Dollar Store Supershelter Overnight With My Dog-10$ Woods Survival Challenge (24 Hours)

Hey guys, thanks for tuning in. Joe here, I'm with my buddy Scout. I got a lot of crap. I'm in the woods, we're going to do a dollar store survival challenge overnight or camp out in the woods with just this gear that I have in front of me. You'll have to pardon my little prepubescent voice. I'm a bit sick and my voice has gone to whack. I'll go over everything I have in detail later on but right now I want to get into the woods because it's really windy out here. I'm freezing cold. It's been snowing. It's negative two right now. It's going to get down to negative five tonight. Very cold already. But anyways, like I said, I want to go through all this later but right now I want to make a carrying case so that I don't have to carry this stuff like a fool. So I have ten garbage bags in here. Watch out big guy. And I can reuse them as long as they don't get stretched out too bad from this. They say they're heavy duty. I have a four litre bottle of water that's not going to go in there just because I see it going wrong. So all my gear. Now I've got to find a stick, tie it around that and carry it over my shoulder like a hobo. And I'm going to have this on the stick too. Like a hobo. I said hobo. Now full disclosure, I do have some other items. Scout's with me. He did not ask to come. He wants to be here but he did not ask to do this survival overnighter. So I brought him food. I'm not going to make him go hungry and I'm not going to share the one piece of food I have with him. So I've got a bag full of Scout's kibble. Whether or not he eats it, that's another story. So that's going in the big garbage bag too because I don't want to carry it in my cargo pocket anymore. Also I have a couple more things. I have one big piece of paracord. This will not be used for any part of my shelter or anything I'm doing, I promise. This is purely to tie Scout up at night because there's tons of coyote in the area and deer and he likes to go chase them. So this is for Scout to tie up at night on his collar. That side's done. This side I do have one extra battery for my Canon and I have an extra memory card. These Canon batteries are lasting a lot longer than my old Nikon batteries so two batteries should be fine for overnight. And then the one thing that I do have for me that's not in the survival challenge and I don't care is wet wipes and some hand sanitizer for my bum bum. The hand sanitizer's not for my bum bum, the wet wipes are. Don't put hand sanitizer on your bum bum. It's not a fun time. They cut a bunch of locusts along the trail here so this is still green but it was cut on the ground. I thought I was going to have to double up my garbage bag for this but I don't. It's fine. Get all the air out of it and do one of these. Make it super strong where I'm going to attach it to the pole at. Maybe I should put it on the side that's not all splintery. What are you doing big guy? Go get your own. Okay, there we go. No, back up. That goes over the shoulder like an El Hobo. Oh yeah, I can walk like this. No problem. Okay, time to get off the trail. Time to get in the bush proper. Come on big guy. Oh my goodness. That was fun. That was a lot of fun. I didn't get wet or sweaty. At least I'm warm now. There we go. Yay, I'm a quarter of the way there. You got to be careful man. He's all cut up. See that? He's all bloodied up on the top of his nose. It's okay, you're fine. He's running through the woods trying to chase deer. Running into tickers and brambles and what have you. Oh, big stretch. Okay, we're almost into the woods proper. Right behind me is where I plan on camping. I got to check it out. I know this spot very well and I know there's natural building materials and stuff that I can use here. I'm sorry, I'm going to try to look at the lens. People keep telling me stop looking over here. Look in the lens. When I'm looking over here, I'm looking at myself in the LCD LED screen. I'm going to try to do that. Okay, another few minutes walk and then hopefully we'll be where we're going to set up for tonight. Here we are, just on cue as the train blows its horn. This is the exact spot I was imagining coming to. I knew this tree had fallen a couple years ago and is on that kind of diagonal fall. That's going to be my shelter. It's very good, very good to have a grasp of what you want to do before you get out. Normally when I go camping and stuff, I'm not around my house. A lot of the times it's a new area or a new spot in an area I've been. I don't have time to scout it out, but this general area was different. It's near my house. I've been here a hundred times. I know what to expect and know where the building materials are. For this kind of situation, for this kind of exercise, you definitely want that. The plan is to make this into my shelter. I just want to make sure it's pretty solid. We're only doing one night here, so it's not going to be anything permanent. I'm going to tear it down when we're done. Let's dive