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Kitchen knife storage
At home the answer is generally easy; a knife-block or a magnetic strip on the wall. But when transporting them? You can buy an expensive bag, which may or may not actually keep them from cutting things. There is another solution. Make a scabbard from wood.
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Survival in the boreal forest
Les Stroud is perhaps better known as Survivorman. Here are two of his early survival movies, where he does a week in summer in northern Ontario, and then a week in winter in the same area. He really manages to show that it is possible if you know what you are doing, but that it is not trivial.
First summer:
Then winter:
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Northern life and material culture
Inuit group in northern Canada, filmed in the 1960's.
http://www.nfb.ca/explore-all-directors/quentin-brown
Makes me wish I knew the language, but they are lovely even without
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A winter trail
A trail that is easy walking in summer. Now, it is covered in deep snow, and the birches all bend down with a heavy load of snow.
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Snowshoes and a dog
I recently bought a pair of snowshoes from Jarrod Stonedahl, and finally got a change to test them.
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Out for a quick trip
I finally had some time to go out into the woods. The snow was ok (about 30 cm in the open, 10 in among the trees), the temperature quite varied (-30 C at one point, about 0 C at another).
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Skedholk
Back in the olden days spoons were kept in a holder on the wall, called a "skedholk" (litterally something like "spoon-nest"). Often decorated with e.g. chip carving. I decided to play with this theme, mostly since I have no good place to keep them at the moment.
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Relic fish, autumn colors, and more
I was out hiking a bit today.
A small pond on the way up. One can really see that fall is fairly well progressed here, with almost no leaves left on the birches. Almost all the bilberries are gone, but there was plenty of crowberries (Empetrum nigrum) to be found above the tree-line.
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Winter tea
Around here rosebay willowherb (Epilobium angustifolium) and meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) is more than ready to harvest for tea, as is nettle (Urtica diocia). I usually simply gather a large armfull of whole plants, and hang them in a shady, dry and well ventilated place. After a week or three they are dry, and I can collect them and store ( Read more... )
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