Lunch in the woods

I'm out in the bush again. I'm going to make myself a meal. I'm going to have some rice flavored with the seasoning that I got from Mountain Woman with the cookbook. I just wanted to show you guys how I start a fire. First I start off by preparing the space where I'm going to have the fire. So I gathered some rocks which are pretty hard to come by around here. And lined it with that ash bark I've been using because the ground is still really muddy as you can see. Then I got some shrub, old dead shrub from the next to the railroad tracks. I got this old milkweed ball. It's like fibers from the milkweed plant. It used to be a bird's nest I'm gonna strike it with my fire steel and see what happens Then I got some dead ash twigs a little bit bigger Then I batonned using my VK7, which I really like it's a really good tool I batonned some larger ash pieces and and made a couple of feather sticks so I can get the fire going a little bit easier and I cut it using my Laplander saw my folder. Alright so I got my fire going, my rice in the billy can, it's a size 14 billy can and I'm gonna go cut some wood so that I can make a hanger okay so I cut the pieces to make my hanger, first you got the support which is just a stick that made a flat piece at the one end and just a dull the dull point at the other end that's going to go into the ground and from the hanger itself in a notch I call it the bird's beak notch I think Mors Kochanski calls it that as well a pot hanger at the end so I'll get that set up and show you how it looks all right so that's how the hanger looks I like it a lot it's my favorite way to do it I try and do it as much as possible so it sticks just in the ground there no support that's just stuck in there goes up the flat piece I said was in the bird's beak notch. That's just sticking up there and it just all kind of holds itself together which is what I really like. I find if I put my my billy can right on the flames it burns the rice so I like to have it elevated a little bit. It's only elevated a little bit right now actually but it does the trick. You got a stick. I've got my bag suspended with a piece of paracord and a carabiner and I use the Canadian jam knot here which I learned from a IA Woodsman YouTube video if anybody wants to learn how to do the Canadian jam knot just go to IA Woodsman his YouTube page it's really helpful it's an easy knot to do and like I said really really useful fires kicking up there alright guys that's probably it we all know what cooked rice looks like I I don't need to show you that. Hope you learned something.