into what I brought and why. I need to lose this jacket first. It's cold outside, no doubt, but I've been working up a sweat. I got on layers because tonight's going to be cold. I don't have any kind of sleeping bag, sleeping pad, nothing like that. It's all natural. I do have a long-sleeved shirt, beater, sweater, coat, wool socks, long johns, Fall Raven kebs, my gloves, and I've got a toque, my boots. Anyways, let's dive into the stuff. The bag held up very well, actually. I'm having a hard time untying it, but Dollar Store garbage bags are for the win, apparently. There we go. First up, probably one of the most important things, is water. I got this. Four litres of water from the Dollar Store. It was either this or a litre or four small water bottles for all the same price, but I opted for this because this was the most amount of water. I do need this for Scout as well. He does have, there's some ditches and stuff he can drink from, but he tends to not go too far from me. And at night, I'm not finding my way out to the ditch. It's far from here to the creek, the ditch, whatever you want to call it. So at night, he can drink out of this. In the daytime, we'll walk down to the ditch. Yeah, the bag. Bag's no worse for wear, and I know like a lot of you guys, probably a big deal, it's a bag. But out here, doing this kind of stuff, every single little piece of thing matters. It's all very important. Oh, look at that. Not as durable as I thought. The bottom did get ripped up a bit. Still usable for what I want to do, but duly noted. Okay, so I'm not sure if you guys have heard of the challenge. Scout, can you please go over there so you're not in the camera, bud? Thank you. Lay down, bud. Right here. Lay down with me. Lay down. Good puppy dogs. There's a challenge. It's probably super old now, a couple years old, by Wrangler Star, I believe, who originally came up with it. The rules are arbitrary, in my opinion, but whatever. If you look on YouTube, there's not a lot of people who have actually done the challenge and spent the night out. There's a lot of people who went to the store and bought the things and said what they were going to do. Malcolm, the Hidden Woodsman, is one of them, and then there's some like popular one that they're not even camping and they did it. So anyways, I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to show how I feel that you can utilize certain things from the dollar store for a very good benefit to make you very comfortable out here. The rule was $10. I bought eight items. It was probably $11 if I'm being honest with tax and everything, but I didn't know how else to do it. So, you need to eat. One of the rules was you need to cook food. I think they wanted you to cook two meals. I'm not doing the exact rules. Two meals and have like a waterproof container and some other things. My rules for me, around $10, come out here, make as comfortable a shelter as you can and eat some food. I don't care. Anyways, my food, I was super lucky. This is one of my favorite soups ever. Primo Rough Stick Beef Barley Soup, and it has a pop top. So, I was going to do Uncle Ben's Rice because they had that there as well, but this is much easier and it has a pop top. The only reason I was going to do the rice is because I didn't have a can opener. I don't have the money, the $10 to buy the can opener. It doesn't come into, it's not a good purchase for this. Anyways, soup, and to cook it in, it's this bowl, metal bowl. Now, a lot of you are probably thinking, why don't you just cook the soup in the can? Well, there's a good reason because it's lined with plastic and it's not BPA free. And as soon as you melt that plastic into your food, it's super bad for you. That's why like that dented cans are really not good for you and stuff like that. Back in the day, I think it was okay to do that. Just, you know, throw your can of beans on your fire. It's just not. It's not okay now. I'm not going to do it. You guys do whatever you want. I highly discourage you from doing that. That's why I went to the extra trouble and spent the money on buying the bowl. So, soup goes in the bowl. One meal. And that's not going to be until tonight. Probably about 5 o'clock. I've got my garbage bags that you already saw. I used one. I have nine in here. And one extra here I took out. My toilet paper, my dog food, my paracord, and my camera stuff are separate. I've got a knife, a cutting tool. This is going to help me building my shelter quite a bit. So this is a full tang. I was surprised that I was able to get full tang. I looked hard. There's a couple that I looked at, longer ones and stuff, and the tang stopped like a quarter of an inch down the handle. And that would have broke in a second. So, yeah, I kind of like the way this one has the handle on this one. We'll see how it goes. It's a three and a quarter inch blade. I've got some jute twine. I've got three rolls of jute twine. And it's the real stuff. It's not the poly stuff. So it can help with the fire. I don't know why the focus is not focusing on that. Three rolls of jute twine, 118 feet total. I've got four boxes of matches. Fire is not going to be an issue. And my last thing, the thing that is going to be the savior of the trip, plastic drop sheet. Look at how big that is. Where does it say? 8x12. All the other ones I could find were 7x7 or 7x8. 