#featherfire

I bought a Packafeather FeatherFire alcohol stove last year, and my recent trip out into the woods was my first chance to try it out. The first time I tried to light it was a fiasco. I’m used to my homemade pop can stove where I simply stick my lighter inside and poof! My stove is lit. The FeatherFire is not so easy. I tried my lighter. Couldn’t get it inside the stove. I tried lighting a stick on fire. The flame went out before I could get it anywhere near the alcohol. I tried matches. Same thing.

I don’t know how, but I managed to get it lit. I also managed to spill alcohol all over the stove, and in the little space between the inner and outer wall of the stove where there isn’t supposed to be fuel. All the spilled fuel lit as well. This is how shelters burn down. Luckily, I didn’t burn down the Windsor Furnace Shelter. There’s a cute little snuffer cap that you use to put out the flame. Being slightly stupid, I put the cap on, lifted it up, and the flame was still burning. Puzzled, I had the bright idea to try to blow the flame out. A blast of heat washed over my face and singed my right eyebrow. Eventually I realized I need to leave the snuffer cap on the stove until the flame went out. I’m not very quick sometimes!

I wondered if you’d feel that way. I have a feeling that if I ever went to Austria, I’d feel the same. Austria feels like my heart-home even though I haven’t seen it… yet.

I felt the same way before I visited! And now I can't leave. VISIT AT YOUR OWN RISK.

Of COURSE you brought him to Europe with you. It would have been a travesty otherwise!

My late kitty was great at mice... the two we ever saw, anyway... but couldn't be bothered with bugs. Another cat I owned would at least try for any bug she saw. I wish I lived closer, I would totally come and catch spiders for you, I'm an expert. ^^

Cats’ll eat spiders on their own. If they can catch them, that is. But if you can’t kill the spiders, catch them in jars and set them free (or watch them suffocate slowly, up to you).

my cat is a lazy asshole who won't eat spiders lmao. I'm gonna try to train my future cat to be really gung-ho about being a spidervore.

Born and raised. :) I lived there until I was 20 and I’ve really been away from home too long. Northern California, though (San Francisco)… I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned it (other than the occasional San Francisco post), so don’t worry!

I'm always struck by how much GTA looks like California... and I'm also always struck by how distinctive a *look* California actually has. I miss California!