How’do these Russian Dudes find so Much Time to Screw around in the Woods?

Posted on by January 26, 2018

I don’t understand the language….but I can see that these Russian Dudes are spending some time building stuff and showing off their bushcrafting skills…and…I wonder how they do it.

There’s jelly or something on the keyboard….and Nate is staying home sick from school again….playing on the Wii….and I don’t have time to write a proper and thoughtful blog post……and….somewhere…these Russian Dudes are out in the woods screwing around.

What the heck is all over this freaking keyboard?

What did these kids do to my keyboard?

I’d rather be me than some Russian Dude out in the woods….but….WHAT THE HECK DID THEY GET ON THE KEYBOARD?!!

It’s sticky as heck.

I need to build a log fire cannon someday.

Maybe I’ll get these kids out in the woods….get them each set up with a good bushcrafting knife….teach them how to build a new city.

Then I can ask, “Who got pine pitch all over my sleeping bag?!!”

Enough of these keyboard worries….I need them to make some outdoor gear sticky with pine pitch.

Reorient my surprise at their abilities.

Legion and the Pigs

Posted on by January 25, 2018

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I’m listening to my Bible CD again out on the mail route.

It’s the New Testament….so I’m skipping a lot of the rough stuff in the Old Testament.

I’m in the part where Christ is born and then crucified.

I take it back.

That’s some rough stuff in the New Testament, too.

It’s a British guy doing the reading.

Anyway, one of the stories is the confrontation with a possessed guy who, when Christ asks,”What is your name?” answers…….”LEGION!!”

Even with a British dude doing the reading, it’s kind of scary the way he says, “LEGION!!”

In the story, this demon pleads not to be hurt by Jesus….because he recognizes who Jesus is…so Christ kicks the demons (there’s a bunch of demons in this guy….that’s why he’s called “Legion”) out of him….and sends them into a nearby herd of pigs.

WHAT?!!

Then….the pigs freak out and run off the land into the lake and they all ….DIE!!

All the pigs….and, depending on which part you’re in, they could be like, maybe, four or five thousand pigs….anyway….they all die in the lake.

WHAT!!

I was listening to this and thinking, “What the heck?”

This is a long-winded way of saying that I was imagining the farmer running up the hill as he watched all this transpiring, not understanding the historical and theological aspects of it all, screaming at the top of his lungs,

“HEY!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY PIGS?!! DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET THOUSANDS OF PIGS TOGETHER OUT HERE?!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? I DON’T HAVE INSURANCE AGAINST SOMETHING LIKE MASS DEMON SWINE POSSESSION!! I DIDN’T BUY THAT RIDER!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!”

That was great to get Legion out of that guy…but…all those pigs?

That poor farmer.

Man.

That was a lot of pigs.

That’s some crazy stuff…imagining all those pigs running off into the lake.

And….wait until you get to the part where Jesus kills the fig tree.

What was that about?

There are lots of better parts in there….but….those pigs have got me flummoxed.

Wild.

 

the tools to make a hammer….

Posted on by January 24, 2018

You can turn the sound down on this one, I guess.

I don’t think that I can understand this language.

Darn “Tower of Babel”.

This video is good though.

It all starts with making a hammer.

You need something in the woods to whack stuff with.

Check out the teakettle on the burning log about 12:00 minutes in!

What’s that about?

Skills, man….skills.

Of course, if I was with a group of my treehuggin’ backpacking buddies and we came upon a Russian bushcrafter who was cutting down trees and building a camp like this, we’d say, “WTF?!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? CAN YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND US?!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING….CUTTING DOWN ALL THESE TREES?!!”

It would be a freak out for us….for sure.

But…..this is cool…..making all this stuff out in the woods.

Sorry, treehuggin’ buddies.

I think it’s cool.

And…don’t turn the sound down.

The music is nice….and…it’s kind of comforting not to have to understand what this dude is saying.

We don’t have to understand everything to appreciate it.

at the deposition….

Posted on by January 23, 2018

At the deposition, they’ll show this video segment and say, “see?”

That’s what they’ll say…..”see?”

They’ll say that when they’re trying to prove that I really didn’t get very excited about going out in the rain to deliver…..whatever I have to deliver….to the people on my route.

