Saw two ravens today, rare in the area I saw them but I think less and less so. I have seen them within a mile of that spot twice before and actually found one dead on the side of the road a few years ago. I injoy the wildness that these animals of [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Ravens
Posted in Uncategorized on January 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Coyote
Posted in Uncategorized on January 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw a coyote trotting across a field on the way home from work today. It was big and moved with confidence.
Bowdrill from scratch.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 15, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I went into Wells State Forest in Massachusetts, a place I hadn’t been before, with just a knife and some cordage and got a fire from scratch.
I was in a forest of mixed red and white pine, oaks and red maple ( sorry no pictures, left the camera back home). I searched around [...]
Braintanning
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I have been working on a couple whitetail hides using the wet scrape method. One of them was given to me already bucked and scraped by a friend and ready to brain. With all the hard work done I still screwed it up by putting it in the brains (eggs) to wet.
It stiffened right up [...]
Skills after the hollidays.
Posted in Uncategorized on January 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The holidays slowed me down a little but now I’m back at it.
I did some firemaking yesterday with mullin and basswood. I harvested some cattail stalks the other day and made a bowdrill string out of basswood bark I harvested last summer, a three strand braided one. Haven’t tried it yet.
Can’t wait for the snow. [...]
