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I've always wanted to go back and see some of my favorite places before man had a hand in altering them. As a kid I grew up on the former site of Leni Lenape village. I used to dream about visiting the old neighborhood. Off the coast of Brazil stands a small group of islands, Ilhas Martins...

I don't know if it is the same all over but here the ants will walk around on you for a while before biting. Termites will start munching away upon contact. The hammock story was actually pretty funny. We have a tree here called the Embauba, hollow, fast growing, soft wood, great for friction...

Very nice spoon. I have loads of Eucalyptus here but have never found any that was not cracked and fractured.

We have done some "permanent" improvements to our base camp location, table, small bridge to get to a spring, etc. The clearing itself is unnatural for that location and we have to clear it every year. The area is rarely visited by anyone but us. Leaving trash in a campsite is unacceptable...

Interesting. I have seen that reaction to bug attacks often. The first sting is treated as an anomaly, the second always registers as a mass attack requiring a quick change of venue. Wise to step off camera as the next thing you probably did was to check your shorts so to speak. Ants are the...

Guava. I did this one this weekend at our first bushcraft/primitive skills class here in Brazil. I made it very clear to them all that if they really want to see good spoons and learn how to make them they need to translate pages here. This was my first spoon with Guava. 1. Magnolia -...

I made one similar with thick leather, not a bracelet, just a round one to hang on my neck with a chainsaw pull cord. A good socket takes time to make and a bad one will really frustrate you. I find the wheel bearing socket really speeds up the process of teaching the bowdrill or doing a demo...

Our dog did most of the work removing the handle. That one was the older design with the longer stick tang. I have several of the newer, non-laminated classics that seem to have a shorter stick in them. I haven't had any of them apart yet. I get all of my Mora's from Ragweed Forge in the...

This one started life as a red painted wood handled laminated steel Mora #1 until our puppy got a hold of it. She gnawed up the wooden handle and simple leather sheath I had made for it. I re-handled it in stacked leather and cow horn. To attach the stick tang I made a small brass disk and...

The flash high up as probably a satellite. Sometimes they turn and catch the sun off solar panels or some such. My son and I sit out and watch for them sometimes though you see them most often just after sunset.

Not even close! It is very important to always keep on hand a photo of a knife collection that is truly over the top so you can continue to think of yourself as a moderate.

Most places I go here I have my options for where to hang up and can usually find trees that inspire confidence. I live in a transitional zone between tropical forest and open desert-like country and even in the open country prefer my hammock to sleeping on the ground. If you have options with...

I was fortunate at Saturday's location that I had two actual trees. Usually in such close proximity to the rock outcroppings it can be difficult to find two a reasonable distance apart. I've considered using rock climbing wedges. I'm not a rock climber so forgive any lack of correct...

A few weeks ago camping with my son I had a catastrophic hammock failure at 4 AM. Fortunately due to the available trees I was only about 1.5 feet off the ground when the planet rose up and smote me. The hammock (Hennessy Expedition Asym) didn't fail but the limb (actually a fork in the trunk)...

Beautiful work. They would make a fine gift.

I'm surprised there isn't a great deal of mixing. Here at home we speak both English and Portuguese in about equal portions depending on who is here at the time. My kids mix the two languages constantly in terms of vocabulary (Yesterday - "Someone needs to ralar the cheese") and my son will...

How much did Gaelic influence the English we speak today? I understand that many place names were retained but what about common words? As for the history of Scotland, I keep wanting to skip to the end of the book to see if anyone survives. No spoilers...

I'm currently reading the History of Scotland and realized I knew nothing of any of the ancient languages. I went on a YT tour of Gaelic, Welsh etc. Quite the mouthful, my hat is off to anyone capable of learning them as an adult.

I use a mouse pad and sandpaper for my SAK's and it works very well. I'm just getting ready to give all my convex knives a touch-up as a reward for getting the shop cleared out.

Very classy, has that old school look about it. Love the file work. I'll bet you'll be looking for excuses to use it.