How to make fire with sticks
Now
that we're back on land, it's time to bombard you with pictures and
stories of our adventures. We can't force you all to come over
and watch a mind-numbing, three-hour-long slide show, so instead this
week's lunchtime series covers the highlights. This way, rather
than falling asleep in the dark, you can just skip our posts if they
get too boring.
As we mentioned previously, before hopping on the cruise ship we spent
a day at Moundville's
Native American Festival, the highlight of which
was learning to make fire. I summed up the fire-making experience
in a four minute video --- my first effort at video editing, so please
excuse my growing pains. The expert on the video created an ember
out of two pieces of pine, a bow,
and a cap stone in less than three minutes. It didn't quite catch
in
his tinder due to humid Alabama weather, but the concept is
extraordinarily well explained. Watch and learn!
This post is part of our Moundville and Cruise to Mexico honeymoon
series.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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