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Over the years, there have been lots of good bushcraft movies; "Jeremiah Johnson", "A Man Called Horse", "North 40 Roughcut", "The Edge", and several documentaries stemming from the book "One Man's Wilderness" to name but a few. Yesterday, I watched a winner: "The Fast Runner" - 9/10...

With daytime temperatures well below freezing, and snow flurries swirling beneath a leaden sky, the time seemed right to break out a winter favorite – Pot Roast! When I found some fairly nice looking choice chuck roast on sale at the Club of Sam, they followed me home. Here they are studded...

I'm a big fan of the predatory birds; something about their eyes. For the past couple of days, we've had a pair of Redtail hawks working the backyard for rodent snacks. It's more fun to have a pair because you get to hear their whistling calls back and forth. This morning the male (smaller) was...

Yesterday was Soup Day. Time to reduce the rest of the bone-in spiral cut smoked glazed ham to Lentil Soup. My lentils got sorted, washed, and picked last night and were soaking until this morning. Ham came off the bone and was cubed. Couple pounds of cubed ham ready to be minced...

Bushcraft, both knowledge and technique, builds the individual’s ability to know what’s important, to effect what needs to be done, and to do both with the minimum of muss and fuss. While there are few ideas new under the sun, I took care of a couple of things that needed doing this morning...

Smothered pork chops and andouille sausage with sauteed sliced onions simmer up in ale and chicken broth in my old five quart cast iron dutch oven. Yum. :D

The cabin where we go for the Spaniels' Fall Vacation is good for sunrises: Got any sunrises you'd like to share?