8x12, but it's only, it's very, very, very thin. I don't know where it says. It's very thin, so I think I'm going to have to double it up. My plan is going to be to make a super shelter and line it with grass and all that stuff. And that way I will be warm. I'll be comfortable. But this needs to not melt next to the fire. So I'll probably have to have the fire a little bit farther back and double this up in the front. Okay, that's all my gear. Like I said, 11 bucks maybe, but I don't care. So let's get to it. Okay, so what I want to do is make a lean to stop it right here and have that be my entrance, my door, have a flap or a garbage bag blocking that. And then go down just as long as I can lay, probably about here, block that off as well. The scout, the scout's not going to sleep in there. It's going to be way too hot in there for him. I know that. So he's going to have to sleep outside of the shelter next to me. I can tie him up to that big tree too, which is cool. So I want to mark it. Watch out big guy. I want to mark it where I'm going to sleep. So I want it to be small so it keeps the heat in. Right about there. And then right at that nodule. So I'm going to stick a rock. I mean, I'm going to stick a stick in. Leave it. Leave my stick alone. Scout's trying to take it. And then right here. Watch out, buddy. Okay. So I got my places marked. Eight by 12. Yeah, she's really, really thin. So I got to be careful. Oh yeah, I got to be so careful with this. I want to make it just to the bottom here in the front so that I know how much I have to drop down. I'm going to get a small log and roll it on the bottom. Like normal. Yeah, it's coming together. And on the back, I'll use some garbage bags cut open, lined just to keep more warm air in there. And then I'll cover. I had a plan of covering it with a thermal wall already. I'll use logs on the back. But before I put the logs on the back, I'll put the garbage bags lining the back. That way it's going to trap the heat in there even more so. Since we are improvising and I am going to be putting thatching and logs and stuff on here later on, I don't really feel it necessary to tie this on too much. But I will kind of tuck it in and secure it until I get to that point. Kind of like doing that. In these woods, there's tons of oak and cottonwood and they shed their limbs quite readily and they're all over the forest floor here so it won't be too hard to get some thatching material and some logs. Now obviously I don't have a saw to cut these up so I'm going to have to break them. I'll probably use the two tree method where you kind of pry it. Damn son, making progress here. A few more of these and I can start throwing my grass on. I'll thatch and everything on the inside. I'll roll up the other side and be able to thatch, make a bed and all that stuff still after. But yeah, doing good. Scout, move. Okay guys, I've got my rough rib down my rough back wall. I want to fix up the plastic a bit tie it off and make it taut because that's not very much room right in there as it is. So I'm going to pull the plastic out a bit even tie it down here I think make some buttons and tie it down and then start to thatch, get my grasses my thatching material. It's coming along. I'm actually having a lot of fun doing this. I've had the idea to do this for quite some time now but it just never happened so actually probably about a year. Look at that. That's going to work out just fine. Use this garbage bag use a little bit of a seat to get me off the wet ground here. Okay, so my knife time to get my knife out. Back up. If I have time I plan on making a sheath like a disposable sheath for it back up. Out of cottonwood bark. Yeah man, actually that's pretty good ergonomics. Let's see if she shaves. Can you even see my arm hair? Do I even have arm hair? Oh, she shaves. I know it's hard to see my little boy arm hairs. Yeah, cool. You got to get this silly twist tie thing off of it but it's pretty groovy. Feels good in the hand no hot spots, you know. It's like a wharncliffe or like a sheep's foot blade too. It's not like this. It's like that. Alright, my obsession over this cheap knife is done. Got to get us some twine out of here. Does that smell like food to you? I didn't actually really want you to take my twine homie. Okay, so we're going to make a knot right off to the shelter. Just going to make some pre-tied small little pieces of rope that way I'm not wasting or trying to cut as I'm going. I need three of them. I need three pieces. Make the third one a lot bigger because I have to go around the big thing up there. I am going to tie it down just so that I have more room. This is earthen material. Oh, I got a stick in there. There we go. So again, just