Who would promote a video like this if they cared deeply about the sanctity of the mail?

Who would find this funny if they were a good mailman?

That’s the fantasy, anyway.

It’s a fantasy to believe that anybody cares about what I do.

I don’t think that I’ll have to face a judge anytime soon.

Ripping up mail on the subway is some kind of fantasy, too.

It’s not mine, though.

And you can tell them I said that….at the deposition.

 

Oh, Edna…

Posted on by January 23, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEYSM714Vv0

I watched a movie called “The Hero” the other night.

Pretty good movie.

I like Sam Elliot.

Something about the cadence of his speech.

He could sell a butt-load of barbecue sauce with a voice like that.

This is a spoiler, I suppose, but at the end of the movie they feature this poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I won’t go into why one of the characters read this (why pile spoilers on top of spoilers?)….but I’d never heard the poem before….and liked it.

You better grab on to the memories while you’re together and making them.

It’s hard to back up.

Dirge without Music…..Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. Crowned
With lilies and with laurel they go; but I am not resigned.

Lovers and thinkers, into the earth with you.
Be one with the dull, the indiscriminate dust.
A fragment of what you felt, of what you knew,
A formula, a phrase remains,—but the best is lost.

The answers quick and keen, the honest look, the laughter, the love,—
They are gone. They are gone to feed the roses. Elegant and curled
Is the blossom. Fragrant is the blossom. I know. But I do not approve. 
More precious was the light in your eyes than all the roses in the world.

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

 

w…t…..f?!! WTF?!!! VIKING BUSHCRAFT!! VIKINGS….COOKING IN THE WOODS!!

Posted on by January 21, 2018

YO, VIKING DUDES!! THAT LOOKS PRETTY DARN GOOD!! I’D EAT THAT MEAL YOU’RE MAKING…..FOR SURE.

It really does look pretty good….cooking out in the woods…making a meal fit for a King…or…a VIKING!!

Thanks, Viking Dudes!

That’s some tasty Viking Vittles you’re cooking!

(A short PS….the next day: You know, though….it really would be pretty freaky sitting out in the woods with a couple of Viking re-enactors….eating pork and some weird onion and bird egg concoction….

I don’t want to dress up like a Viking….

I’ll eat my pork at home, thank you….)

the process….

Posted on by January 20, 2018

Whether it’s making a knife….or building a guitar…or fixing a car….these YouTube videos are pretty cool.

I love to see “process”.

This is a relatively short video…but it shows the knife making process from start to finish…and it’s an interesting thing to get to see.

I don’t know how I’d get a chance to see this if it wasn’t for these videos.

Cool.

out in the woods….doing stuff…with your wife

Posted on by January 19, 2018

Bushcraft….out in the cold Canadian woods….

This guy is pretty good….and it’s interesting to see these two folks out in the woods practicing their bushcraft skills.

That’s the kind of skills we should be getting good at.

Forget the smartphones for a while.

Learn to build a shelter!

That’s the good stuff.

we never built a fire….

Posted on by January 18, 2018

I used to work at a camp where “low impact” was the norm.

We didn’t build fires.

We used small stoves that we packed in.

We took pride in leaving an area looking like it looked (or better than it looked) when we first arrived to do our camping.

That was how I was raised in the camping world.

This is a different style….but….the shelter is sort of cool….I guess.

You should take care of the woods, though….and keep it good for everybody.

Man, though, this video is pretty nice.

I’m conflicted.

Be the Mobile Karaoke Guy…..

Posted on by January 17, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpF2f7dX9E0

OK.

Here’s the plan: work long enough at the PO to get some kind of retirement, move to Thailand to live off the MONEY….and get one of those cool amps that I can wear around my neck and then wander all around a foreign country with a pail and supplement the money the GUV gives me for hanging in there at the USPS for a while by SINGING MY HEART OUT…with an amp around my neck and a pail in my hand.

Even a weird plan is a PLAN….right?

Speaking of “weird”….this guy really likes SUGAR.

I don’t know if sugar is all that good for you.

I think that this dude is wrong.

That thing with the amp around my neck and the pail looks intriguing.

I wonder if I could make a living wandering around here like that?