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somewhat unrelated to rats, but a few years ago our neighbor's horse died under somewhat mysterious circumstances (he presumed poisoning): there were loads of vultures attracted to the carcass BUT they didn't touch it, not even his psychopathic dogs went for a bite (and i've seen them kill and...

climate wise i'm not complaining and nobody cares in the countryside that i've a machete on my belt, but moneywise i'm living a hand-to-mouth existence and would have left long time ago if i'd the means or a place to go :-(

not too many seashells along the coast here (=flat and sandy) and i'm not aware of anyone looking for edible ones (meaning if there would be any the locals would get them), only blue crabs -- during mating season they run around on the coastal highway to be collected in bags or squashed by...

thanks for enlightening me :-) i'm currently (stuck) in the carribean and around here it's flat sandy coast with very little tidal differences, so they're unknown in this backwards corner of the world...

how do you cook them?!

please forgive me my ignorance/ lack of knowledge, but what is it used for?!

i remember reading somewhere that native americans in the boreal forest used spruce roots, but i haven't tried it myself...

there seem indeed several makers for them, the one i got issued was brandnew and made by victorinox-- which meant it sadly got lost as soon as i found out :P i only wished they'd skipped the bottle opener and made the saw full length...

tyres have been used in the past to make sandals (Ho Chi Minh sandals and huaraches f.i.) but modern tyres have steel wires in them, which makes them tricky to cut...

a thicker string works better (as it doesn't dig into my thumbs), but yesterday i FINALLY got my first ember with thumb loop hand drill, using cacao

reminds me of a quote i found somewhere: "the surest sign that intelligent life exists somewhere else in the universe is that nobody has tried to contact us (yet)"

what pouch are you using for your 500ml nalgene and webbing belt is your setup based on?!

normally they're (more) nocturnal, but lately there's a lot of nine-banded armadillos out in broad daylight, one of them walked almost over my toes a few days ago without feeling concerned... yesterday afternoon i had a 5ft. boa stretched out across the (dirt) road at a nearby place: they're not...

hmmm... i saw plenty of mistletoe on oaks in south korea in 2010.... isn't mistletoe also one of the ingredients of the magic potion brewed by Getafix (=the druid in the "Asterix" cartoons) :-) ?

iirc there's a scene in "hot shots2" where they give direct blood transfusion to one fellow, forgetting to unhook the donor until he's empty... (no idea why that comes into my mind right now... :P ) i also read/heard somewhere that green coconuts were used in WW2 in the Pacific as substitute...

it's more than 25years ago since i used the stuff(and forgot the name) but one place where i worked in central europe used some commercially made foul-smelling concoction to protect young trees in spring when deer rub the velvet of their new antlers, it lasted only a few weeks without renewing...

thanks for enlightening me :-) my local substitute for a kuksa is a coconut shell and if our river ever freezes we're having a new ice age... (as i'm still in costa rica)

i've short hair (+a full beard), but wear headbands as they keep the sweat of my face (especially in our obscene tropical humidity) -- if i'd gotten one cent every time someone feels obliged to make a "rambo" joke i'd be rich enough to leave central america... to keep in line with the subject...

forgive me my lack of knowledge, but what's a "kupilka set" ?! any more infos about the fishing rod, please -- is it meant for ice fishing?!

a.k.a. "the 300-pound alcoholic in the red suit" (to quote my great hero Al Bundy :P )