a couple double overhands will work for you or a clove hitch. There we go. And all I want to do is tie this. I just want to peg this down. I just don't want it flapping around. So even if I have to just loop it around this and tie it off of itself, that's actually pretty good. Substantial twine. But again, this is dollar store. Dollar store action. Here's what I mean. I already got a hole. I got to be careful. It's in a good spot. It's down by the foot. It's no big deal, but I got to be careful with this. Crawl in here and test out the room. I'm still going to make a bed, right? I still have to put dead grass on the floor long grass on the floor the ground even to make a mattress. I got plenty of room. Get over there. I got plenty of room. I could even put a stick kind of holding that out from me a little bit. Alright, cool. I got plenty of room head height too. Nice. This is turning out pretty decent. Pretty decent. Doing all this work and I haven't cracked my water yet. You got to stay hydrated, right? Watch out, big guy. I'll get you something in a minute here. Back up. He's obviously thirsty and I don't want to walk down to the ditch right now so I'm going to let him drink out of my cooking bowl. There we go. What's this, big guy? Get your get your dog drool back up over here. Get your dog drool all in my bowl. You can really see the blood on his nose. He's killing that. Killing it, big guy. There's more where that came from. Don't worry. It's time to get my thatching materials. I have to hike out to the field and cut a bunch of dead grass. I'm really worried about using this knife without a sheath. I'm out there. I'm cutting the grass. I need to grab it. I either put this knife down and put it in my pocket or you know what I mean? I lose it. I get cut. It's just not a good situation either way. I think before I do anything else I'm going to try to make a cottonwood bark sheath for this. Let's go hike. There's a dead cottonwood over there. Let's go hike over to that and try and pry up some bark and try to make a crude sheath out of that. Oh yeah. Okay. This is going to be a perfect piece. Look at that. Got a whole big long piece. I can definitely use this. This is definitely a good piece to use. Nice. See what I mean? Even here. I brought it over here to measure and now what? I have to carry it just carry it by itself with this. It's not safe. It's not good. Not a good practice. Not a good idea. Let's go try and whip up a sheath. Today in Sit on the ground in the woods and make something we're making a sheath. Get out of here buddy. Go on scout. Seriously. Thank you. So the idea is I just make a hollow spot in between two pieces of bark big enough for my knife blade and a little bit of the knife itself which isn't much and then I wrap it with twine and then make a little like a lanyard I can wear it around my neck. So that will be very helpful for today everything I'm doing. There's been a bunch of times where I've reached for my pocket my pocket knife or sorry reached for my belt knife and it just wasn't there. I don't need to use this for like batoning and stuff. That's not the intended purpose. Like I said there's tons of wood dead wood on the ground and I'll have to really rely on just foraging and scrounging my wood because no saw no knife right? No decent knife. So if I put it in like that much I can use this whole piece of bark for both pieces. So I'm going to cut this directly in half right there. I'm just going to score it a few times on either side and I should be able to break it pretty cleanly. That's the idea anyway. I don't want to break it and not be able to use one of the pieces because this is both really really solid. Like this one piece of bark is very solid. It would go well together. there we go. Nice and clean. Clean break. So we'll use that like that sandwich together. It'll be big. Don't get me wrong it's going to be huge and clunky but that's okay. Go on. I can take it off when I'm not using it whatever. Scout man you're killing me buddy. You're killing me. This coat is a new coat for me. It's super warm. It's called the Triple Fat Goose coat. I'll put a link in the description where I got it. I'm really loving it. I love the color and I can wear it around town. It's not too too outdoorsy but it's very very durable so walking through the brambles and stuff it holds up really good. I want to mark it. Normally you'd use like charcoal for this. I want to get it in past the first finger groove but I'm just going to use dirt so I know where I need to be careful on this side know where I need to cut or even hollow out I guess. I'm just going to flip it around so I don't cut my finger. This is just rough obviously but okay. You can kind of see the outline of the knife. This blade has no tip no curve on it obviously because it's that wharncliffe style it goes the other way so it's kind of hard to do these cuts. I've got to go work against a log or something I can't work like this on my legs. I wish the blade had a sweep to it a swoop to it. The good thing is I