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make a poncho?!

shame Daniel Defoe wasn't more specific... but seeing that Robinson Crusoe is supposed to have two good barrels a (and two wet ones) of gun powder and comes up with the idea of taming goats after ca. 11years on his island (when realising he's getting low on powder) i'd daresay it's not gun...

which is how the five-day-week was invented :P

i'm currently rereading "Robinson Crusoe" and in chapter12 he finds cave, to explore it he uses self made candles. to ignite them he uses a tinderbox made from a musket lock "with some wild-fire in the pan". i've no idea what he refers to and my google search for "wild-fire" directs me to...

i haven't tried one myself, but the "jaakari" S is about one litre when folded up... for a collapsible daypack i'm using something similar to a WW2 style veshmeshok (basically a pillow case with draw strings)

obviously the "gendarm of st. tropez" wasn't around... :P (reference to the movie series with Louis de Funes )

google has no reference to it, but according to a YouTube clip Jock McLaren an australian soldier in WW2 (born in Scotland) who was a veterinarian in civil life, operated his own appendix with a pocket knife...

better than using the corkscrew instead the can opener :p

sorry for the late update to post #3 (=as our internet currently misbehaves again...) it's the HL23 model

about half an hour ago i had an encounter with a land crab (who -- as the name suggests-- live on land rather than near the ocean. they can be found waayys up in the mountains and usually come out after rain. not sure how common this is for crustaceans, but the females carry the young ones with...

i have a fenix (exact name escapes me right now -- will check later!) which i have since late 2015, 8years of it in tropical conditions. runs on a single AA and the "3second switch" is simply brilliant

a troop of howling monkeys were LITERALLY in the trees above my hut this morning -- and they are called "howlers" for a reason... (==they start their "concert" long before sunrise which makes sleeping somewhat impossible...)

sharpening pucks (for axes etc.) don't exist here and buying one online would cost me 3x more in shipping and import than what the puck costs... :-(

thanks for your infos. so far it's just ideas i'm playing with (as i've to make some more money first...) but i'll keep it in mind for when things improve a bit:finger: sadly diamond or ceramic stones are nonexistent here, so buying online would be my only option...

i'm not sure if it's still available or how expensive it would be to produce in small quantities, but the camo pattern of the NVA (== the armed forces of what INCORRECTLY gets called East GERMany) was "raintarn" -- an olive green base with little stripes in brown. from a few meters away the...

i'm interested in a larger diamond stone for sharpening farm tools, all what's available here are crappy synthetic stones which are softer than the tools you try to sharpen...

how good is the quality of their stuff?! some of those items look suspiciously low-price, but i'm tempted to get one or two stones once i've the funds and providing the costa rican government doesn't rip me off with import costs...

not spectacular in itself, but yesterday i went across our moat (=the small river separating the farm where i live from civilization) and saw a swarm of small fish migrating upriver -- when i returned an our later they were still migrating ... never seen anything like it before

good to know as i've some old files (they don't last very long in our tropical climate :-( ) which i'm planning to repurpose...

●"little ben" (==the Ben Orford i received last year from a very generous fellow member as a gift) lays at night onder my pillow and at daytime "sits" in a baldric/ shoulder holster across my chest when it's "jungle time" (and as i'm typing right now) ●Leatherman "surge" on my belt ●usually a...