Bushcrafting, the weed addition: Bugout patch

[too larry]

As the name might imply, this area floods. So I had to kind of keep to the high ground. Most of the woods woods is sloping off toward the river, so a long term camp would be a pita. And the planted pines have been thinned, so they are grown up like a jungle. There is one area that was part of the old hayfield, but when it grew up in briars, we stopped cutting hte hay. That was 18-20 years ago, and it has grown up with some good sized trees. And an added bonus. It's high ground too.

Here is the spot I decided on. There is a lot of open space in front and behind, but I got between these two trees, so the camp is pretty well hidden.

I got the tarp hung Tuesday night, but had to sleep in my little hiking tent.

 

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I had to run into town to do a little work on Wednesday. The wife and I joined some friends for lunch, then I did some gardening, so I didn't get to work on the camp until late afternoon. The thrift store tent is a Greatland Olympia model. Two rooms, 12 foot long. Everything was there except for one stake. I have extras, but I still haven't remembered one in the many trips I made to the house and my old camp.

 

[ttystikk]

Nice hideout lol

 

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If I had been watching instead of doing, I bet the tent pitching would have been comical. They say to raise each end, then the middle. That didn't work for me. I had to raise the center first, then bring up each end. But for 55 bucks, {tarp 30, tent 25} not counting para cord, I have a workable camp going.

 

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Nice hideout lol

I took the wife down before there was a good trail or the weeds in the road were beat down. She said "I'm glad you brought me, but you don't have to worry about me coming back." Plan working so far.

 

[ttystikk]

I took the wife down before there was a good trail or the weeds in the road were beat down. She said "I'm glad you brought me, but you don't have to worry about me coming back." Plan working so far.

Lol that's funny!

 

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Nice big rooms. I have a mattress out of an old travel trailer, sheets, pillows, blankets, sleeping bags, etc, etc.

But I have to do a ridgeline and/or tent realignment, so most of that will be dragged out the next time I get to work on it.

 

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Lol that's funny!

At my old camp at the pond, I never trimmed the road. If you drive back there, your car will get scratched. I don't really like unwanted company at my camps

 

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Speaking of the old camp, I have been working on getting all of my smoke out of there in preparation of a midnight creepy crawly mission to the STL patch. I thought I had it all moved, but when I got a storage tub of camp cookware I found almost a qp. I need to keep a better hold on my stash.

 

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Sunset on Wednesday. This is from the old hayfield, which is now planted in longleaf pines.

 

[ttystikk]

Speaking of the old camp, I have been working on getting all of my smoke out of there in preparation of a midnight creepy crawly mission to the STL patch. I thought I had it all moved, but when I got a storage tub of camp cookware I found almost a qp. I need to keep a better hold on my stash.

LOL well it sure beats coming up short!

 

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LOL well it sure beats coming up short!

Not sure why I'm still popping seeds. I have enough of my 2016 full season crop, or my spring crop to get me through until next fall. And even after my rotten shitty season this year, I made more than enough from my fall harvest to last me a year. So I easily have 3 year's worth of smoke. Most of the old stuff is in the oil pile though. I want fresh flavors.

 

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Another advantage of the new camp, maybe I won't forget to check the orange trees this year. I ate one and took one to the wife, so that is more than I harvest some years. The one I ate had over 30 seeds in it, so if I can turn each of those into a tree, and then. . . . .

 

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That is a cold tolerant Chinese strain. Totally illegal to grow it in Florida. They might put me in jail for it before the weed. Because if folks up in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina were growing thousands of acres of juice oranges, the folks in South Florida would be out of some change.

 

[ttystikk]

That is a cold tolerant Chinese strain. Totally illegal to grow it in Florida. They might put me in jail for it before the weed. Because if folks up in Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina were growing thousands of acres of juice oranges, the folks in South Florida would be out of some change.

Gotta love legislation that directly impedes progress.

Florida seems to make a specialty of it; it's also the only state that outright bans anyone from attaching solar panels to the power grid.

Florida, where they BELIEVE in their corruption!

 

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Gotta love legislation that directly impedes progress.

Florida seems to make a specialty of it; it's also the only state that outright bans anyone from attaching solar panels to the power grid.

Florida, where they BELIEVE in their corruption!

The big boys are just that. Citrus and sugar, and cattle to a lesser degree. A few years back I was talking to a buddy who ran a local diner. He was a big hiker. {he did a Gemeindewanderungand type hiking trail around his property} We had been talking about the odds of the Everglades actually getting healtheir while I was eating my breakfast. The state had made a deal with the sugar companies to buy back some land and let it revert to swamp land. But they got to use the land for several {10-15 if my memory is right} more years. I said something like "if we could stop big sugar from pumping the marsh full of N every spring , maybe the restoration would go better."

He dropped down on the floor and rolled under the table. He was joking, but only halfway.

 

[ttystikk]

The big boys are just that. Citrus and sugar, and cattle to a lesser degree. A few years back I was talking to a buddy who ran a local diner. He was a big hiker. {he did a Gemeindewanderungand type hiking trail around his property} We had been talking about the odds of the Everglades actually getting healtheir while I was eating my breakfast. The state had made a deal with the sugar companies to buy back some land and let it revert to swamp land. But they got to use the land for several {10-15 if my memory is right} more years. I said something like "if we could stop big sugar from pumping the marsh full of N every spring , maybe the restoration would go better."

He dropped down on the floor and rolled under the table. He was joking, but only halfway.

If We the People stood together and demanded Justice, we'd get it. The Big Boys know that, so they spend a lot of time, effort and especially money to keep that from happening.

 

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I got up some side tarps at the new camp this week. I took down two from my old, old camp, and was able to use all of one and most of the other one. Got from the tree on the north, around the back to the tree on the south with the big one, then did to the next little tree on the south side. Also used a new 6X8 across the front. Didn;t get any pictures.

 

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Them old cotton fields back home. I pass this coming to work. Today I stopped and snapped a picture. Most has been picked by now. This field was late to flower.

 

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I got another tarp hung at the camp last night. This one a new mid grade 8X10 from Big Lots. From where the old tarp went to on the ridgeline tree on the south side toward the front of the tent. I took pictures with my go pro, but have the wrong size cable.