Rappelling
For whatever reason I realized I could teach the girls how to rappel from their climbing wall. For those that don’t know rappelling is a common (and fun) way to descend a climbing route. Obviously the safest and easiest is to walk down, but sometimes you have no choice and must use your ropes to […]
Magnesium Fire Starter
Last weekend we had a fire in the yard. The usual sit around, cook stuff, get warm, watch stuff burn kind of fire. But I started this one with magnesium (and flint & steel). I had never used magnesium before and really hadn’t heard of using it before last fall. It’s an interesting little trick, […]
Dad! Look at these Tracks!
Two weekends ago after some rain the “trails” near our bamboo and “creek” were really soft. The girls found a plethora of nighttime activity left by the footprints in the mud. It looked like there were deer, raccoons, and some canine of some sort. I had considered it for a while, but this was the […]
Best Gift Yet
I like coffee. I especially like coffee I can drink. Stopping somewhere, ordering a coffee, then not being able to drink it for a half hour until it cools down is not my idea of drinking coffee. Last fall I saw Stanley was coming out with something called the QuickSip. It was heralded as a […]