don't have to take a lot of material away from the cottonwood bark for the blade just for the handle. And as it's going I'm not making much progress but the handle's down near the end here so it's easier to work anyway which is good. This cottonwood bark you can use it for a lot of different things. I've used it plenty of times for a bow drill socket like a bearing block. I've seen people use it for spoons because it's super easy to carve. If you're learning how to carve this is a great thing to use. What else? Bobbers for fishing just tons of stuff. Knife sheaths I've seen this used by Terry Barney and Iz Turley for impromptu knife sheaths that's where I got the idea from. I believe Morse Kahansky has it in his book too bushcraft but that's without the knife sticking out or the blade going in at all. I wonder I'll go grab the other piece and see if that'll work better that way because if that's the case I can always cut off the excess right? If it only goes in there I can cut it off here and I'll lose a bunch of weight and I can even trim up the sides and stuff too either way but no it just doesn't have the grab it'll just fall right out so I do have to get the I have to get the handle in there a little bit and I should start actually doing it on this one too so it's in both cut down a little of both as opposed to just one yup okay I'm gonna do that I'll get back with you so we're getting there but you can see I'm halfway through the bark and I don't wanna go too far or else it'll compromise the integrity of it's strength I'm gonna go more on this one now hard in the bark go hard in the bark what I've been doing is making these like cut lines these guide lines on either side and then that way when I'm gutting it out it's kind of stopping there which is proving to be pretty helpful I'm just really gonna concentrate on the top okay I'm pretty happy with it so you see the fit there it's pretty decent I haven't wrapped it yet I haven't wrapped it with twine yet but I can get it back in and it has pretty good retention so I think I'm gonna call it there it's kinda hard to get back in but anyways I'm gonna call it there I'm gonna tie it up with jute twine and hopefully we'll see how she goes I think it'll be good I stuck it in there when I was just putting it in kinda stuck in the top there so maybe I'll hollow that out a little bit more before I before I tie it up get a nice long piece of twine make a little neck knife a little neck carry as it were just wrap it tight as tight as I can at first I tried to cut look I cut one end off you can see that I thought I could just cut it clean and snap it off like I did before I couldn't I had to shave it all down I was too afraid of breaking the the bark it wouldn't break it wouldn't snap off easy when I started like hitting it off the log I just could imagine it freaking shattering after doing all that work making the sheath so I stopped and I carved it all out and it took me a very long time way too long so we'll worry about that other piece after I don't even care about it but if we're sitting around the fire tonight and we got nothing to do I'll shave it down that's pretty pretty decent and then I am going to tie like I said neck knife on it so what I'll do to do that is I'll I'll tie ooh the sun the sun's coming out I'll tie twine to this side of the twine go around to this side of the twine just have it and I won't have to worry about it choking me because the freaking twine will break with any kind of pressure alright there she is man I just gotta tie the neck piece on but pretty solid dude pretty pretty solid I'm not gonna worry about it coming out at all just putting it back in is a little difficult but I can handle that okay so to tie my neck piece on my neck carry part on I'm gonna do this so I'm gonna take just how I tie my tarps my tie outs for my tarps really so I got my my running end and my twine I'm gonna fold it excuse me and I'm gonna send the loop through underneath and try and pull it out I guess I'll do this try and pull it out relatively close to the top because I don't want it to start swinging like hanging upside down or sideways or whatever you put it at the top you'll have a better chance of it hanging straight so pull it all through and here's my running end still right and I just kinda pull it tight and then she's on there you know what I mean I don't have to even tie it or anything I can't do this with this side because I need the full end to pull through but I can tie it off and it'll be just fine alright pretty happy with it ba-bam son I'll pretty it up later on but there we go alright let's go get our grass come on big guy oh there's the train I'm gonna use the gloves too because the grass will cut your hands up real good oh did you happen to see my sweet neck knife I got oh yeah I just just whipped it up in the woods you know no big deal I'm still looking in the screen still looking in the viewfinder out into the field of grass I've used this stuff as thatching material in the past it works great keeps you warm it's