dec 22

Dec 22

150 years ago---  well maybe 50 years ago I went down the Colorado River on the   raft.... white water three day trip.. in among other things like the magnificent view and all that sort of thing I was totally fascinated with the fact that they gave us a Sierra cup and one blanket and we were expected to survive with those meager supplies... I can remember shoveling the sand into a curved shape to accommodate my various body parts because we had no pillow or anything like that..  but I survived for three days cooking   eating drinking   out of that Sierra cup..  so I have always sort of semi guarded it in my possessions and I do think it's probably the one that we are now scooping dog food with is still the original....as it hangs on the side of the milk transport tanks or whatever they are..

 it never occurred to me the good old Amazon would have them but now that I have pellets to scoop along with dog food to scope I did reach out to Amazon and by golly they've got all kinds of Sierra cups...  but there is one standard size and shape..  

that really fascinated me the fact that the one slightly different thing which was something I could have used out there on the Colorado was a strainer the same size and shape as the Sierra cup... So I have now ordered a packet of two cups with one strainer. now camping in the cabin I am assuming that I once again will manage to survive cooking eating drinking etcetera with one sierra  cup. Bet it is a super noodle strainer.....

 

I don't know why I'm so fascinated with temporary living...   And I cannot remember the name of this thing but there is a camping equipment teapot== somehow I think it's Irish and it begins with a Grulllie pot?-it is a flimsy metal thing that unfolds to a chimney shape thing -Where it is possible to boil One Cup of water with one piece of newspaper ----I did buy one of these things and play with it and it was possible with this very strange chimney affair where one piece of newspaper would get One Cup of water boiling..  Somehow I think the thing was Irish so you could make a cup  of tea out on the hills----I wish I could remember the name perhaps you people know it---- after I played with that I played with making a chimney affair out of bricks that was very efficient where you let a little bit of air in the bottom .. I got That idea from the handheld charcoal briquette starter where a couple pieces of newspaper we'll get the charcoal briquettes going.. 

And now I sit and watch this pellet phenomenon.   sparkes do fly around a bit== I don’t know why they are not drawn out the  side wall by the fan..

 

I called the  fire department to see if they wanted to inspect... they said “ We don’t inspect those”. So it sounds like .... they are safe and are not prone to screwing up????

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I hear janine will drive home on Christmas day to avoid traffic???—I should not say “home”—that is what she is building down there....