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My darling wife is an intellectual, a professional, an educated woman, a college graduate(Albiet from Nichols, in Thibidaux, Louisiana,) You want to know what she uses our gravy boat for? A flippin teapot! It holds exacty two cups of tea. It makes no difference anyway, she refuses to eat gravy...

On a separate, and barely related subject- My Dad liked working in wood. He just wasn't very good at it. He most assuredly NOT a tool man. "A shovel is a shovel, A hammer is a hammer! Do you need a different fork for pork and beef?" In the last few years of his life, he took refinishing...

I'm sure I wasn't the first, But I did come up with the idea independently-I needed to carve a perfetly straight, tapered, convex, chunk of birds eye maple, for the finger board of a upright tub bass. I tapered it on the tablesaw, knocked off the excess wood on the front corners with a power...

I had no plexiglass when I was splicing the sides and bottom of my pirogue, and it's thirty miles to the nearest place to aquire plexiglass. So I split open some plastic compost bags, taped them on an old Humble oil sign,laid down my plywood, applied too much epoxy (Remember, this is my first...

Thibodeaux and Boudreaux went on a camping trip. After supper and several beers they both laid down for the night, and went to sleep. Some hours later, Boudreaux woke up and nudged Thibodeaux. Boudreaux says, "Thibodeaux, look up at de sky and tell me whatchu see." Thibodeaux replies...

I've often been asked, "What do you older people do now that you're retired?" Well, I have a friend who has a chemistry background and one of the things we enjoy most is turning beer, bourbon, scotch, gin, vodka, and wine into urine. And, by golly, we're pretty damn good at it!!

On a sort of related subject: I read of a guy who had either remote property on a lake, or owned a large private lake, and he had driven tripods into the bottom of several arms of water. He installed hardware cloth baskets on the tripods, about two feet above the water. He would take all his...

I raised hogs for about fourteen years. Not a huge number, my biggest year I raised 70. My first boar was a pure bred hamp, and he was a 800 pound pet dog. Very friendly, he would follow me around, hoping to get scratched behind his ears. After a few years, all the sows were his daughters and...

How kind of you Chuck! Both cayenne and garlic are antibiotic. The recipe ,admittledy, IS kind of large. I only make it for large gatherings. but I never have left-overs to deal with. And you don't want left-overs, because it doesn't keep worth a flip.

CAUTION! Eat this ONLY if you are in good health, or wish to die happy. 12 ears of fresh corn. Cut half the depth of the kernal, and scrape the cob with the back of the knife., and fry in- 1/2 cup butter. Peel, seed, and chop about- 1/2 to one pound tomato. Dice- Two medium bell...

Tom, I have no suggestion concerning kayak. I've got this thing about a boat that's worn as a garment. I'm not finish with the first pirogue yet, but I have the wood cut for the second already. I'm just going to keep making pirogues until I get it right. Then I'm going to build one of JEMs...

Hey Tom, I can't really help you with your build, I am building my first pirogue myself. (It will float, but I am not really happy with it's appearance.) But these guys (Some of whom have character that is suspect), within this forum, REALLY, know small boat construction! Pay close...

I am getting into this thread a little late, and I haven't been on an expedition in years, but this is what worked for me. Don't ever be unpacked! The day you get back, pack for the next trip. Wash off the crotch rot, catch up on family chores, and pack for the next trip! What you have used...

This tale brings to mind three things. One obsevation, and two true stories. First the obsevation. No way in H E double toothpicks will I buy my wife such a device. She has the sweetest disposition of anyone I have known, but when one is as flakey as I am, one should not take any chances! Tale...

WRONGO,BONGO! Rhubarb is good, especially when the rhubarb is mixed with strawberries, but there is no pie better for breakfast! A quarter of a deepdish pumkin pie, eaten out of hand, with a cup of Cajun black coffee, strong enough to float a horseshoe. Even Jarvis(whoever he is), would climb...

Mick, I don't have any in the ground this year, but I've grown that veggie. It named more generally here, it's called the "Austalian Blue Squash." I liked it,but I didn't have room for everything I wanted this spring. Now that the Spring crops are coming out, I may plant some. It is better than...

Long ago, in Seward, Alaska, there was an Aleut lady that would take all the salmon you could bring her, and make a sort of jerky from it on the halves. I took her all the salmon I didn't eat fresh. It was smoky, salty, and sweet. I generally don't like sweetness, but her version of smoked...

Mick, You make me so jealous, I may have to just close my eyes, and hurry past your postings! :D Each year, I get maybe 20 lemons, fifty limes, and I haven't got an orange yet! And to accomplish this meager harvest, I have to keep my "orchard" (four trees), in 30 gallon pots, and drag...

Jack, pparently Arrowheas mills no longer carries freeze dried meat at all. This place seems okay, but I have never used them at all http://www.storablefoods.com/catalog/in ... 1213157146

Jack, Although any egg will do for homemade noodles, a duck or a goose egg is a good bit better. A khaki campbell egg is about the same size as a large chicken egg. Any other duck egg, and especially a goose egg, you'll need more flour. And semolina flour works better than the garden variety...