Watched: The Martian 🍿 First movie I’ve watched in ages. Looking forward to tracking what I do watch!

Finished reading: Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour 📚 Definitely had interesting bits but was largely a rambling stream of consciousness walk through of books he read and where.

Waxed Canvas Plash Palatka

I cant remember where I first learned about the Plash Palatka (Russian for raincoat tent), I think I came across it when I was searching for cheap surplus poncho tents at some point in the past. I ordered one off of ebay cheap and then promptly let it sit for about a year before I finally got around …

Finished reading: The Judas Goat by Robert B. Parker 📚 Probably the worst of the series thus far. They’re easy reads though and this one was OK enough. It is fun to read them and think back to what life was like in the 70s because these have aged poorly in a lot of ways.

Finished reading: Stranger Than We Can Imagine by John Higgs 📚 The first half was great and very interesting. Higgs connected random things that would make a modern day Obsidian productivity porn addict jealous. The second half got a bit looser and philisophical but overall it was a decent read.

Quiet Please What a fun and original old-timey radio show to come across. The sound quality can be rough on some of the surviving episodes, you have to really focus for some of them to get whats coming through, but they are a blast to listen to. This site - www.quietplease.org is by far the most …

Hyalophora Cecropia

Hyalophora Cecropia Years ago I was out walking my dog and came across this creature. It appears to be the caterpillar of a Hyalophora Cecropia Which is North Americas largest moth! The thing was easily 4-5 inches long. Apparently it did not smell good though as my dog wasn’t interested in it. …

George H Crosby Manitou State Park Years ago I remember looking for campsite info on this park and not finding much. These are my notes after having been there and reading an old print out the trailhead bulletin board had on the sites. The Map The park itself is great. If you’re feeling lazy there …

The Ellis Canvas Tents Shackelton. The best Basecamp hot tent out there!

Finished reading: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach 📚 Pretty good! As a fan of baseball and small Midwestern liberal arts colleges this was great.

Finished reading: Gunflint Falling by Cary J. Griffith 📚 Read like FOIA act: BWCA edition at times, but was informative and interesting enough.

Rock Knob Duluth MN

Testing out Micro.blog with a picture of our puppy Winnie. She’s a 5 month old Australian cattle dog, German shepherd, Chihuahua, Rottweiler mix.