uh relatively easy to gather too takes some time but the effort is not very very much here we are the grasslands part of the reason I picked the location where I did too you know I can't have my shelter out here in this grass field and have a big long fire all night long it's just dangerous but in the woods there see my shelter it's close close proximity to this grass best of both worlds I'm tucked away in the woods away from the wind have the building materials there have the building materials here ba-bam sun scout found fresh fresh deer poop glossy it's so fresh shimmer and shine poop divine anybody? it had been raining the past few days uh they are a bit damp but that's where my uh garbage bags are going to come into play one of the one of the ways those garbage bags are probably one of the better pieces of kit this knife is about perfect for the grass okay I got my first bundle done I'll bring this though back over to the woods that's a load of grass right there all I need about realistically not exaggerating maybe four more of those should be enough I think that's not so bad I can do that this knife this knife and sheath combo is working out phenomenally this knife is really good for cutting that pretty good I'm happy because it's not good for cutting much of anything else with the blade shape but uh I always thought they looked cool the wharncliffe the sheepsfoot style blade shapes but uh I'm glad I never bought a real bushcraft knife that has one maybe some people like them but obviously not for me it's not working out a knife with a swoop like a belly is is ideal okay off to get more oh that's what I thought of the other thing that you're supposed to have in the arbitrary rules for the the ten dollar dollar store overnight challenge uh was you're supposed to have a way of lighting like illuminating illumination device a flashlight something like that I don't it just wasn't important to me to get that so what we'll be relying on tonight for filming and for lighting and everything is fire and because I'm in the city ambient light which there's a lot of so I'm not too concerned about that rules I'm a rebel you know born to break them rules arbitrary YouTube rules all right second hall here these are bigger ticks are another thing you gotta be concerned about doing this it's why I've waited so long in the year really one of the reasons but as I found out on my last trip which was earlier this month and farther up north ticks are still around for the year so gotta be careful lots of tick checks for me and the dog you want to get home but the good thing about it here is I've never seen anything other than a deer tick so not too big a concern really I mean sorry a dog tick not a deer tick a dog tick which aren't the bad ones I was told on my last video they were deer ticks good haul Joe I'm huffing and puffing guys I've got three so far two there one there I'm going to take a break and from collecting it and start thatching because I think three will do the back maybe four but I think five total including my bedding and everything I have three I think I can do the back with that keep looking at myself so let's do that just drop them here this isn't how I'm going to thatch them or anything oh a cocoon I'm going to put that back out in the field little cocoon not all about killing ants yeah so anyways I just kind of dropped this here it's not like I wanted this is how I was going to thatch it by any means lots of grass already though pretty pleased with that this grass is hollow it's a very good insulator good boy so we're going to start at the bottom work our way up just like normal you can weave this into mats and all sorts of stuff but I find if you just pile enough on you're more than fine this stuff is great pine boughs I mean sorry spruce boughs and like balsam and conifer and all stuff like that all conifers you can use evergreen are great but it involves either chopping a bunch of limbs off or chopping a bunch of trees down and it's not always easy or allowed or even it's pretty frowned upon to be honest so this grass is a good alternative it's already dead very very renewable and it does a good job this is coming along pretty well very well I'm super happy with it actually I don't have to worry about any rain any rain would be snow at this point snow will be just fine so I'm pretty much done that patch and I used all of that straw every little last piece on the back so I do have to get a couple more arm loads but let's take you around check it out pretty impressed pretty happy pretty annoyed with that train in the background here we have our lounge mutt protector of the garbage heap garbage heap it's really covered can't even see any plastic from the back maybe a tiny bit down near the foot but see what I mean just a nice grass pile with lots of coverage oh man that train is non-stop eh so I'm going to have to pull that back and get to working on the inside be careful with this the grass might even poke through it it's one thing I do want to get is all the grass that's hanging