It's that time of year when Feedspot list their top 25 Bushcraft Blogs and Buzzard is very pleased to announce that we again made it into that list, as a matter of fact we came in at number 6!
At this time of year all the lovely greens are sprouting, but the issue can be that if they all come up at the same time they can be tricky to distinguish from one another when they are young.
So here's a test for you, 3 new leaves, 3 different plants, ground ivy, herb Bennett and lesser celandine.. but which one is which?
I meant to put this post up a few weeks back but it slipped my mind and I only remembered after our recent visit to our permission.
Storm Eowyn did some serious damage to the forest and brought down quite a number of trees, the scary thing was, 3 fell right over one of my favourite camping spots. I had often heard the trees knock against each other in high winds and it was always in the back of my mind that one could come down on me, I'm very glad I wasn't there when the storm hit...
And the donimo effect, this beech toppled taking an oak and a sycamore with it, not all trees get hung up when they fall, I will have to be incredibly careful when camping there again, the trees are all so shallow rooted there's no telling when they'll drop. Be safe out there folks!
It's awe inspiring to see all of creation start to come to life at this time of year, the colours and scents of the plants are wonderful and they fill my heart with the wonder of creation. How anyone can look at nature and say it is all a random process that happened by chance is totally beyond me, they must be willfully suppressing the truth. Here are a few pics I took while we were out today, I hope you too can see the Handiwork of God in them..
In the temperate environment I live in an axe is of less value than a large knife. I don't often have a need to cut down a tree but I regularly need to cut back on brambles, bracken, salmonberry canes, scrub willow, gorse bushes and the like. This cannot be done with an axe, so a big knife [the Sami call it a Leuku] is a much more effective tool to have around.
I did recently buy a couple of cheap billhooks and thought they'd be good for modifying into Big knives.
As you can see they are rather rough and ready but for a tool that will be heavily used in the woods I don't need anything expensive, just effective.
The handle was in particularly bad shape and needed quite a bit of work. So out came the angler grinder, a series of files, sandpaper and linseed oil and after a little bit of profiling I ended up with these
The purpose of Buzzard Bushcraft is to show the wonder and majesty of God through his creation, so imagine my pleasure when we connected with an incredible blues rock composer who agreed to create a song for us based on the Handiwork of God that can be seen in nature. Russell asked us to send him some of our favourite bible verses regarding the outdoors and creation and he would create a song using them for inspiration..less than a week later he came up with "The hands that made it all" this will now be our official Buzzard anthem.. Thank you so much Russell and as you often say, "its all for the glory of God"
All credits and copyrights are owned by Russell w Delbridge.
It was certain that one day I was going to have to eat my own words regarding mushrooms, as you all know I normally think they are seriously over rated, slimy and taste like feet. Well out this weekend and we found some oyster mushrooms, I've found them before but never eaten them so this time, just for sake of it I took a few and brought them home
I absolutely love fire, there is something warming, comforting and encouraging about it, I could stare into the flames all day and not get bored,
