to use napkins and gloves to hold it without getting burned.
The tarp cabin is disassembled. Ian packed out the tarps, now that his pack was lighter due to all water and other drinks being gone:
But keep your wits about you...you never know when some weirdo will jump out and bash you in the face with a log!
Once back at home I seasoned the bowl with olive oil, as was recommended in things I read. I couldn't help but think of it now, though, as a mortar and pestle, since the stone's corners watched the bowl's so well now, Thus, I decided to make some rice flour, which I looked up how to do.
I soaked the rice for six or seven hours:
Then, I dried it on a cookie sheet on paper towels under a fan for a few hours:
And ground it:
I was going to grind it all, and make peanut butter cookies, substituting rice flour instead, but after over an hour of grinding, I had this tiny, about 2 tablespoons of what can only be charitably called "flour."
But I went ahead any way, and made the cookies, mentally adjusting while really tired at 06:00, and forgetting to add a couple of ingredients:
They were terrible!!!
For fans of Friends, the television show, they were totally batch 16:
[video=youtube;6wX9Pqo70w0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wX9Pqo70w0[/video]
And that's it.
If nothing more, I got to hang out with good friends and family, eat a bunch of steak, and make a bowl that looks pretty good in the kitchen. :thumbup:
Dave stayed till about 00:30 Sunday morning, and my step-brother headed out somewhere around that time as well.
Ian left about 11:15 Sunday morning, while my brother and I finally left about 14:00.
Here's a bunch of daytime Tarp Cabin pics.
Ian talking to his wife; note the mud around the fire area, where the ground has thawed:
Another shot that shows the camp area:
Boiling water for oatmeal, and cooking the rest of the sausages in the pot (don't worry about the plastic bag there; it got packed out as did all garbage :thumbup
:
Oatmeal! The first bowl I ate was "dino egg oatmeal" that Ian had brought. It has little round egg-shaped white things in it. The boiling water melts the marshmallow/sugar/whatever away leaving you with hard candy dinosaurs to eat.
Stirring and eating it with my balisong spoon (can't have a butterfly knife here, so why not a spoon?
):
My brother's twig stove he made heats up water for his breakfast:
Don't forget to eat your fruit, an essential part of a healthy breakfast:
After eating, I washed out the bowl with boiling water, then used coals from the fire to dry it out. I then took a rock I had been heating for hours out of the coals, and used it to dry and scrape the bowl's bowl, making it ever more "bowlish." I had to use napkins and gloves to hold it without getting burned.
The tarp cabin is disassembled. Ian packed out the tarps, now that his pack was lighter due to all water and other drinks being gone:
But keep your wits about you...you never know when some weirdo will jump out and bash you in the face with a log!
Once back at home I seasoned the bowl with olive oil, as was recommended in things I read. I couldn't help but think of it now, though, as a mortar and pestle, since the stone's corners watched the bowl's so well now, Thus, I decided to make some rice flour, which I looked up how to do.
I soaked the rice for six or seven hours:
Then, I dried it on a cookie sheet on paper towels under a fan for a few hours:
And ground it:
I was going to grind it all, and make peanut butter cookies, substituting rice flour instead, but after over an hour of grinding, I had this tiny, about 2 tablespoons of what can only be charitably called "flour."
But I went ahead any way, and made the cookies, mentally adjusting while really tired at 06:00, and forgetting to add a couple of ingredients:
They were terrible!!!
For fans of Friends, the television show, they were totally batch 16:
[video=youtube;6wX9Pqo70w0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wX9Pqo70w0[/video]
And that's it.
If nothing more, I got to hang out with good friends and family, eat a bunch of steak, and make a bowl that looks pretty good in the kitchen. :thumbup:
Dave stayed till about 00:30 Sunday morning, and my step-brother headed out somewhere around that time as well.
Ian left about 11:15 Sunday morning, while my brother and I finally left about 14:00.
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