over this bend here like stragglers up and out of the way too I don't want to catch any spark and have it travel all the way up to my huge tinder bundle I'm going to be sleeping in safety safety is number one like this up here this is like all curly huge dry dry dry grass three times as dry ok this will be my pole that I need to keep to keep the um the plastic down so I'm going to put this over there so I don't confuse it and burn it or break it up before I would or whatever now normally in this time of year I'd leave whatever was on the ground already down there uh leaves and what not so that I can get extra um warmth or buffer from the ground but because I'm going to have so much grass it's it's not a big deal so I'm just going to clear everything out because I want to get like I said a whole clear area again so I can have my big fire I'm going to have to have a long fire in front of me that will have to go all night long to keep me warm enough inside my super shelter that's how the super shelter works right it gathers the heat passes through the plastic and it gets trapped in there I don't have the luxury of a space blanket so that's why again I've already got this this plastic down in the back is covering literally three quarters of the back of it I only really have to put a black garbage bag over here we'll see how it goes I might end up cutting one open and lining the whole thing because it's going to be black and hoping that the black color will retain the heat I don't know but it's worth a shot and I have an extra garbage bag or two to do that with let's get to it love these woods the ground is nothing but soil just straight soil stuff you would even buy top soil so having a fire right on the top overnight big lots of coals and lots of wood is no issue I might pile these up that's not a bad idea I might make Sko to bed for tonight that's what I'll do I don't know if I'll use these because there's all sorts of sticks and stuff that will poke through but I am going to make him a bed so he can stay up off the wet ground always thinking Joe hey big guy watch this ow kiss he stops right away whenever I say ow whenever he's biting me play ow good boy I will keep all these leaves in a pile just in case I need to use them for thatching or bedding or anything this reminds me of breaking leaves at home when we do we just did the other day we'll have to do it again because the tree's not still empty but we have Scout and Emerald out in the front doing it and they're both jumping in the leaves so much that it's actually counterproductive but it's very fun good memories very good memories for me for all of us well I'm warmed up as you can probably tell stripping down some layers although the wind is kicking up now too which is counterproductive I'm getting hungry I'm getting very hungry I think Scout is too so I'm going to give him his kibble I am going to use my bowl again I'll just rinse it out really good okay you want some see he doesn't even want it you want that look good boy here it's the same stuff in here you want it man he doesn't even care he's all about it he's sniffing all around I moved some stuff over there he's sniffing all around like crazy trying to get at it and I didn't give it to him he doesn't care this is why I don't bring him kibble you guys watch East Bounded Down how many of you watched East Bounded Down if you have and you liked it I may have good news for you although I may be late with that too there's a new show a newer show there's a show called Vice Principals and Danny McBride is in it and he produced it and created it and all this stuff and he's in it with I don't know the name of the other guy there's two guys vice principals of the school there's two seasons anyways it just ended very very good show I liked it a lot yep public service announcement number one for Vegas one it's nice to be out here with Scooty Magoots I don't even dare try and make enough room for him there is actually at the head there's enough room for him to come in here if he wanted to but it's like double coat there's no way it'll be much hotter in there than it'll be out here I'm going to make like I'm going to make my bed and then I'm going to make something where I can crawl into if I need it like a thin layer of grass inside a couple garbage bags that I can put on top of me and can bury myself into if I need to just for extra warmth I'm hoping not to need it because I'm sure it won't be very comfortable but I'm going to do it anyway and then I'll make a little pillow and all that stuff so I've got lots of stuff to do still with grass and building and I have to collect a bunch of firewood with no saw so that's literally walking around oh my goodness I've got to get my clothes on walking around and picking up wood off the ground but like I said I have four packs of matches getting a fire going is not going to be an issue I have dead grass I have twine I have twigs I have everything I need I don't even need to use my knife at all for that I could use some earplugs though but I'm just